The workflow matters more than the model
In schools, the hard part is not generating text. The hard part is making sure students, staff, evidence, and deadlines stay connected. A clever demo is easy. A system that helps a school keep oversight is much harder and much more useful.
Student support is not one prompt
Personal statements, CVs, cover letters, references, action tracking, and evidence handling all interact. If the product treats each task as a separate AI trick, staff end up stitching the process together by hand again.
What good looks like
- Drafting tools that are reviewable instead of opaque.
- A clear action queue for staff, not just a student-facing interface.
- An evidence trail so schools can see what changed and why.
- Software shaped around the real destinations process, not generic education copy.
That is why I think the best school AI products will look more like workflow systems than chatbots. The useful part is the structure around the model.