Case Study · EdTech Operations

Origins Curriculum

Embedded as a full-stack operator: platform migration, CRM build, lead scoring infrastructure, and the automations that made the whole thing run.

GoHighLevel Platform Migration CRM Architecture Lead Scoring Email Automations Sales Enablement Operations Video Editing
Origins Curriculum platform overview

A homeschool EdTech company with a growing product and a backend that couldn't keep up.

Origins Curriculum creates home school curriculum for preschool through 5th grade, hosted entirely online. They were growing, but their systems weren't. Their CRM couldn't handle their product complexity, their automation was minimal, and their team was doing manually what should have been happening automatically.

I came in as their Customer Experience & Systems Designer, a title that barely covers what I actually did. I was the operator who built the machine.

See my role on their team →
Origins Curriculum brand and product
Phase 01

Moving the whole database.
Without losing a thing.

Origins needed to move their entire digital operation from one platform to GoHighLevel, a complex, all-in-one CRM and marketing platform built for serious scale. This wasn't a casual migration. It meant replicating every product, course, order form, and piece of curriculum content in a new system without breaking what was already working.

I managed the transfer, auditing the existing architecture, mapping it to the GHL structure, and migrating the data systematically. The 12-month curriculum cycle alone (materials for preschool through 5th grade) had to be loaded into the new system in a way that was clean, navigable, and ready to sell against immediately.

The Scope

Full database transfer. Products. Courses. Order forms. 12 months of curriculum content across 6 grade levels. All rebuilt inside GoHighLevel and made operational, without breaking existing customer access.

GoHighLevel CRM dashboard showing products and contact structure

I built a lead scoring system that told the sales team exactly who to call, and when.

Before I built this system, the sales team was working blind. Leads came in, and someone had to manually decide who to follow up with, when, and how. Hot prospects sat untouched. Cold leads got called. Time was wasted.

I architected a behavior-based lead scoring system that rated every prospect based on how they engaged with Origins' content. Every meaningful interaction (an email response, a sample download, a page visit) incremented their score.

When a lead hit a threshold or took a high-intent action, the system automatically notified the appropriate sales team member in real time, with context on what the prospect had done. The call or email that came next wasn't a cold outreach. It was perfectly timed follow-up on something the prospect had just done.

1

Lead enters the system

Prospect signs up, downloads a sample, or engages with content. Scoring begins.

2

Score accumulates automatically

Each interaction (email open, reply, download, revisit) adds weighted points to their lead score.

3

High-intent trigger fires

Prospect replies to an email or downloads a curriculum sample. Score crosses a threshold.

4

Sales staff notified instantly

The right team member gets an alert, with full context, to make the call or send the email right now, while the prospect is warm.

5

Lead assigned to closer

Point setters and sales staff receive qualified, warm leads automatically. No manual sorting required.

GoHighLevel lead scoring setup and contact score fields

Email funnels that changed based on what people actually did.

The email automation system I built wasn't a single sequence everyone went through. It was a behavior-responsive architecture. Every action a prospect took could route them into a different campaign, with tailored offers, different timing, and unique messaging based on where they were in the journey.

Purchased one product but not another? They went into a relevant cross-sell sequence. Downloaded a free sample but didn't buy? They went into a nurture campaign with an offer timed for when they were most likely to convert. Responded to an email? Sales gets notified and the automated sequence pauses.

📥
Enters System
Signup, download, or referral
🔍
Behavior Tracked
Clicks, opens, downloads, replies
🔀
Routed by Signal
Unique campaign based on action taken
🎯
Right Offer, Right Time
Personalized outreach at peak intent
GHL email automation workflow map, the visual campaign logic

This is what automation architecture actually looks like inside GoHighLevel.

Most people talk about automation in the abstract. These videos show the real thing — the workflows I built, the logic that drives them, and how the system behaves once a lead enters the pipeline. If you've been wondering what a fully operational CRM backend looks like, this is it.

Automation Walkthrough

A full walkthrough of the lead scoring and routing automation. Watch how a contact moves through the system from first touch to sales-ready — triggered, scored, and assigned without a single manual step.

What This Means for You

If your business has a CRM you're not using to its potential, a sales process that relies too much on memory and manual effort, or email sequences that send the same thing to everyone — this is exactly the kind of infrastructure I build. I can architect it, implement it, document it, and train your team to run it.

The Day-to-Day

The systems were only half of it.

While building out the backend infrastructure, I was also running the operational side of the business. Customer support, inbox management, social media, video editing, and content production, all happening concurrently with the CRM work. This is what "one person doing 30 jobs" actually looks like in practice.

Origins Curriculum social media content Origins Curriculum social post Origins Curriculum social graphic Origins Curriculum content piece Origins Curriculum promotional graphic Origins Curriculum ad creative

Edited video content for curriculum promotion and client training.

Beyond still content, I produced and edited video: promotional clips for social, curriculum previews, and training walkthroughs for the team and clients.

An organization that could finally
run at the speed it was growing.

1→1
Full platform migration. One system rebuilt inside another, zero downtime to existing customers.
Real-time lead alerts replaced manual follow-up. The sales team always knew who to call and when.
Automation system runs indefinitely. Campaigns, scoring, and routing work without human intervention.
In Their Own Words

I'm listed on the Origins Curriculum team page as their Customer Experience & Systems Designer. That's the title they gave the role, after watching what it took to actually do it.

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