Education division Updated September 2026
Agoge

Software for college teaching, from Sand Point Studios

Tools that do the tedious part of teaching and leave the judgment where it belongs.

Agoge makes software for grading, course material, degree planning and tutoring. It was built inside real college courses, by people who teach them, and it holds to three rules throughout.

  1. The instructor decides. Software proposes a score, a plan or a flag. A person accepts it or changes it.
  2. Reasons come with results. A score arrives with the reasoning behind it, written in plain language.
  3. Nothing about the data is vague. Degree planning and tutoring are built to run on hardware we own. Where a product sends work to a hosted AI service, we tell you which service and what is sent.

§ 1

Agoge Platform

Grading that shows its work, for instructors with more submissions than hours.

It reads written work and database assignments against the instructor's own rubric, explains why each score landed where it did, and leaves the final call with the instructor.

The same platform builds course material. Describe a spreadsheet lesson in plain language and it runs the real application, records the session and produces a narrated tutorial video, so a changed lesson does not mean a re-shoot.

§ 2

Agoge Academic Advisor

A degree plan that finishes on time.

Program requirements, courses that rotate by term, prerequisites, and a student who needs all of it to line up before the funding runs out. The advisor reads the requirements and the schedule and builds a term-by-term plan that completes on time, then points out the electives that actually fit.

It is running as a pilot with one graduate program, kept narrow until the workflow is proven. The reasoning runs on our own hardware, so student records stay in the building.

§ 3

LedgerLearner

An accounting tutor that will not give you the answer.

A student picks a topic, the tutor poses a scenario, and the student proposes the journal entry. The tutor then questions the reasoning and points at the gap, and never states the answer. The student gets there on their own.

Holding that line against students who are trying to talk the answer out of it is the hard part, and it is what the current phase is testing.

§ 4

FirstRead

Checks a research paper before a journal does.

Does every citation exist? Has anything cited been retracted? Do the numbers in the tables agree with the numbers in the text? FirstRead answers those questions before submission.

The first tier uses no model judgment at all. Every finding is checked against Crossref and OpenAlex, so each flag can be traced to a record.

§ 5

For departments and IT

What the people who approve software will want to know.

Before a pilot starts we walk your IT and compliance office through exactly where data goes, what is stored, for how long, and who can see it. If a question does not have a clear answer, we say so rather than paper over it.

Pilots start narrow: one course or one program, with the instructor or director who asked for it, until the workflow is proven. Write to us with the course, the class size and what you would like to stop doing by hand.

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