F.E.R.P.A. Grader: Stateless AI Essay Feedback Designed to Keep Student Data Private

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A developer has released F.E.R.P.A. Grader, a subscription-ready micro-SaaS for private tutors, essay coaches, and freelance educators. The tool addresses the legal constraints educators face under student privacy laws such as FERPA, which can prohibit pasting student work into commercial AI tools that log and train on user data. It provides rubric-based essay critiques through a backend that keeps text in memory only for about three seconds before purging it, with no database or user authentication. The app runs on open-weight models via OpenRouter, and its complete source code is publicly available under the MIT License.

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