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AssessAlign · assessment engine

The assessment we wished we had.

A standards-grounded, adaptive assessment and curriculum generator. Shorter passages, aligned questions, and analytics teachers actually use — built from inside the classroom, for any framework in the world.

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State standardsIB & CambridgeCompetency-basedCareer pathways
AssessAlign Dashboard showing standards-based reading assessment with real-time analytics, class management, and house leaderboards
The problem it solves

Most assessment tools were built for compliance, not for teaching.

Passages too long to finish. Questions loosely tied to standards. Reports that tell you a score but not what to do next. After years in the classroom, we knew exactly what was missing — so we built it.

diagram · the assessment gap
What's inside

Built for the people using it.

Shorter passages

Right-sized reading that measures comprehension without exhausting attention.

Standards-aligned questions

Every item mapped to a standard — grounded by a RAG + psychometric architecture.

Actionable analytics

Reports that point to the next instructional move, not just a number.

Framework-agnostic

Point it at any standard set — exactly what new and international schools need.

Multilingual-ready

Designed so multilingual learners can access the assessment, not just sit it.

Adaptive generation

One engine, infinite forms — generated on demand instead of a fixed catalog to maintain.

How it works

From standard to insight in three moves.

Choose a framework

Select your standards — state, IB, Cambridge, competency, or career-pathway — and the grade band.

Generate aligned assessments

The engine produces right-sized passages and standards-mapped items, ready to assign.

Act on the analytics

Results surface the next instructional move per student, per standard — not just a score.

The quiet unlock

If it can reliably generate what anyone wants, it can become anything.

The same RAG and psychometric architecture, pointed at any framework, turns a regional tool into a standards-grounded, adaptive engine for any school on earth — and new and international schools, which have no single shared standard, need it most.

Built by Michelle Pokodner and Chris Carlozzi, combining 30+ years of classroom expertise with full-stack engineering.

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Be a framework-agnostic beta school.

Every new-school engagement is a warm beta. Tell us your framework and we'll be in touch as access opens.

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