generated: '2026-07-20'
method: searched
source: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-10-11-google-discreetly-acquires-edtech-analytics-company-brightbytes
company_status: acquired
operating: false
summary: >-
  BrightBytes was a San Francisco K-12 education data and analytics company (founded 2012 by
  Rob Mancabelli), known for the Clarity analytics platform and the DataSense data-integration
  platform. The company no longer operates independently: DataSense was sold to Microsoft in
  February 2019, and the remaining company was acquired by Google in 2022. As of this probe the
  corporate website www.brightbytes.net returns an expired-Squarespace placeholder, and no
  developer, documentation, API, status or portal subdomain resolves.
events:
- date: '2019-02'
  event: DataSense data-integration platform and team acquired by Microsoft
  source: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-acquires-datasense-data-analytics-platform-schools-edtech-company-brightbytes/
- date: '2022-10'
  event: BrightBytes (Clarity platform) acquired by Google; reported publicly October 2022
  source: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-10-11-google-discreetly-acquires-edtech-analytics-company-brightbytes
- date: '2026-07-20'
  event: >-
    Probe of www.brightbytes.net returns HTTP 404 with a Squarespace "Website Expired"
    placeholder page; no developer surface remains.
  source: https://www.brightbytes.net
versioning: null
deprecation: null
sla: null
status_page: null
deprecated_operations: []
probe:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  website:
    url: https://www.brightbytes.net
    status: 404
    note: Squarespace "Website Expired" placeholder
  well_known:
  - path: /.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - path: /.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 404
  - path: /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
    status: 404
  - path: /.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - path: /.well-known/ai-plugin.json
    status: 404
  - path: /llms.txt
    status: 404
  subdomains:
  - host: app.brightbytes.net
    dns: none
  - host: developer.brightbytes.net
    dns: none
  - host: docs.brightbytes.net
    dns: none
  - host: api.brightbytes.net
    dns: none
  - host: help.brightbytes.net
    dns: none
  - host: portal.brightbytes.net
    dns: none
  - host: status.brightbytes.net
    dns: none
  - host: support.brightbytes.net
    dns: CNAME brightbytes.zendesk.com
    https: unreachable
  - host: clarity.brightbytes.net
    dns: CNAME clarity-production-paas.bbinternal.net
    https: unreachable
  registries:
  - registry: npm
    query: brightbytes
    first_party_packages: 0
  - registry: pypi
    query: brightbytes
    status: 404
  github_org: none found (github.com/brightbytes not a public org)
notes: >-
  No API, OpenAPI, developer portal, SDK, or event surface exists to harvest. Downstream
  enrichment artifacts (openapi/, packages/, mcp/, skills/, conventions/, errors/, scopes/,
  authentication/, sandbox/, changelog/, cli/, components/, data-model/, asyncapi/) are
  intentionally absent rather than fabricated.