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Two procedures in a school's register: a student medication and health plan procedure, and a boarding house emergency evacuation and reunification procedure, each in draft, owned, and at version one.
The creation panel for a school procedure in EthosOne, asking for a name and description, offering a PDF or Word upload of up to ten megabytes, and a separate choice about whether the assistant may index the procedure content.
The Staff Conduct domain at grade A+ with 100 per cent of obligations met: the four Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic) duties on sexual harassment, each Met and linked to the Staff Code of Conduct and Professional Boundaries Policy, with named accountability beneath.
The Legislation setup journey confirming that the demo school legal profile is complete and scoped to the school.

Real captures · AI Governance for Schools | EthosOne & PolicyAI · demo school.

We hold both at once: AI that is sovereign and tightly governed, and AI developed for public good - aligned to the OECD AI Principles.

  1. Governed & sovereign

    Australian environment, stateless model, scoped context only.

  2. Public good by design

    OECD principles applied - children's data safe, humans accountable.

  3. PolicyAI in practice

    Source-matched policy that protects your school's ethos - not stale templates.

    Governed & sovereign

Built to scale

Run at any scale. From one campus to a diocese, with every entity reporting the same way.

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from your existing platform, for a low cost
25
policy domains help you make sense of the policies you have, and the ones you need
Every regulator
in Australia and New Zealand supported
Safe
data, processing and AI based in Sydney and Melbourne via AWS

Coverage spans the eight Australian states and territories, with Commonwealth law applying across all of them, and separately New Zealand. Domain figures come from the PolicyAI Research Atlas.

Built in Australia, bounded by design

Agentic policy matched to your source of truth - not lawyer templates that overwrite your ethos. The same sovereignty that protects your data in our five rings of defence applies to every AI surface.

  1. 01

    Runs in our Australian environment.

  2. 02

    The model is stateless - it only sees scoped context.

  3. 03

    Injection-resistant; it holds no credentials.

  4. 04

    Government-registered AI R&D practitioner working on institutional inference modelling.

How we apply the five principles

Source: OECD AI Principles, 2019 (updated 2024).

  • The school dashboard: compliance, risk and policy currency for the whole school, above the school risk gauge.
    01

    Inclusive growth & well-being

    Lift every school, not the few.

  • The school's public trust centre: who governs, how often the board meets, and the published policies, excursions and risk assessments families can read.
    02

    Human rights, fairness & privacy

    Children's data safe by design.

  • A criterion's timeline: every status change, override and linked artefact logged with who made it and when.
    03

    Transparency & explainability

    Every action logged, explainable.

  • The file vault: every governing document held with its owner, status and currency across the group.
    04

    Robustness, security & safety

    The five rings; we test our walls.

  • The Evidence Finder: each AI suggestion carries its reason, and a person links it as evidence or marks it not evidence.
    05

    Accountability

    A human owns every decision; AI never acts alone.

PolicyAI drops over the top

The core library handles version control, approvals and publication. PolicyAI connects that library to AccuFind legislative intelligence - surfacing where your policies meet source law, where gaps remain, and what changed when regulation moves.

  • 25 policy domains matched to source legislation
  • Gap-aware - line of sight without a full rewrite
  • Agentic intelligence, not static templates to re-work
  • Protects your school's ethos and philosophy

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PolicyAI UI screenshots coming soon - intelligence layers on your approved library, not a separate silo.

See ring 5 - the AI surface

What you pay

Legislative intelligence in PolicyAI: the obligations behind a policy, with the provision beside each one.
Where to from here

Get the time and money back. Keep the governance.

Published, predictable pricing - no per-user fees, no feature gates. PolicyAI is in beta with 50% off now: source-matched policy intelligence that cuts rework, not your ethos. The money you save along the way is the bonus; board-ready governance is the point.

See published pricingTry Draft with AI. →See published pricing · Try Draft with AI.

PolicyAI answering the prompt “Draft me an AI Acceptable Use Policy.”, then working through: Reading the AI-engaged obligations; Matching privacy, records, child safety; Drafting against your existing library.

AI governance

Solutions for every school’s AI challenge.

There is no AI-specific legislation in force in Australia or New Zealand. The duties your school already carries are the ones AI engages.

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Governing AI, before your board asks again.

“The board asked what our position on AI is, and we did not have one.”

Data privacyAlgorithmic biasSynthetic mediaAutomated decisionsRecords governanceSurveillance

An AI policy is not a new rulebook, it is a lens over duties your school already carries: privacy, records, discrimination and child safety, engaged by an AI-shaped set of facts. Which is why a downloaded template does not survive contact with a regulator.

We have tagged the duties AI activity in a school engages, so the conversation starts from the obligations you already hold rather than from a blank page. Almost none of them say “AI”.

Try Draft with AI.Five paragraphs against the obligations of your State, with the provision beside each. Free, no login.

Common questions

The four we are asked every time.

Still weighing something up? Thirty minutes with us, on your own registers, answers the rest.

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  1. 01Is EthosOne's AI hosted in Australia?

    Yes. AI retrieval and inference run in our Australian environment. The model is stateless and sees only scoped, school-specific context.

  2. 02Does AI make decisions on its own?

    No. A human owns every decision. AI assists with policy intelligence and gap analysis - it never acts alone.

  3. 03What is PolicyAI?

    PolicyAI is source-matched policy intelligence inside EthosOne - gap analyses, version control and legislative alignment powered by AccuFind's legislative intelligence, so policy doesn't go stale.

  4. 04How does this connect to security?

    Ring 5 of our five rings of defence governs the AI surface: injection-resistant, no credentials held by the model, retrieval stays home. See the security page for the full model.

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Before you book

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What you can expect

Board-ready in 30 days

EthosOne supports everyone who plays a role in school governance.

  1. Governance Clarity

    Boards get consistent, ready-to-present insights.

  2. Assurance Confidence

    No blind spots, everything tracked under ownership.

  3. Compliance Control

    State-aligned obligations managed and visible.

  4. Risk Transparency

    ISO-aligned risk management with accountability.

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    Walk into the next board meeting already sure.

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    When the assessor calls, the evidence is already there.

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Why independent schools choose EthosOne

  1. Governance clarity

    Consistent, board-ready insights from one portal.

  2. Assurance confidence

    Named ownership keeps risk and actions visible.

  3. Compliance control

    State-aligned obligations managed in one cadence.

  4. Risk transparency

    ISO-aligned risk is governed, not just documented.

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