Our Philosophy
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Then, right at those gates, reality gets a vote.
The pacing guide is already too full. The class is too big, and inside it sit the students who are three grade levels ahead and the ones who are three behind, arriving from homes that look nothing alike. There are papers to grade tonight, and papers to grade tomorrow night. Some afternoons, the walk down a loud hallway is heavier than it should be.
And now AI is in the room. It came through the door, through the window, and through every phone in every pocket.
You look down at the crumb of donut dissolving in your coffee and the metaphor is not lost on you: you are floating in a sea of tech solutions, left alone to work out which of them is any good for your students.
More than one in seven American teachers changes schools or leaves the profession every year. Many of them are overworked, but they are also frustrated by the feeling that they’re not able to do the job they came to do.
At Ed.ai, we start from something obvious: no human being can build a tailored program for 150 students at once. But what if a tool built by teachers, carrying the best of what this technology can now do, could give those hours back and give teachers the capacity to help every student?
We start there because teachers stand at the crossroads between a lesson and a child. No school system improves tomorrow if we don’t overcome their N°1 source of anxiety; not being able to help all the students.
We know this because 30% of our staff are teachers. Dozens more write the material our model is built on.
Before Ed.ai, I founded a digital textbook publishing house: collaborative school manuals, written with teachers, that became the third largest in France. That project had teachers’ DNA in it from the first page. Ed.ai was born from the same motivation: answer what teachers need instead of leaving them staring into a cold mug.
From sharp auto-grading to the analysis of each individual paper, to the reteaching activity that comes back built from your own students’ work: none of it was developed without a teacher’s mind on it.
1. Your time, returned to you to use where it matters
Stacks of paper carried from car to classroom and back. Hours of repetitive grading. Fast, reliable auto-grading hands those hours back. And they go where they belong: face to face, in the room, with the students who need another pass.
2. Instant view of what landed, and what didn’t.
Think of a dozen teachers reading every paper at once, squeezing out every last drop. In seconds, you see how the class is doing, and exactly who has not yet grasped the properties of operations for addition and subtraction. Building from extracts of your students’ own papers, the reteaching activity then comes at the right time: before the class moves on to the next chapter, and before the knowledge gap widens.
3. AI that works around your expertise.
Ed.ai integrates with the learning system your school already runs. Grade student by student, or question by question across the whole class, mug in hand or not. What gets written always stays under your control.
Like the company I built before it, Ed.ai is a collaborative project at scale, with one difference. It can now do what only this technology makes possible: multiply the instructional capacity in a teacher’s hands.
School is going to change. That much is settled. But you should not have to stand still and wait to learn what the change sentences you to. I think you can write your own equation, and build tomorrow’s classroom alongside a company built with your peers.
If that lands somewhere in your gut, come with us. Together we can make Ed.ai a partner teachers trust, and put it to work for every kid, in a world that will not stop moving.
— Jonathan Banon, CEO and co-founder, Ed.ai