
1. Technology overview
SchoolAI, Inc. is based in Lehi, Utah, and was founded by CEO Caleb Hicks with cofounders Kevin Morrill and Cahlan Sharp. It builds an AI classroom platform for K-12 teachers, schools and districts, and says hundreds of thousands of teachers use it weekly and have created more than 150,000 Spaces. In April 2025 it raised new funding led by Insight to expand globally.
Teachers build Spaces, which are managed AI tutors, games and lessons shared with students, while Sidekick gives each student a personal AI tutor tuned to grade and class. Teachers keep visibility through student insights, a Class Mastery Score that surfaces misconceptions, Next Steps recommendations, Smart Groups and session tracking. District tools add guardrails across schools, local policy and curriculum context, critical safety alert routing and usage reports, with rostering and LMS integration including an embedded Canvas sidekick.
2. Highlighted features & specifications
- Spaces: teacher-built AI tutors, games and lessons shared with students.
- Sidekick: a personal AI tutor for each student, available in and out of class.
- Class Mastery Score and Next Steps: class-level mastery, misconceptions and reteach suggestions.
- Smart Groups and Session Insights: grouping by need and live lesson progress.
- District controls: guardrails, local context, critical alert routing and usage reports.
- Integrations: SIS rostering, SSO, full LMS integration and an embedded Canvas sidekick.
3. Potential application
- International schools in Vietnam giving each student a supervised AI tutor for homework and revision.
- Private school systems using mastery dashboards to plan reteaching across campuses.
- Teacher-training programmes letting teachers build and share AI-powered lessons safely.
4. Benefits
- Teacher time saved: an ESSA Level III validation study cited by SchoolAI reports more than 7 hours saved per teacher per week.
- Personal tutoring at scale: every student gets an AI tutor while teachers keep visibility.
- Actionable class data: mastery scores, misconceptions and smart groups guide reteaching.
- Safe for schools: SOC 2 Type II, FERPA and COPPA compliance plus district guardrails and safety alerts.
5. Market trends & opportunities
School systems want AI tutoring that teachers can supervise, with safety controls and evidence of impact, rather than unmanaged consumer chatbots. Vietnam's policy push for AI in education and teacher AI training programmes create openings for school-managed AI tutoring platforms, particularly in private and international schools.
6. Other information
SchoolAI, Inc., 2000 Ashton Blvd. #500, Lehi, Utah. Founder and CEO Caleb Hicks; cofounders Kevin Morrill and Cahlan Sharp. April 2025 funding led by Insight, with NextView, The General Partnership and Peterson Ventures. 1EdTech and Common Good certified; ESSA Level III validated.
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