The source with every answer
The document and the place it comes from, so anyone can check it.
The builder of BBE Buddy
AI systems for education, built by VergeLabs
AI that answers from your own trusted sources, shows where every answer comes from, and leaves the judgement with the professional. For schools, trusts, education consultancies and developers of learning material.
The proof
BBE Buddy as an example
BBE Buddy is a VergeLabs system in use by teachers. What it does for Build Better Education, it can do on your material.
- Every answer with its source136 works split into 2,226 passages, and the source behind every claim.
- No guessingNo answers from the open internet. When the source is missing, it says so.
- From answer to materialNine kinds of lesson material, exported to Word or PDF.
Tailored to your school
A version tailored to your school
The version on this site answers from Build Better Education's collection. For a school or trust, VergeLabs builds it around your own policies, language and curriculum, so the answers fit your classrooms rather than a generic school.
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Your own policies and documents.
Teaching and learning policy, feedback and marking policy, schemes of work, CPD material. Added on top of the research collection and weighted so answers follow what your school has agreed.
PoliciesSchemes of workCPD material
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Your language and teaching model.
The terms your staff actually use: your instructional model, your names for routines and lesson phases. Answers speak that language, in English or Dutch.
Instructional modelSchool terminologyEnglish or Dutch
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Your sources and your curriculum.
Choose which works count, add the ones your school relies on, and tune it to your phase, your subjects and the curriculum you teach.
Primary or secondarySubjectsCurriculum
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Your templates and house style.
Lesson plans, exit tickets and feedback guides in your school's own formats, ready to use without reformatting.
School templatesHouse styleWord and PDF
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Sign-in and roles.
Staff sign in with the school's Microsoft or Google accounts, and leaders see how the assistant is used across the team.
School accountsRolesUsage overview for leaders
What we build for education
Three systems for education
Each on the same foundation as BBE Buddy: trusted sources, clear rules, and a professional who approves before anything reaches a class or a school.
01 · The Office-Memory Assistant
An assistant on your own material.
Your policies, schemes of work, earlier projects and reports made searchable. Every answer names the document and the place it comes from; if the answer is not there, it says so. BBE Buddy is this system, built on a research collection.
Schools and trustsConsultanciesSource with every answer
Read more on vergelabs.nl →02 · The Material Pipeline
Curriculum coverage and tagging.
New standards or learning lines? All existing material, worksheets, tests and teacher guides, checked against them, with a proposed revision per part and the passage it refers to. The education specialist is the final judge.
Curriculum developersLearning-material publishersSpecialist approves
Read more on vergelabs.nl →03 · The Front Office
A help desk on your methodology.
For the teachers or schools you work with. It answers the recurring questions from a managed knowledge base, with citations, and hands anything sensitive or binding to a person. Set up under the GDPR.
Education consultanciesTrainersGDPR
Read more on vergelabs.nl →Principles
What a school gets
Clear about gaps
If the source is not there, the answer is “I don't know”.
The specialist approves
Nothing reaches a class or a school before a teacher or specialist has signed off.
GDPR from the start
Set up under the GDPR, with a data processing agreement where personal data is involved.
Price agreed in advance
A fixed price agreed before the work starts. No billing by the hour, no surprises afterwards.
One person to talk to
You talk to the person who builds it, and who fixes it when something breaks.
Approach
How VergeLabs works
Every project runs in the same order: first measure, then choose the route, then build.
Measure
Lesson preparation, reports, curriculum revisions: where the thinking sits, where the routine sits, and what it costs. You get one A4 with three observations and one recommendation.
Set up
An existing tool set up safely, a training, or a system built for the job; sometimes no AI at all. You get a plain report with an order of attack and a cost estimate, yours to keep.
Work
The system takes the searching, sorting and first drafts. Whatever goes out passes the teacher or specialist first, with its source attached.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same system as BBE Buddy?
The same foundation: answers only from trusted sources, the source with every answer, and a professional who approves. BBE Buddy runs on Build Better Education's research collection; yours runs on your own material.
What does it cost?
Every system has a fixed price, agreed before any work starts: no billing by the hour and no surprises afterwards. The intro call is free, and in it you get an indication for your own situation.
What about pupil data?
A knowledge assistant works on knowledge without personal data: a sorting session first decides which material may go through AI. Where pupil data is involved, as in a help desk, the system is set up under the GDPR with a data processing agreement.
Do we have to use AI?
No. Sometimes the answer is a simple script, a better process, or doing nothing. You hear that too, when it is true.
What does the AI Act ask of a school?
The AI literacy obligation already applies: staff who use AI must understand what it does. The Team Session and the AI Accountability Training cover it, with an attendance list and an assessment for your own file.
Who do we deal with?
With Nathan, who builds the systems. No agency and no middle layer: the person you talk to explains why the system does what it does, and fixes it when something breaks.
Work with VergeLabs
Contact
No agency and no middle layer. In a free half-hour call we look at where the hours go in your school or organisation and what can go faster there, and you hear it when the answer is no AI.
- Every outcome comes with its source.
- Missing sources are stated.
- The specialist approves.
- Price agreed in advance.
Enquiry
Send an enquiry
Describe what you would like to use AI for, and Nathan will reply by email.