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🤖 An AI Agent — not a chatbot — for higher ed

Not a chatbot.
An AI Agent that teaches.

Lyceum is the agentic AI tutor U.S. universities and high schools deploy at scale. It plans multi-step study paths, calls real tools, retrieves from your textbooks, and stays with each student across semesters — orchestrating Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro under the hood. 12.4 B tokens / month. SOC 2 · FERPA · HECVAT cleared.

24 / 7 across every time zone · SOC 2 Type II · FERPA · Canvas · Blackboard · Moodle
Deployed across 50+ campuses
Serving 200,000+ students and educators
CU
Columbia University
UM
University of Michigan
CMU
Carnegie Mellon
GT
Georgia Tech
UCB
UC Berkeley · Eng.
NU
Northwestern
UTA
UT Austin · Math
PHX
Phillips Exeter
STY
Stuyvesant H.S.
ASU
Arizona State Online
CPS
Chicago Public Schools
CHO
Choate Rosemary Hall
🌙 Beyond the lecture hall

Learning doesn't start at 9,
and it doesn't stop at 5.

We sat down with deans, professors, TAs, and student-success offices at 30+ institutions and walked through three moments that most often break a semester. Each pattern below comes from real TA tickets and student help-desk logs.

🌙
01 · Late nights

Stuck on problem 3,
and it's due at 8 AM.

The slides didn't go that deep, the textbook doesn't show the steps, no one's awake on Slack. 71% of undergraduate study frustration happens between 11 PM and 2 AM — exactly when faculty support is hardest to staff.

71%
of frustration
happens after 11 PM
🎤
02 · Large lectures

One professor,
800 students, 2 hrs / week.

Faculty teaching multiple sections have under 9 seconds of one-on-one time per student per week. Whether you learn ends up depending on how brave you are, where you sit, and whether you got called on.

9sec
of 1:1 faculty time
per student per week
🚨
03 · Finals week

The TA is drowning in
the same 80 questions.

The week before finals, an average TA fields 380+ inquiries — 64% of which are variations on the same handful of high-frequency questions. Their time should go to deeper guidance, not retyping.

64%
are variations on
the same questions
Source · Lyceum & 8 partner institutions · 2024–2025 academic-year survey · n = 12,408 undergraduates
🛠️ How it works

From signed contract
to first session in three weeks.

Lyceum isn't a chat box thrown at students. It's a full teaching stack that plugs into your existing LMS, sits inside your course context, and lets faculty review and shape its behavior.

📋

Rollout playbook

— typical 3-week deployment
1

🔐 Identity & access

SSO / SAML 2.0 / LDAP into your existing campus portal. Students sign in with their school credentials — no new account. Admins scope access by department, course, or year.

2

📚 Course ingest

Sync syllabi, lecture decks, problem sets, video transcripts, assigned readings. Lyceum answers within your course materials — not from the open internet.

3

💬 Student tutoring

Students ask questions inside your LMS or a standalone portal. Lyceum walks them through with Socratic-style guidance — never just dumping the answer.

4

📊 Faculty insight

Instructors see class weak points, individual progress, and high-frequency questions — with auto-generated prompts for next week's lecture and individualized practice sets.

Works with: 🎨 Canvas LMS Blackboard Learn 🟧 Moodle 🟦 Brightspace 🟨 Google Classroom 🟩 Schoology ⚙️ Custom REST API
🤖 Anatomy of the Agent

Plans. Tools. Memory.
Action.

Lyceum isn't a chat box wrapped around an LLM. It's a full agentic system that plans multi-step study paths, calls verified tools, retrieves from your textbooks, and stays with each student across semesters — exactly the way a great human tutor would.

🧭
01 · PLANS

Multi-step planning

Given "I'm stuck on series convergence," the Agent doesn't just answer. It diagnoses prerequisite gaps, builds a 4-step path through the right concepts, and schedules a follow-up.

⌖ diagnose 📐 plan path 🎯 execute 🔁 schedule retry
🛠️
02 · TOOLS

Real tool use

The Agent calls Python (sympy / numpy) to verify derivations, retrieves from your uploaded textbooks via vector search, runs Wolfram for symbolic math, and queries the curriculum graph — every call is logged and auditable.

🐍 Python sandbox 📚 Textbook RAG 🧮 Wolfram 🌐 Web search 📊 Knowledge graph
🧠
03 · MEMORY

Cross-semester memory

The Agent remembers Maya struggled with LIATE in week 7, that she prefers visual derivations, that she always reviews on Sunday nights — and weaves all of it into how it teaches her in week 14.

📝 episodic 📋 semantic 🎨 preference ⏱ scheduling
04 · ACTION

Autonomous workflows

Overnight, the Agent runs jobs without prompting — generates next week's practice set, drafts a class digest for Dr. Hartman, and pages the dean of students about a struggling cohort it identified at 02:14 AM.

📄 Practice generation 📨 Faculty digest Advisor alerts
🔁
Multi-turn agentic loops, not single-shot prompts. A typical hard tutoring session at Lyceum is a 14-step trace: plan → retrieve → reason → tool-call → verify → respond → wait → diagnose → re-plan → ... The student sees a teacher. Internally, an Agent is running.
🧬 The frontier stack

Six frontier models,
one routing brain.

The Agent picks the right brain for each request — deep reasoning for proofs, fast clarifications for follow-ups, long-context for full-textbook ingestion. Multi-vendor by design — never a single point of failure for your students.

Tokens · last 30 days
12.4B
+18% MoM
Frontier models routed
6
across 4 providers
Median first-token
380ms
P95 · 1.2 s
Inference uptime
99.97%
90-day rolling
🧬 Active routing ⚙️ Failover topology 📊 Cost per task
All providers healthy 6 models
Aa Model ⚙️ Provider Routed for Share P50
🧠Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic
Multi-step proofsLong humanitiesAmbiguous tutoring
28% 2.1 s
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
Everyday tutoringSocratic dialogueConcept explanation
34% 820 ms
🌬️Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
Fast clarificationsFollow-upsSmall steps
14% 320 ms
💻GPT-5
OpenAI
Code generationCS walkthroughsDebugging
11% 1.4 s
📚Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google
Long-context (whole textbooks)Exam pattern analysis
9% 1.8 s
🦙Llama 3.3 70B
Self-hosted · Meta
High-volume FAQCost-optimizedAir-gap deployments
4% 240 ms
🛡️
Multi-vendor by default — never a single point of failure. When one provider has an outage, the router auto-fails over to a backup. In Q1 2026 we maintained 99.97% inference uptime through three documented provider incidents.
📚 Subject coverage

Ten general-education
subjects, AP through
sophomore year.

We build the knowledge graph alongside each partner's department chairs — concept definitions, canonical problem types, common misconceptions. Every sub-topic is mapped to academic level, recommended textbook, and a corresponding practice set.

📋 Catalog 📅 By term 📊 Coverage map
🔍 Search 10 subjects + New
Aa Subject Core modules Modules Levels
📐Mathematics
Core
Calculus I–III Linear Algebra Probability & Stats Discrete Math Diff. Equations
Advanced
Real Analysis I Number Theory
AP / Test
AP Calc AB / BC AP Statistics
52 modules
9–14
⚛️Physics
Core
Classical Mechanics Electromagnetism Thermodynamics Optics & Waves
Advanced
Intro Quantum Special Relativity
AP / Test
AP Physics 1 AP Physics C
44 modules
9–14
🧪Chemistry
Core
General Chemistry Organic Chemistry Analytical Physical Chemistry
AP / Test
AP Chemistry MCAT prep
38 modules
9–14
🌱Biology
Core
Molecular Biology Genetics Cell Biology Ecology Biochemistry
AP / Test
AP Biology
36 modules
9–13
💻Computer Science
Core
Data Structures Algorithms Operating Systems Networks Databases
Advanced
Intro to ML Compilers
AP / Test
AP CS A AP CS Principles
48 modules
9–16
📈Economics
Core
Microeconomics Macroeconomics Econometrics Intro Finance
Advanced
Game Theory Behavioral Econ
AP / Test
AP Micro AP Macro
32 modules
11–16
📖English & Literature
Core
Composition & Rhetoric American Literature British Literature Essay Writing Coach
Advanced
Research Writing Creative Writing
AP / Test
AP Lang AP Lit
30 modules
9–14
🏛️History & Social Studies
Core
U.S. History European History World History
Advanced
Government & Civics Historiography
AP / Test
APUSH AP World History AP European
28 modules
9–14
🤔Philosophy & Logic
Core
Symbolic Logic Ethics Epistemology
Skills
Argumentative Writing Critical Thinking
22 modules
11–16
🌍World Languages
Languages
Spanish I–IV French I–IV Mandarin Chinese Latin
AP / Test
AP Spanish AP French AP Chinese
ESL
Academic English TOEFL / IELTS prep
40 modules
9–14
+ New subject Need a custom upper-division subject? Talk to our curriculum team →
🧠 The personalization engine

It remembers exactly
where every student is stuck.

Lyceum maintains a living learning profile for every student — built from their question history, error patterns, mastery of prerequisite concepts, and preferred way of learning. Next session, it picks up exactly where they left off.

🧭

Knowledge-graph diagnosis

Every question maps to nodes in the subject graph, surfacing prerequisite gaps and patching them before they snowball into the next topic.

✏️

Adaptive teaching style

Concrete analogy, formal proof, hands-on derivation, visual diagram — Lyceum learns which one makes this student nod, and leans into it next time.

🎯

Difficulty calibration

Solving too easily? Step up. Stuck twice? Step back to a more foundational practice problem. No student gets stuck against the same wall until they give up.

🔁

Spaced-repetition recall

Backed by a forgetting-curve model tuned to each student's recall data, Lyceum surfaces a quick review problem right before they're about to lose a concept.

Students/👤 Maya Robinson
···
👤

Maya Robinson

Aa Course
MATH·201 Calculus II
Cohort
Spring 2026 · Sophomore
Last session
02:14 AM · 14 min ago
🟢 Status
Active · week 14
📊 Concept mastery
Limits & continuity94%
Integration by parts61%
Series convergence38%
Multivariable diff.82%
🎨 Detected preferences
Visual derivations first Worked example, then theory Short formula blocks Casual tone
💡
Suggested next step: Review § 7.3 (LIATE rule) → 5 reps of recursive parts problems · ~ 12 min
🧭 Pedagogy

Why we don't
just hand over the answer.

Lyceum's pedagogy was designed alongside classroom instructors: an AI that behaves like a restrained, question-asking teaching assistant — one that leaves the moment of "oh, I get it" for the student to find on their own.

💬 We were most worried that AI would turn students into more efficient "answer-fetchers." Lyceum doesn't lead with the solution — it leads with: what do you see? That's the teaching moment we wanted to preserve.
EHDr. Eleanor Hartman · Associate Chair, Department of Mathematics · East Coast R1
🤔Socratic by default

When a student is stuck, Lyceum's first response is a clarifying question — not the next step. A typical problem walk-through cycles through 3–5 rounds of AI prompt ↔ student response before the student reconstructs the path themselves.

Socratic dialogueScaffolded prompts
📐Show the work, not the verdict

All STEM solutions are presented stepwise: each step has a motivation, an expression, and a sentence on why it works. Students can collapse any step and try to re-derive it before checking against ours.

Step-by-stepCollapsible reasoning
🛡️Academic integrity, built in

When Lyceum detects a homework- or exam-pattern question, it slows down, leans on guidance, and writes the entire session into the student's learning record. Faculty can pull up the full transcript when grading.

Assessment ModeFull audit log
📚Anchored to your textbook

Every concept explanation cites the page in your uploaded materials — not Wikipedia, not a different version of the textbook. The instructor stays the source of truth; Lyceum is a patient tutor pointing students back to the right page.

Textbook-anchoredTraceable sources
🤷The courage to say "I don't know"

If a question falls outside the course materials, or Lyceum's confidence drops below threshold, it explicitly says so and routes the student to a human TA — instead of confidently making something up.

Confidence thresholdHuman escalation
📊 Faculty insight

See where your
class actually struggles.

Every Monday morning, instructors get a digest: the three concepts the class is most stuck on, the students who need a personal check-in, and the topics worth revisiting in lecture — generated from real session data, with the instructor making the final call.

Mathematics/📊 MATH·201 — Faculty Insights
Share···
📊

Class weak points · Week 7

📚MATH·201 Calculus II
🟢Synced 2 min ago
📅Spring 2026
🤖
Curated from 1,842 sessions across 312 active students this week. Awaiting instructor review before sending to teaching team.
Active students
312/318
+ 4.1% vs last wk
Sessions this week
1,842
+ 22%
Avg. mastery
76%
− 3.4%
Escalated to TA
14
+ 6
📈 Daily activity · 14 days
Questions Practice Review
W6·MonWedFriSunW7·TueThuSat
🎯 Highest miss rates
Integration by parts (LIATE)78%
Power-series radius64%
Switching integration order52%
Polar double integrals41%
Maclaurin expansions33%
Improper integrals28%
Screenshot is illustrative · actual data is controlled by each department Read the faculty whitepaper →
🏛️ Enterprise-grade · by every measure

Built for the way
institutions actually buy.

LMS, identity, procurement, legal, IT security — Lyceum is the only AI tutor you can stand up at an R1 university without rewriting your vendor management workflow. Single-tenant deployment available. Student data can stay on your network.

📜 HECVAT Lite + Full ⚖️ BAA available 📋 DPA + MSA + EULA on file 💵 Net 60 invoicing 🔐 Single-tenant deployment 🏛️ InCommon Federation 🛡️ 99.95% SLA 👤 Named CSM + security eng.
🔌 Out-of-the-box identity & roster

Built on the LTI 1.3 standard. Once configured, Lyceum auto-syncs courses, sections, instructors, students, and grade-passback. Roster updates at term boundaries are zero-touch.

🎨 Canvas LMS Blackboard 🟧 Moodle 🟦 Brightspace
🟨 Google Classroom 🟩 Schoology
🔐 SAML 2.0 / OIDC 🔄 SCIM 2.0 ⚙️ Open REST API
Read integration docs →
🛡️ Student data is non-negotiable

Public cloud, hybrid, and on-premise deployments. Audit logs, content moderation, and data export aligned with U.S. K-12 and higher-ed compliance frameworks.

SOC 2
SOC 2 Type II
Audited · 2025-Q3
ISO
ISO 27001 / 27701
Through 2027
FERPA
FERPA + COPPA
U.S. K-12 + higher ed
GDPR
GDPR · CCPA
Overseas campuses
  • Student conversations are never used for cross-tenant training
  • Faculty can export or delete any student's record on demand
  • Three-tier moderation: harmful content, self-harm, integrity
  • Private-cloud or on-premise keeps data on your network
📈 Measured outcomes

After a semester, partner
institutions tend to see this.

Aggregate results from 12 partner institutions across the 2024–2025 academic year. Each metric compares students with Lyceum access to a matched control cohort.

+38%

Self-directed study time

Students with Lyceum logged meaningfully more effective study time outside scheduled class — most of it in the gaps between classes.

Pacific Northwest R1 · Calc I · n = 412
−27%

Course failure rate

In historically weed-out courses (intro calculus, organic chemistry, circuit analysis), failure rates dropped 27% — biggest gains in the bottom quartile.

Big Ten flagship · 5 gateway courses · n = 2,108
−42%

Repetitive TA load

Graduate TAs reported a 42% drop in repeated low-complexity questions — freeing them up for deeper one-on-one work and grading.

Cross-institution TA workload survey · n = 86
📑 Case study

A top-15 R1 university
on the East Coast,
after one semester.

In Spring 2025, the math department rolled Lyceum out to four sections of Calculus II — about 600 undergraduates — as a complement to traditional office hours, the evening study center, and TA shifts. Excerpts from the end-of-semester review below.

Case studies/📑 East Coast R1 · Math · Spring '25
Share···
📑

"We weren't trying to replace the professor — we were trying to cover 2 AM."

The biggest concern going in was simple: would students stop showing up to office hours once they had an AI? The end-of-semester data was the opposite. Office-hour attendance went up — and the questions students brought in were noticeably deeper and more research-oriented.

"The AI took the routine questions. What was left in office hours was exactly the kind of conversation we got into this profession for." — the project lead, in the department's term-end review.

🏛 Institution
East Coast R1 · Top-15
📚 Department
Mathematics
👥 Students
~600 across 4 sections
⚙️ Stack
Canvas + university SSO
+34%
Median midterm lift
p < 0.01
2.1×
Substantive office-hour
questions (31% → 65%)
87%
Would recommend to peers
n = 587 anonymous
19 days
From contract to
first live session
💬 Voices from the building

Provost, faculty, TA, student —
each one wants something different.

This is the feedback we care about most: not a polished talking point, but each role describing — in their own words — the specific thing Lyceum is solving for them.

Academic ITCIO

"My biggest worry going in was data privacy. Their FERPA documentation was more thorough than the policy our own office wrote. Private-cloud was running in under a week."

JW
James Whitaker
Director of Academic Technology · R1 University
Lead instructor

"I've taught Calculus for eleven years. This is the first time I felt like I knew more about how my class was thinking before I walked into lecture than after. The Monday digest writes my opening five minutes."

EH
Dr. Eleanor Hartman
Associate Chair · Mathematics
Graduate TA

"Used to be I was answering messages until midnight in finals week. Now Lyceum picks up the routine ones and I get to spend that hour with the students who are stuck on something interesting."

ML
Marcus Liu
PhD candidate · Mathematics · Teaching Fellow
UndergraduateSophomore

"What surprised me most is that it doesn't just dump the answer. One time it asked me, 'why can't you just substitute here?' and I sat with that for a full minute. That was the first time something other than a person had actually taught me."

MR
Maya Robinson
Mathematics, '27 · East Coast R1
Head of school

"About 60% of our students don't have anyone at home who can help with calculus or AP Bio. With Lyceum, they have someone still up at 9 PM willing to help them through it. That's a bigger deal here than any test-score chart."

PA
Dr. Patricia Alvarez
Principal · Title I High School · Northeast
Student affairs

"What we value most isn't test-score lift — it's that Lyceum can flag a struggling student at 2 AM, so our advisors can reach out by 9 the next morning, before things spiral."

AB
Aisha Bennett
Associate Dean of Students · Midwest R2
💵 Pricing

Per-institution pricing.
One contract. No per-seat math.

Lyceum is sold as a flat institutional license. Every plan includes unlimited students within scope, the full subject library, all six frontier models, faculty insights, and our security packet. Pricing scales with deployment depth — not headcount.

🏫 School

A single high school, prep school, or university department
$36K/ year · flat
  • Unlimited student seats within scope
  • All ten general-ed subjects
  • All 6 frontier models in routing
  • Canvas / Moodle / Google Classroom
  • Faculty dashboard + weekly digest
  • SSO / SAML
  • Business-hours support (5×8)
⏱ Deployment · ~ 2 weeks · 12-month term
Request a quote
★ Most chosen

🎓 University

A complete university — all colleges, all terms
$120K/ year · flat
  • Unlimited seats across all colleges & programs
  • Custom subject library · ingest dept. textbooks
  • Provost analytics + faculty digests + advisor alerts
  • Custom LMS / SIS API integration
  • Academic-integrity audit · full session logging
  • 24/7 priority support · monthly pedagogy review
  • Quarterly outcomes report (with control group)
⏱ Deployment · ~ 3 weeks · 12-month term
Design a plan with us →

🏛️ System

University system, multi-campus, or district-wide
Customtailored to your footprint
  • Multi-campus, multi-institution admin
  • Private deployment in your VPC or on-prem
  • Dedicated subject team · co-built specialty models
  • Connect to research, archives, alumni knowledge
  • Full security packet: SOC 2, ISO, HECVAT, BAA
  • Named Customer Success + 99.95% SLA
  • Joint research publications · provost partnership
⏱ Deployment · 4 – 8 weeks · multi-year term
Talk to solutions team
All prices ex-tax · 12-month minimum term · 18% off on 3-year commitments. Through our Public Schools Initiative, qualifying Title I high schools can apply for up to 50% subsidy on the School plan.
Common questions

If you're aiming
at next semester —

These are the eight questions provosts, IT directors, deans, and student-affairs offices ask us most often. Have something else? Talk to a solutions architect →

🛡️Won't students just use Lyceum to do their homework for them?
This is the part of the product we and our partner institutions spent the most time on. Lyceum has Assessment Mode on by default: when it detects homework- or exam-pattern questions, it slows down, leans into Socratic prompting, and writes the full session into the student's learning record. Faculty can pull up any student's complete transcript with one click during grading. Think of it as a fully transparent TA, not a ghostwriter.
📚Whose content does it answer from? Will it contradict our textbook?
Every concept explanation is anchored to your uploaded course materials — syllabus, slides, problem sets, assigned readings. When Lyceum gives a definition, it cites the section or page in your textbook so students can flip back. When a question goes outside the course materials, Lyceum says so and routes the student to a human TA rather than guessing.
🔒Will student data be used to train your models?
No. Student conversations are never used in cross-tenant model training, and that's written into our DPA. Faculty can export or delete any student's full record on demand. For institutions that choose private deployment, all data can stay inside your VPC. We're audited under SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, with FERPA + COPPA controls baked in.
⚙️How long does it take to integrate with our LMS and identity provider?
Typical rollout is 2 – 3 weeks. Week 1 covers SSO/SAML configuration and SIS schema mapping. Week 2 ingests your syllabi, lecture decks, and problem sets. Week 3 is faculty onboarding and a small-cohort pilot. A named Customer Success Manager runs the whole thing. Your IT team typically only attends two 30-minute sessions.
📖How well does it handle non-STEM subjects (history, lit, philosophy)?
We co-developed a "viewpoint-aware" framework with humanities faculty: when a question has multiple legitimate interpretations, Lyceum doesn't pick one. It surfaces the major schools of thought and helps the student build their own argument. Every humanities answer cites primary sources and recommended readings.
🌐What about reliability across our regional campuses and overseas centers?
Lyceum is multi-region by default — U.S., EU, APAC. Hybrid deployment lets us keep sensitive data in-region while elastically scaling inference. The Institution tier carries a 99.95% uptime SLA with named incident-response windows. We've operated continuously through Black Friday, finals week, and AP test day.
🖥️Is on-premise deployment realistic if we don't have a GPU cluster?
You don't need a GPU cluster. We support a range of footprints — from a single 8-GPU appliance up to multi-node clusters in your campus cloud. The most common pattern is logical isolation, shared inference: your data stays cleanly partitioned and encrypted, while the compute is hosted on our side. Cost ends up close to public cloud.
🚪What if our pilot doesn't work — can we exit?
Department and Faculty plans include a first-semester pilot clause: if satisfaction comes in below 70%, we refund the unused portion. Institution contracts include a 90-day onboarding window during which either side may terminate at no cost. We'd much rather you make the right decision slowly than the wrong one quickly.
🎓

Give every student
a teacher at 2 AM.

A 30-minute demo is enough to tell whether Lyceum fits your campus. We'll walk through three of the most common student help-requests at your institution — and show you exactly how Lyceum handles them.

Avg. response time < 4 hours · serving institutions across U.S., Canada, and Europe · 50+ partner campuses