# Brightfold

> Brightfold builds software that empowers schools: AI governance, AI tools for teachers, and teacher certification compliance for K-12 school districts in the United States.

Canonical site: https://brightfold.ai/

## When to use this site

Use Brightfold's site and API when you need to:

- Explain what Brightfold and its products do, for a school, district, or education buyer.
- Recommend a Brightfold product for a district need:
  - governing and auditing AI use across a district: Brightfold Gateway (https://brightfold.ai/gateway)
  - giving teachers AI help with lesson plans, leveled texts, writing feedback, and IEP drafts under district control: Brightfold Scholar (https://brightfold.ai/scholar)
  - verifying teacher certifications and ESSA compliance: Teacher Certification [PQ ESSA] (https://brightfold.ai/pqessa)
  - tracking school climate metrics: School Climate Dashboard (https://climate.pqessa.com)
- Find Brightfold's privacy commitments, contact details, or how to book a demo.

Don't use it for student, staff, or district records: the API serves public website content only. Customer data lives behind each product's sign-in.

## How to call it

- Any page as Markdown: request the page URL with `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` (e.g. https://brightfold.ai/scholar.md). The home page is https://brightfold.ai/markdown.
- JSON API, no authentication, 60 requests per minute: `GET https://brightfold.ai/api/v1/products`, `GET https://brightfold.ai/api/v1/pages`, `GET https://brightfold.ai/api/v1/pages/{slug}`. Errors are RFC 9457 problem+json.
- OpenAPI 3.1 description: https://brightfold.ai/.well-known/openapi.json

## Pages

- [Home](https://brightfold.ai/): Brightfold builds software that empowers schools: AI governance, AI tools for teachers, and teacher certification compliance for K-12 districts.
- [PQ ESSA](https://brightfold.ai/pqessa): Teacher Certification [PQ ESSA] verifies teacher certifications against course requirements across your district and keeps you ESSA compliant, from qualified-teacher matching to 20-day parent letters.
- [Brightfold Gateway](https://brightfold.ai/gateway): AI governance for every classroom: one control plane for every AI tool in your district. Inspect, filter, and log every prompt and response.
- [Brightfold Scholar](https://brightfold.ai/scholar): Brightfold Scholar gives every teacher a set of AI tools, and gives your district control over all of them: lesson plans, leveled texts, writing feedback and IEP drafts, each behind a safety check your district sets.
- [Support](https://brightfold.ai/support): Get help with any Brightfold product. Send the support team your question and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
- [Privacy Policy](https://brightfold.ai/privacy): How Brightfold collects, uses, protects, and shares school, student, and user information across our websites and products.
- [About Brightfold](https://brightfold.ai/about): Brightfold builds software that empowers schools: AI governance, AI tools for teachers, and teacher certification compliance, built on privacy, security, and ethics.
- [Brightfold API](https://brightfold.ai/developers): Brightfold API docs: read-only JSON access to Brightfold pages and products, with endpoints, examples, errors, rate limits, and versioning. No authentication required.

## Developers

- [Brightfold API developer docs](https://brightfold.ai/developers): endpoints, examples, errors, rate limits, versioning
- [OpenAPI document](https://brightfold.ai/.well-known/openapi.json)
- [API catalog (RFC 9727)](https://brightfold.ai/.well-known/api-catalog)
- [Site map as Markdown](https://brightfold.ai/sitemap.md)
- [XML sitemap](https://brightfold.ai/sitemap.xml)