Built by a teacher. For teachers.
This started in a classroom, not a boardroom.
I've been teaching high school for over 15 years. In that time I've used most of the major assessment platforms on the market — and every single one left me wanting something more. More useful data. Better standards alignment. A price that didn't require a budget proposal just to get started.
So I built it.
GradeDatum is the company I created to solve the problems I couldn't solve with the tools I was given. Quizential is its flagship product — and every feature, every data point, every pricing decision reflects what I actually needed as a working teacher.
Standards alignment should mean something.
One of the biggest gaps in assessment technology is standards alignment that actually works. Most platforms attach a standard label to a question and call it done. That's not alignment — that's a tag. GradeDatum's standards framework goes deeper. It synthesizes learning objectives across multiple states into universal Skill Sets that map cleanly to any curriculum framework. When a Quizential report tells you a student has mastered a skill, that data means something — because the question that produced it was built from the ground up to assess that skill.
A platform that respects your time and your budget.
GradeDatum is bootstrapped, teacher-owned, and built to last. There are no investors pushing for feature bloat or pricing that only makes sense at the district level. Quizential starts at $50 a year — because that's what's reasonable for an individual teacher, and because you should be able to try it without a budget meeting.