BurlWeb · AI · Raised in the Mallee

Assessor: privacy-first bulk AI marking

Load a rubric and a class set. Get back a marksheet you own, with the model never touching a name or a total.

The flow, end to end

Rubric in, de-identify, mark against the rubric, marksheet out. The teacher owns the totals; the model never totals.

Loading a marking rubric into Assessor
1 · Rubric
A class set of student work loaded
2 · Class set
Student work being de-identified before marking
3 · De-identify
Assessor declaring what it can and cannot judge
4 · Markability
Marking each piece against the rubric
5 · Marking
A live-formula marksheet the teacher owns
6 · Marksheet

AI product · assessment · data protection · live

The problem

Marking a class set against a rubric is slow, and student work is sensitive. Teachers want the speed without handing student data to a model, and without a black box that quietly invents a grade it cannot justify.

What I built

Assessor takes a rubric, a class set of work and a roster. It de-identifies every piece through the same isolated gateway that powers Kindred, marks each one against the rubric, declares plainly what it cannot judge, and hands back a live-formula .xlsx marksheet the teacher owns and can change. It is live on Vercel.

The part that matters

Code owns the totals; the model never totals. The AI judges against the rubric and flags anything it genuinely cannot assess as “not assessable”, rather than shipping a confident wrong mark. The de-identification spine is shared with Kindred at the config level, not by coupling code, so two products lean on one properly built privacy layer.

What it demonstrates

Productising a shared privacy core into a second product, clean architectural boundaries, and honest AI that is explicit about its limits, with a human owning the final call.

What I would bring to your project

If you want AI speed on sensitive, high-stakes work, I know how to keep the data safe, keep the maths in code, and make the model say “I am not sure” instead of guessing.

Give it a burl

Want something like this?

Send a couple of lines about what you are trying to do. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit, roughly what it takes, and what we would do first.

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