On-premise AI for schools
A private AI assistant for your teachers that runs inside your school, not on a public chatbot. Student data stays with you and answers are checked before they are shown.
Short answer
On-premise AI for schools means the AI runs on servers the school controls. Teachers get an AI assistant for daily work, and student data does not leave the school. Bentoboxs AI is built this way and checks each answer before it is shown.
What on-premise AI means for a school
Most AI tools run on the servers of the company that made them. When a teacher types a question, the text travels to that company and the answer travels back. On-premise AI turns this around. The AI is installed on infrastructure your school controls, so the question and the answer stay inside your network.
It is also called private AI or self-hosted AI for schools. The names differ, but the idea is the same: the school, not the vendor, holds the data.
Why schools choose private AI
A school holds data about children. Parents and the board expect the school to know where that data is at all times. With a public chatbot that is hard to promise.
- Student names, marks and notes do not go to an outside company.
- You can answer a parent who asks where the data is kept.
- Teachers get one approved tool, so they stop using personal chatbot accounts.
- Data protection rules are easier to follow when fewer outside parties touch the data.
How bentoboxs AI works in a school
Bentoboxs AI is a sovereign AI platform made only for education. A teacher asks a question in a simple chat. The AI engine writes an answer. Then AirGAPio, our validation step, checks that answer before the teacher sees it. Answers that do not pass with enough confidence are flagged for a person to review.
- On-premise deployment on your own servers.
- AirGAPio validation of AI responses before they are shown.
- A language model trained for education, not a general chatbot.
- Connection to global educational databases and best practices.
What teachers use it for
The assistant is for educators. It is useful for the planning and preparation work that takes hours each week.
- Drafting lesson plans and classroom activities.
- Explaining a topic at different levels of difficulty.
- Preparing practice questions and assessment ideas.
- Finding how a topic is taught in other countries.
What your school needs to start
The platform is packaged in containers and supports Docker and Kubernetes. Your IT team, or a partner you trust, installs it with our deployment guides and our support. It connects to common learning systems such as Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas and Microsoft Teams for Education.
Pricing is set for each institution. The first step is a short demo, where we look at your size and your setup together.
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Short answers to the questions education leaders ask most.
It needs a server and someone who can manage it, but the school does not build anything. Bentoboxs AI is delivered as containers with deployment guides and support. Many schools use an existing IT partner for the installation.
With on-premise deployment the platform runs on your infrastructure, so prompts and answers are processed inside your network and are not sent to an outside AI company.
A school plan of a public chatbot still runs on the vendor cloud. On-premise AI runs on servers you control. Bentoboxs AI also adds a validation step that checks answers before they are shown.
The price depends on the number of users and the deployment. Bentoboxs AI offers Starter, Professional and Enterprise plans with custom pricing. Request a demo to get a quote for your school.
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