How an ex-Silicon Valley entrepreneur and his aunty stopped students from handing in AI work
Hi 👋,
I’m Andrew, an entrepreneur who has had the privilege of building many companies, with the most successful being worth hundreds of millions of dollars. My journey has always been driven by a passion for innovation and making a real impact through technology. But today, I want to share Inktrail's story with you — and something that has become a mission close to my heart.
You see, my aunt is a professor.
Me and my aunt
She’s spent years dedicating herself to her students, striving to instil in them a love for learning as she helped instil in me.
Over the years she's won many teaching excellence awards. But recently, she kept reaching out to me with a problem that was breaking her spirit. “Andrew,” she would say, “I need your help. So many of my students are using AI to do their work, and I can’t do anything about it.”
At first, I didn’t take it too seriously. I’m a new parent, so I’m busy — too busy, I thought, to dive into a problem that I didn't really think was a big deal.
But she didn’t give up. Her persistence, her frustration, and, most of all, her unwavering dedication to her students made me take notice and dig a little deeper. And what I found was heart-breaking, this wasn’t just a problem in her classroom. There is an ongoing crisis caused by AI affecting teachers and students everywhere.
If you're reading this, you probably are feeling the same frustration she felt – you want your students to succeed, but they're actively undermining their learning with AI because it's just too damn easy.
You might have tried different detectors like TurnItIn, GPTZero, or just using revision history. And, like her, found that these tools don't cut it. Or maybe you're being told to rework every one of your tried and true assessments to "embrace" AI and finding it unrealistic.
I heard these same frustrations countless times from educators across the globe – and I felt compelled to help. I needed to support educators, just as they had always supported me.
So, I put my experiece and resources to work. I worked in collaboration with educators, psychologists, and fraud experts to create a new tool we call Inktrail.
Inktrail gives overwhelmed educators back time and energy by managing their students unchecked AI usage. It starts with small, automatic, well-timed interventions that get the majority of students doing the right thing.
An automatic intervention that guides
most students back on the right track.
And while these interventions work for most students, in each class there is always a few who persist and don't do the work. My aunt and her colleagues told me how it's super stressful holding these students to account with the flimsy evidence other tools provided.
I wanted to fix that too.
So I asked my Aunt, what proof would give you the confidence to easily handle these troublesome students?
The solution is the timeline and paste review – a way for educators to clearly see on how a student develops and refines their work (or how persistent cheaters don't). Not only did this solution provide the much needed evidence my aunt was seeking – it's also surprisingly an entirely new pedagogical tool she's using to improve how her students write.
You can probably spot when the student gives up!
That was really cool! But what surprised us even more than this, is once my aunt and her colleagues got AI under control, students started commenting on how they liked it too.
They felt it improved overall fairness, avoided awful cases of false allegation, and restored their trust that the classroom was a level playing field.
We now had something that worked! But my Aunt asked us to go a step further – Could we make it so that students preferred to write in Inktrail to Google Docs or Word?
Challenge accepted. We made sure that everything a student needs to do their best work is right there. The assessment expectations, instructions, and any resources they need. We also added an in-built citation system, so learning to attribute properly is easy (whether human or AI).
Everything a student needs in one place, including an in-built citation system.
Everything a student needs in one place
including an easy citation system.
And now, it's finally ready! Inktrail is designed for educators like you — those who care deeply about their students’ learning and integrity.
And it's not about catching cheaters; it’s about ensuring that your students truly learn and grow. My aunt's philosophy of proactively changing student behaviour instead of “catching” them is woven throughout the product.
You'll find Inktrail easy and effective. It can be setup in under three minutes. I wanted to make sure that it’s something you can start using right away without any hassle, so you can get back to what you do best — teaching.
I’m so confident it will have a huge positive impact in your classroom, as it has in my aunt’s and many others, that I’m offering Inktrail with a 90 day never-go-back guarantee.
I hope you’ll give it a try. Together, we can make sure the next generation doesn’t miss out on the education they deserve.
Thank you for all that you do.
Warm regards,
Andrew Mackross
Founder of Inktrail
P.S. This might seem crazy! But, I've decided for a limited time to offer the most amazing deal to the educators who get stuff done.
If you're the first person at your school to use Inktrail with your students, I'll give you Inktrail free for a whole year.
Not a cent – this isn't a scam, there is no upsells or pay walls. It's simply my thank-you to you for being an educator who truly cares about your students and does something about it.
Hi 👋,
I’m Andrew, an entrepreneur who has had the privilege of building many companies, with the most successful being worth hundreds of millions of dollars. My journey has always been driven by a passion for innovation and making a real impact through technology. But today, I want to share Inktrail's story with you — and something that has become a mission close to my heart.
You see, my aunt is a professor.
Me and my aunt
She’s spent years dedicating herself to her students, striving to instil in them a love for learning as she helped instil in me.
Over the years she's won many teaching excellence awards. But recently, she kept reaching out to me with a problem that was breaking her spirit. “Andrew,” she would say, “I need your help. So many of my students are using AI to do their work, and I can’t do anything about it.”
At first, I didn’t take it too seriously. I’m a new parent, so I’m busy — too busy, I thought, to dive into a problem that I didn't really think was a big deal.
But she didn’t give up. Her persistence, her frustration, and, most of all, her unwavering dedication to her students made me take notice and dig a little deeper. And what I found was heart-breaking, this wasn’t just a problem in her classroom. There is an ongoing crisis caused by AI affecting teachers and students everywhere.
If you're reading this, you probably are feeling the same frustration she felt – you want your students to succeed, but they're actively undermining their learning with AI because it's just too damn easy.
You might have tried different detectors like TurnItIn, GPTZero, or just using revision history. And, like her, found that these tools don't cut it. Or maybe you're being told to rework every one of your tried and true assessments to "embrace" AI and finding it unrealistic.
I heard these same frustrations countless times from educators across the globe – and I felt compelled to help. I needed to support educators, just as they had always supported me.
So, I put my experiece and resources to work. I worked in collaboration with educators, psychologists, and fraud experts to create a new tool we call Inktrail.
Inktrail gives overwhelmed educators back time and energy by managing their students unchecked AI usage. It starts with small, automatic, well-timed interventions that get the majority of students doing the right thing.
An automatic intervention that guides most students back on the right track.
And while these interventions work for most students, in each class there is always a few who persist and don't do the work. My aunt and her colleagues told me how it's super stressful holding these students to account with the flimsy evidence other tools provided.
I wanted to fix that too.
So I asked my Aunt, what proof would give you the confidence to easily handle these troublesome students?
The solution is the timeline and paste review – a way for educators to clearly see on how a student develops and refines their work (or how persistent cheaters don't). Not only did this solution provide the much needed evidence my aunt was seeking – it's also surprisingly an entirely new pedagogical tool she's using to improve how her students write.
You can probably spot when the student gives up!
That was really cool! But what surprised us even more than this, is once my aunt and her colleagues got AI under control, students started commenting on how they liked it too.
They felt it improved overall fairness, avoided awful cases of false allegation, and restored their trust that the classroom was a level playing field.
We now had something that worked! But my Aunt asked us to go a step further – Could we make it so that students preferred to write in Inktrail to Google Docs or Word?
Challenge accepted. We made sure that everything a student needs to do their best work is right there. The assessment expectations, instructions, and any resources they need. We also added an in-built citation system, so learning to attribute properly is easy (whether human or AI).
Everything a student needs in one place, including an in-built citation system.
And now, it's finally ready! Inktrail is designed for educators like you — those who care deeply about their students’ learning and integrity.
And it's not about catching cheaters; it’s about ensuring that your students truly learn and grow. My aunt's philosophy of proactively changing student behaviour instead of “catching” them is woven throughout the product.
You'll find Inktrail easy and effective. It can be setup in under three minutes. I wanted to make sure that it’s something you can start using right away without any hassle, so you can get back to what you do best — teaching.
I’m so confident it will have a huge positive impact in your classroom, as it has in my aunt’s and many others, that I’m offering Inktrail with a 90 day never-go-back guarantee.
I hope you’ll give it a try. Together, we can make sure the next generation doesn’t miss out on the education they deserve.
Thank you for all that you do.
Warm regards,
Andrew Mackross
Founder of Inktrail
P.S. This might seem crazy! But, I've decided for a limited time to offer the most amazing deal to the educators who get stuff done.
If you're the first person at your school to use Inktrail with your students, I'll give you Inktrail free for a whole year.
Not a cent – this isn't a scam, there is no upsells or pay walls. It's simply my thank-you to you for being an educator who truly cares about your students and does something about it.
Loved by Educators
Olivia Harris
The quality of student work has noticeably improved, and my workload hasn’t increased at all.
Inktrail forced my students to engage and write their own assignments.
Emma Wright
It's taken away a lot of stress, and lets me focus on helping my students instead of trying to figure out if they actually did their work.
It's the first tool I've seen that tackles AI cheating head-on.
James Kelly
I was skeptical at first, but the amount of AI-generated work I was seeing was alarming.
Inktrail has made a huge difference. It’s easy to use and effectively keeps students accountable.