GlowTech,LLC

Two papers that look like learning,
Only one of them written by a learner.

A finished document tells you almost nothing about who did the thinking. We build tools that record the writing process — keystrokes, pauses, pastes, revisions — and provide teachers a clear account of how the work came together.

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The problem

Writing has stopped being an accurate measurement of critical thinking, independent ideas and ability to organize...

Generative AI arrived in schools faster than any policy could follow it. A student can now produce a competent essay on almost any topic in under a minute, and it will read better than the one they would have written themselves.

The result is a quiet collapse in a students ability to think for themselves. Teachers still assign essays, reports and reflections. They can no longer be confident that the words in front of them came from the person whose name is on it. Grades stop reflecting what a student understands. Feedback lands on writing nobody wrote.

And the students who lean on it hardest, lose the most. Drafting an argument, getting feedback and correcting it is not busywork on the path to a finished paper — It is the learning. Skip it often and the skill never forms.

We think school students should be using far less AI in their assignments than they do today. Not because the technology is bad, but because a fifteen-year-old outsourcing their first argumentative essay is trading away something they cannot buy back later.

What we make

One product, two sides of the desk...

GlowInsight is built on top of Google Classroom. Teachers install a browser extension; students write in a web app built for the task. The two components talk to each other, nothing is exported, uploaded or chased.

For teachers — Chrome extension

GlowInsight

Within Classwork of GoogleClassroom, a 'Create with Glow' button is added. From that simple click is a report of academic integrity returned to the teacher: an overall score, copy-paste and plagiarism levels, AI suspicion, and a replay of the whole writing session in the document itself.

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For students — web app

GlowScribe

On the receiving end of an assignment, GlowScribe is a clean writing space with the assignment with instructions, a word count and an autosave feature throughout the writing process. Students open it from the Classroom link, write, and submit. The work goes straight back to the teacher's Classroom — no file to attach or forget.

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The company

Built for classrooms in classrooms...

GlowTech is a small software company working on academic integrity in the age of generative AI. We build for the people who actually grade the work: the teacher with five classes, thirty essays a week and no appetite for another dashboard to check.

Everything we ship starts in a real classroom and goes back to one. Teachers tell us where the guesswork is, we build the smallest thing that removes it, and we throw away the features they never open.

We are opinionated about one thing in particular: students deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt, and teachers deserve better than a probability score to base that judgement on. Every product decision we make comes back to that.

Get started

Bring the writing back into the assignment.

We are onboarding schools and individual teachers now. Tell us what you teach and how your classes are set up and we will get you running on your next assignment.