For K-12 schools & districts
Humy builds AI simulations out of the primary sources your department already owns. Every quote a student sees is copied word for word out of the document. The AI never types one.
School plans from $600 per school, per year. Free pilot options. No commitment.
The subject nobody equips, on the time nobody protects.
On the most recent national assessment, 40% of U.S. eighth graders scored below Basic in U.S. history and 13% reached Proficient or above. Nation's Report Card, U.S. history, 2022 (2022 test, released 2023; national results only, nothing by district) The slide started in 2014, before the pandemic.
Up to 50 sources on a figure, an event, or a place, 1,000 pages each. Scans with no text layer are transcribed page by page, historical handwriting included.
Our system copies those words straight out of the document and throws away anything that is not a character-for-character match.
Every quote opens the document at that page with the passage highlighted, the typed-out text beside the scan.
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
When a figure says something hard about slavery, or the Holocaust, or a founder, the department head can open the scanned page in front of whoever is asking. That is the answer no general-purpose chatbot has.
What we measured
Running inside Humy with the documents attached, the same model passed 97% more of our benchmark’s rubric checks than it did with no documents: 58.2% against 29.6%. Then we checked every quote it produced.
Humy internal benchmark, August 2026: one configuration, 1,250 questions, and the 1,323 quotes it produced. One citation among them opened nothing, and we report it rather than round it away. The benchmark measures sourcing, not what a student learns.
What that does not cover: the sentences around a quote are still written by the AI. Loading the documents cut outright invention from 22.6% of answers to 12.2%, which still leaves about one answer in eight carrying a wrong date or reference in that surrounding text. The quote itself is always real. Read the benchmark.
86% of districts vet even free tools before they reach a classroom, and 65% require a review by IT. CoSN U.S. State of EdTech 2026 (survey of 607 district technology leaders, 14 Jan to 2 Mar 2026, ±4%) That is the checklist this section is written against.
The National Data Privacy Agreement, v2.2. Humy has signed student DPAs covering 16 states through The Education Cooperative, plus a separate California agreement. In another state, we sign your district's.
A link or a QR code, and the class is working. No emails, no passwords, no rostering, no Clever or ClassLink. Browser only, so it runs on whatever is in the room, and figures drop into Canvas, Google Classroom, or Schoology.
Not by Humy, and not by the model providers behind it. Data is held in the United States or Sweden on Azure, aligned with FERPA and COPPA.
Teachers and school admins set which model students may use, across a school or the whole district. Every figure names its model before the first message, and answers only from the archive behind it, never the open web.
With auto-generated summaries for triaging thirty chats at a glance, and admin oversight across the school or district. Messages judged inappropriate are stopped before a student sees them, and flagged in the log.
Assignments are graded against the grading guide the teacher wrote, and export as PDF or Word with the full conversation attached. Per assignment you can disable copy and paste, cap attempts, and set a deadline. 67,290 submissions graded by our January 2026 release.
Before the first message every student sees a short screen naming the model, how many sources the figure draws on, and who built it, in all 50+ languages Humy supports. Read the signed agreements on the security page, or start an evaluation with the IT approval guide.
“Unprecedented engagement. My students were so involved, they forgot about gym class, which never happens.”
Corey Pendleton
Headmaster
“Humy saves me 4 hours per week on grading, and the feedback students receive is awesome. I really like it. I showed it to my principal, and he was blown away by it. The feedback part is really awesome.”
Frank B.
8th Grade History Teacher, California
“We enjoyed the program last year and used it frequently.”
Dr. Michael Calvert
Assistant Superintendent, South Allegheny School District, Pennsylvania
“Social studies used to be my least favorite class but now I look forward to it because it's way more fun to learn about Ancient Greece when I can actually learn from the gods themselves.”
Grade 8 student
Student, Bison Run School
From $600 per school, per year, scaling with the number of teachers. Twenty minutes on a call is enough to see the product and get the number.
Most districts start with a handful of teachers. Nyack Public Schools began with a 45-teacher trial.
Humy is a web-based educational platform and the successor to Hello History. It enables students to have in-depth conversations with over 1,200 AI-powered historical figures. A figure can be given an archive of primary sources — letters, speeches, scanned books, photographs — which it searches during the conversation and quotes with a reference back to the document. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Humy is purpose-built for historical work: students can open the cited source and read the passage in its original context.
School plans start at $600 per school, per year, and scale with the number of teachers. Individual teachers can start free, and a single-teacher Plus plan is $129 per year. Every demo call ends with exact pricing for your school or district — no drawn-out quote process — and free pilot options are included. Educators who refer their school also qualify for our $600 classroom grant.
Yes — that's the normal path. Most districts start with a small group of social studies teachers and real classes before rolling out; Nyack Public Schools, for example, began with a 45-teacher trial. Ask for pilot options on your demo call, or have interested teachers start free on their own today.
Most schools are live within a week. There's no software to install — teachers get their accounts and students access Humy through simple web links or QR codes, so IT review typically takes a single meeting.
Humy has signed student DPAs covering 16 states: Massachusetts, Maine, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington through TEC (The Education Cooperative), plus a separate California DPA. You can read the signed agreements at humy.ai/security. In another state? We're happy to sign your district's DPA — email hello@humy.ai.
No. Student data is never used to train AI models and is not shared with any third parties for training purposes.
No. Students access Humy through teacher-shared web links or QR codes — no student accounts, emails, or passwords, ever. Teachers choose per activity between fully anonymous access and a name-only mode for graded work.
Teachers choose the access mode per activity. For graded assignments, students enter their first and last name before starting — nothing else — and their submissions appear under that name in the teacher's dashboard. For open exploration, teachers can allow fully anonymous access instead.
No. Because students access Humy through teacher-shared links, classes are running within seconds without rostering or SSO setup. Teachers and admins sign in with Google, Microsoft, or Apple, and school-account SSO (via Auth0 by Okta) is available on request for districts that want it.
Humy offers over 1,200 AI historical figures spanning world history, U.S. history, civics, science, and more — including scientists like Einstein, Marie Curie, and Newton for STEM classes. Teachers also get 90+ AI tools for lesson planning, auto-graded assignments, DBQs, and content creation across subject areas.
From the documents attached to that figure, not from the AI. When it cites a passage, the AI only marks which part of which document it means. Our system then copies those words straight out of the original and checks them letter by letter. The AI never types a quote itself, so a quote in a student's answer came out of a real document. Students can click any quote to open the source and read the typed-out text beside the original scanned page.
Yes. Teachers can attach up to 50 sources to a figure — scanned books and articles, handwritten letters, paintings, photographs, audio recordings, even 3D-scanned artifacts — and organize them in the Sources workspace. You choose whether each source stays private to your account or is shared across your whole school or district, and figures can also draw on sources curated by the Humy team. Scans without a text layer are transcribed page by page, including historical handwriting; transcription uses credits and you approve an estimated cost before any page runs.
Yes. Teachers and school admins choose which model students can use, from a roster spanning Google's Gemini tiers plus an open-weight option. Different jobs run on different tiers: ordinary conversation runs on a light, fast model chosen as the safer school default, archive-grounded answers move up to a stronger tier for reliable multi-turn source search, page-by-page transcription including historical handwriting uses a Pro tier, and live voice calls of up to 10 minutes use a dedicated realtime model. We deliberately do not print version numbers here, because the roster moves and a stale list turns into a false disclosure. Every figure names the exact model it is using before the first message, on a short “How to use AI responsibly” screen that also shows how many sources it draws on and who created it.
Difficult chapters are treated as history to be examined, not roleplay to be improvised. Figures answer from curated sources rather than the open web, and teachers control which figures students meet, at what reading level, and with what instructions. Every conversation is logged for teacher review, and messages flagged as inappropriate are blocked and highlighted in the teacher's conversation log.
Yes. Admins have oversight across their school or district workspace, including every teacher's assignments and figures. Teachers see all student conversations in their classes, with auto-generated summaries for reviewing a whole class quickly, and graded submissions can be exported as PDF or DOCX — including the full chat transcript — for records or parent conferences.
Still deciding? Write to us at hello@humy.ai.
