Questions, answered

Yes, and you should know exactly how.

AskTilli is the assistant your teachers use. When a teacher asks about a specific child, it draws on that child's assessment record to answer, which is why it can say something useful rather than something generic. That's the entire point of it, and it's the difference between advice for a seven-year-old and advice for your seven-year-old.

It runs on Google's Gemini. Records passed to it are identified by school-assigned ID, not by name.

It can be switched off at school level. If you turn it off, assessment, reports and curriculum all continue exactly as before. You lose the assistant, nothing else.

Yes. The instrument is validated with 12,510 children, and in partner schools 9 in 10 children improved emotion regulation in a single term. What isn't out yet is a peer-reviewed outcome study, and we'd rather tell you that than show you someone else's research.

Tilli was incubated at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and runs an ongoing research-practice partnership with Stanford. Two papers are in progress: one with Hippocampus Learning Centres for a CASEL special issue, and one on behavioural regulation in Sri Lanka currently in revision. That speaks to how we work. It isn't yet a published outcome study, and we won't dress it up as one.

What we can show you is your own data. Every school gets a baseline in the first weeks and a comparison every term after. Within one year you'll know whether it worked in your school, with your children, which is a better answer than a study conducted somewhere else.

You can see partner-school results on our Success Stories page. We'll send you the peer-reviewed papers the moment they land.