Where educators shape AI

Create, share, and evaluate AI applications for your context.

Build tools that fit how and what you teach.

Create your own chat-based and interactive apps with AI that reflect your goals and work for your students.

Ground AI in your own materials.

Instead of relying on an AI model's general knowledge, connect your apps to your actual curriculum, rubrics, standards, and references.

Pick the model that fits the task.

Compare AI models and choose which one is best suited for the app you're building. Playlab supports most models on the market, and you can use them all without additional licenses. Organizations can select which models to enable for their users.

Learn from how your apps are used.

Every interaction with your app is visible to you. Track how students engage, evaluate it against your goals, and use what you learn to support your students and improve your app.

Go beyond chat.

Apps can work with a growing set of specialized tools: accurate math diagrams and graphs, Python for data analysis, a built-in doc editor, image processing and generation, and more.

What makes Playlab different.

You can see everything your students do.

Every conversation a student has with an app is visible to you. If a student types something that needs a teacher's attention, including anything suggesting self-harm, you're alerted right away. You can customize moderation beyond this baseline to tailor it to your needs.

Your classroom is your domain.

The work you do in Playlab is always yours: we assign you full rights to what you produce. Student and teacher work is never used to train outside AI models: we do not sell it or hand it over to the companies who make the models available in Playlab.

Playlab meets school safety standards.

FERPA, COPPA (accounts are 13+, with guardian permission under 18), GDPR, and CCPA, with data processing agreements for the US, EU, and UK. Independent auditors verify our security every year, with SOC 2 Type II and penetration testing reports available on request.

Trusted by organizations of all sizes.

Built for the education ecosystem.

See what people are building.

Playlab enables teachers all over the world to create the tools their classrooms and communities need most by leveraging rigorous curriculum, custom frameworks, and the best of OER content.

Uncommon North Star Academy

One AP teacher's quest to give every student the writing feedback they deserve

“I wish I could give every kid lots of feedback every time they write. And I just can't... This AI tool is my attempt to be everywhere all at once.”

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Consortium, Internationals, and NYC Outward Bound Schools (CIOB)

A New York City district uses AI to bring a bold vision of learning to life

“Saving time isn’t enough. If we’re not enabling higher-order thinking for students, we’re not improving instruction.”

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Gotham Collaborative High School

Tim Torres teaches Bronx seniors to partner with AI for civic engagement and self-advocacy

“When you have students create their own interactive apps, now the kid has to be a critical thinker, and it's not just copy and pasting. Now you're actually integrating what you’re learning with AI to create content.”

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KIPP Chicago schools

Debating World Events? Ask This Model UN Coach for Feedback

“I think [Playlab] allows and pushes educators to be creative with their lesson planning, with the tools that they use in the classroom, and to really think about how it can be a support tool to a lot of the amazing things that you are already doing.”

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Men of Color in Educational Leadership (MCEL)

This Leadership Coach Reclaimed His Time With AI

“[My app] allows me to focus on mission critical things—the people of my organization and not just tasks… I can see where my quality of life is beginning to shift. And also how I've become more effective in my role.”

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The Playlab story.

"If AI is designed in the right ways, that are more democratic and distributed, more people can start to use AI to augment their own creativity and their own agency to do things in the world."

See Playlab co-founder Yusuf Ahmad break down how Playlab got its start, where we are headed next, and his vision for a hopeful future.

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