How the AI works

AI that shows its working.

TutorTracer uses large language models to read lesson transcripts the way an experienced reviewer would. Every flag and rating points back to the words that caused it, and the final decision always rests with your team.

Free for 14 days or 400 lesson hours, whichever comes first. No card needed.

Lesson analysisComplete
Transcript syncedLessonspace
52 min · 2 speakers · 614 lines
Tutor and student identifiedPlatform roles
Tutor: Sarah Mitchell · Student: Oliver Mitchell
Issues checked0 flagged
4 categories · your guardrails applied
Quality assessedStrong
5 dimensions · 11 evidence quotes
Indexed for the assistantSearchable
Ask about this lesson in plain English
Principles

Designed to be checked, not trusted blindly.

Evidence first

Every issue carries a verbatim quote and a timestamp. Every quality rating cites what happened in the lesson. If you can't see why, it isn't useful.

Abstains when unsure

If a transcript is too short, garbled or one-sided to judge, the quality assessment says “insufficient evidence” instead of guessing, and it is excluded from averages.

People decide

TutorTracer is decision-support. It doesn't discipline tutors, contact families or close issues. Your team does.

Tuned to you

Plain-English Issue Guardrails, a custom quality rubric and your own curriculum and policy documents shape what it looks for.

Not trained on your data

Your lessons are processed through AI providers' APIs under terms that stop the provider training models on them. We don't train foundation models on customer data either.

Clear data flows

Transcript excerpts are sent to AI providers for analysis, transiently, under terms that stop them training on your data.

The pipeline

What happens to each lesson.

  1. Sync

    The transcript and lesson details arrive from your platform once the platform has produced them.

  2. Speakers

    Tutor and student are identified from the platform's roles, or from the conversation, cross-checked against who speaks most.

  3. Issues

    The transcript is checked for the four issue categories. Each issue gets a quote, timestamp, severity, context and explanation.

  4. Quality

    The lesson is rated on each rubric dimension, with evidence, or abstains.

  5. Index

    The lesson is indexed so the assistant can search it.

Speaker identification

Getting tutor and student right.

Everything depends on knowing who said what. Where the platform labels exactly one teacher, TutorTracer uses it. Otherwise it works it out from the conversation and checks the answer against who talks most.

  • A “Please confirm the tutor” banner appears when the evidence disagrees
  • “Wrong way round? Swap” corrects the roles and re-runs that lesson
  • Optional platform user IDs next to names keep two tutors called “Sam” apart
Please confirm the tutorCheck
The platform didn't label roles clearly and our checks disagreed.
TutorSam (ID 4106467)
StudentMia
CorrectSwap
Assistant

Ask questions in plain English.

The TutorTracer assistant answers questions about your lessons, tutors, students and flagged issues, using the lessons it has indexed, and links to the lessons behind each answer.

  • “Which tutors had poaching flags this month?”
  • “How has Priya's structure rating changed this term?”
  • “Find lessons where a student said they were confused about fractions”
Which tutors had poaching flags this month?
Two tutors had poaching-risk flags in the last 30 days:
Sophie Clarke2 issues
Both in lessons with Emily W. · 3 and 10 Mar
Daniel Harris1 issue
Lesson with Thomas W. · 7 Mar · dismissed
Each answer links to the lessons it used.
Limits

What it won't do.

Be right every time

AI outputs can be incomplete, wrong or mis-attributed. They can miss serious issues and flag innocent ones. Treat them as leads to check.

Analyse lessons without a transcript

If your platform doesn't produce a transcript, for example Lessonspace with transcription switched off, the lesson can't be analysed.

Make decisions

No automated action is taken against tutors or students. Outputs are not findings of fact.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Which AI models does TutorTracer use?

We use large language models from third-party AI providers, accessed through their APIs. We choose and test models for each step of the analysis and change them as better ones become available.

Is our data used to train AI models?

No. We use API terms under which the provider is contractually restrained from training its models on your content, and we don't use customer data to train foundation models.

How accurate is it?

Accuracy depends on transcript quality, the subject and your settings. Every output shows its evidence so you can check it quickly, and guardrails let you cut out flags you consider noise. The best way to judge is on your own lessons, which is what the free trial is for.

Can it be tailored to our organisation?

Yes: plain-English Issue Guardrails, your own quality rubric, and checks against your own curriculum and policy documents.

Judge it on your own lessons.

Connect Lessonspace in a couple of minutes and TutorTracer analyses your last seven days of lessons straight away. Or book a walkthrough and we'll show you the product on demo data first.

Free for 14 days or 400 lesson hours, whichever comes first. No card needed.