AI for K-12 software vendors
AI for your K-12 product, built without touching student data.
Datics works for the K-12 software vendor, not for districts: we build staff-, teacher- and parent-facing AI modules inside your product on synthetic data, and your production student data stays in your US cloud, under your controls.
Built for: K-12 SaaS vendors serving districts, schools, teachers and families.
How we handle student data
These are design facts about how we work, not compliance claims. Your counsel decides how your agreements apply.
- We work for you, the vendor, and accept the student-data obligations your district agreements flow down to anyone working on your product.
- We build and test on synthetic or de-identified data. Production student data stays in your US cloud, under your access controls, and we hold no production credentials.
- Children's data is never used to train models, and features follow COPPA rules for users under 13.
- Built around FERPA and COPPA, with an approval gate before anything is written and an audit log with deletion.
Where these products get stuck
- 01
Districts write the rules
Most districts now have AI guidelines, and student privacy is the first question in every review.
- 02
Teachers and parents need answers
Help requests spike at the start of every term and the same questions arrive from every school.
- 03
Admins want answers, not report requests
District admins ask for numbers your reports don't show, and each one becomes a ticket.
AI inside your product
The modules that fit this kind of platform.
Each one is a reference build shown on a fictional institution. It runs inside your product, on your data, and ships under your name.
Docently
AI support for your LMS and learners
A support agent for your learners and admins, trained on your help center.
Fits: LMS support, student services, K-12
Intakely
Admissions document automation
Admissions documents in, a checked application record out.
Fits: Admissions and credentialing
Cohortly
Ask your enrollment and retention data
Ask your enrollment and retention data a question in plain English.
Fits: SIS, analytics, student success
Accessibility Check
WCAG reviews ahead of ADA Title II
An AI-assisted WCAG 2.1 AA review of your product, with fixes your team can ship.
Fits: Any vendor selling to public colleges, universities or districts
How it works
One AI feature, working inside your product, in two weeks. $10,000, fixed.
K-12 vendors usually start with Docently for teachers and parents on their real help center, on synthetic data, because it never needs student records.
- 01
EdTech Product Review
30 minutes, free
We look at your product with you and pick the module or capability that protects your next release, what it would cost to serve, and what your customers' security review will ask.
- 02
The Sprint
$10,000, two weeks, fixed
One AI feature working inside your product: running in your staging environment on your catalog, documents or synthetic data, behind a feature flag, delivered as pull requests. You also get quality and safety evals, a cost estimate on two models, a data-flow sheet and a fixed-price quote for production.
- 03
Targeted Unlock, then Capability Waves
Quoted at the end of the Sprint
The first production capability, delivered by pull request into your repo with no standing production access. Then the next module, on the foundation the first one built.
Built for education data
Controls your customers' security reviews ask about.
Each control is a design fact about how the module is built and how we work, not a compliance claim.
- Runs on your catalog, documents or data through the APIs your product already exposes. No rebuild.
- Sprint work uses synthetic or de-identified data and ships as pull requests to your repo. No production student data.
- Every answer that matters shows its source; material actions go to a person for approval.
- Built around FERPA, COPPA, accessibility and institutional requirements.
- Built to ship under your product's name. Model and hosting are your choice.
We build around your FERPA, COPPA, accessibility, security and institutional requirements. Compliance depends on the complete product, contracts, policies and operating environment; Datics does not present software engineering alone as legal certification.
How we handle student dataProduct improvements you can measure
What we agree to measure in the Sprint, so the production decision rests on your numbers, not ours.
Teacher and parent help
Questions answered without a ticket at term start
Admin answers
Report requests closed without engineering time
Proof
What we have built that this rests on.
33 case studies across 17 industries, 19 of them AI products or brownfield AI builds shipped inside software customers already use. Each EdTech module starts from one of those engines, so you are not paying for us to learn.
Controlled Record Release
LegalTech · Records / Controlled Release and Audit
Sensitive records discovered, requested and released under control, with a full audit log
Metadata-first discovery, AI extraction from archives, a tracked request lifecycle, payment and controlled release of sensitive records with audit logging.
Review-and-Approve Documentation
Dental Clinical Software · Human-in-the-Loop AI / Approval Gate
AI drafts, the professional approves: nothing is released until a person signs off
Appointment audio transcribed live and drafted into structured clinical notes with codes, which the dentist reviews, edits and approves before anything is released.
AI Knowledge and Support Agent
Cloud Storage Software · Support Agent / Knowledge Retrieval
An AI agent that answers from knowledge spread across cloud storage, inside Slack and Teams
AI that ingests and indexes documents and pages across several cloud-storage providers and answers in Slack, checking approved answers first and falling back cleanly when it has nothing relevant.
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Other EdTech platforms we build for
Workforce learning
Corporate LMS, CE and certification providers, bootcamp platforms
Admissions and enrollment
Enrollment CRM, application and student-recruitment platforms
Startups and training providers
Funded EdTech startups, academies, marketplaces and training providers
Learning platforms and content
LMS, courseware, curriculum and content platforms
Student records and analytics
SIS, analytics and student-success vendors
See one module on your own product.
Bring one product, workflow or AI initiative. In 30 minutes we pick the module that fits first, what it would cost to serve and what your customers' security review will ask.
Calls run in US Central time. No generic AI presentation: we discuss your product, users and production constraints.