The piece situates his arrival in the context of a literacy market transformed by state legislation: more than 40 states have passed some form of Science of Reading-based reading law, districts are working to address divergent state standards, and some states are beginning to explicitly ban three-cueing instruction. Rectanus describes building and selling LearnPlatform to Instructure in 2022 and pivoting toward the area in K–12 where he sees the most acute need: foundational literacy outcomes. He frames RGR — which serves more than 600,000 students with evidence-based literacy products and is backed by The Vistria Group — as a company with a strong foundation in structured literacy that now needs to apply an outcomes-first, accountability-driven lens at scale. The interview covers how Rectanus plans to use his evidence-based perspective from years evaluating ed-tech products to sharpen RGR's implementation infrastructure, shifting the company's market position from content provider to literacy outcomes organization.