Trust
How we intend to earn it.
Scaffolding handles high-stakes writing for college applicants. Trust is not a marketing page for us — it is the infrastructure. This page gathers our concrete commitments, with current numbers where we have them and explicit pre-launch markers where we don't.
Snapshot
Evaluation set pass rate
Pending — V1 launch
Our eval bar is 80%, counselor-validated. The rolling rate publishes once the eval set is populated.
Read more →Schools in the claims registry
0
Top 10 schools land at V1 launch. We will not let agents make school-specific claims that aren't in the registry.
Read more →Public postmortems
0 (we hope this stays short)
When we get something wrong at scale we publish a 30-day postmortem. The archive populates as incidents occur.
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Compliance statements
FERPA plus the four state statutes that apply to most under-18 student data we handle. Full deeper details live on /trust/compliance.
FERPA
Family Educational Rights and Privacy ActScaffolding receives student educational records only from the student themselves. We do not pull from school SISes; we are not a "school official" under FERPA and do not act as one. Students retain access to their data and can export or delete it from /account/data.
CA SB-1177
Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA)For California students under 18: we do not use any data collected for advertising, do not build profiles for non-school purposes, and do not sell student information. The under-18 consent flow surfaces the SOPIPA acknowledgement explicitly.
IL SOPPA
Illinois Student Online Personal Protection ActFor Illinois students: we honor SOPPA breach notification timelines, do not sell student data, and provide a Data Protection Addendum on request for educational institutions that integrate Scaffolding.
TX SB-820
Texas Student Information Privacy ActFor Texas students under 18: we comply with TX SB-820's prohibition on selling student data, building advertising profiles, or using student data for non-educational purposes.
NY §2-d
New York Education Law §2-dFor New York students: we acknowledge the §2-d Parents Bill of Rights, treat student data as confidential, and do not disclose to third parties without consent. Breach notifications follow the 7-day window.
How we use your writing to train our models
Scaffolding trains its own AI models on the application work people submit, so the agents read better over time. We do not sell that data, license it to any other company, or send it to our LLM vendor for their training — the models we fine-tune are used only to run Scaffolding.
This use is opt-out and applies only to work submitted on or after the policy's effective date. You can opt out at signup or any time from /account/consent. The privacy policy has the full detail, including an open question we have flagged for legal review about sensitive content in essays.
The Voice Covenant
In revision mode, Scaffolding never writes prose for the student. Our agents ask questions; the student writes answers. Every word in the final essay is theirs. This is an explicit commitment, enforced server-side. We believe it is the single most important trust decision we have made.