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Skybird.AI · Custom AI for real workflows

Purpose-built AI for the way you work.

Skybird.AI designs AI products around real workflows, so people spend their time on the work only they can do. Today, we’re building for education.

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The suite · Seven products, five videos

Five short videos, each two minutes or less.

  • 2025Founded in Florida
  • 2Co-founders: a school-technology veteran and a computer-science professor
  • 27+ yearsSupplying hardware and IT to school districts, colleges and government
  • 7Products in education today, from grading to the LMS

How we build

Three rules behind every product.

We don’t build generic AI tools. We build purpose-specific products that fit into the way people already work.

  1. Workflow first

    We start with one real job, like grading a stack of papers or covering a class when a teacher is out, and build the AI around it. Purpose-built, never a generic chatbot.

    In practice

    With SubAssist, a teacher presses “Report Absence” and the substitute plan is published for the sub to open with a code.

    See Power Administrator

  2. AI drafts, people decide

    Our products hand you a draft: feedback, lessons, weekly plans, letters. Nothing is final until a person has reviewed it and said yes.

    In practice

    GradAssist adds margin comments in your voice and suggests a score. The instructor approves every grade.

    See GradAssist

  3. Built by practitioners

    Skybird is run by its two co-founders: Mario, who has spent 27+ years selling and implementing hardware and IT for schools, colleges and government, and Brian, a computer-science professor. We build for work we know.

    In practice

    Mario Ariet, MD, and Brian Holbert, PhD, co-founded Skybird.AI in Florida in 2025.

    Meet the founders

The Skybird education suite

Seven products.
One way of working.

Each one is shaped around a single job in education: grading, lesson prep, homework, the class website, homeschool planning, school operations and the college LMS.
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Free plans on GradAssist, Skylark and Homeschool Hero. Birdbrain (formerly Power Student) is free to download. Eagle Nest is in private testing, with a live demo.

Beyond education

Have a workflow that repeats?

Education is where we started. It isn’t where we stop.

Our method works anywhere a workflow repeats: the same documents, the same steps, the same decisions, week after week. We map the job, build AI that drafts the repetitive parts, and keep a person in charge of every decision.

Have one in mind? Tell us about it.

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The Skybird method

  1. Map the workflow

    Where the hours go, what repeats, and who signs off.

  2. Build AI around it

    One purpose-built tool for that job, not a general chatbot.

  3. Keep people in charge

    The AI drafts. Your people review, edit and approve.

AI drafts. You decide.

Find the product built for your job.

Seven products for teachers, students, families and school leaders.

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