StratusX

The problem

StratusX wanted AI that schools could trust in the classroom: assistants that answer from what was actually taught, not generic web knowledge, with a different experience for teachers, students and administrators. Districts needed to onboard without manual account setup, and school leaders needed to see adoption and which students need help.

What we built

• Built Class Brain, the document library at the core of the platform: teachers and students upload class material, an SQS/Lambda pipeline chunks and embeds it into Postgres with pgvector, and every agent answers from the actual lesson content with citations
• Shipped four role-specific agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, all reached through Ask Stratus: Period Manager (one per class period) for teachers, Learn for tutoring and Plan for study planning for students, and an Admin assistant
• Added Class Pulse to flag which students need support and why, AI-drafted Class Quizzes that teachers approve with a card, study plans and notifications
• Built psychometric assessments (Where You Are / Who You Are for students, How You Teach / How You Lead for staff) that the agents use to tailor their help, plus a school-wide analytics dashboard for admins
• Integrated Clever SSO with roster sync so districts onboard without manual account setup
• Python/FastAPI and SQLAlchemy backend with a React + TypeScript (Chakra UI) front-end, all AWS infrastructure in Terraform (CloudFront + S3, ECS Fargate), and GitLab CI with semantic-release plus a regression suite of pytest integration, Playwright end-to-end and k6 load tests