AI platform for UK schools

Your teachers arrive prepared.Every morning.

Schools worldwide are already adopting AI platforms for planning, governance, and CPD. LESSO is the first purpose-built for UK schools — UK infrastructure, UK curriculum, UK compliance.

Takes 2 minutes · No commitment
UK head teacher walking through her school
MONDAY · 06:47
47 lessons drafted
By 16 teachers · Ready to approve
LIVE · 07:47
CPD course ready
16 teachers enrolled · 76% complete
THIS WEEK
138.4h saved for teachers
Across 16 staff · Every week
PILOT · WEEK 3
87% active adoption
24 active · 4 onboarding · Snapshot ready

Workload is the line item your governors won't ignore.

9% of teachers left the state sector last year. A third leave within five years. Replacing one of them is estimated to cost £10,000–£30,000 — and the driver, every survey since 2019, is the same.

9%
UK teachers who left the state sector in 2023/24
DfE Workforce Census, 2025
£10–30k
estimated cost to replace one teacher
IFS / sector composite, 2025
Q3 2026
DfE deadline: every school must have a ratified AI policy
DfE generative AI guidance, 2025

“You can't micromanage planning quality without micromanaging your teachers. The gap between your most and least experienced classroom practitioner — visible in every lesson observation — is a structural problem. LESSO closes it. Overnight. At scale.”

Three problems you own. One platform that addresses all three.

LESSO isn't an AI tool. It's three institutional outcomes wrapped in one platform.

Retention & Wellbeing

Teachers stay when planning is no longer a take-home burden. For schools and MATs, that means fewer agency costs, fewer leadership gaps, and a workforce that grows.

33% of teachers leave within five years. Workload is the #1 driver. (DfE, 2025)

Planning Consistency

Every teacher, every subject, every year group — to one curriculum-aligned standard. Not because you micromanage, but because the platform does it for you.

Ofsted now considers how AI is used when judging quality and safeguarding. (Ofsted AI report, June 2025)

AI Strategy — Ratified

UK-hosted on Civo LON1. DPIA-ready before your pilot starts. Governors can sign off a policy that reflects how your school actually uses AI.

All schools must ratify an AI policy by Q3 2026. 76% of teachers have had no AI training. (DfE / Twinkl, 2025)

What LESSO does that no other UK platform does

Built for Head Teachers, Deputy Heads, and MAT Directors — not for demos.

01Your AI Co-Teacher

Meet Mrs J. Your school AI co-teacher.

Unlike general AI tools, she connects natively to your Microsoft 365 and learns your school's curriculum framework, colours scheme, fonts, and each teacher's individual voice. She has ove 100 tools built in for admin, planning, resources, support and leadership. The longer your school uses LESSO, the sharper she gets.

Microsoft 365 native · Always ready · Per-teacher memory

Over 100 tools · UK curriculum-aligned · School-branded

Mrs J AI Co-Teacher — LESSO platform showing Mrs J chat interface with full school sidebar navigation
Mrs J
02Planning at Scale

Your teachers arrive prepared.

Every teacher in your school opens LESSO on Monday with their week already planned, to the same standard. Mrs J works overnight — your staff walk in ready to teach.

47 lessons prepared this week

Across 28 staff · Curriculum-aligned · Ready to approve

LESSO My Lessons dashboard showing a full week of lessons prepared and ready for teacher review
03Curriculum Output

From topic to taught. In under 10 minutes.

Complete lesson bundles — plans, slides, activities, and differentiated resources — built to your school's brand and curriculum framework. Every teacher. Every subject.

Forces and Motion: Friction — 14 slides, ready to teach

National Curriculum aligned · School-branded · Differentiated

LESSO-generated lesson presentation: Forces and Motion: Friction — ready to present
04School Leadership

One dashboard. Every teacher.

See adoption, output quality, time returned, and governor-ready reporting in one place. No chasing staff. No guessing. A live picture of how your school is running on AI — and what it's giving back.

Pilot Dashboard live — yourschool.org.uk

Hours returned · Active teachers · Documents created · AI policy status

LESSO SLT Pilot Dashboard showing hours returned, active teachers, and adoption metrics
05Compliance

100% UK data. Full stop.

Your data never leaves the UK. LESSO is UK-GDPR compliant, built for UK schools, and generates a DfE-aligned AI policy in seconds. The only platform your governors can actually approve.

AI policy drafted — ready to send to governors

UK-GDPR compliant · No US servers · DfE-aligned · School-specific

LESSO AI policy generator for UK schools — school-specific policy drafted in seconds

How LESSO rolls out across your school

From a co-design kickoff to a ratified AI strategy in eight weeks — with a governor-ready impact report at the end of your pilot.

STAGE 01
Co-designing with pilot cohortAI strategy, co-designed with our team

Configure LESSO for your school

We sit alongside your senior leaders in a kickoff workshop and set your school's brand, curriculum standards, and institutional context together. Every output Mrs J produces — across every teacher, every subject, every year group — then arrives on-brand, curriculum-aligned, and ready for review and approve.

Live today: BrandKit (logo, colours, fonts) with live preview, curriculum framework, Mrs J house tone, and tenant provisioning on Civo LON1. The SLT-facing self-serve setup console is being co-designed with our pilot cohort.

Brand identity · logo & palette
Custom fonts · headings & body
Curriculum · KS1–KS5, CfE, ALN
Mrs J tone & length · house voice
Lesson templates · school standard
Microsoft 365 SSOWith us
Inclusion & SEND frameworksWith us
AI safety policy · school-bespokeWith us
Auto-prep horizon · co-designedWith us
100% UK data sovereignty · Civo LON1
DPIA-ready before pilot starts
STAGE 02
Live nowSelf-onboard · No INSET day required

Deploy to your teaching staff

Roll out accounts to your teachers. Each teacher is guided through their own setup — uploading past examples, templates and frameworks, and tuning Mrs J's tone, length, and learning preferences so she writes the way they teach.

Live now: per-teacher onboarding, My Materials uploads, and Mrs J Preferences. Bulk-invite tooling and pilot-cohort tracking land alongside.

Mrs Thompsonactive
Mr Patelcomplete
Ms O'Connorcomplete
Dr Williamsactive
Mr Okaforonboarding
Mrs Hendersoncomplete
Mr Singhonboarding
Ms Fitzgeraldinvite sent
Mr Ahmedinvite sent
~15 mins per teacher
Persistent memory · Mrs J learns each voice
STAGE 03
Live nowWorkload — the #1 driver of attrition — removed from evenings

Teachers plan a week, a half-term, or the whole year

Teachers plan their week in the calendar — connected to Microsoft 365 today. The multi-lesson prep wizard handles whole sequences in one pass. LESSO's planning engine then prepares each upcoming day overnight, so teachers wake to lessons, slides and resources ready for review and approve.

Live now: Planner with Microsoft 365 calendar, multi-lesson prep wizard, and overnight lesson preparation. Google Calendar joins for the pilot cohort, alongside a long-range term-and-year view.

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
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Sun
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AutoPrep ready by 6am · weekdays
Ready by 6am · 0 mins teacher prep
Microsoft 365 calendar · Google joins for pilot cohort
STAGE 04
Co-designing with pilot cohortInspection-ready · Designed with our pilot heads

SLT oversee the whole school from one dashboard

Head teachers and MAT leaders will get a single source of truth: who's planning, what's being produced, where engagement is strong or weak — plus a direct comms channel to every teacher. We're shaping this dashboard with our pilot heads so it answers the questions inspections actually ask.

Foundation live: per-teacher activity, document and request counts, AutoPrep success rates, and direct voice comms already power our internal ops view. The SLT-facing dashboard is being co-designed with the pilot cohort and ships to them in-pilot.

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Teachers active this week
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Lessons prepared overnight
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Hours saved across the school
Illustrative figures · live data per school
Co-designed with pilot heads
Voice comms · Direct to every teacher
STAGE 05
Co-designing with pilot cohortYour AI strategy, in one platform

Grow your school's AI capability over time

LESSO is both the platform and your school's AI strategy. The Academy is being built as the home for ongoing CPD on responsible AI use in education — co-curated with our pilot schools — so your AI policy isn't a document, it's a practice. By Q3 2026, every pilot classroom will have a shared, evolving baseline.

Live today: the Academy shell inside LESSO. CPD modules, the SLT curation console, and termly enablement are being co-designed with the pilot cohort so the content reflects what schools actually need.

Responsible AI
Level 1
Prompting for assessment
Level 2
AI policy in practice
Level 3
Curated with pilot schools · Aligned to DfE AI guidance
Termly enablement for pilot schools
Live · Grounded in real curriculum data

Watch Mrs J plan a real lesson. Right now.

Pick a subject, year group and topic. Mrs J retrieves the relevant National Curriculum statements and produces a full lesson plan with citations — live, in under 30 seconds. This is the same engine that runs across your school.

Mrs J
💫 Available

Your lesson plan will appear here — structured, curriculum-aligned, and ready to use.

One upload. Everything your school needs.

Mrs J doesn't just write lesson plans. She builds the complete teaching week — automatically.

Mrs J
Lesson Plans
Presentations
Activities
Worksheets
Email Drafts
365 File Management
AI Academy
Lesson Plans
LESSO Output

Complete, curriculum-aligned lesson plans for every teacher in your school — personalised to their year group, subject, and your school's pedagogical approach.

KS1–KS5 · Fully editable · School-branded
Presentations
LESSO Output

On-brand slide decks delivered straight to every teacher's workspace, built from their lesson plan — ready to teach, no design skills needed.

PowerPoint native · School colours & logo
Activities
LESSO Output

Differentiated classroom activities for all attainment levels. LESSO generates stretch tasks and scaffolded versions simultaneously.

Differentiated · Printable & digital · SEND-aware
Worksheets
LESSO Output

Ready-to-print and digital worksheets, assessment tasks, and exit tickets — aligned to what was taught, not generic content from the internet.

Assessment-linked · Print-ready · RAG compatible
Email Drafts
LESSO Output

Parent and carer communications drafted and ready to send — curriculum updates, trip reminders, and safeguarding notices — all on-brand and GDPR-aware.

GDPR-compliant · School tone-of-voice · Multi-language
365 File Management
LESSO Output

LESSO organises everything into your Microsoft 365 structure automatically — the right files, in the right folders, for every teacher, every week.

Microsoft 365 native · Auto-filed · OneDrive-backed
AI Academy
LESSO Output

A curation framework for staff CPD on responsible AI use — co-designed with our pilot schools so the modules match how your teachers actually learn. The Academy shell is live; the modules are being built with the cohort.

Curation framework · Co-designed with pilot cohort · DfE-aligned
Lesson Plans
LESSO Output

Complete, curriculum-aligned lesson plans for every teacher in your school — personalised to their year group, subject, and your school's pedagogical approach.

KS1–KS5 · Fully editable · School-branded
Foundations you can verify

We're new. So is responsible AI in education.

We don't have testimonials from twenty schools yet — we work with a small number of schools each term and use those terms to build the case studies. Here is what you can verify about how we're built, and what the sector is saying about why this matters now. See if your school qualifies below.

100% UK data sovereignty

Hosted entirely on Civo LON1. No third-country data transfers. Ever.

GDPR & UK GDPR compliant

Lawful basis documented. DPIA-ready before your pilot starts.

DfE AI guidance aligned

Built to the Department for Education's generative AI in education framework.

Microsoft 365 native

Calendar, Teams, OneDrive integrations using your existing tenant. SSO ready.

No model training on your data

Your school's content is never used to train any underlying AI model.

Built around your curriculum

Aligned to the National Curriculum, EYFS, and your school's own schemes of work.

100% UK data sovereigntyGDPR & UK GDPR compliantDfE AI guidance alignedMicrosoft 365 nativeNo model training on your dataBuilt around your curriculumPersistent memory · per teacher, per classCurriculum-grounded RAGLessons ready before the school day starts
100% UK data sovereigntyGDPR & UK GDPR compliantDfE AI guidance alignedMicrosoft 365 nativeNo model training on your dataBuilt around your curriculumPersistent memory · per teacher, per classCurriculum-grounded RAGLessons ready before the school day starts
Findings reported by the sector

Workload remains the most commonly cited reason teachers and leaders consider leaving the profession.

Reported in
Department for Education
Working Lives of Teachers and Leaders Survey · 2024

Generative AI has the potential to reduce workload across the public sector, freeing up teachers' time to focus on delivering excellent teaching.

Reported in
Department for Education
Generative AI in Education — Policy Paper · 2024

Teachers in England work around 50 hours per week on average, significantly higher than comparable graduate professions.

Reported in
NFER
Teacher Labour Market in England — Annual Report · 2024

Findings paraphrased from publicly available sector reports. We're happy to walk your governors through the originals.

Next cohort: Autumn term 2026

A small cohort. We sit with each school.

We work with a small number of schools each term — intentionally. Each pilot school gets direct founder access, weekly strategy reviews, and a curriculum-aligned setup we build with you — not for you.

Common questions

The seven questions every head teacher asks us.

Plain answers, in writing, before you ever speak to a founder. If yours isn't here, ask it on the call.

Leader

How is this different from ChatGPT or Copilot?

Generators give your teachers a blank prompt box. LESSO gives your school an AI strategy. Mrs J already knows your timetable, your curriculum, your school's BrandKit and each teacher's preferences — and prepares lessons overnight, end-to-end, without anyone typing a prompt.

Leader

What about safeguarding and DfE guidance?

LESSO is hosted entirely on UK infrastructure (Civo LON1), GDPR and UK GDPR compliant, DPIA-ready, and built to the DfE's generative AI in education framework. Your data is never used to train any underlying AI model.

Technical

Will this disrupt our Microsoft 365 setup?

No — LESSO is Microsoft 365 native. We use your existing Calendar, Teams and OneDrive via SSO. Your IT team doesn't manage another stack; we sit alongside what's already in your tenant.

Leader

How long does a pilot take to set up?

Eight weeks from kick-off to a governor-ready impact report. Week 1 is a co-design workshop with our team — brand, curriculum, tone, and pilot scope; weeks 2–3 onboard your first teachers; weeks 4–7 are live use; week 8 is the impact review.

Champion

Will my teachers actually use it?

Adoption is the metric we report on every week. Teachers use LESSO because the friction goes the other way — Mrs J prepares the lesson before they sit down. We measure usage at teacher, class and subject level so you can see exactly where it's working.

Leader

What happens if we leave?

Your data is yours. We export your school's content, planning history and BrandKit on request and delete our copies on a documented schedule. No lock-in.

Leader

How much does it cost?

Pilot pricing is scoped to your school size and discussed on the founder call. To put it in context: replacing one teacher is estimated at £10,000–£30,000. LESSO for your entire teaching staff costs a fraction of that.

Got a question not on this list?
Start with a pilot

Your teachers arrive prepared.
Every morning.

Take two minutes to see if LESSO fits your school. If it does, speak to our founders directly — no sales team, no commitment, no awkward demo theatre.

Replacing one teacher is estimated to cost your school £10,000–£30,000 in recruitment, supply cover and lost productivity. LESSO for your entire teaching staff costs a fraction of that — and your AI strategy comes with it.