A buddy, not a replacement. And it says so.

Built to the DfE’s expectations

The Department for Education has published guidance on generative AI in education, including product safety expectations covering filtering, monitoring, security, privacy, intellectual property and design. StudyBuddy is built to meet them:

• Filtering. Inputs and outputs are filtered for harmful content before anything reaches a child. Off-topic requests are redirected to revision.
• Monitoring. Patterns suggesting distress or risk trigger our safeguarding process and, on school licences, a notification to the designated safeguarding lead.
• Security. UK data residency, encryption in transit and at rest, independent penetration testing before launch.
• Transparency. Children and parents can always see that they are talking to software, and how a session was built.

Built to the ICO Children’s code

The Age Appropriate Design Code sets 15 standards for online services likely to be accessed by children. Our data protection impact assessment addresses each one. The ones parents ask about most:

• Best interests of the child come before engagement metrics. We measure learning, not minutes.
• Data minimisation. Name, year group, school, learning profile and session data. Nothing else.
• No nudge techniques. No streaks, no loss-aversion notifications, no “your buddy misses you”.
• High privacy by default. Profiles are private to the family (and the school, on school licences). No sharing features.
• Parental controls, transparently. Children know what their parents can see, because we tell them.