What truly sets Fermi apart is that it does not outrightly help students. It does not jump to answers or short-circuit reasoning. Instead, it nudges students to recall fundamentals, think through the problem, and take ownership of their solution.
Grade handwritten math
in minutes.
Upload assignments and worksheets. Fermi reads each handwritten paper, grades against your rubric, awards fair partial credit, and writes feedback in your voice.
FERPA-aligned. Student work is never used to train AI models.
How Fermi graded
Question 3
Solve: 2x² + 5x − 3 = 0
Maya’s solution
x = −5 ± √(25 + 24) / 4
x = −5 ± 7 / 4
x = (−5 ± √49) / 4
x = ½, x = −3 ✓
Fermi rubric
Concept clarity
3/3
Application mastery
3/3
Final answer
2/2
BonusCaught a sign error in working+1
What the class got
14/22
struggled with the discriminant
Worth revisiting before the next quiz.
Who needs you
AC
Alex Chen
Treats critical points as automatic extrema. Skipped endpoint check on a closed interval.
+ 2 more students need 1-on-1
Built for educators
Grading that thinks like an educator.
Reads handwriting
Built for the messy reality of student work — corrections, reworks, the line a student crossed out. Not just typed equations.
Partial credit that’s actually fair
Points for the right setup even when the final answer is wrong. Flagged for your review when we’re not sure.
Grades to your rubric
Paste yours, edit a default, or describe the assignment and Fermi drafts one. The rubric is yours, not a generic answer key.
How it works
Four steps. No setup call required.
1
Upload assignments and worksheets.
Scanned submissions, work from the canvas, or pull straight from Google Classroom, Moodle, or any LMS. Drag, drop, done.
2
Set your rubric.
Paste your own, edit a default, or let Fermi draft one from the assignment. Refine it until you start grading. You stay in control.
3
Fermi grades.
Every paper scored against your rubric, with partial credit on the working and a margin comment for each student. About a minute per paper.
4
Review or auto-release.
Skim and adjust before releasing, or set auto-release for trusted assignments. Either way, students never see anything you haven’t approved.
After every assignment
Insights you can act on.
A diagnostic for the class, depth on every student, and what to do next.
A diagnostic for the class
The patterns you’d see if you had time to read all 22 papers side by side. The misconception six students share. The question everyone aced. The gap you didn’t know was there. Then Fermi shows you who.
14 of 22 students skipped computing the discriminant. Worth revisiting before moving on.
Depth on every student
Not just the score. The exact step where the student’s reasoning went wrong, the misconception underneath it, and how they got there. Per-student depth, on every paper. Then Fermi tells you what to do.
AC
Boundary Conditions
How Alex got there
- ✓Found critical point: f′(x) = 0 at x = 2
- ×Skipped checking endpoints x = 1 and x = 3 on the closed interval [1, 3]
- ×Concluded x = 2 is the maximum, based on the critical point alone
The misconception underneath
Alex treats critical points as automatically the extrema. Hasn’t yet internalized that closed intervals require endpoint checks — the actual maximum was at x = 3.
What to teach next
The teaching plan, half-written for you. What to reteach. Who to spend time with. What you can skip. Concrete actions, ready before the bell rings Monday.
RETEACH
Revisit the discriminant before the next quiz
SKIP
No need to review factoring
ONE-ON-ONE
Check in with 3 students this week
Fermi enables truly personalized learning - I don't have to have a separate approach for each student.
Privacy and safety, by design
Built to hold up under review.
Built for school IT and legal teams from day one.
Regulatory frameworks
- FERPA-aligned USBuilt around the federal student-records framework your district already operates under.
- COPPA-aligned for under-13s USSchool-authorized use under district consent. We’ll review your technology waiver to confirm fit.
- State student-data agreements USDPAs available for California, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, and other states with specific student-data laws.
- GDPR & GDPR-K compliant EU/EEAFull GDPR compliance, including the parental-consent and minimization rules of GDPR-K for under-16s.
- EU AI Act monitored EU/EEARegular audits of AI components for transparency and safety obligations under the EU AI Act, in force since 2025.
What happens to student work
- Never used to train AI modelsNot Fermi’s, and not the AI providers we use under contract. Student handwriting, rubrics, and graded work are not training data — ever.
- Encrypted everywhereAES-256 at rest. TLS 1.3 in transit. Hardware-isolated key management. Role-based access with audit logs.
- Never sold. Never used for advertising.No data sold to third parties. No advertising in the product. No behavioral profiles of students or educators built or shared.
- Schools own the dataEvery paper, rubric, and grade. We process it on your behalf — we don’t own it. Parents can request access through the school.
- Exit on your terms, within 30 daysOne click to export every paper, rubric, and grade. Account deletion completed within 30 days. We keep nothing after you go.
Try Fermi free.
No credit card. No setup call. Bring a single class onto Fermi and see what changes when grading takes minutes, not evenings.
For schools
Rolling out across more than one classroom?
We work with schools to bring handwriting-first grading and class-level insight to every educator. Training and rollout, completely handled.