What makes a good assignment in the age of AI?
Socrat is built around a single question. Students are going to use AI; the assignment should turn that into the work — not make it harder to see what they actually understood.
Built from inside the AI shift — and inside the classroom.
Socrat's founding team has seen up close how AI is transforming the workplace — at both Meta and Microsoft. Not the headlines: the day-to-day. What gets written by hand, what gets delegated to a model, and how good engineers learn to think differently about their own craft.
The same shift was visible from the other side, while teaching at Columbia — but inverted. Students had access to tools more capable than the assignments they were being given. Instructors were left guessing what was a student's thinking and what was a model's.
Socrat came out of those two vantage points. The tools change what good work looks like; assignments should change with them. The instructor should see how every student is thinking — and the student should leave better at learning, not better at pasting.
A focused team, holding a few things tight.
- Conversation as the assignment. The thing the student does is the thing you grade. No essay middleman; no authorship guessing.
- Ground the AI in your course. Your readings, your syllabus, your standards — the model answers from what you actually teach, not from the open internet.
- Show the instructor how each student is thinking. A class-wide map of who got what, before the next lecture. The thing that was supposed to come from grading prose, without the grading.
- Privacy is the floor, not a feature. Built FERPA-aligned. Student data stays scoped to your class.
Want to see it on your class?
We'll walk you through a real assignment in 20 minutes.