AI for school operations, administration, and governance
Your next inspection may come with 24 hours' notice.
Keep the SEF sourced and current every day of the year.
ADEK now expects every school to show responsible AI use.
Adopt AI on regulator's terms: cited, governed and signed off.
Your staff already use ChatGPT. It knows nothing about your school.
Give them AI that already knows your policies and plans.
Every term, the SEF and board pack get rewritten from scratch.
Next term, start from this term's version, already updated.
We put AI right inside Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook, the tools you already use. Our team of experts connects it with every system you use, and work with you to configure the agents to your policies, and get the results you demand.
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunNow Start of year SEF rewrite, SDP refresh, new-HOD onboarding, policy register review Assessment MAP / CAT4 windows, then the export → intervention-list scramble Reports Report comments, often in two or three languages Governance Termly SDP RAG review, board pack, governor visit notes Admissions Re-enrolment, recruitment packs, fee application evidence AI (new) AI Lead file, AI Growth Test windows, Level 1 training records Inspection Any day, from this year: a visit at up to 24 hours' notice (Dubai)
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One SEF paragraph, before and after
A made-up example, built the way a real one would be.
before The deputy head asks for evidence. The paragraph describes what teachers do and says nothing about results. after Our software adds both reports as numbered sources, in a tracked change for S. Okafor. The numbers went down, so the draft now says so. It shows the SEF rule it checked against, and nothing stays in until a named person accepts it.
Try it yourself. You can do this by hand tomorrow. Next to every claim about teaching, write the outcome figure it should have moved, even when that figure went the wrong way.
From claim to evidence, in three steps
The same judgement, written three ways.
1 Assertion
Teaching in Year 7 maths is good.
The inspector asks“How do you know?”
2 Assertion with data
Teaching in Year 7 maths is good: 74% of students met their MAP growth target this term.
The inspector asks“Is that growth down to teaching? What did you see in lessons?”
3 Triangulated judgement
Teaching in Year 7 maths is good: 74% met their MAP growth target, 5 of 6 observed lessons were good or better, and the October book look confirmed feedback is acted on.
The inspector asks“Can I see one of those lessons?”
What changed this year
Each item is dated and sourced. We update this list when a regulator does.
Covers 170+ private schools and six safeguard areas. Training at three levels for 19,000 educators: Level 1 for everyone, Level 3 for a designated AI Lead in each school. An AI Growth Test twice a year for Grades 4–12.
3 Jun 2026
KHDA visits return in 2026-27, with no more than 24 hours' notice
Every eligible private school gets one of two visits: a full inspection with a published rating, or a shorter monitoring visit that follows lines of enquiry from KHDA's data. Both come with no more than 24 hours' notice. KHDA picks the visit type from school data, including your Self-Evaluation Form.
From 2024/25
39 updated ADEK private-school policies
RegulatorAbu Dhabi Media Office
What it says
14 on governance and operations, 11 on teaching and learning, 14 on health, safety and well-being. All in force.
Recognise any of these?
Where the hours go
Said the way school leaders say it, with where the evidence comes from.
What we hearEvidenceWhere it livesPilot
“The SEF gets rebuilt before every inspection.”
KHDA visits now come with no more than 24 hours' notice, and KHDA reviews SEFs between visits.
Regulator
Lives in Word, OneDrive
PilotLive SEF
“Our SDP tracks what we did, not what changed.”
A pattern across four anonymised GCC inspection reports we've reviewed.
Client evidence
Lives in Word, Teams
PilotOutcome-tracking SDP
“Observation forms don't match the framework.”
The same four-school pattern.
Client evidence
Lives in Word
PilotLive SEF
“Middle leaders are drowning.”
TALIS 2024: admin and marking hurt well-being more than teaching. UAE teachers mark 5.4 hours a week against an OECD average of 4.6.
Independent
Lives in Outlook, Word
PilotEveryday drafting, Leadership continuity
Show 5 more
“When people leave, the reasoning leaves.”
Two large UAE groups report staff attrition of about 9% and 17% (Khaleej Times, Aug 2026).
Company-stated
Lives in Teams, OneDrive
PilotLeadership continuity
“39 ADEK policies, kept current by hand.”
ADEK's updated policy set, in force from 2024/25.
Regulator
Lives in Word
PilotPolicy register
“We have to show ADEK responsible AI use.”
ADEK's AI policy: six safeguards and an AI Lead in every school.
Regulator
Lives in Word, Teams
PilotADEK AI evidence file
“Staff use ChatGPT, but nothing reaches our documents.”
Gallup: only 19% of teachers work under a school AI policy.
Independent
Lives in Outside Microsoft 365
PilotEveryday drafting, ADEK AI evidence file
“Assessment data takes weeks to format.”
One GCC group's finance lead told us this.
Client evidence
Lives in Excel
PilotIn progress
The pilot menu
Pick two. We'll scope them in 30 minutes.
Each pilot runs inside apps your staff already use, and each one has a number we measure before and after.
Your board wants
M1 + B1
Live SEF
Drafts your SEF with a source on every judgement, checks it against the framework descriptors, and keeps one live version.
Apps
Word, OneDrive
Measure
Drafting time · % of judgements with a source · % of tracked changes accepted
B3 + M2
Outcome-tracking SDP
Decisions made in Teams become pending edits across the SDP, the governors' report and the staff brief. Activity actions get rewritten as outcomes.
Apps
Teams, Word
Measure
% of actions with an outcome measure · time from decision to document
J1 + J2
ADEK AI evidence file
An AI use register (metadata only) and a self-assessment against ADEK's six safeguards and PDPL principles.
Apps
Word, OneDrive
Measure
Coverage of the six areas · board sign-off
M3 + C2
Everyday drafting
Parent letters, meeting summaries and report comments in your house style, in Arabic and English.
Apps
Outlook, Word
Measure
Turnaround time · edits per draft
M4 + F5
Leadership continuity
A handover file, the history behind key decisions, and a starter kit for new heads of department.
Apps
Word, Teams
Measure
Time for a new leader to produce a first SEF section
B4 + M5
Policy register + ADEK rule pack
Checks your 39 policies against the current ADEK versions and flags what has drifted.
Apps
Word
Measure
Gaps found and closed
J6
Parent AI transparency note
A two-page termly note, in Arabic and English, on what AI does in the school and what it never does.
Phase 2Coming once Excel and PowerPoint support ships: MAP export → RAG tracker and intervention lists, the termly board pack, and an AI impact scoreboard (a Word-only version is available now).
Not on the menu, by design: IEPs and anything near safeguarding.
Running a group?
+One rule pack shared across every school
+Policy sets standardised across UAE, KSA and Oman
+A template pack for each new campus
+Board packs across campuses (with Excel support)
Guardrails
What we will not do.
Never
Put AI in students' hands
Generate lessons
Send anything on its own
Touch safeguarding case files
Promise you a rating
Train anyone's model on your data
Always
Run inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant
Cite a source that opens, for every claim
Make edits as tracked changes a named person accepts
Keep a log your AI Lead can show an inspector
Sign data exit terms on day one
Against ADEK's six safeguard areas
How we line up with the safeguards ADEK published in September 2026. This is our mapping, not an ADEK endorsement. Use it as a checklist for any AI vendor, including us.
Data protection and student privacy
Deployed in your tenant. Student-level and safeguarding data stay out of the workspaces we touch.
Cognitive agency
No student-facing AI. Staff write the judgement; we draft and cite, and they decide.
Academic integrity
Every AI-drafted passage is a tracked change with a named author, so it's always clear what the AI wrote.
Human oversight of AI-generated decisions
Nothing is sent or published without a person accepting it. Every acceptance is logged.
Content safety and cultural alignment
House-style and rule packs set per school, in Arabic and English, reviewed by your staff.
Algorithmic fairness
We don't score or rank students or staff. Rule checks look at documents, not people.
Proof
What we can show you
Case notes, not case studies: what was done, how it was measured, and where it stands today.
Shipped
The education arm of a $1B+ AUM family office.
Measured
Answers that took hours now take seconds.
Status
In production.
Read the note
Problem
Sixteen years of school and real-estate data that only a few people knew how to query.
What we did
Plain-English questions over the legacy data.
The engine underneath
The Word engine that reads and redlines 200+ page documents.
Measured
240M pages processed in 2026. Saltmine's compliance checks went from months to about ten minutes.
Status
Transferable proof: the same method, a different document.
Read the note
What we did
It is what drafts and checks the SEF. For Saltmine, the same pattern runs compliance checks against regional codes.
Founder
Swanand Pagnis
Measured
Has built for millions of learners, and for regulators.
Status
Leads every education engagement.
Read the note
What we did
Was CTO at CoLearn, an Indonesian K-12 edtech company, and at Tungsten, an ADGM/FSRA-regulated custodian.
20+ pilots taken to production · 12B+ tokens processed
The offer
Start small. Know the exit before you start.
Every step is useful even if you stop there.
01
How much are you lagging behind AI leaders?Free
Three minutes. Your result shows on the page.
02
Pilot shortlist callFree
30 minutes. Your two best-fit pilots are already picked from the audit.
03
72-hour proofFree
Send us five documents. Within three working days we show one section redrafted in Word, citing your own evidence.
What we need
What we need: one SEF section, your current SDP, the policy list, a page of last term's report comments and the inspection framework section that applies. Microsoft 365 schools only, and a limited number each month.
One school, two or three workflows, one term. A written go/no-go at the end.
05
Prove + pre-committed scale
The scale-up price and scope are agreed up front, and the go/no-go triggers them.
06
Group partnership
All schools, shared rule packs, a team on the ground. A per-staff platform fee plus a fixed fee per workflow, with the projected token bill shown before go-live.
Prove · the paid pilot
Prove it in one school, in one term. Two or three workflows. A governance review before we touch any data. Baselines in three weeks, from documents you already produce. A written go/no-go against a bar we agree up front. If it doesn't clear the bar, you stop, and your data comes back under terms signed on day one. If it does, the pilot fee is credited against scale-up.
How we stop it stalling
A named executive sponsor on your side
Go/no-go criteria written into the contract
The decision meeting booked on day one
The scale-up price agreed before we start
No more than three workflows
Pricing. Fixed fee, scoped in writing after a 30-minute call. Paid pilots are credited against later phases.
Keep it for everyday help. Copilot is a general assistant for each person ($18 per user a month on academic licences, with Copilot Chat included in A1, A3 and A5). We run in the same apps and add what Copilot doesn't package for schools: regulator rule packs as one-click checks, updates that flow into the documents that depend on a decision, a numbered source on every claim, edits only as tracked changes, shared memory across the school, and a team that sets the workflows up. Use Copilot for everyday help. Use us for the documents an inspector reads.
Staff already use ChatGPT or Gemini.
That's the demand, and it's a good sign. The problem is that chat work never reaches your controlled documents and leaves no register, which ADEK's oversight safeguard expects. If your school runs on Google Workspace: Gemini for Education is free for you, and our Google support is coming. Join the waitlist and start with the ADEK AI evidence file in Word.
Where does our data go?
We deploy in your own Microsoft 365 tenant. Workspaces keep HR and safeguarding data out. We work to the UAE PDPL (Federal Decree-Law 45/2021), ADEK's third-party vetting rules and, for Saudi schools, the KSA PDPL. Before any data moves, the governance review walks your IT lead and DPO through the data flows and every sub-processor. Your data is never used to train a model.
What about safeguarding?
Out of scope, by design. We don't touch safeguarding case files.
What if the AI makes something up?
Every claim cites a source you can open. Edits arrive only as tracked changes, a named person accepts each one, and rule checks flag judgements that have no evidence behind them.
Will this replace teachers?
No. It takes on the documents around teaching, not the teaching.
Does it work in Arabic?
It drafts in Arabic and English, and your staff approve every draft. We test quality on your own documents during the pilot before claiming anything more.
Our staff won't learn another app.
There's no new app. It runs in Word, Outlook and Teams. ADEK's Level 1–3 training can use real work from the pilot.
What will inspectors think?
That you have a register, a log and human sign-off, which is what the safeguards ask for. We never claim regulator endorsement, and you shouldn't either.
Does it connect to our SIS (eSIS, Toddle, iSAMS)?
We work from exports today. A direct integration is custom work, scoped separately.
What does it cost to run?
A fixed pilot fee. Before go-live, we show you the projected monthly token bill.
You're a young vendor.
You get the founder's record, documents that stay as Word files in your own tenant, a deployment you can reverse, and exit terms in the contract.
Find out where your school stands.
Take the audit for a score and two recommended pilots. Or skip ahead and book the call.