What Changes When Education Comes First
Every figure on this page comes from a live partner program. Nothing here is modeled.
Where the Platform Stands
Kredit Academy turns financial education into financial action. These are the counts behind that sentence.
Content adjusts to demonstrated understanding, so one program serves a whole membership rather than a single age bracket.
Completions, readiness and product outcomes in one export, per cohort and per branch.
Most institutions introduce products first and education later. We reverse the sequence.
Four steps, each producing its own evidence. That is what makes the programs below reportable.
Learn
Short lessons pitched at what someone already understands.
Build Confidence
Practice on decisions people actually face, until the choice feels ordinary.
Demonstrate Readiness
The platform can tell who is prepared, because it watched them get there.
Access Products
The right product, offered when someone can actually carry it.
Preparation comes before access. Every product is earned by the learning that readies someone to use it well.
Learning that earns a deposit
Learners work through a savings track inside Kredit Quest, and Edward Jones matches what they put away. The lesson and the dollar are attached to each other, so the reward arrives because of the learning rather than alongside it.
The program runs inside Financial Futures, Edward Jones’ commitment to opening pathways to economic opportunity by pairing meaningful assets, practical education and data-driven insights with the communities that need them most.
Available through the partnership to mission-aligned, community-facing organizations. You bring the members and the trust. We bring the learning and the matched dollars.
Book a CallKredit Academy is one of sixteen organizations in the Financial Futures cohort.
These are the cohort’s 2025 results, published by Edward Jones in its annual Financial Futures report.
Source: Edward Jones, Financial Futures 2025 Impact Report. Figures are cohort-wide across all sixteen member organizations, not Kredit Academy alone.
The same match, run by the community
In 2026 the matched savings model extended to the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis and the Chicago Urban League.
They bring the members and run the cohorts. We supply the learning, the readiness signal and the reporting. Trust travels with the organization that already has it, which is why the same program reaches further through a community partner than it would through us.
Kredit Quest at the Chicago Urban League housing fair, 2026.
Member education under the credit union’s name
New Covenant Dominion FCU, Stepping Stones CFCU and GCCCU run the platform as their own member education. Their branding, their rewards, their lesson topics. Members never see a third-party product, and the credit union owns the relationship the learning builds.
“Implementing Kredit Academy’s white-label solution has transformed our customer engagement. We’ve seen a 40% increase in digital banking activity and significant improvements in member retention.”
What a Partner Program Includes
You run the learning under your own brand, then introduce your own products once members are ready.
Reporting Your Board Accepts
Lesson completions, score movement and product readiness, exported as a report rather than a screenshot.
Your Brand, Front and Center
Members see your name on every lesson. Kredit Academy stays in the footer.
Launch Without a Rebuild
Link it from your app or run it standalone. API and SDK are both available.
Who We Work With
Credit 101: Ways to Educate the Next Generation About the Power of Good Credit
Evan Leaphart, Founder of Kredit Academy, on teaching young people about credit building and financial responsibility.
Watch the full webinarThe Financial Education Hub
Articles, past webinars and lesson previews, free and open to anyone.
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Book 30 minutes and we will show you the dashboard, the learner app, and the impact report your board will accept.
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