EdTech

WHO THIS IS FOR

EdTech founders and LMS operators responsible for learner data

You run a learning platform, training provider, or institutional software where students and teachers ask questions against course materials daily. Your buyers are procurement teams, safeguarding leads, and technical directors who will not approve generic chatbots that hallucinate answers or send student data overseas.

THE SITUATION

Learners expect AI. Institutions demand control.

Off-the-shelf chat widgets cannot cite sources, isolate tenant data, or meet UK residency requirements for schools and universities. Building retrieval-augmented AI in-house pulls engineering away from your core product for months — and still leaves you maintaining models, chunking pipelines, and compliance documentation.

HOW IT WORKS

Embedded AI behind your brand, grounded in your content

Structured content ingestion

Document chunking handles modules, lessons, assessments, and resource libraries — not just flat PDFs. Answers reflect the structure of your curriculum so a question about "Unit 3 assessment criteria" returns context from the right section, not a random paragraph from elsewhere in the course.

Source citations on every answer

Learners see where each response came from: module, page, or resource link. Citations build trust in the AI rather than replacing critical thinking — essential for institutions accountable to regulators and parents.

Multi-tenant isolation by institution and cohort

Each school, university, or commercial client maintains an isolated document set within one deployment. Learners in School A never see content from School B. API keys and admin scopes are separated per tenant so your largest institutional customer and your smallest pilot cohort run on the same platform without cross-contamination.

API integration and white-label deployment

Ascend embeds via API into your existing LMS or portal — your brand, your UX chrome, our retrieval and inference layer. SSO hooks align with how institutions already authenticate staff and students.

Usage-based billing per client or cohort

Pricing scales with query volume per tenant, so a pilot cohort and a university-wide rollout sit on the same commercial model. No upfront platform licence — cost tracks adoption as institutions expand from department trial to whole-school deployment.

SECTOR EXPERIENCE

Built for EdTech, proven in production

Aduro has deep experience in the education sector — from Bsquared's assessment platforms to Connecting Steps, systems used by schools to track student progress and evidence learning. We understand safeguarding requirements, institutional procurement, and the trust dynamics that EdTech demands.

See the Connecting Steps case study.

WHAT YOU GET

Deliverables for a production EdTech deployment

• White-label embedded chat against your course content

• Per-tenant document isolation with admin controls

• Source citations on every learner-facing answer

• UK data residency and no inference-layer retention

• API documentation and integration support for your engineering team

• Usage reporting per institution or cohort for your billing team

WHY ASCEND

Data safety for young people and institutions

• Source citations on every answer — learners verify against original materials

• UK data residency for student data — critical for schools and universities

• ISO 27001 certified with GDPR compliant design

• No data retention at the inference layer

• White-label deployment behind your brand