About Read On Your Own:

Read On Your Own (ROYO) empowers children to become confident readers with personalized tools that spark a lifelong love of learning, unlock their potential, and help them meet grade-level standards. ROYO creates personalized decodable books where each student is the main character, with stories tailored to their phonics needs and interests. Aligned with classroom instruction and individual reading ability, these books combine engaging, customizable materials with real-time feedback on student performance. Grounded in the Science of Reading, ROYO equips teachers, tutors, and parents with tools that help students in grades K–4 build decoding skills, fluency, and confidence to achieve meaningful reading progress.

About the relationship:

Our relationship with ROYO started with a simple email. Edlink’s Eddie Flottemesch connected with ROYO Founder Yasmin Barkett to better understand their integration plans. At the time, ROYO was wrapping up an integration with Clever and didn’t see an immediate need for additional support. That soon changed.

After receiving guidance from a trusted mentor, the ROYO team began reevaluating their integration approach to better support a broader set of school partners. They realized their vision required more than one integration. They needed:

  • Single sign-on (SSO) and rostering support for platforms like Clever, ClassLink, and other school systems
  • Flexibility in user sign-in flows
  • Room to grow features over time without rebuilding from scratch

ROYO chose Edlink to power their integrations. With Edlink, ROYO can now connect to dozens of the most widely used LMS, SIS, and IAM providers through a single, secure API, allowing them to provide SSO and rostering to serve schools with sign-in flexibility and confidence.  

“The deciding factor in choosing Edlink was how seamlessly it enabled us to onboard district partners with diverse rostering needs, without the added concern of managing ongoing rostering changes.”
- Yasmin Barkett, Founder of Read On Your Own (ROYO)

About Edlink:

Edlink is the fastest and easiest way to integrate your learning platform with school data systems. Working with Edlink's Unified API saves development teams from headaches, accelerates time-to-market for operational teams, and helps sales teams win more deals.

Edlink currently supports 120+ edtech companies and helps over 75 million people use their edtech products seamlessly with their school’s LMS, SIS, and identity management platform (like Clever and ClassLink). We’re trusted to exchange sensitive data securely by edtech companies, school IT administrators, and district leaders in over 5,000 educational institutions, and growing.

To learn more about Read On Your Own, visit www.royo.ai
To learn more about Edlink, visit ed.link.