Blindfold EDU

How it works

Four steps from student file to AI-ready

Everything happens in your browser. Your files, your token map and your restore key stay on your computer.

Set up a protected vault

Create a vault for a project, a course or a cohort and choose a passphrase. Import a roster from a CSV export so Blindfold Edu knows the names, nicknames and IDs to look for. The vault is encrypted on your device.

Load your file

Bring in a Word document, a text-based PDF, pasted text or survey comments. Names, student IDs, emails, phone numbers, street addresses, birthdates and school names are found and replaced with consistent tokens such as [STUDENT_014].

Review before anything leaves

A review screen shows every change, labeled by type. Sensitive terms such as accommodations or conduct notes are flagged for your decision rather than changed automatically. Click anything it missed to remove it, and Blindfold Edu remembers it for next time.

Use AI, then restore

Copy the clean version into Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or any tool your campus allows. When the answer comes back, paste it into Blindfold Edu and your restore key puts the real names back, using the name each student goes by.

What it catches

Identifiers out, analysis in

REPLACED WITH TOKENS

Direct identifiers

Student names and nicknames, parent and staff names, student IDs, emails, phone numbers, street addresses and birthdates.

FLAGGED FOR YOU

Sensitive context

Accommodation, IEP and 504 references, conduct and Title IX language, and other terms that deserve a human decision.

KEPT EXACTLY

Your analysis fields

Credits, GPA, terms, course and program codes, scores and the text of the work itself.

COMING DECEMBER 2026

Spreadsheet mode for IR

Tokenize CSV and Excel extracts column by column, built for student-level files with thousands of rows.

Your judgment still matters. Small groups, rare combinations of details and self-describing comments can identify a student even without a name. The review step is where you catch them. See the FERPA explainer.

Try it with your own files

MidAIR 2026 attendees get the first month free.