Conversational assessment for the AI era
Students can generate the answer.Can they explain it?
AI has changed what it means to complete an assignment. Verity gives every student a short, friendly conversation where they explain their thinking, work through problems, and show what they actually understand.
Built for classrooms, not compliance departments.
The problem
Homework used to show us who was learning.Now, we’re guessing.
Students can produce essays, code, and problem sets in seconds. Teachers see polished work, but often have no way of knowing whether the student understands the ideas behind it.
The problem is bigger than cheating. When educators cannot see how students think, they cannot identify misconceptions, give meaningful feedback, or know who needs help.
- 01A student completes the work.
- 02A teacher reviews it.
- 03The work is evidence of learning.
- 01A student generates the work.
- 02A teacher reviews it.
- 03The work may reveal almost nothing.
The old signal is broken.
Meet Verity
A five-minute conversation can reveal more than five pages of homework.
Verity gives each student a friendly, adaptive verbal assessment. Students explain concepts in their own words, talk through problems, defend their choices, and respond to new scenarios.
The conversation changes with every answer. When a student understands the material, Verity moves forward. When an answer is vague, memorized, or incomplete, Verity gently asks a deeper question.
It feels less like an exam and more like speaking with a thoughtful teacher who has time for every student.
How it works
From assignment to real understanding.
Step 01
Build the assessment
The instructor uploads an assignment, learning objectives, or grading rubric. Verity creates a conversational assessment designed around the concepts students should understand.
Step 02
Students talk it through
Each student completes a short verbal conversation. Verity asks them to explain ideas, solve variations, and defend their reasoning.
Step 03
Verity analyzes the evidence
Verity identifies demonstrated understanding, misconceptions, uncertainty, and moments that may require instructor review.
Step 04
Teachers see what matters
The instructor receives a clear report showing what each student understands, where they struggled, and which concepts need to be retaught.
Why it works
Copying the answer stops being the shortcut.
A student can paste a homework question into an AI tool and receive an answer in seconds. But that strategy becomes much less useful when they must explain the answer aloud, respond to follow-up questions, and apply the concept in a new situation.
The more important outcome is behavioral: students know they will have to talk through the material. Instead of spending a few minutes copying an answer, they have a reason to study, understand, and prepare.
Verity may flag for instructor review when a student
- Appears to be reading a generated response
- Repeatedly pauses before answering
- Gives polished answers without being able to explain them
- Cannot adapt when the problem changes
These signals are never treated as automatic proof of misconduct. They are presented alongside the transcript and assessment evidence so the teacher can make the final judgment.
We are not trying to catch students using AI.
We are making understanding easier than pretending.
For educators
Stop grading outputs.Start seeing understanding.
AP Computer Science · Period 3
Class overview
30
students
4
assessments
84%
avg. mastery
3
flagged for review
Amir paused for 11 seconds before giving a highly polished response, then could not explain one of the terms used.
Open transcript →37%
of students believe a recursive function can execute without a base case. Recommended: revisit termination conditions before the next assignment.
Verity turns every conversation into evidence instructors can act on. Teachers see who understands the material, who needs help, and what the entire class is missing—without conducting thirty individual oral exams themselves.
For students
Challenging without feeling intimidating.
Traditional oral exams can feel formal and stressful. Verity is designed to feel encouraging, patient, and conversational.
Students have space to think, correct themselves, and explain ideas in the way that feels natural to them. Verity does not only reward fast answers. It looks for reasoning, growth, and genuine understanding.
A chance to explain
Students receive credit for their reasoning, not only their final answer.
Feedback that teaches
Verity identifies misunderstandings and helps students see what to study next.
AI without the guilt
Students can use AI to learn while still demonstrating that the understanding is their own.
Why us?
Built by people who have spent years watching students learn.
Anya
Merve
Verity did not begin with a model or a market trend. It began in classrooms, tutoring sessions, office hours, and years of helping students work through ideas they initially thought they could never understand.
Anya has worked with children and students for seven years and served as a teaching assistant at Stanford three times. She has taught and tutored mathematics, computer science, and AI while also building advanced AI systems through research and startups.
Merve has tutored students herself and has spent years helping learners understand difficult material, build confidence, and move beyond memorization.
Together, we have seen the moment when a student genuinely understands something—and the difference between that moment and simply producing the correct answer.
We built Verity because AI has made that distinction more important than ever.
7 years
Working directly with students
3× Stanford TA
Teaching technical subjects
2 technical founders
Building the full product
Thousands of hours
Teaching, tutoring, and learning
Our vision
Education does not need to fight the future.It needs to build for it.
We believe students should learn how to use AI. We also believe they should be able to think without outsourcing every decision to it.
Those ideas are not in conflict.
Verity exists to make both possible.
Use AI. Learn deeply. Prove understanding.
Early pilots
What educators are telling us
Verity is in early pilots. We will publish quotes, outcomes and institution names here as soon as the educators behind them have given their permission—and not a moment before.
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Want your classroom to be one of the first?
We are working closely with a small number of teachers and schools to shape how Verity fits real classrooms.
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