Manila folders, highlighters, and the fear factor.
Before Actionaly, every campus at Dripping Springs chased consent signatures individually.
Manila folders, highlighters, Excel sheets. Processing a single high-school grade, roughly 600 students, consumed 3–4 hours just for reconciliation.
And the stakes are high. The content that requires consent in Texas (child abuse prevention, health and wellness instruction, sensitive surveys) is the kind of thing where a mistake creates real problems. That pressure sat on top of everything.
The sensitivity of the content just increases that liability… the fear factor of what if I mess up?
Retta Ary, Director of Counseling & Health ServicesOn top of that, every program has its own checkpoints: 14-day parent notice periods, opt-in tracking, reminder cycles for non-respondents. All of it was manual.

