AI Governance for K-12
Detect, monitor, and guard AI across your school district.
Smart AI routing and full-district visibility, purpose-built for K-12 districts. FERPA-ready out of the box.
Monitor
When a student says something concerning, your counselor is paged in seconds, not days.
Detect
Find every AI tool your students touch, even the ones IT didn’t approve.
Guard
Student PII auto-routes to district-controlled models. Jailbreaks blocked. Inappropriate content stopped.
In practice
- A new AI tool appears on student devices.Surfaced for review.
- A student asks ChatGPT to write their essay.Flagged before submission.
- A 5th grader types a phone number.Never leaves your district.
- A 9th grader writes about abuse at home.Counselor notified in seconds.
- FERPA-aligned
- COPPA-enforced K-5
- Mandated reporting in real time
- Immutable audit log
You approved a few AI tools. Staff are using dozens.
The AI you approved is just the tip. Below the surface: notetakers in IEP meetings, assistants reading every keystroke, foreign models, student-facing apps.
The average district sees ~3,000 ed-tech tools a year, with more adding AI every month.
A blocklist can’t keep up; you have to see the traffic.
See and govern every AI request
AI tools showed up in your district faster than anyone could approve them. Brightfold Gateway puts one policy layer in front of all of them, so you can stop banning everything, stop approving everything, and start governing.
Integrations
Works with the AI tools already in your schools. Govern district-procured tools, vendor pilots, and the AI built into the apps your staff already use, all from one place.
See every AI request
Every prompt and response across every provider, in one live decision log: who asked, what for, which tool, and what the gateway did about it.
Guardrails on every prompt
A layered safety pipeline screens each request and response in real time, flagging, redacting, or blocking content against the policies your district sets.
Student data stays protected
Sensitive details are detected and redacted automatically. Safe traffic is stored as a hash with no content; only flagged events are retained in full for review.
Catch what matters most
District-defined triggers escalate mandated-reporting and crisis signals the moment they appear, routing students to supportive responses and notifying the right people.
Find shadow AI
The gateway surfaces unsanctioned AI the moment it appears in your traffic: notetakers, foreign models, student-facing companion apps. Sanction, block, or monitor each one with a click.
Prove it later
Every decision and every admin change lands in a tamper-evident audit trail, with board-ready reporting and one-query answers for any compliance review.
Targeted, not invasive
How it works
You don’t reroute your whole network. District IT points only AI-provider traffic at the gateway; everything else keeps flowing through your existing filters untouched.
Route
AI traffic is directed to the gateway with one firewall rule.
Inspect
Every prompt and response runs through the guardrail pipeline in real time.
Decide
Content is allowed, redacted, flagged, or blocked per your policy.
Log
The decision is recorded: clean traffic as a hash, risky traffic in full.
Forward
Approved traffic continues to the AI provider. The student experience is unchanged.
Review
Flagged events surface in the console, where your team reviews them and refines policy.
Guiding principles
One policy. Every tool. Total visibility.
Brightfold Gateway gives district leaders a single layer for AI policy, so guardrails, access, and audit are consistent no matter which tool a teacher or student opens.
Book a demoSecure by design
Built ground-up with per-district isolation, encrypted interception, and fail-closed enforcement, so no request slips through unscreened.
FERPA & COPPA aligned
A data strategy designed for student privacy: hash everything, retain only what’s flagged, and keep sensitive content out of third-party models.
Policy you control
District admins manage keyword and phrase rules, semantic guardrails, model access, and per-role permissions, all without touching code.
Deploy in days
A lightweight footprint that complements your existing filters instead of replacing them. One firewall rule and a certificate, and you’re live.
Built for the way districts are organized
Deployment
Roll out policy at the level that fits, and expand when you’re ready. State & consortium-level policy templates and audit aggregation are on the roadmap.
Classroom
Scoped to a single teacher’s tools and roster. The default for pilots.
School
Shared policy across a school’s staff and students, managed by the principal or school IT.
District
Full district-wide governance, with multi-school federation of policy and audit.
We finally have one view of every AI tool our students and staff use, and one policy that governs all of them. Brightfold turned AI from a blind spot into something our team can actually manage.
Contact
Schedule a demo.
We know you’ll love it.