About

Hi, I'm Candice.

Candice, founder of Rhemaia, on a tree-lined brownstone street in warm afternoon light

I am a former Big Law attorney. I have four daughters, Reese, Hope, Maisey, and Pax, each with her own neurodivergent or physical-disability profile, and each one has been my greatest teacher in her own way. At thirty-eight, evaluators confirmed I have autistic wiring and ADHD myself, which reframed most of my life and much of how I build.

Rhemaia came out of a hard moment, not a business plan. My oldest daughter was failing in public school, and then failing at the microschool we moved her to. The ed-tech we were handed was marketed as personalized learning powered by AI, and it was nothing of the kind for a kid whose brain did not match the template. Out of desperation, I took her actual evaluation scores and built the support structure from them by hand, scored by what kind of help each weakness needed, and rewrote her curriculum one assignment at a time. The girl who felt awful about herself and could not get her work done started flying through it. I was not doing the work for her. I had built the scaffolding she actually needed.

Rhemaia is that translation, automated, checked, and made available to families who should not have to figure it out alone. I write from inside the work, not from above it.

Candice Shayna

Founder, Rhemaia

I find broken systems and rebuild them so they work for the people inside them. This is the education one.

If your child has an evaluation sitting in a drawer, that is exactly where this started for us. You do not have to figure it out alone. Rhemaia is in private build; add your email and I will send one message when early access opens.

I want in.
A mother and her four young daughters walking together down a tree-lined brownstone street, seen from behind