Student data leaking into public models.
No DPA, no DPIA, no lawful basis. Paste a child’s details into a public chatbot and the school carries the liability.
AskArk — An Ark HQ product
AskArk · The human-led AI for schools
Safe, compliant, human-led AI.
AskArk helps every teacher, SNA and administrator prevent burnout and navigate the curriculum and your school’s policies — a human-led AI, onboarded and supported year-round, and trained on Irish education law and curriculum.
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The everyday co-pilot for your whole staff.
Every teacher, SNA and administrator gets a safe, compliant assistant that knows your school — its curriculum, its voice, the policies it works within — and takes the admin that burns people out off their plate: planning, marking, reports, parent letters, SEN documentation. Human-led, too: a real person onboards you and supports you through the year, and it’s trained on Irish education law and curriculum.
Liam ShortenDeputy Principal · Coláiste Chríost Rí"You can see AskArk has improved staff morale. It has hugely decreased their paperwork workload and allowed them to work with our students on a more hands-on basis."
A staff task, three ways
Minsnot a Sunday afternoon
A set of reports, a parent letter, an IEP — drafted from your school’s own context in minutes, not a Sunday afternoon, with sources cited on every response. 250+ schools using AskArk.
Onboarded by a person. Supported all year. Not a login and a help article.
Leanne GintyAEN Coordinator · St. Mary’s, Ballina"AskArk has reduced my workload significantly, allowing that time to be used to put student plans into action."
Queries / day
Last 30 days
250+
Using AskArk
Closed
AI model
Human-led — onboarded and supported year-roundA real person sets your school up and stays with you through the year — not a login and a help article.
Trained on Irish education law and curriculumGrounded in Department of Education circulars, NCCA frameworks, and child-protection law.
Safe & compliant by design — closed model, GDPRYour data is never used to train a public model. A signed DPA and DPIA support on request.
02 · The problem
Generic AI wasn’t built for your school.
Teachers are already using AI. The question is whether it is safe, compliant, in your voice, and defensible to your Board — or a GDPR incident waiting to happen.
One-size-fits-none outputs.
Generic text that doesn’t reflect your ethos, your curriculum, or your Code of Behaviour. Useful as a draft, dangerous as a policy.
The admin that burns staff out.
Teachers and SNAs drowning in planning, reporting and paperwork — the workload that drives good people out — while generic tools add more to fix and check.
Inconsistent, unaccountable quality.
No guarantee outputs meet your standards, no audit trail. New staff and departing colleagues leave gaps no-one can see.
03 · How we compare
A school-grade assistant, not a consumer chatbot.
The same prompt, two very different risk profiles. Everything below is on by default in AskArk — and absent from the generic tools teachers reach for first.
CapabilityAskArkGeneric AI
- GDPR-compliant by design✓—
- Student-data protection (tokenisation)✓—
- Closed model — never trains on your data✓—
- Curriculum-aligned (Junior Cycle, Leaving Cert)✓—
- Grounded in your policies, curriculum & voice✓—
- Full audit trail✓—
- Human-in-the-loop on every output✓—
- Plugs into your MIS✓—
04 · Built for every role
One platform. Every role in the school.
The same closed model, shaped to the job in front of you — from a Leaving Cert lesson plan to a set of end-of-term reports.
IEP documentation
Draft Individual Education Plans with NCSE framework alignment and review schedules — minutes, not a Sunday afternoon.
Letters, reports & returns
Parent letters, meeting minutes, end-of-term reports and routine returns — drafted in your school’s voice and format, ready to check and send.
Strategic oversight
Board-ready summaries of performance and strategic priorities, drafted from your own data — plus governance over how AI is used across the school.
Socratic tutoring
Student-facing AI that guides with questions rather than answers, with resource retrieval and Classroom/Teams integration.
Planning & marking
Lesson plans, marking rubrics, reports, and differentiated resources generated in minutes.
05 · Radar
Every Department of Education circular, NCCA update and DPC briefing — read for you.
Six Irish regulators — the Department of Education, NCCA, Tusla, the Inspectorate, the DPC and the HSA — read the day they publish, each turned into a plain answer to the only question a busy staff member has: what changed, and what does it mean for my week? No more skim-reading every circular to find the one line that touches your job. When a change affects a signed policy, that is Giraft’s to flag and re-seal — the law moves once, and both products pick up their half of it.
Radar · Monday digest3 Material · 1 Urgent
- DEC0031/26PMHW Coordinators in DEIS Plus schools21 daysUrgent
- DEC0052/26Primary Curriculum Enactment 2026/27116 daysMaterial
- DEC0033/26Rural DEIS HSCL Pilot45 daysMaterial
- DPCGenerative AI — lawful basis guidanceFiled · no actionRoutine
One page of analysis per document · next action one click away
06 · Professional learning
CPD that counts — certified for your Cosán folder.
Twelve framework-aligned assistants, each a guided journey through one area of practice — UDL, NBSS, L2LP, NCSE policy — applied to your own classroom, not a video to sit through. Finish one and you get an official certificate with the CPD hours logged: evidence for your Cosán reflective record, not a webinar you half-watched.
Evidence, not attendance.
Complete a guided journey and receive an official certificate with logged CPD hours — a document you file, not a session you sat through.
No release days, no travel.
Learn in twenty-minute pockets between classes, at the pace that suits you — no booking, no cover to arrange.
Built for your room.
Aligned to UDL, NBSS, L2LP and NCSE policy — the frameworks Irish schools work to, applied to your own teaching.
Straight into your record.
Every certificate is evidence of professional learning you can file directly in your Cosán reflective record.
07 · Privacy by design
How tokenisation protects your students’ data.
Every query is anonymised before it reaches the model. Personal identifiers are replaced with tokens your school’s secure environment can map back — and nothing else can. Users see a personalised answer; the AI only ever processes anonymised data.
Stage 01Original data
- Name
- Sarah Murphy
- School
- St. Mary’s Secondary
- Class
- 5th Year — Room 12B
- Query
- Help with my Leaving Cert essay on Hamlet
Stage 02Tokenised
- Name
- TKN_7f8a2b
- School
- TKN_9c4e1d
- Class
- TKN_3b7f8e
- Query
- Help with my [EXAM_TYPE] essay on [WORK]
Stage 03AI output
- Name
- Sarah Murphy
- School
- St. Mary’s Secondary
- Response
- Here’s a structured essay plan for Hamlet exploring themes of…
08 · Grounded & current
Plugged into your school. Never out of date.
VSWare, Tyro, Compass, Aladdin, SIMS.
Every answer is grounded in real student context — profiles, attendance, assessments, timetables — synced from the MIS you already run.
Ingests circulars the day they land.
Department of Education circulars, NCCA frameworks, child-protection legislation, GDPR guidance — continuously ingested, so the answer your staff get is never out of date.
Alerts the moment something matters.
Instant notifications for potential safeguarding issues, surfaced to the right person, so concerns don’t sit unseen.
09 · Proof
Real time saved, in real schools.
"What used to take me a full Sunday afternoon — drafting a new school policy — now takes me about twenty minutes."
Tracey KeaneActing Principal · High Cross College
"I would 100% recommend it to anyone involved with SEN for the GDPR compliance alone. AskArk has reduced my workload significantly, allowing that time to be used to put student plans into action."
Leanne GintyAEN Coordinator · St. Mary’s, Ballina
"You can see AskArk has improved staff morale. It has hugely decreased their paperwork workload and allowed them to work with our students on a more hands-on basis."
Liam ShortenDeputy Principal · Coláiste Chríost Rí
250+
Schools onboarded
150+
Hours saved · one school, one year
48 hrs
From sign-up to live
Closed
AI model · education-only