The story
Finding the right preschool shouldn't depend on who you know.
Twelve years teaching in NCR classrooms, built on one belief: every child deserves a great start — not just the ones whose families stumble onto the right school.
Then military spouse life made the other side familiar: the scramble. New orders, new city, no network — and the search starting from zero, again.
"The moment I knew the NearBase Preschool Finder needed to exist was when I saw how many great preschools were invisible to the families who needed them most."
The schools weren't the problem — extraordinary small Montessori programs were everywhere. They were just invisible to anyone searching from a thousand miles away.
NearBase runs on direct, present-day knowledge: the directors, the classrooms, the waitlists that never make it onto a website.
"I want every military parent who uses NearBase to feel seen. Like the platform actually understands their life — the deployments, the moves, the uncertainty, and the love."
That knowledge shouldn't live in one head. Now it doesn't.
Finding the right preschool shouldn't depend on who you know. Now it doesn't.