Morning Brief
One page before first bell: who is absent, what changed overnight, which flags need a human today.
03Running today
AI agents for schools and districts
The school runs on it. The students learn to build it.
Twenty-three agents that read the student information system read-only, do the repeated office work before first bell, and catch a slipping student in week two instead of at the progress report. Plus an apprenticeship cohort that ships reviewed work into the same codebase.
Deans, front office, counselors, teachers, students, parents
DIDM has this live on a named account or on its own operation. The proof line below is measured, not modelled.
Where the day goes now
The dean opens twelve tabs before first bell to answer one question. A student starts sliding in week two and nobody sees it until grades post six weeks later. The front office answers the same handbook question forty times a term. A teacher who wants a differentiated version of an assignment builds it at nine at night.
What it reads
Blackbaud, PowerSchool or your SIS, read-only · Google Classroom · your handbook and course catalogue · the school's own tenant, always
Read-only, through credentials you issue and can revoke in a click.The fleet
Six specialists, each with one job and a written cap.
Not one assistant asked to do everything. Six narrow agents that run on a schedule, hand their work to a person, and log what they did. You can read every one of their instructions.
Slip Detector
Watches per-assignment work and flags a real slide inside two weeks, split into counselor caseloads capped at fifteen.
Front Office
Answers the handbook question with the section and the date, and hands anything it cannot source to a person.
Differentiator
Turns one assignment into the versions a mixed classroom needs, and catches errors in the answer key on the way through.
Student Sandbox
A capped, logged workspace per student with a spend ceiling and a portfolio that shows what they actually built.
Parent Window
Shows families only what a teacher or counselor released — words, never raw numbers.
06:30, before anyone opens a tab
The Morning Brief
One agent reads everything that changed overnight and says it out loud in under a minute. Items that need a person are named. Nothing in it was decided by the fleet.
Hear the Morning BriefSynthetic voice · invented data
0:00
“Good morning. Six thirty, and here is your day before it starts. Attendance overnight: fourteen absences, three of them a third consecutive day, which puts them on your desk rather than the office's. Second: the slip detector flagged four students this week — two are new, and one of those is a student whose work dropped off eleven days ago in two subjects at once. Counselor queues are split and capped. Third: the front office handled thirty-one handbook questions overnight and passed two up, both about the new phone policy, because the handbook does not actually answer them yet.
Sample script · invented names and figures · Schools
One of the ten, in full — Scout, our schools program
From the first slip to the right conversation, in week two.
This is the depth every one of the ten pages goes to; schools is simply the one that is furthest along. Scout reads the systems a school already runs on, notices what a person would want to know, and writes it down for that person. It pinpoints where a student is slipping or excelling, fast, and puts a tutoring path or a different route in front of the people who decide. Nobody on staff is replaced; everybody is earlier.
- Strengths and weaknesses, per student, per courseA weekly robust z-score on grades and attendance flags the slide in week two with the numbers shown. Counselor prep sheets and advisory digests carry it to the right adult.
- A tutor and a builder's sandbox for every studentEach student gets a capped agent under school sign-in that never touches school data. Study Buddy Plus adds Socratic tutoring with Khan Academy always on. The cohort ships real, reviewed work and leaves with an employer-readable portfolio.
- A window for parents, not a portal to checkOne login per student shows notes a teacher approved and flags a counselor released, and answers handbook questions at any hour. Raw grades and unreleased flags never appear.
- Curriculum that gets a review before a teacher sees itA drafter writes units as clearly marked drafts; a scorer rates them against the school's own rubric and is calibrated on the school's exemplars before it scores anything a teacher reads.
Five waves. Each one earns the next.
1Front officeWeeks 1–4
One boring, repeated, checkable task, chosen by the office. Scout does it before the day starts; the office checks it.
Proof: hours returned per week, counted by the office
2CounselingSemester 1
Read-only view of grades and attendance. Scout flags a slide in week two; a counselor decides.
Proof: days from first slip to first conversation
3TeachersSemester 2
Differentiated versions, first-draft feedback, parent notes the teacher approves. Volunteers only.
Proof: minutes per assignment, before and after
4StudentsSpring
An apprenticeship cohort builds on a real system with read-only keys and reviewed changes.
Proof: merged work on GitHub, one agent each
5EmployersMay
Demo Day in the gym. Local businesses meet the builders.
Proof: offers, internships, a year-two decision
What it never does
The same rule our own agents live under at the agency: unattended things hold read-only keys; anything that writes needs a person in the loop, per task.
- Read-only into student records. Nothing writes back.
- The agent flags; the counselor decides. A release is the only path to a family.
- Bad news still comes from a person, by design.
- Every document carries who made it, which model, when, and who reviewed it.
ProofTwenty-three agents built and running on a synthetic school. The Slip Detector's per-assignment path caught 28 of 29 planted two-week slides; the cumulative-grade fallback caught 7. That gap is why we ask for the gradebook role.
Same architecture, different nouns
The other nine
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Name the one boring, repeated task.
That is the whole first conversation. We map deans, front office, counselors, teachers, students, parents, pick the task your people would most like back, and show you what the first agent would do before it does anything.