How it works

Research at the core, your school on top.

BBE Buddy stands on a body of evidence-based educational research, then layers your school's own materials over it — classifying, retrieving, synthesising and citing every claim it makes. Grounded in real sources, never guessed from the open internet.

The grounding principle

A real research base — sharpened by your school.

At its core sits a substantial body of evidence-based educational research — the science of learning, assessment and instruction. On top, BBE Buddy layers your curriculum, policies and handbooks, so answers reflect both the research and how your school actually works.

Every claim is retrieved from a real source and phrased — never invented from the open internet. Citation is the trust unlock.

Evidence-based researchCurriculumAssessment policiesSchemes of workHandbooks
How an answer is grounded
Research base
Science of learning Assessment research
Your school
Your policies Your handbooks
Retrieve · rank · ground
12
ConfidenceHigh
Research-grounded · source-cited
The teacher chat

Watch it think — then read a sourced answer.

A live reasoning timeline narrates retrieval so teachers can trust the route, not just the result. Every answer leads with the point, ends with two smart follow-ups, and carries a confidence band.

Step 01
ClassifyingIs this a pedagogy question? Route it to the right knowledge base.
Step 02
RetrievingPull the closest passages from the research base and your sources.
Step 03
SynthesisingCompose in your house style — grounded only in the retrieved sources.
Step 04
DoneAnswer, citations, confidence band and follow-ups.
BBE Buddy
You're talking to an AI assistant
Streamed & grounded

Leads with the point, no preamble, and ends with two smart next steps.

Watch it think

A live trace narrates retrieval: "found 4 sources, confidence high."

Confidence bands

High / medium / low / none — how strongly the library backed it.

FROM ADVICE TO RESOURCES

The artifact builder.

Accept an offer and BBE Buddy produces a complete, printable resource built from the conversation — real names, real numbers, your words — schema-validated and depth-checked. The catalogue spans 40+ types.

Lesson plansExit tickets + keysDiagnostic banksFeedback rubricsSuccess-criteria cardsImplementation plansBuy-in packsWorkshop kitsMonitoring plans

What you get

  • Built from the conversationYour real context becomes a finished document — not a generic template.
  • Schema-validated & depth-checkedEvery artifact meets a structural standard before it reaches you.
  • Printable & personalisedReal names, real numbers, your words — ready for Monday morning.
THE COCKPIT BEHIND IT

The trainer console.

Verify exactly what the AI sees. Curate before anything goes live, tune each source with a plain-English usage instruction, and prove the wiring without spending a single model call.

Weight & tierMother-document statusUsage instructionsImmediate effect

Verify what the LLM sees — no model call spent

Query
co-constructing success criteria
1Raw results
Your AfL handbook
score 0.71
Old marking guide
score 0.66
2Boosts
Your AfL handbook
tier · foundation · weight 1.4
Old marking guide
demoted ↓
3Final context
Your AfL handbook
"Treat as canonical for AfL."
How it learns

Taught, not drifting.

BBE Buddy does not silently retrain on teachers' chats. It improves through deliberate, reversible, human-in-the-loop mechanisms — always validated, clustered, and human-approved.

01

Trainer curation

The backbone — weight, tier, mother-document status, metadata and plain-English instructions go live immediately.

02

Per-passage feedback

Thumbs up/down gently bends retrieval, bounded so nothing runs away.

03

Feedback-to-action loop

Clustered, pre-validated, reversible suggestions; an admin approves every change.

04

Learns your methodology

Convergence on your verified canon, not the internet's opinion of good teaching.

"It gets smarter by being taught — always validated, clustered, reversible, and human-approved."

Everything is configuration-driven, loaded from a database and never hardcoded. One engine re-points at any school, curriculum or country.

Bring your handbook. We'll ground it.

Run a pilot and see, source by source, that the guidance is yours — including the full retrieval trace and "verify what the LLM sees."