Background
Amanda Fowler has been a school psychologist for 20 years. She works in a South Carolina district that's supposed to have 10 psychologists but currently has six. That means Amanda covers middle school, high school, and this year picked up an elementary school. By year's end, she'll have tested 88 kids, each one resulting in a roughly 30-page report.
She's fast. Four to five hours per report with two decades of practice behind her. She had her templates, her workflow, and zero interest in changing it.
Problem
"I was like, yeah, this is not going to help me. I don't think AI is really going to help me."
Amanda had earned that skepticism. Twenty years of refining her process, building her own report shells, knowing exactly how she liked things. She wasn't looking for a new tool.
But the math was working against her. Eighty-eight evaluations in a district running at 60% staffing. She was still doing all the in-person work: testing students, meeting with teachers, running district trainings. The writing was the only place left to find breathing room.
"If you want me to test 80, 90 kids a year, something's got to give."
Solution
What changed Amanda's mind wasn't a feature list. It was a completely different way of working.
Before SageReport, she was assembling 30 pages from a blank document. Now she's reviewing a strong draft and making clinical decisions about what stays and what goes.
"If I'm the one writing it, the time is on the front end. If I'm just reading it and making sure it's what I want to say, the time is on the back end."
When asked if she prefers that:
"Oh, I love it."
She likes that SageReport pulls everything together into a summary with strengths and needs already organized. She still reads every word. She still makes every clinical call. But the starting point is a draft she can shape, not an empty page she has to fill.
Results
Amanda has been open with her special education director about using SageReport. She'd pay for it out of pocket if her district won't. And when she interviews for new positions, she's upfront: this is part of how she practices now.
"I am not going back."
For someone who spent 20 years doing things her own way and didn't think she needed help, that's not a small statement.