AI tools built for universities and colleges.
Edtek's advanced AI platform is designed for the unique challenges of university-level education — automated essay grading, content-grounded chatbots, and curriculum tools that scale faculty bandwidth without compromising assessment quality.
Where universities lose time and quality
Essay grading is a faculty bottleneck
Professors and TAs spend dozens of hours per assignment cycle giving written feedback. Inconsistency creeps in, turnaround slows, and students lose the chance to revise before the next assignment.
BAR prep and exam-style essays don't scale
Law schools want students to write more essays for exam prep — but academic support has bandwidth limits. Most students get a fraction of the practice they need.
Reference materials are underused
Treatises, casebooks, and assigned readings sit on shelves and PDFs. Students rarely query them; faculty repeat answers to the same questions every semester.
EssayTutor — built for higher-ed essay assessment
EssayTutor leverages large language models to provide in-depth, AI-generated feedback on essays across disciplines, maintaining the same high standards as professor comments. Supports IRAC for law schools, analytical writing for humanities, and discipline-specific rubrics.
EssayTutor
Essay Grading & Feedback
Educator sets the rubric
Prompt, model answer, and custom scoring criteria — defined in plain English.
AI evaluates each submission
Compared against the model answer; scored against the rubric; annotated with feedback.
Everyone gets analytics
Students see strengths and gaps. Educators see individual and cohort performance.
What universities are building with EssayTutor
Law school students practice 30 BAR-style essays each semester with instant IRAC feedback — without adding TA hours.
Edtek ChatA 400-student writing-intensive course grades every draft with consistent rubric application; professors focus on the students who need 1:1 time.
Edtek ChatHumanities department deploys EssayTutor for analytical-essay assessment across 12 sections — consistent rubric application replaces inconsistent TA grading.
Edtek ChatDepartment-wide analytics surface which learning objectives students consistently miss — informing next semester's curriculum revisions.
Edtek ChatAlso from Edtek
Beyond essay assessment — content-grounded chatbots and document tools that complement EssayTutor across the university workflow.
Edtek Chat
Content-Grounded Chatbots
Turn assigned textbooks, treatises, and reference works into queryable chatbots. Students ask questions; answers come from the source with page citations.
Edtek Draft
Document Generation
Faculty and administrators generate course materials, syllabi, and reports from existing templates and content banks.
Why Edtek
A research-backed platform built for the depth and rigor higher-ed assessment requires.
Beyond generic LLMs
We use Refine and Self-Validation approaches — not just prompts to ChatGPT or a stock LLM. The architecture is built to answer accurately from your content.
RAG and graph-based retrieval
An ensemble of semantic retrieval, multi-criteria reranking, and graph-based validation significantly reduces hallucinations and grounds every answer in your sources.
Easily customized to your subject
The framework adapts to any subject, document type, or rubric. Configure assessments, knowledge bases, and document templates in plain English — no programming required.
Experienced team, 10+ years together
Our team has worked together for over a decade, with deep expertise in AI, machine learning, educational technology, and legal publishing.
Frequently asked questions
Can Edtek scale to thousands of students across a department?
Yes. EssayTutor handles hundreds of simultaneous submissions without bottlenecks — built for department-wide and university-wide deployment, not single classes.
How does Edtek handle academic integrity?
Edtek surfaces the source material behind every answer. For grading, every score is anchored to the rubric and the model answer — auditable and explainable. We do not generate student work; we evaluate it.
Can professors define their own rubrics?
Yes. Professors describe grading criteria in plain English — including IRAC for law, analytical frameworks for humanities, or discipline-specific rubrics. The system applies them consistently across hundreds of submissions.
Does Edtek work across departments?
Yes. Edtek is deployed across law schools, humanities departments, business schools, and writing centers. The same platform supports IRAC for legal essays, analytical writing for humanities, and content-grounded assessment for any subject.
How does deployment work for a university?
Most universities go live in days. Upload assignments, model answers, and rubrics; integrate with your LMS if needed. No coding required.
See Edtek with your curriculum.
Book a 30-minute walk-through with our team. We'll show EssayTutor working with your courses, casebooks, and rubrics.