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    The Use of AI in
    Branching Minds

    Ensuring AI is used responsibly to deliver real benefits for educators.

    AI and Branching Minds
    MTSS AI Solution

    Branching Minds and Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping education technology in exciting ways, helping educators work smarter by turning complex data into actionable insights.

    Many AI tools rely on Large Language Models (LLMs), advanced systems trained on vast amounts of text, including books, articles, and conversations. These models understand and generate human-like language, making them valuable for answering questions, summarizing information, and organizing complex data. Think of an LLM as a high-speed assistant that helps educators navigate data efficiently and effectively.

    At Branching Minds, we harness AI to support and streamline school systems—empowering educators to identify patterns, make informed decisions, and support students in real time. We firmly believe AI should be used responsibly, with tangible benefits for educators—not just for show.

    Our Commitment to Securing Student Data

    A key part of our responsibility to educators is ensuring that the AI we use—and the data it interacts with—remains private and secure. While some AI services train on customer data, thereby posing significant privacy risks (especially when handling personally identifiable information or P.I.I.), Branching Minds never allows AI providers to train models on customer data.

    As a signatory of the EDSAFE AI Alliance, Branching Minds incorporates S.A.F.E. Benchmarks of Safety, Accountability, Fairness and transparency, and Efficacy into our AI adoption to maximize benefit while minimizing risk. We maintain a rigorous Vendor Risk Management Program to ensure third-party AI vendors meet our high standards for data privacy and security. All vendors handling P.I.I. must provide security documentation, undergo third-party audits, and be re-evaluated annually or if their status changes.

    Branching Minds is also COPPA-compliant, and we ensure all student data is managed securely—never used for commercial purposes, AI training, or targeted advertising. Additionally, our SOC 2 Type II compliance includes annual audits of our security practices, reinforcing our commitment to industry-leading data protection.

    For schools and districts working with us, this means you can trust that your data is handled with the highest level of care and protection, allowing you to focus on what matters most—supporting your students.

    Our Commitment to Sustainable Technology

    As a Certified B Corporation, we prioritize social and environmental responsibility, including the ethical use of AI.

    To minimize AI’s environmental impact:

      • We use pre-trained models rather than training foundational models ourselves, significantly reducing our carbon footprint.

      • We’ve optimized AI implementation to minimize use of computational resources, lowering energy consumption while maintaining high-quality results.

      • We focus on efficiency over intensity, using lightweight prompts instead of compute-heavy queries.

      • While we don’t yet have formal carbon offsets, our engineering and product decisions prioritize sustainability—prioritizing efficient model use and scalable, responsible AI deployment.

    As AI evolves, we will continue to refine our approach—ensuring that innovation aligns with the highest ethical and environmental standards.

    Branching Minds’ AI-Powered Products and Features

    Behavior Incident Report

    Branching Minds leverages AI to transform messy source system data (e.g., from a Student Information System) into clear, actionable behavior insights for educators. By combining AI-driven analysis with best practice recommendations from our Learning Science team, we help educators quickly identify behavior patterns, make data-informed decisions, and enhance support for students.

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    Behavior Incident Report

    Custom Report Builder

    This AI-powered tool helps administrators query and visualize data—no manual sorting, filtering, or analysis is required. Simply ask a question—e.g., “Show me 9th-grade math scores over the last two years”—and receive charts, graphs, or tables within seconds, making it easy to spot trends, identify areas of concern, and action data.

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    Custom Report Builder

    Dottie AI

    Dottie is an AI assistant built specifically to support MTSS, trained on well-established research and best practices. Unlike generic chatbots, Dottie provides context-aware support for educators by retrieving relevant student data, recommending evidence-based interventions, and summarizing student- and system-level reports and trends. By simplifying data analysis, Dottie empowers all educators—especially those with limited data skills—to make informed decisions in real time.

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    Dottie Whats New Chat

    MTSS Meeting Assistant

    Our AI-powered Meeting Assistant streamlines student-level meetings by proactively surfacing relevant student data, providing a structured summary of meeting discussions, and capturing key takeaways and next steps—all within our secure MTSS platform. This helps ensure that every meeting stays student- and solution-focused, and that all student data remains protected.

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    MTSS Meeting Assistant