EdTech · AI-Resilient Assessment · Research Credentialing

MAKING THINKING MATTER.

Enigma Labs builds frameworks and tools for an AI-saturated world — where the question isn't how to stop AI, but how to design for what it can't replace.

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Framework · K–12 Professional Development

PROOF OF
WORK

"AI didn't create bad assignments.
It revealed them."

The Proof of Work Framework is a five-module K–12 professional development system built for the AI era. It gives educators precise tools to diagnose their assignments, redesign for visible thinking, and build assessment systems that AI cannot shortcut.

The problem isn't that students are using AI. The problem is we're still assigning work that AI can do better than they can. POW changes the question — and the design.

Teachers arrive asking: "How do I stop students from using AI?" Teachers leave asking: "How do I design tasks where thinking is visible?"
AI DIDN'T CREATE BAD ASSIGNMENTS.
It revealed them.
If we can't name where thinking happens, we can't protect it.
The Five Modules
01
DIAGNOSE
Task Autopsy — where does thinking live?
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02
REDESIGN
Apply three moves to make tasks AI-resilient
03
TRANSPARENCY
Disclosure frameworks & student AI vocabulary
04
ASSESS & RESPOND
Rubrics that reward thinking, not compliance
05
SUSTAIN
Stakeholder communication & PLC structures
Module 01 · Diagnose — First Activity: Task Autopsy

Task Autopsy is the opening activity of Module 1. Teachers map their own assignments using a two-column diagnostic — Thinking Required vs. Compliance Features — to identify exactly where AI can bypass learning and where cognition is invisible.

45-min Conference Session · Make & Take · K–12 Any Content Area

Product · EdTech Research Credentialing

AGENT
SCHOLAR

Automated ESSA evidence classification — so you spend time on decisions, not paperwork.

Agent Scholar is an AI-powered ESSA Evidence Tier Classification System built for EdTech credentialing programs. It automatically reads submitted research studies and classifies them into the correct ESSA evidence tier — with confidence scores, detailed reasoning, and flags for human review. A human is always in the loop.

EdTech vendors submit research. Agent Scholar does the analysis. Your team makes the credentialing decision — faster, more consistently, and with a documented audit trail.

TIER 1
Strong Evidence
RCT / Experimental
TIER 2
Moderate Evidence
Quasi-Experimental
TIER 3
Promising Evidence
Correlational
TIER 4
Rationale Only
Theoretical Basis
Currently In Development · Enigma Labs LLC
Agent Scholar is an independent Enigma Labs product built for districts, state agencies, and EdTech vendors who need fast, defensible, ESSA-aligned research classification at scale.
How It Works
01
Vendor Submits Research
EdTech vendors submit their research studies and metadata via a Google Form. PDF studies upload directly to the system.
02
Agent Scholar Reads & Analyzes
The AI agent reads the full study, applies ESSA classification criteria, and produces a tier determination with confidence level and detailed reasoning.
03
Results Written Automatically
Tier, confidence score, reasoning, and a human-review flag are written directly to your tracking spreadsheet. No manual entry.
04
Your Team Makes the Call
Human reviewers focus on flagged edge cases — primarily Tier 1 (RCT) and Tier 2 (Quasi-experimental) studies where research design nuance matters most. Credential decisions are faster, consistent, and fully documented.
Interested in Agent Scholar?
Agent Scholar is an Enigma Labs product. Licensing, pilot program, and partnership inquiries welcome.
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Founder · Enigma Labs LLC

WHO'S
BEHIND IT

KEN
THOMPSON
M.Ed. · District IT Director · Founder, Enigma Labs LLC

Ken Thompson has spent his career at the intersection of technology and learning — not as an observer, but as a practitioner who builds things.

The Proof of Work Framework didn't come from a think tank. It came from years inside K–12 education — teaching, advising, directing — and a genuine reckoning with what AI actually changes about how we design for learning. That teaching background never left. It shows up in everything Enigma Labs builds.

Enigma Labs builds what the field actually needs — not what sounds good at a conference.

District IT Director
K–12 Education Technology Leadership
Master of Education (M.Ed.)
Educational Technology
K–12 Teaching Background
Digital Media · Yearbook · Instructional Design
Framework Developer · App Builder
Proof of Work · Agent Scholar · Enigma Labs LLC

LET'S
TALK.

Whether you're a district looking to bring POW to your professional development, or an EdTech vendor interested in Agent Scholar — reach out.