Our story
Built in Australia, for Australian schools.
Ember Education makes Lantern, a Report Writer that drafts comments in each teacher’s own voice, checks them against the school’s reporting rules, and keeps every student record hosted in Australia.
01 · Why Lantern exists
Report season shouldn’t cost teachers their weekends.
Twice a year, every teacher writes a careful, individual comment for every student they teach, dozens of them, each one matching the school’s reporting policy, watching character limits, and staying honest and personal. It is some of the most important writing a teacher does, and almost all of it happens after hours, under real time pressure and mental load.
We started Ember Education because the tools meant to help with this asked teachers to trade away two things they should never have to: their own voice, and their students’ privacy. Generic AI writers produce comments that sound like nobody, and many are vague about where student data goes.
Lantern is our answer. It learns how each teacher writes, drafts in that voice, and checks every draft against the school’s actual rules, fixing what it can and flagging anything that needs the teacher’s professional judgement. The teacher stays the author and the approver. Lantern just removes the grind.
02 · Our mission
Give teachers their voice, and their evenings, back.
Our mission is to take the most repetitive part of reporting off teachers’ plates without taking away what makes a report theirs. Every comment should sound like the person who wrote the previous one, meet the school’s standards, and leave the teacher firmly in control as author and approver.
- Teachers stay the author. Lantern drafts, checks and flags. It never signs off. Every comment is reviewed and approved by the teacher whose class it describes. The judgement, and the responsibility, stay where they belong.
- Hosted in Australia by default, not by upgrade. Australian data hosting isn't a premium tier or a promise for later. Every school's data is stored in AWS Sydney with disaster recovery in Melbourne from the first day of the trial. The limited data the AI needs to draft and check a comment is processed overseas, and we say so plainly.
- Not training on your students. We do not use student information to train third-party AI models, and prompts remain subject to contractual controls and deletion rights. That's a contractual commitment, not a setting buried in a policy.
- Built for the load, not the demo. Reports get written in stolen minutes between classes, not in one heroic weekend. We design for the corridor, the dictated note and the class set of thirty, because that's where the time actually goes.
Where your data lives, and where it is processed.
What we do with student data, and what we will never do.
03 · Who we are
A registered Australian company.
Lantern is made by Ember Education Pty Ltd (ABN 34 693 296 409, ACN 693 296 409). Our registered office is 7/276A Domain Road, South Yarra VIC 3141.
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Prefer to start a conversation first? Reach the team at hello@embereducation.com.au or via our contact page.