Alan Pruitt

Reclaim Academic Sovereignty and Scale Born-Accessible Infrastructure.

Curriculum-as-Code, deterministic AI safety protocols, and automated WCAG 2.2 AA continuous integration for higher education.

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Webcognita LLC

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Curriculum-as-Code

Treating educational materials like software development: Markdown Single Source of Truth (SSoT), Git version control, CI/CD automated validation, born-accessible outputs, automated ADA Title II/WCAG 2.2 AA linting, and zero-trust data safety auditing.

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Rapid Execution

Vibe Coding & CaC

Bridging domain intuition and production-grade execution: translating pedagogical concepts directly into interactive PWAs and lab simulations at speed, governed upstream by deterministic Curriculum-as-Code standards.

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Compliance-as-Code

Automating regulatory, accessibility, and clinical governance into continuous deployment pipelines: deterministic SSoT rules, automated ADA Title II/WCAG 2.2 AA linting, and zero-trust data safety auditing.

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Vibe-Coded

WPE Digital Toolkit

Agentic PWA framework integrating ACSM 12th Ed. clinical standards, NWS/EPA environmental factors, and kinesiology curricula.

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Vibe-Coded

Flavor Architect

Molecular Pairing & Culinary Design

AI-driven molecular culinary workbench built to evaluate flavor compound synergies, bridge ingredients, and profile balances in real time.

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Executive Knowledge Graph

Curated Executive Reading Tracks

Navigate the 29-essay archive through role-tailored sequential frameworks: institutional compliance, curriculum engineering, or pedagogical assessment.

Track 01

Governance & ADA Title II

Institutional liability mitigation, automated WCAG 2.2 AA audits, and transitioning to living CI/CD software contracts.

Track 02

Curriculum-as-Code Engine

Academic content sovereignty in Git, Markdown linting pipelines, and headless deployments via Canvas REST API.

Track 03

The Mission Loop Framework

Pattern/Rule/Solve instructional scaffolds, clinical safety auditing, and PAGA 2018 / DGA federal course architectures.

Curriculum-as-Code Essays

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Beyond Performative Compliance — ADA Title II, Living Conformance Statements

Why static accessibility disclaimers fail the ADA Title II mandate, and how higher-ed leadership can deploy living, CI/CD-backed conformance statements.

ESSAY 27

ADA Title II and the Fleet-Wide Refactor

Meeting federal accessibility compliance deadlines via automated regex sweeps, pre-commit validation hook checkpoints, and automated syntax formatters.

ESSAY 26

The POUR-Audit Framework inside git workflows

Operationalizing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) into testable, programmatically audited standards directly inside git workflows.

ESSAY 25

Curriculum-as-Code: The Sovereign Academic Infrastructure

How treating course materials as software—using Markdown, version control, and static site generators—protects faculty authority, enforces accessibility, and eliminates publisher costs.

ESSAY 24

Chatbots & Canvas LMS: A Cautionary Tale & Best Practices

Why rushing unmonitored AI chatbots into the LMS creates data privacy risks, SSoT conflicts, and clinical safety hazards—and how the Auditor Protocol governs secure implementation.

ESSAY 25

The Accessibility Checker Parity Illusion: Schema Divergence & CaC

Why Canvas, Office, and PDF checkers lack structural parity, and why Markdown CaC is the deterministic path to WCAG 2.2 AA.

ESSAY 22

Foundational Human Movement in the Algorithmic Age: PAGA 2018 SSoT

How EXW101 deploys Curriculum-as-Code, the federal PAGA 2018 SSoT, and the Mission Loop framework to deconstruct systemic inactivity patterns.

Academic Sovereignty via Curriculum-as-Code

Executive blueprint: Navigating the ADA Title II compliance cliff with Git-backed SSoT pipelines and automated headless Canvas LMS deployment.

Figure 1.0: End-to-End Curriculum-as-Code (CaC) Continuous Integration & Mission Loop Architecture.
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Academic Sovereignty via Curriculum-as-Code (CaC)

Context: Higher education institutions face an institutional compliance cliff regarding federal ADA Title II deadlines that manual LMS remediation cannot scale to meet. Curriculum-as-Code solves this crisis by treating course content as version-controlled software, automating accessibility audits within CI/CD pipelines, and deploying unified, born-accessible content directly to learning management systems via REST APIs.

Authority & Verification Stack

  • USMC Veteran: Operational discipline, mission integrity, and systems execution.
  • Google Gemini Certified Faculty: Generative AI strategy and pedagogical alignment.
  • WCAG 2.2 AA Certified: Deterministic accessibility standards enforcement across digital assets.

Zone 1: The Regulatory Risk Matrix & Compliance Cliff

  • The ADA Title II Compliance Cliff: Public higher education entities must meet WCAG 2.1/2.2 Level AA accessibility standards by April 2026/2027 or face Department of Justice (DOJ) civil rights enforcement.
  • The Failure of Manual Remediation: Fragile, manual course-by-course editing incurs linear labor costs that repeat every semester, resulting in configuration drift and unversioned content.
Evaluation MetricManual LMS RemediationCurriculum-as-Code (CaC)
1. Audit LogsNone / Severe Configuration DriftCentralized Git Version Control
2. Scale PotentialLinear / Low EfficiencyAutomated / Fleet-Wide Scalability
3. Compliance StateHigh Risk of Human ErrorDeterministic / Continuously Audited

Zone 2: The 3-Step Automated CaC Pipeline

  1. Step 1: Plain-Text Markdown & Single Source of Truth (SSoT): Modular course architectures, learning modules, and syllabi are authored in plain-text Markdown and version-controlled within Git repositories, decoupling content from proprietary LMS platforms.
  2. Step 2: Automated Quality & Accessibility Testing Gate: Automated CI/CD test pipelines running Playwright and Axe-core validate 0 WCAG 2.2 AA contrast errors, enforce strict semantic heading hierarchies (starting at H2), and verify mobile tap targets (>= 44x44px) prior to code merge.
  3. Step 3: Headless API Deployment: Validated, born-accessible HTML is programmatically deployed directly to the Canvas LMS REST API, eliminating manual data entry and human copy-paste errors across the fleet.

Zone 3: Quantified Executive ROI (200-Course Fleet Benchmark)

$63,900

Net Budget Recaptured

$67,500 manual liability minus $3,600 CaC pipeline cost

18.8x

Efficiency Multiplier

Calculated over 200 shells with 30 units each

1,420

Faculty Hours Reclaimed

1,500 manual hours reduced to 80 pipeline execution hours

Zone 4: The Pedagogical Mission Loop Framework

  • Pattern (Identify): Pinpoint curricular bottlenecks, access barriers, and student learning impediments at the institutional baseline.
  • Rule (Standardize): Ground all educational interventions in authoritative Single Source of Truth standards, including federal guidelines (PAGA 2018 2nd Ed, DGA, ACSM 12th Ed) and WCAG 2.2 AA.
  • Solve (Deterministic Interventions): Implement audited, continuous course deployments backed by clinical, academic, and technical guardrails.

Curriculum Architecture & Advisory: Alan Pruitt | Founder & Chief Curriculum Architect, Webcognita LLC

Inquiries & Fleet Audits: alan.pruitt@gmail.com | alanpruitt.com

Institutional Curriculum Architecture & Compliance Services

Eliminate ADA Title II regulatory liability through deterministic automation and content sovereignty.

Pillar / Service TrackMethodologyInstitutional Deliverable
1. Fleet ADA Title II AuditPOUR-Audit Framework (Axe-core + Playwright CI/CD)Fleet-wide compliance ledger, contrast remediation, and heading hierarchy verification.
2. Curriculum-as-Code MigrationGit SSoT + Headless Canvas REST API PipelinesDecoupling from LMS lock-in, automated syllabus deployments, zero configuration drift.
3. Faculty GenAI EnablementGemini & NotebookLM Secure Mission Loop Workflows60-min hands-on workshop blueprint: administrative reclamation and AI assessment safety.

Initiate Institutional Advisory Consultation

Direct communication for ADA Title II fleet audits, Curriculum-as-Code pipeline migrations, or GenAI faculty enablement workshops.

ADA Title II Fleet Audit

Full-fleet compliance audit under the POUR framework (Axe-core & Playwright CI/CD).

Curriculum-as-Code Migration

Git SSoT content sovereignty and headless automated deployment via Canvas REST API.

Faculty GenAI Workshop

60-minute practical workshop: Gemini and NotebookLM for faculty and administrative workflows.

General Inquiries & Retainer Engagements

alan.pruitt@gmail.com • Principal Consultant, Webcognita LLC

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