by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn
Every school app asks for the same trust: hand over your data. Few show you the pipes. Here’s ours.
Students send answers and get the next challenge. Teachers send assignments and get early flags when someone’s stuck.
Parents get progress reports, never anyone else’s kid. Administrators set the rules and read the audit trail.
One secure store holds it all, and each role sees only its own slice.
by Chief Financial Officer Chia-Hua (Phyllis) Chen As AI continues to reshape the educational landscape, user acquisition and retention have become the new strategic battlegrounds for AI-driven EdTech startups. In 2025, the average customer acquisition cost (CAC) for education platforms has surged by 19% YoY, now averaging $42 per user. This uptick is largely due…
We are beyond the point where schools can simply tell students not to use AI for their assignments. If a school’s job is to prepare students for the real world, then AI is a part of it. Here is how one school is creating policies and raising awareness.
by BrainStream Chief Financial Officer Phyllis Chia-Hua Chen Working at the intersection of AI and education, I spend a lot of time looking at growth curves. But the latest 2025 data from KPMG Canada presents a trend that should give every educator, parent, and tech leader pause. The adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) among Canadian…
by CFO Phyllis Chen For a while, the conversation around AI in education felt familiar: fear, resistance, and attempts to shut it down. But that phase is ending quickly. The reality is simple—AI is already in the classroom, whether educators like it or not. What’s more interesting now is a growing shift in mindset. Instead…
In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, instructors continually seek innovative methods to enhance their teaching practices and engage students more effectively. Jeremy Caplan, Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, has embraced artificial intelligence (AI) as a transformative tool in course design. By integrating AI into his workflow, Caplan…
by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn Ethan Mollick published a piece this week called Choosing to Stay Human that gets at something we think about constantly at BrainStream: the difference between AI that does the work for you and AI that helps you do better work yourself. The research he cites is striking. In a Turkish…
