School Workbench started the way a lot of good tools do — as a fix for one person's own overloaded week. Six classes, each posting work in its own place; a packed practice schedule; and an inbox where a permission slip looked the same as a store sale. Nothing pulled it together, so the students who struggled most were the ones least likely to piece it together themselves.
Our missionBuilt by a student, for every student: one clear view of their work and help that teaches instead of doing it for them.
So we built the thing that should have existed: one clear view of what's actually due, ranked by what matters, with a realistic plan for when to do it — reading straight from the systems the school already uses, like Google Classroom or its student information system, with permission, and changing nothing.
What began as a personal tool is now a real product schools can deploy: multi-school, encrypted, and built on a foundation a school's IT team can vet. The AI runs through Amazon Bedrock inside our own AWS account — never a consumer AI app — and student data is never used to train a model.