For School Certifying Officials

On time.
Every time.

Every semester, before GI Bill® benefits are paid, someone at the school confirms each enrollment by hand. AllowED reads every enrollment overnight, checks each one against the rules, and certifies through the VA Lighthouse API — with every judgment call left to the SCO.

How it works

From one desk, by hand, to overnight, by rule.

The film in ten moments. Let it play, or pick any one.

    A veteran enrolls

    In the stack

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    Raman, Priya827126346 · CH.33
    Okafor, Devin827121955 · CH.31
    Bell, Marcus827117564 · CH.33
    Nguyen, Thao827113173 · CH.35
    Alvarez, Rosa827491023 · CH.33

    Here's what the job looks like

    PeopleSoft · Military & Veterans
    StudentALVAREZ, ROSA
    EMPLID827491023
    ProgramM.S. NURSING
    Units12.0
    VA Enrollment Manager · Add enrollment
    StudentAlvarez, Rosa
    Student ID827491023
    ProgramM.S. Nursing
    Credit hours12.0
    Class dropped → type it again

    September 2026 · Add/drop

    Census 09/14 · Certified
    09/22 · Drop → needs amendment

    When it's late

    A late certification means the housing money doesn't come. The rent is late. Then the lights. Then the food.

    Facility 31000148 · Term 2267 · Demo data

    Read tonight

    0

    Rules walked

    0

    Ready to certify

    Needs you

    Reading from SIS · Nightly sync 06:00

    Foster, NickB.S. Computer ScienceCH.33Queued
    Alvarez, RosaM.S. NursingCH.33Queued
    Nguyen, ThaoB.A. PsychologyCH.35Queued

    Read tonight

    2,148

    Rules walked

    1,036

    Ready to certify

    0

    Needs you

    0

    148 of 154 selected · Batch 2267-04

    Foster, NickB.S. Computer ScienceCH.33Needs you
    Alvarez, RosaM.S. NursingCH.33Ready
    Nguyen, ThaoB.A. PsychologyCH.35Ready
    Bell, MarcusB.S. KinesiologyCH.33Ready

    Needs you · 1 of 6

    Foster, Nick
    827905514 · B.S. Computer Science · CH.33 · 13.0 units
    Repeat of a previously passed course · CS 150CS 150 was passed in Fall 2025. Exclude it from this term's certified units?38 CFR 21.4253
    Exclude CS 150Keep for review
    ✓ CS 150 excluded · Fermis, Mamie · SCO · 09/04 07:12

    Decision trail · 7 steps

    Program approved in WEAMSWEAMS
    Courses required for the degreeSCO Handbook
    Enrollment within term dates38 CFR
    Training time computed38 CFR
    Tuition and fees confirmed38 CFR
    No audited or remedial online courses38 CFR
    Certify 147 records
    0
    Records certified · Submitted through the VA Lighthouse API

    Audit chain · Batch 2267-04 · Append only

    Receipt

    Batch
    2267-04
    Records
    147
    Units
    1,712.5
    Rules walked
    1,029
    Submitted
    09/04/2026 · 09:42
    Ledger
    c41a9f02 ← b19e44d0
    AllowED
    Johnson, Eric
    CH.33 · Fall 2026
    Certified
    Enrollment read from PeopleSoft09/03 · 06:00
    Decision tree walked 7 steps09/03 · 06:04
    Certified09/04 · 09:42

    Student portal

    The same morning.

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    The film · 2:19

    Watch the whole story.

    Read the transcript

    Every semester, before GI Bill® benefits are paid, someone at their school confirms each enrollment by hand. One record at a time, across whatever system the campus happens to run. At the end of every record is a veteran waiting on books or rent. At most schools, that one person is a school certifying official, and their stack never gets smaller. Every file is a student waiting on benefits.

    Here's what the job looks like. Tedious. Manual. The same record typed into two systems, then typed again when a class changes. A rule lookup for every program. And the answer moves: one dropped class after census, and the certification you sent is wrong. A late certification means the housing money doesn't come. The rent is late, then the lights, then the food. Every one of those lands on one desk.

    This is why I created AllowED. One console. One check. Overnight, AllowED reads every enrollment the school already has. It checks each one against the rules and shows exactly which rule was applied. By morning, AllowED has sorted them for you. Open any name and the work is there. Nothing hidden. A few stop where SCO judgment is required. Each one is a single question with the rule it comes from. The hours that went into data entry go to students.

    Hold one back with a single check, then certify the rest in one action. Submitted through the VA Lighthouse API, the receipt is already in the audit trail. The student sees it the same morning. On time, every time. Every action attributed, every entry chained to the one before it. Nothing can be edited, including by AllowED.

    AllowED: to help the world's institutions adopt intelligence without losing their humanity.

    Why it exists

    “A veteran called me from the line at a plasma center. Three weeks into the semester, still not certified, and the rent was due. I built AllowED so no one waits like that again.”
    Paulina Enriquez, Founder · former Primary School Certifying Official, San Diego State University

    Every rule cited

    Each decision shows the SCO Handbook step and the 38 CFR section it came from.

    Judgment stays with the SCO

    Anything that needs a person stops as a single question. Nothing is certified around you.

    Append-only audit trail

    Every action attributed, every entry chained to the one before it. Nothing can be edited, including by AllowED.

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