Apprenticeship software for stylists
Rootegra Academy is how a working stylist runs an apprenticeship: assign the lessons, track the hours, and know the moment it's time for hands-on practice — while your apprentice studies a 23-module curriculum that protects their health, their income, and their mental workload.
Hawaiʻi & California editions
healthy roots. healthy careers.
One subscription, both sides of the chair
Every subscription is a mentor and an apprentice together, with one login for each. You steer the training from your side; they study from theirs.
For the mentor / stylist
You stay the teacher. Rootegra carries the schedule, the tracking, and the paperwork.
For the apprentice
The full curriculum in short, plain-language lessons they can study between clients.
In the app
The apprentice sees today's lesson. You see the whole map — on iPhone, iPad, and the web.
Anna · First-year apprentice
Module 07 · Color Theory
The color wheel
How it works
The whole apprenticeship runs in one loop you can actually see.
A single lesson or a whole module — you set what's next and the pace it moves, right from your phone.
Short, plain-language lessons with practice games and exam questions — made for every style of learning: read it, hear it, play it.
When the studying is done, Rootegra tells you it's time for the hands-on lesson or test at the chair.
Every hour is tracked as it happens. Rootegra produces the state-required hours log and reminds you before every progress report is due.
What we protect
Beauty education usually stops at technique. Ours starts with the person holding the shears — their body, their income, and their head space.
Health
Chemical exposure, breathing, skin, and posture. Apprentices learn to protect their lungs, hands, and back from the very first module.
Wealth
Pricing, money math, and business skills are inside the curriculum itself, so the license comes with a living attached.
Mind
Short lessons, a clear sequence, mnemonics, teach-back prompts, and hour tracking. Nobody has to hold the whole path in their head.
Hair loss & regrowth
Most stylists are never taught what to say when someone's hair starts falling out. Rootegra apprentices study it directly — the science, the conversation, and the plan.
The curriculum
Written for real apprentices in real salons — short lessons, plain language, and practice games in every module. Pick your state:
The Hawaiʻi edition is built around the state's 2,500-hour hairdresser apprenticeship — with 147 exam-prep terms on flashcards and every lesson tagged to state requirements.
Run a clean, organized salon from day one.
Protect yourself and every person who sits in your chair.
Cut and color without wrecking your back, wrists, or shoulders.
The body systems a hairdresser's work actually touches.
What hair is made of and why it behaves the way it does.
Know what's in the bowl before it touches a head.
Formulate with confidence instead of guessing.
Structure first, so every cut grows out well.
Perms and relaxers with respect for the hair underneath.
The physics of a style that lasts past the parking lot.
Shape, proportion, and balance you can explain to a client.
Consultations, boundaries, and conduct that builds a client book.
Placement that protects the follicle — comfort, longevity, zero traction damage.
Find why hair is struggling instead of covering it up.
Price your work, read your numbers, build a living.
Carry the emotional weight of the chair without burning out.
The scalp science behind thinning, shedding, and regrowth.
What you can work with, what to adapt, and when to refer to a doctor.
The skin basics every licensed stylist is tested on.
Nail anatomy, safety, and state-board essentials.
Waxing and removal, done safely and by the book.
Lash and brow services with the same health-first lens.
Flashcards and practice tests for the state written exam.
Every module ends in practice games — 500+ across the curriculum — plus mnemonics and teach-back prompts, built for brains that glaze over at walls of text. Like this one:
What's the name for hair's active growth phase?
Anagen — most of the hair on your head is in it right now.
The 1936 foundation
These lessons are modeled on Theory of Cosmetology, a textbook from 1936. Students in that era studied nutrition, anatomy, and scalp diagnostics before they ever picked up shears. They learned to read a scalp like a map of a person's health.
Modern beauty education kept the technique and dropped the science. We brought the science back: every module follows that root-cause approach, rewritten to today's products, safety standards, and state requirements. Root Cause Science is a module of its own, and its first lesson is called "The 1936 Approach."
How we're different
Most apprenticeships run on binders and memory. Rootegra records the hours as they happen and produces the exact log the state wants — with reminders before every report is due.
Rootegra pairs the theory with a real chair — hour tracking, mentor oversight, and progress a salon owner can see. The studying happens anywhere; the craft happens in the salon.
Ours opens with it. Infection control, chemical safety, and posture come before a single cut. A career only lasts if the stylist does.
Why it's called Rootegra
Root integrity.
The name is "root" and "integrity," joined. It stands for the health of hair at the root, and the health of the stylist at the root of the career. Everything in the curriculum keeps both at the forefront. Healthy roots. Healthy careers.
What's next
Training the next stylist is the part that can't wait, so the curriculum leads the way. The rest of the platform is already running in our home salon, and it opens up next.
Available now
The whole apprenticeship — assign, study, practice, and the hours log that writes itself.
academy.rootegra.com →Coming soon
The front desk: calendar, online booking, checkout, clients, team, and finances that add themselves up.
On the wayComing soon
Booking, payments, visit history, and home-care plans for the people in your chair.
On the wayOne account will carry every hat — stylist, apprentice, salon, client
Where it comes from
Rootegra wasn't drawn up in an office. It was built chair-side in a working Hawaiʻi salon — by a licensed stylist who mentors apprentices, and the family building the software right next to her.
Every feature exists because the salon needed it that week: the checkout math, the hour log, the lesson an apprentice studied that night. If it doesn't survive a busy Saturday, it doesn't ship.
Salons start on the web today. If you'd like a note when the App Store version arrives, leave your email.
