Markpilot Partner Program

Built with the teachers who use it.

Markpilot is an AI marking and feedback tool built by a practising Australian teacher. Partner teachers use it free on their real marking, tell me bluntly what's good and what's broken, and shape where it goes. Their fingerprints end up on the product; their names, if they choose, end up on this page.

Five partner-teacher places open each month. Strong applications beyond that go to the front of next month's queue.

Three kinds of partnership

Partner Teachers

Use Markpilot on real assessments, free for six months, and shape the product. The core of the program.

Open · five places a month

Partner Schools

A school partnership starts with one faculty: one department, one real reporting cycle, tools built with the faculty head.

Lead a faculty? Write to me

Research Partners

Independent research on what AI feedback actually does for teachers and students. Findings stay independent; that's the point.

By conversation

What you get, and what you give

Both sides of it, in writing. Six months, one full reporting cycle, then you decide if it's worth paying for:

You get

  • The Teacher plan free for six months (normally US$30 a month), on your real classes: a full reporting cycle.
  • A permanent partner rate if you stay after that.
  • A direct line to the maker, not a support inbox. Blocking bugs fixed within 48 hours.
  • You shape the product: first access to new features, and changes credited to the teacher who asked for them.
  • Your name here, if you want it: name, subject, state. Entirely your call.

You give

  • One real assessment per term marked through Markpilot. Two over the six months. This is the commitment that matters.
  • A 15-minute call each month. Voice notes and screenshots count.
  • Bluntness. "This is broken" is worth more to me than encouragement.
What you never owe: a testimonial. If Markpilot earns a quote, I'll ask for one; if it doesn't, there's nothing to ask for. And if I'm asking your opinion, the answer can change the product. If I've already made up my mind, I'll say that too, so we can disagree honestly.

Apply

About five minutes. The questions about your actual marking matter most; specifics beat polish.

About you

School email is ideal, personal is fine. Nothing you enter here is published without your explicit OK.

Never published without your permission.

All sectors welcome. Government teachers typically use Markpilot as a personal tool, since report pipelines there are usually centralised; that's a fine way to be a partner.

Your marking

Be specific if you can. "Year 10 trig test, week 4 next term" tells me a lot more than "keen to explore".

e.g. Compass, SEQTA, Canvas, Schoolbox, Google Classroom, something else. I'm asking whether teachers at your school choose their own tools.

Where you show up (all optional)

Completely optional. Most great partners have none of these.

e.g. MAV, VATE, HTAV, STAV, your regional network, your own staffroom PL. Which ones?

The deal

Genuine question. The answers to this one shape the product more than any feature request.

What happens to this form: it's emailed to me and stored in Markpilot's database so I can review it. It's never shared or published without your explicit OK, and you can ask me to delete it any time. How the product itself handles data: markpilot.co/privacy.

Partner Schools: it starts with one faculty

Whole-school rollouts are the wrong first step, for you and for me. A school partnership starts with one faculty or department: one real reporting cycle, with the tools built alongside the faculty head who runs it.

The unit
One faculty or department, one real reporting cycle.
The build
The faculty console is designed with the first faculty head who commits, not before.
Then
Adjacent faculties, then school-wide, on the strength of a cycle that actually happened.

If you lead a faculty or department and want yours to be the first through a full reporting cycle, write to me. Early interest isn't a waiting list; it's a fast lane.

Research Partners

If you research education and want to study what AI-assisted marking and feedback actually does for teachers and students, I want that research to exist, including the parts that don't flatter the product. On offer: a real tool in real classrooms, data access under ethics approval, and a practitioner who'll engage with the findings. Not on offer: money, or any say over what you publish. Independent findings are the only kind worth having.

hello@markpilot.co, and tell me what you'd want to study.

Andrew Weekes, founder, Markpilot · Australian secondary teacher · building this because I needed it