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Sheet 03 / For educators

Make critical thinking visible.

Houses of Thought gives your students a structure for reasoning. It also gives you a window into how they think, beyond the answer they land on.

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Class · AP Seminar · Period 324 houses
A. RiveraShould AI be used in schools?82
J. OkaforShould AI be used in schools?61
M. ChenIn progress · 4 / 7 layers···
S. PatelIs a hot dog a sandwich?77
Teacher viewSorted by strength

The problem you already feel

The answer looks fine. The thinking is a black box.

A

Chatbots skip the work

A polished essay can arrive without a single original thought behind it, which leaves you grading the surface instead of the thinking.

B

Reasoning is invisible

The final paragraph hides the assumptions a student made, the evidence they used, and the perspectives they never considered.

C

Feedback comes too late

By the time you read the conclusion, the chance to redirect the thinking has already passed.

How classrooms work

Set up in minutes. Grade the reasoning behind the verdict.

01

Create a class & invite

Spin up a classroom and share a join link or code. Students create a free account, redeem the code, and the class is waiting for them.

02

Assign or let them choose

Hand the whole class one question, or let students bring their own. Either way they build a full house.

03

Review their houses

See the evidence, assumptions, perspectives, and strength for every student, one layer at a time.

The key difference

The AI won’t do their homework. That’s the point.

Student mode

Assistant off

A full structured builder, with the co-reasoning assistant switched off on purpose.

Structured house builder
Research Mode with cited sources
House Strength & Stress Test
Co-pilot pinned to Learn mode (questions, not answers)

Teacher & Standard

Full access

Everything students get, plus the co-reasoning assistant for your own work.

Everything in Student mode
Full AI co-pilot (Learn and Decide modes)
Classroom roster & review tools
Assign, monitor & give feedback

The restriction is pedagogy rather than a shortcoming. With the assistant stepped back, students do the reasoning themselves, which is the whole thing you set out to teach and grade.

Collaboration

Real people reasoning together.

Inside classrooms, collaboration means real people: teachers review submitted houses and leave graded feedback students see in their own workspace. That’s distinct from the individual builder, where the “collaborator” is the AI. We only claim what exists today — student peer review is on the roadmap.

Group peer-review workflows · Roadmap

Trust & safety

Built for a classroom’s standards.

Age floor

Accounts require users to be at least 13. School-managed consent for younger classrooms is on the roadmap.

Privacy posture

Student work is private to the classroom. We don't sell student data and don't use it for advertising.

Data handling

Teachers control the roster and can remove students and their data. See Privacy and Terms.

A formal COPPA / FERPA compliance review will be completed before any school-wide deployment.

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Bring reasoning into your classroom.

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