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About Revy's Tech Journey

Why this exists.
Who built it.
What it isn't.

Built by an IT manager, former CTE teacher, and current MSP owner. Designed to bridge the space between passing the cert and feeling ready for the actual job.

Built by · One human, plus help
Nicholas Miller
IT manager · MSP owner · ex CTE teacher
4Current CompTIA certs
M.S.Computer Science
$0Outside investors
Nicholas Miller, founder of Revy's Tech Journey, working at his desk
Working on a Saturday
Nicholas Miller · Founder

Built by someone who taught the cert and now lives the job.

Nick taught CompTIA A+ to high schoolers as a CTE instructor. Before that he worked in network engineering and led field tech teams. Today he runs an IT service center and Revtek IT Solutions, an MSP he founded.

In both classroom and hiring rooms, the same thing kept showing up. New techs could explain RAID and the OSI model. Reading an upset user's email, deciding when to escalate, opening the right tool to confirm what was actually broken: that part takes practice no textbook gives you.

“Cert prep gets you in the door. What I wanted was a way to also practice what happens once the door is open.”

Revy's Tech Journey is what Nick wishes had existed when he was teaching, and what he wishes existed when he was bringing new techs onto his own team.

Certs Nick holdsA+Net+Sec+CySA+

Prep for the exam is everywhere. Practice for the job is almost nowhere.

Mike Meyers, Boson, CertMaster, and the popular free video series. All solid for learning the exam. What is harder to find is space to practice the day-to-day work the cert prepares you for. That is where Revy's Tech Journey picks up.

The CompTIA A+ tells an employer you understand IT fundamentals. That is real, and it is a useful credential. The next step is getting reps with the work the cert prepares you for, and that part is where most of the prep market stops.

You can recite ports and protocols and still pause the first time a coworker emails in all caps about Wi-Fi that “stopped working.” Reading a ticket queue, deciding when to fix yourself and when to escalate, writing the kind of reply that lands well: those are real skills, and you will meet them on the job.

The study side is mapped to the published exam objectives. Flashcards, practice exams, and a Mastery Index with an evidence label that summarizes quiz and practice-exam performance across the exam blueprint. The simulator side gives you a simulated ticket queue modeled on help-desk workflows, with Revy as the study buddy who walks through what worked and what to try next time.

The goal is not just passing the test. It is showing up on day one with reps already on your hands.

Three people make this. Two are humans. One is a robot.

We're not inventing job titles to look bigger. This is who actually shows up.

Nicholas Miller, IT manager · MSP owner · ex CTE teacher
Founder · Builder · Voice

Nicholas Miller

IT manager · MSP owner · ex CTE teacher

Nick is an IT manager and the founder of Revtek, an MSP. Before that he taught CompTIA A+ in high school and worked across network engineering and field IT. Holds a Master's in Computer Science and the current CompTIA stack. Shapes, edits, and signs off on the content (AI helps with research, outlines, and first drafts; see the AI Policy). Answers the support email.

  • Curriculum + content
  • Product direction
  • Customer support
Natalie Summers, Creative partner · Character voice
Co-creator · Visuals · Voice

Natalie Summers

Creative partner · Character voice

Natalie shapes how the product reads and feels. Background in art and creative work. She co-creates Revy's character voice, the customer voices inside Sim scenarios, and most of the visual language you see on this site. She's also Nick's wife, and she's been the second pair of hands the whole way.

  • Character voice
  • Visual language
  • Scenario writing
Revy: default
Mascot · Study buddy · Third team member

Revy

Chibi-robot · Never patronizing · Never a salesperson

Revy is the platform's study companion. He celebrates streaks, looks concerned when you bomb a practice exam, and explains why an answer was wrong in the exact tone a good study partner would. He is not a chatbot upsell funnel. He is not your AI tutor. He is a character.

  • Friendly, specific, never patronizing
  • Lives in every mode
  • Voice locked in a character bible

Four things we want to be reliable about.

Online learning gets a lot of promises. These are the ones we are holding ourselves to.

Bootstrapped.

No VC, no outside investors. That means no pressure to add features nobody asked for and no pivot to AI tutors because a board wants it. Bootstrapped and independently run. RTJ stays available as long as we can operate it sustainably. We grow at the pace customers pay for it.

Honest by default.

The Mastery Index shows correctness across RTJ questions, weighted to the official exam blueprint. Its evidence-quality label shows how much practice supports the number. It is an internal, uncalibrated study signal, not a pass prediction or an instruction to book the official exam.

Cert prep plus the real job.

Every cert in the catalog gets both sides. Pass the test, then practice the work the cert prepares you for. Both come standard.

Built from real tickets.

Nick still works in IT day to day. The scenarios in the simulator come from the kinds of tickets that actually land in his inbox, so what you practice is what you will see.

Five things we'd want to know before paying for this ourselves.

Current CompTIA stack.

A+, Net+, Sec+, CySA+.

Ex CTE IT teacher.

Taught high school IT classes covering CompTIA and Microsoft cert prep, plus dual-credit college courses.

Industry experience.

Network engineering and field IT work before the classroom.

Working MSP owner.

Real customer tickets land in Nick's queue. Sim scenarios come from the kinds of issues that actually show up.

Bootstrapped.

No outside investors. Funded by paying customers.

What's live. What's next.

We launch with the CompTIA stack because that is where Nick's teaching is deepest. What comes after that lives on the roadmap, and nothing gets listed here until it is built.

Live at launch
Available now, all four motions.
  • 220-1201/02CompTIA A+ Core 1 + Core 2
  • N10-009CompTIA Network+
  • SY0-701CompTIA Security+
Building next
Post-launch, in order.

The queue lives on one page so it cannot drift out of sync. See the roadmap for what is being considered next.

Want input on what we build next? Join the Discord. The roadmap is genuinely shaped by people in the channel.

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