University

StellarFirm for universities puts two AI Agent Assistants first: the Professor's assistant and the Scientist. The Professor's assistant prepares your courses and tutors your students. The Scientist backs the research behind them. You are the CEO: the instructor or the head of the lab. You approve every email and calendar invite that leaves the chat.

Who this is for#

Your assistants#

Hire a Professor's assistant per subject if you teach more than one, for example one for programming and one for mathematics, each with its own focus.

Suggested house rules#

House rules
1. The Professor's assistant gives hints before answers. Full solutions only when I ask for them.
2. The Professor's assistant never writes graded work for a student to hand in.
3. Every solution, example, and computation is checked before it is shown.
4. The Scientist never invents a result, a source, or a citation, and never calls a conjecture proved.
5. Emails to students and calendar invites wait for my Approve.
6. Course policies and grades come from me. The assistants never make them up.

Preflight#

• Sign in at https://stellarfirm.ai/app with your invitation.
• Connect your mail, calendar, and files on Integrations: Gmail or Outlook, Google Calendar, and Google Drive, OneDrive, or SharePoint.
• Put one folder per course in your drive: the syllabus, past exams, and reading lists.
• Hire a Professor's assistant for each subject you teach, and a Scientist for your research group.
• Write your house rules in the company brief.

Launch: Day 1#

1. Plan one lesson. Start with the next class you teach.

Professor's assistant, plan a [length] lesson on [topic] for [course and level]. Give learning outcomes, the order of activities, one worked example, and a short check for understanding at the end.

2. Write exercises with checked solutions.

Professor's assistant, write [number] exercises on [topic] for [course], from easy to hard. Check every solution before you show it, and give a hint for each one.

3. Start the research brief.

Scientist, write a research brief on [question]: what is known, the key papers with their sources, the open problems, and what we could test first.

4. Approve what goes out. Anything sent to students waits in Approvals.

First week#

Professor's assistant, draft a syllabus for [course]: learning outcomes, a week by week plan, readings, and how students are assessed. Leave the grading policy for me to fill in.

Professor's assistant, write a [length] quiz on [topics] with a marking rubric and model answers. Check every answer.

Professor's assistant, make lecture slides in LaTeX for [topic], with one worked example per idea. Publish them so I can edit them beside the chat.

Professor's assistant, tutor me as if I were a student in [course] who is stuck on [problem]. Ask me questions and give one hint at a time. Do not give the full answer.

Scientist, find the most cited and the most recent work on [topic]. Give each source with a link, one line on what it shows, and say which you could not check.

Steady orbit#

• Every week. Ask the Professor's assistant for next week's lesson and exercises, and read them before class.
• After every assignment. Ask for feedback drafts against your rubric, then edit them yourself.
• Every month. Ask the Scientist for a literature update on your group's topics.
• Every term. Ask the Professor's assistant to update the syllabus from what worked.

You can set the weekly preparation as a routine, so it is waiting for you every Monday.

Scientist, summarize our latest result on [topic] in plain words. Professor's assistant, turn that summary into a short lesson for [course].

The rest of the team#

The Professor's assistant and the Scientist lead here, and the other assistants are there when you need them:

• Coder: works with you on a course site, a small app for a lab exercise, or to turn an analysis into a tool.
• Copywriter: helps you edit grant text, announcements, and papers in your own words.

Pitfalls#

• Answers instead of hints. Keep "hints before answers" in your house rules, and ask for full solutions only for your own answer keys.
• Unchecked material. Read every exam and answer key before it goes to a class.
• Made-up policies. Give the Professor's assistant your real course policies and grading scheme. It never invents one.
• One Professor's assistant for everything. Hire a Professor's assistant per subject so each one keeps its own focus.