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Chat
Ask a question in plain English, get an answer with a chart and a table in seconds. Multi-turn, follow-up suggestions, and a full audit trail of how it was computed.
Explore Chat →CONVERSATIONAL.DATA.ANALYTICS / K-12
Talk to your district’s data. In plain English.
One platform, two ways to use it. Ask a question in chat and get an answer in seconds. Or describe a report and have it built, scheduled, and emailed — without filing a ticket with the SIS admin. No tickets. No exports. No waiting until Friday.
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Layers of defense
between the AI and the database
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AI training on student data
structural via AWS Bedrock
upstart.education / reports
›Build a chronic-absenteeism intervention list for 11th grade
✓ plan reviewed
✓ AST validated
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executing test
step 1/3·MCAS Math fall 2025
step 2/3·join attendance > 10%
step 3/3·filter to RTI tier 2+
→output: Excel·schedule: Mondays 07:00
upstart.education / chat
›Show me proficiency by grade, this year vs last
✓ ready·1.2s
→proficiency improved across every grade YoY, biggest gain in grade 11 (+12 pp)
deeper by school
show subgroups
extend to 3 years
BETA PARTNER DISTRICTS
Six districts across five states. Public access opens later this year.
01 / THE PROBLEM
Your data lives in 15 systems. The answer takes a week.
A typical district has 5–15 systems holding student information — the SIS knows who’s enrolled, the assessment platform knows scores, the attendance system tracks who showed up. Answering one cross-system question means a ticket, a data-team queue, three CSV exports, and a VLOOKUP. The teacher who needed it for Monday’s meeting gets it Friday. We replace the ticket with a conversation.
A TYPICAL DISTRICT
SIS
enrollment
enrollment
Assessment
scores
scores
Attendance
events
events
Discipline
incidents
incidents
IEP / 504
documentscoming soon
documentscoming soon
Gradebook
by class
by class
Reading
screener
screener
State
reportingcoming soon
reportingcoming soon
+ 7 more
↓ 1 TICKET · 3 CSVs · 1 VLOOKUP · 4 DAYS ↓
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One answer. After Monday’s meeting.
02 / FEATURES
Three interfaces. Everyone picks the one that fits.
● Available now
Reports
Turn a plain-English request into board-ready Excel, CSV, or PDF — scheduled and delivered automatically. Plan-before-run with a full audit trail.
Explore Reports →◌ Coming soon
Dashboards
Save answers as living dashboards you can double- and triple-click into — by talking to them. Slated for next major release.
Coming soon →03 / WHY UPSTART
You query your data in plain English.
They give you dashboards you can’t talk to.
— Traditional K-12 BI
Static dashboards, built by the central office.
If your question isn’t already on the dashboard, you file a request and wait.
- Pre-built reports only — configurable, but not conversational.
- Central office approves every new view; weeks-long backlog.
- Same dashboard for the superintendent, the principal, and the teacher.
- "Why did this number change?" is its own ticket.
— Upstart
You ask. It answers. Everyone gets their own scoped view.
Any authorized person can interrogate the data on their own terms — no SQL, no analyst queue.
- You ask; it answers. Plain English in, chart + table + citations out.
- Scoped automatically. Principal sees their school. Teacher sees their roster. Superintendent sees aggregates.
- Enforced at the database, not the UI. A clever question can’t slip past the boundary.
- Follow-up chips keep you exploring; multi-turn up to 10 turns.
04 / UNDERSTANDS K-12
Answers from data that used to be unreachable.
Upstart speaks K-12 — chronic absenteeism, proficiency levels, IEP goals, state assessment scoring. And it derives answers from data that normally requires reading documents one by one.
DISCIPLINE
"Has this student ever been involved in a physical altercation?"
Answered instantly — instead of reading 20 separate write-ups.
IEPs · COMING SOON
"What are my three most common IEP goals?"
"Summarize the accommodations for my classroom."
"Summarize the accommodations for my classroom."
Document intelligence for IEP/504 files, with a dedicated audit trail.
BEYOND THE SIS
"Show me reading-screener results next to state-assessment trends."
Assessment or screener data outside your SIS? We integrate it into your warehouse so you can query it alongside everything else.
05 / SECURITY
We did the privacy work so you don’t have to think about it.
Every architectural decision was made before we wrote a single line of product code. The security page documents it line by line.
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Zero AI trainingStudent data is never used to train AI models. AWS Bedrock processes each request and immediately discards it — nothing is retained, and Anthropic (the model maker) never receives or sees the data.
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Five-layer defenseSchema filter · query validation · access injection · row-level security · post-processing.
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Per-district keysOn offboarding the key is destroyed — the data becomes mathematically unrecoverable.
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Immutable audit trailEvery query logged. WORM storage, 7 years. Even our engineers can’t alter it.
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Two subprocessorsAWS (hosting + AI) and Ednition (SIS pipeline). Five-business-day advance notice for any change.
Built on the standards you already use.
OneRoster v1.1 for rostering, Ed-Fi UDM v6 for everything else — the same standards your state reporting already uses. Connected through Ednition; no new schema to map to.