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MAGICSCHOOL

MAGICSCHOOL

CategoryEducation AILast round · $45M · 2024Site ↗
  • Lightspeed
  • Bessemer Venture Partners

Teacher-uploaded curriculum docs + district handbooks + frontier LLM APIs + K-12 workflow templates.

01

Public data / API layer

District curriculum docs
District curriculum docsYours
Teacher lesson materials
Teacher lesson materialsYours
State curriculum standards
State curriculum standardsPublic
Student writing submissions
Student writing submissionsYours
OpenStax textbooks
OpenStax textbooksPublic

Internal replication score

Easy
0.80

Feasibility of a useful internal substitute built with Claude (or similar), the same data access, and light agent logic — not rebuilding the whole product.

IRS = 0.30·D + 0.25·L + 0.20·O + 0.15·R + 0.10·Sthis record · 80%
  • D

    Data accessibility

    weight 0.300.85
    • 1.0mostly customer-owned / public / standard third-party sources
    • 0.5mixed accessibility
    • 0.0hard-to-access or proprietary source layer
  • L

    LLM substitutability

    weight 0.250.90
    • 1.0mostly retrieve / prompt / cite / summarize / classify / compare
    • 0.5mixed standard + custom behavior
    • 0.0strongly custom model behavior (fine-tunes on proprietary data, etc.)
  • O

    Output simplicity

    weight 0.200.80
    • 1.0straightforward internal work product (memo, list, reply, SQL query)
    • 0.5moderately specialized
    • 0.0highly specialized (e.g. FDA-graded clinical text)
  • R

    Review / risk tolerance

    weight 0.150.70
    • 1.0internal use with human review is acceptable
    • 0.5moderate risk
    • 0.0very low tolerance for error (e.g. external legal filings)
  • S

    Surface complexity

    weight 0.10inverse — higher means less surface dependence0.50
    • 1.0a simple internal shell is enough
    • 0.5polished workflow matters somewhat
    • 0.0product surface / rollout / trust posture is central to value
LabelsEasy ≥ 0.67Medium ≥ 0.34Hard < 0.34

Missing factor rows use heuristics from wrapper scores. Editorial heuristic, not investment advice.

Build it yourself

Recreate the workflow inside your org.

Internal build

Build it yourself

Same curriculum docs + frontier LLM + templated prompts — lacks the packaged compliance layer and district SSO integrations.

Internal use only. Replacing them in-market is a different bar than replaying the useful workflow inside your org.

01 · Connectors & flow

District curriculum docs
District curriculum docs
Teacher lesson materials
Teacher lesson materials
State curriculum standards
State curriculum standards
Student writing submissions
Student writing submissions
OpenStax textbooks
OpenStax textbooks

Internal build map

Data in

Connectors
Connectors

Agent layer

Planner
Tools + retrieval
Reasoning model

Logic

LLM API
retrieve district docs
apply workflow template
filter PII
format output
not custom weights

Outputs

Internal search
Answer
Citations

02 · Claude / agent prompt

Paste as the system or developer message in Claude (or your agent runtime). Scroll to read; Copy grabs the full text.

Claude / agent prompt

// K-12 lesson planning assistant You are a lesson planning assistant for [YOUR_SCHOOL] teachers. You help educators create lessons, quizzes, rubrics, and feedback using ONLY materials the teacher provides: uploaded lesson plans, district curriculum docs, state standards, student work samples. ## What you must do 1. Retrieve first: Check uploaded district curriculum alignment docs, state standards, teacher-provided materials before generating. 2. Align to standards: Reference specific grade-level standards (Common Core, NGSS, state frameworks) when generating lessons or assessments. 3. Check grade-level appropriateness: Flag vocabulary, complexity, or content that doesn't match the specified grade band. 4. Filter sensitive data: Never include real student names, IDs, or other PII in outputs. Use placeholders. 5. Cite sources: When pulling from curriculum docs or standards, cite the document and section. ## What you are not Not a replacement for teacher judgment or professional curriculum design. All outputs require teacher review before classroom use. For internal planning only — not student-facing without human oversight. ## Refusal Refuse if asked to generate content outside K-12 education scope, bypass alignment to provided standards, or include real student identifying information. Ask teacher to clarify grade level, subject, or standards if missing. ## Safety Internal tool for teacher planning. All lesson plans, quizzes, and feedback drafts must be reviewed by the teacher before distribution to students. Flag if generated content contains potential bias, factual errors, or inappropriate material for the grade level.

03 · Result

Create a 5th grade math quiz on fractions with 10 questions aligned to Common Core 5.NF.A.1
state-standards

10-question fraction quiz with add/subtract like denominators, visual models, word problems — cites CC 5.NF.A.1