Blindfold EDU

For institutional research, registrar and faculty teams

Bring AI to your student data. Keep every name on campus.

Blindfold Edu swaps names, student IDs and emails for consistent tokens on your own computer. Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot get the full analysis with every credit, GPA and program code intact, and no one leaves campus with a student's identity.

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retention_fall26.csv
StudentIDCreditsGPA

Identifiers become tokens. Credits and GPA are kept exactly as they were.

The explainer

How student data moves, and what Blindfold Edu changes

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    Why it matters

    Student trust is the foundation every analysis stands on

    Retention models, survey themes, accreditation narratives, course evaluations: AI can turn weeks of this work into an afternoon. The records behind that work belong to students, and they shared them on a promise.

    FERPA makes that promise specific. Personally identifiable information from education records, including indirect details that point to one student, can be shared only with consent or under an exception. Professionals who handle student-level data are the people who keep that promise every day.

    Blindfold Edu lets you keep it and move fast at the same time. The identifiers never leave your computer, so the question of what an AI vendor stores, trains on or retains no longer touches a student's name.

    Read the one-page FERPA explainer →

    The connections

    Follow one record from the registrar to a board report

    Every hop is a choice about what crosses it. Select a step to see what Blindfold Edu sends, and what it keeps home.

    Student recordsSIS · Banner · Workday Your computerBlindfold Edu runs here AI serviceClaude · ChatGPT · Copilot Your reportmemo · dashboard

    Select a step

    Use your mouse, or tab to a step and press Enter.

    Made for institutional research

    Work you can hand to AI this week

    01

    Retention and early alerts

    Ask which students fell below full-time and what they share, with credits, GPA and program codes intact.

    02

    Open-ended survey comments

    Theme hundreds of responses in minutes. Names, emails and self-identifying details are flagged for your review first.

    03

    Accreditation evidence

    Draft narratives from assessment results and student work samples without exposing who wrote them.

    04

    Advising and case notes

    Summarize notes and draft outreach, then restore names locally before anything goes to a student.

    Time back

    What your office gets back

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    Hours back each month
    36
    Value of that time each year
    $23,760

    MidAIR 2026

    Secure by design, so you can say yes to AI

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