InterThread

AI that starts with the classroom.

InterThread Software is an education-first AI company. We build tools that are bounded, safe for young learners and easy for schools to defend, with teachers in charge of every step.

Our first product is Chirpo, an AI tutor that lives inside Google Classroom.

Join the pilot program See how Chirpo works

Photosynthesis check-in

Assess activity, Grade 7 Science

  1. Imagine a plant sealed in a jar on a sunny windowsill. What do you think it needs to keep making food?
  2. Sunlight and water. And soil, because that's where the food comes from.
  3. Interesting! Where do you think most of the plant's new material actually comes from: the soil, the water or the air?
  4. Oh, the air? The carbon dioxide gets turned into sugar using the light.

What the teacher sees

  • Explains what plants need for photosynthesisMeets
  • Identifies where a plant's mass comes fromExceeds
  • Describes the role of chlorophyllNot yet

Each rating links to the student's own words as evidence.

A sample conversation in which Chirpo asks questions about photosynthesis, followed by a goal-by-goal rating for the teacher.
Chirpo, a friendly blue bird, waving

Meet Chirpo

A conversation shows what a student understands in a way a worksheet can't. One teacher can't hold a five-minute conversation with thirty students about every topic. Chirpo can, and it reports back in the terms teachers already use: learning goals and expectations, not a percentage score.

How it works

  1. Create an activity

    Add Chirpo to a normal Classroom assignment. Give it a topic, attach your own materials and choose the learning goals.

  2. Students talk it through

    Each student has a one-on-one conversation with Chirpo, at their own pace, using the class login they already have.

  3. See where everyone stands

    You get every transcript, any safety flags, and a rating for each goal. Adjust any rating, add feedback, and release results when you're ready.

Three kinds of activity

Chat

An open, curious conversation about the topic and your materials. Good for warm-ups, enrichment and building interest.

Teach

Chirpo works through your goals in order, finds out what the student already knows and fixes the gaps. Ratings reflect where the student ended up.

Assess

Chirpo asks questions without teaching, to find out what the student understands. Each rating is backed by quotes from the conversation.

Does not yet meet expectations

Meets expectations

Exceeds expectations

Where Chirpo fits in a school week

Chirpo works on your topic and your materials, so it fits into lessons you already teach.

Learning and guided practice

Use a Teach activity for homework or extra practice. Chirpo adjusts to what each student shows, explains things a different way when an idea doesn't land, and corrects misconceptions before they set in.

“Work through equivalent fractions with Chirpo before Thursday.”

Assessment you don't have to mark

Run a ten-minute Assess activity before a unit test and see, goal by goal, who is ready and who needs another pass. Every rating comes with the student's own words, so you can check Chirpo's judgment against yours.

“Know who's ready before the test, without a stack of marking.”

Participation while absent

When a student misses class for illness, a family trip, an appointment or a tournament, they can still take part. They open the same activity from home, talk through the day's topic with Chirpo, and you see where they stand when they come back.

“Missed Tuesday's lesson on the water cycle? Catch up with Chirpo.”

More ways teachers can use it

  • Reading and discussion

    Attach a story or article and replace “answer questions 1 to 5” with a conversation about it.

  • Patient one-on-one support

    Students learning English, and students who won't ask in front of their classmates, get unhurried time to think. It adds to, and never replaces, formal accommodations.

  • Assignments that are hard to outsource

    It's much harder to hand off a conversation than an essay. Students have to explain their own thinking.

  • Differentiation without extra prep

    One activity meets each student where they are. Chirpo goes deeper with students who are ready and slows down for those who aren't.

  • Exit tickets and unit openers

    A short Chat or Assess activity at the start of a unit shows what students already know, so you can plan the lessons.

  • French and oral-language practice Exploring

    Conversation practice for French immersion and core French. We're testing Chirpo's French before offering this.

Built for everyone who has to say yes

Teachers

Uses your topic and your materials. No new logins or rosters. You decide when students see results, and you can override any rating.

Principals and school leaders

Bounded AI that teachers control, not an open chatbot. No student names stored. Student records kept in Canada.

IT and privacy officers

Opaque student IDs and a short list of OAuth scopes. Our privacy policy sets out what we collect and where it goes, and we'll walk through all of it with your team.

Parents

Chirpo won't do your child's homework for them. If a conversation suggests your child may be in distress, Chirpo points them to a trusted adult and flags the conversation for their teacher.

Safety and privacy come first

Chirpo's users are students, and many are children. These rules come before anything else in how Chirpo is built.

  • Every message is screened

    A separate safety check reviews each student message. Concerns are flagged for the teacher, and Chirpo always points students to a trusted adult.

  • Teachers stay in control

    Students see results only when the teacher releases them. Teachers can override any rating and add their own feedback.

  • Minimal student data

    No student names or emails are stored, only opaque IDs. We request only the Google permissions Chirpo strictly needs.

  • Stored in Canada

    Chirpo's database and application servers run in Toronto. We'll give you a full, plain-language map of where every piece of data goes.

  • Your materials stay data

    Anything attached to an activity is treated as reading material, never as instructions, so a document can't change how Chirpo behaves.

  • Native to Google Classroom

    Chirpo is an attachment on a normal assignment. Students and teachers use the accounts and classes they already have.

How Chirpo keeps students safe Privacy policy

What's next

  1. Google Classroom

    Chirpo is built as a Classroom add-on, and we're preparing our first classroom pilots.

  2. Deeper Classroom features

    Planned: grade passback, recurring activities such as weekly check-ins, and activities in students' calendars.

  3. More learning platforms

    Planned: support for Brightspace, Canvas and Moodle through the LTI 1.3 standard.

Pilot Chirpo in your classroom

We're looking for Canadian K-12 teachers in grades 4 to 12, and the schools behind them, to try Chirpo for free. Pilot teachers work directly with us and help decide what we build next.

Email us about the pilot

About InterThread

InterThread Software is a Canadian company building AI for education. We start from how classrooms actually work: what teachers need to know, what schools need to approve, and what keeps young learners safe. We build the AI around those answers.

Chirpo is our first product. We'd rather do one thing well, giving teachers real evidence of understanding, than offer a general-purpose assistant.