Secure, AI-Powered Learning within Institutional Guardrails

Transform your course content into personalized adaptive learning for students that protects IP, upholds academic integrity, and keeps faculty in control.

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Institution-First Security

All content stays within your institutional ecosystem. No data leakage, no IP theft, complete control over what AI can access and how it responds.

Verified, Citation-Backed Answers

CLUES by LearningClues only pulls from course-approved content with full citations. No hallucinations, no made-up facts—just verified knowledge students and faculty can trust.

Faculty Stay in Control

Instructors decide what content is included. Seamless LMS integration with dashboards showing engagement patterns and knowledge gaps. Confidential feedback on the effectiveness of your teaching.

Meet CLUES from LearningClues

The secure, AI-powered alternative to generic AI tools that undermine academic integrity.

With CLUES, students get on-demand support built directly from their own course materials — lectures, discussions, and LMS documents — never outside sources. Beyond answering questions, CLUES adapts to each student’s learning path, verifies understanding with citations, and gives faculty confidence that engagement is authentic, not AI-generated.

AI-Powered Learning Tools for Students and Faculty

Designed to solve real educational challenges:

LearningClues addresses college and adult learners' time, focus, and access challenges. LearningClues also addresses instructors' challenges with student engagement and misuse of AI and lack of feedback on teaching effectiveness.

A Complete Learning Solution

Comprehensive support for students, faculty, and institutions

AI-Resilient Assessments

LearningClues coaches students through Socratic dialogue and verifies mastery against course objectives, ensuring genuine evidence of learning.

Cross-Course Support

Students receive adaptive guidance built from their current and prior coursework. The system tracks proficiency, helping students progress with confidence.

Faculty & Program Insights

Dashboards deliver actionable feedback on student engagement, knowledge gaps, and teaching effectiveness.

Meet the Team

Founded by professors and EdTech innovators from the University of Michigan with over 30 years of combined EdTech experience.

LearningClues is proud to be supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Michigan Innovation Capital Fund. This backing reflects our commitment to developing research-based educational technology that truly advances teaching and learning.

Perry Samson
Co-founder

Awarded an “Arthur Thurnau Professorship” for contributions to undergraduate education at UM and recipient of UM “Distinguished University Innovator” award. Previously co-founded The Weather Underground and LectureTools.

Kevyn Collins-Thompson
Co-founder

Internationally known for contributions to machine learning and large language modeling. For ten years prior to UM, he led large-scale software development projects at Microsoft.

Achintya K Kattemalavad
Lead Software Engineer

Former Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com, Achintya oversees system design and security, organizes the product roadmap, and plans the execution of project tasks.

Thomas Horak
Lead Generative AI Engineer

Join Our Pilot Program

Be one of just 20 forward-thinking institutions shaping the future of AI-powered learning. Pilot CLUES with your LMS and give your faculty a secure assistant that enhances student engagement — while protecting academic integrity and your IP.

Signing new pilots for 2026. Ready to lead the change?