# Aeroleap

*/Occupations/Engineering_and_Architecture_Teachers,_Postsecondary/Problems/ABET_Accreditation_Data_Collection/Startups/Aeroleap*

## Startup Overview

This compliance software maps unstructured technical files directly to ABET accreditation rubrics for engineering and architecture departments. Postsecondary faculty face a massive administrative burden isolating specific exam equations, MATLAB scripts, or AutoCAD designs to prove longitudinal competency attainment. Instead of forcing professors to double-grade assignments and manually curate folders of stripped student artifacts, the platform autonomously extracts granular compliance evidence straight from native assignment submissions.

Legacy assessment suites like Watermark and HelioCampus operate as generic databases that rely on manual data entry and spreadsheet mapping. Because these older tools cannot interpret domain-specific engineering formats, they force instructors into redundant data extraction workflows entirely disconnected from actual teaching. This platform natively reads complex visual and textual data—from scanned handwritten exams to directories of structural analysis code—and autonomously maps the parsed components to specific ABET criteria. By executing this extraction directly, it allows departments to build multi-year accreditation dossiers without altering individual faculty grading habits.

## Startup Founding Hypothesis

**Problem**: [ABET Accreditation Data Collection](/Occupations/Engineering_and_Architecture_Teachers,_Postsecondary/Problems/ABET_Accreditation_Data_Collection)
**Approach**: a software that autonomously extracts engineering artifacts to map ABET outcomes
**Competitors**:
- [Watermark Assessment Suites](/Competitors/Watermark_Assessment_Suites)
- [HelioCampus Assessment](/Competitors/HelioCampus_Assessment)
- [Canvas LMS gradebooks](/Competitors/Canvas_LMS_gradebooks)
- [manual spreadsheet mapping](/Competitors/manual_spreadsheet_mapping)
**Differentiator2x2**: built for autonomous artifact extraction and native ABET-specific mapping

## Startup Solution Coordinate

**Solution**: [Aeroleap Artifact Engine](/Software/Aeroleap_Artifact_Engine)

## Startup Offer

**Proof**:
- Engineering departments targeting zero manual spreadsheet data entry at the end of the academic term.
- Architecture faculty aiming to reclaim 4 hours per major graded assignment.
- Assessment coordinators seeking complete audit-readiness for continuous multi-year ABET compliance.
**Tiers**:
- Name: Core Compliance · Price: ~$8k–$12k/yr per department · Inclusions: Automated extraction and ABET mapping for up to 10,000 multimodal student artifacts (PDF, CAD, Code) per year, designed to integrate directly with Canvas and Blackboard.
- Name: Longitudinal Assessment · Price: ~$16k–$24k/yr per department · Inclusions: Unlimited artifact processing, multi-year cohort outcome tracking, automated student PII redaction for audit readiness, and department-wide faculty access.
**Guarantee**: Aeroleap guarantees correct alignment of supported technical artifact types to your specific ABET criteria matrix, or our technical team will manually evaluate and map the remaining files prior to your accreditation deadline.
**Business Function**: ProvideService
**Objection Handlers**:
- Faculty will resist adopting another assessment tool. -> Aeroleap is designed to pull assignments in the background via LMS APIs, removing the need for professors to change their native grading workflows.
- Our assignments are highly technical and use proprietary file formats. -> The extraction engine parses raw engineering artifacts, including AutoCAD designs and MATLAB code directories, to locate specific calculation steps.
- Our LMS rubrics already track student outcomes. -> Generic LMS rubrics track overall academic grades, while Aeroleap isolates distinct technical competencies within specific code snippets to satisfy specialized ABET criteria.
**Pricing Architecture**: Tiered
**Agent Checkout Support**:
- agentic-commerce-protocol

## Startup Brand

**Voice**: Authoritative academic register grounded in strict definitional precision.
**Tagline**: Maps unstructured student engineering artifacts to ABET accreditation criteria.
**Icon Concept**: caliper
**Palette Intent**: institutional-cool
**Visual Identity**: The brand visualizes structural compliance through institutional navy and slate gray palettes, deploying rigid grid layouts and monospace typographic accents drawn directly from MATLAB environments and engineering schematics.
**Archetype Reference**: the-sage

## Startup Proof Points

_Illustrative — target and order-of-magnitude estimate figures, not an achieved track record (this Thing is concept-stage)._

**Pilot Goals**:
- One-semester shadow pilot within a Mechanical Engineering department processing 500 legacy student portfolios; target result is proving the vision-language model can accurately map unstructured midterm PDFs and Python scripts to 10 program rubrics based entirely on batch LMS exports.
- Retrospective data pilot with a School of Architecture processing one year of archived CAD drawing directories; target result is generating a complete, auditor-ready outcome matrix in under 72 hours to demonstrate systemic capability without requiring IT to unblock live API access.
**Target Metrics**:
- target: 100% elimination of double-grading administrative hours per faculty member
- aim: <72 hour turnaround time to parse and map a department's entire end-of-term batch export
- target: 2,500+ unstructured student artifacts (CAD, MATLAB, PDFs) successfully tagged to specific learning outcomes per accreditation cycle
- aim: 0 required modifications to existing faculty syllabi, exam structures, or native grading styles
**Target Case Studies**:
- Public Research University Engineering Department (Department Chair) — Transitioning from faculty manually collating and double-grading end-of-term exams to batch-exporting LMS directories where software maps handwritten thermodynamic equations and Jupyter notebooks directly to ABET criteria.
- Private Polytechnic Institute (Assessment Coordinator) — Upgrading from an unsustainable workflow of manually stripping identifying information and retroactively scoring 2,500 CAD and MATLAB submissions to an autonomous, multi-modal extraction pipeline that builds audit-ready compliance matrices.
- Community College Technical Program (Lead Faculty) — Eliminating the friction of forcing adjunct instructors to use standardized, rigid rubrics by deploying software that parses diverse, native syllabus formats and assignment types into unified programmatic learning outcomes.
**Testimonial Targets**:
- Department Chair — Relief that faculty resistance to accreditation mandates evaporated once the software allowed them to teach and grade natively without standardizing their exams.
- Assessment Coordinator — Confidence during an ABET review cycle because the system surfaces the exact extracted code block or handwritten equation alongside every mapped competency, enabling instant audit verification.
- Engineering Professor — Excitement at reclaiming the 2-4 hours previously lost per major assessment to manually dragging files into SharePoint and re-scoring them on a separate compliance rubric.

## Startup Solution Stack

- [Accreditation Dossier Service](/Services/Accreditation_Dossier_Service) — Service-as-Software
- [Artifact Extraction Agent](/Agents/Artifact_Extraction_Agent) — Agent
- [Outcome Correlation Worker](/Agents/Outcome_Correlation_Worker) — Agent
- [Multimodal Parsing Engine](/Software/Multimodal_Parsing_Engine) — Software
- [LMS Ingestion SDK](/Software/LMS_Ingestion_SDK) — Software

## Startup Story Brand

**Hero**:
- **Need**: to protect academic research time while fulfilling the program’s essential professional compliance obligations
- **Want**: to map student work directly to ABET accreditation criteria without redundant data entry
- **Identity**: an engineering or architecture faculty member at a public university
**Plan**:
- Step: Select criteria · Detail: Define your specific ABET learning outcomes within our interface to set the extraction parameters.
- Step: Approve mappings · Detail: Review the AI-suggested evidence tags on your student artifacts to ensure technical accuracy.
- Step: Export dossier · Detail: Generate a formatted accreditation report containing all mapped evidence and longitudinal outcome data.
**Guide**:
- **Empathy**: You shouldn't still be manually pulling student PDFs for assessment audits. Watermark wasn't built to parse the granular logic inside a thermodynamics exam or a GitHub repo.
**Problem**:
- **Villain**: double-entry assessment
- **External**: faculty must manually re-score specific MATLAB code snippets and AutoCAD files in Excel because Canvas only tracks overall assignment grades
- **Internal**: you feel like a high-paid administrative clerk instead of a technical researcher and educator
- **Philosophical**: Why should engineering experts accept manual spreadsheet drudgery when autonomous technical artifact parsing is possible?
**Success**: Your ABET data collection happens automatically in the background, leaving you with a complete, audit-ready evidence matrix and zero end-of-semester spreadsheets.
**One Liner**: Instead of manually re-scoring assignments in Excel, Aeroleap autonomously extracts evidence from technical student artifacts to satisfy ABET accreditation — keeping faculty focused on research and teaching.
**Positioning**:
- **So That**: program evidence is collected directly from raw student engineering files
- **Unlike**: manual spreadsheet mapping in Watermark
- **For Whom**: Engineering and architecture faculty and assessment coordinators
- **Category**: Autonomous ABET assessment software for engineering colleges
**Call To Action**:
- **Direct**: Process a course load
- **Transitional**: View sample ABET dossier
**Failure Stakes**:
- Loss of department accreditation
- Burnout from administrative overload
- Incomplete evidence for ABET audits
**Transformation**:
- **To**: mentoring future engineers instead of managing compliance spreadsheets
- **From**: a professor manually extracting code snippets from Blackboard
**Controlling Idea**: Technical faculty should spend their time on academic instruction, not manual compliance data entry.

## Neighborhood

### Competitors

- [Skyward](/Competitors/Skyward) — competes with · Competitors
- [AirMap](/Competitors/AirMap) — competes with · Competitors
- [Altitude Angel](/Competitors/Altitude_Angel) — competes with · Competitors
- [Manual LAANC Filings](/Competitors/Manual_LAANC_Filings) — competes with · Competitors
- [Aloft](/Competitors/Aloft) — competes with · Competitors
- [manual spreadsheet mapping](/Competitors/manual_spreadsheet_mapping) — competes with · Competitors
- [Watermark Assessment Suites](/Competitors/Watermark_Assessment_Suites) — competes with · Competitors
- [HelioCampus Assessment](/Competitors/HelioCampus_Assessment) — competes with · Competitors
- [Canvas LMS gradebooks](/Competitors/Canvas_LMS_gradebooks) — competes with · Competitors
- [Watermark](/Competitors/Watermark) — competes with · Competitors
- [spreadsheet mapping](/Competitors/spreadsheet_mapping) — competes with · Competitors
- [HelioCampus](/Competitors/HelioCampus) — competes with · Competitors
- [Blackboard Learn](/Competitors/Blackboard_Learn) — competes with · Competitors
- [Watermark Assessment](/Competitors/Watermark_Assessment) — competes with · Competitors
- [Gradescope](/Competitors/Gradescope) — competes with · Competitors
- [HelioCampus Platform](/Competitors/HelioCampus_Platform) — competes with · Competitors
- [Canvas LMS](/Competitors/Canvas_LMS) — competes with · Competitors
- [manual spreadsheet curation](/Competitors/manual_spreadsheet_curation) — competes with · Competitors
- [SharePoint folders](/Competitors/SharePoint_folders) — competes with · Competitors
- [manual compliance spreadsheets](/Competitors/manual_compliance_spreadsheets) — competes with · Competitors
- [manual spreadsheet tracking](/Competitors/manual_spreadsheet_tracking) — competes with · Competitors
- [Shared Departmental Folders](/Competitors/Shared_Departmental_Folders) — competes with · Competitors
- [manual SharePoint curation](/Competitors/manual_SharePoint_curation) — competes with · Competitors
- [Manual Folder Curation](/Competitors/Manual_Folder_Curation) — competes with · Competitors
- [manual gradebook extraction](/Competitors/manual_gradebook_extraction) — competes with · Competitors
- [Microsoft SharePoint](/Competitors/Microsoft_SharePoint) — competes with · Competitors

### What it offers

- [Flight Clearance Engine](/Services/Flight_Clearance_Engine) — offers · Services
- [Aeroleap Artifact Engine](/Software/Aeroleap_Artifact_Engine) — offers · Software

### Embodies

- [Service-as-Software](/Theses/Service-as-Software) — embodies · Theses
- [Software](/Theses/Software) — embodies · Theses

### Composed of

- [LMS Ingestion SDK](/Software/LMS_Ingestion_SDK) — composes · Software
- [Outcome Correlation Worker](/Agents/Outcome_Correlation_Worker) — composes · Agents
- [Multimodal Parsing Engine](/Software/Multimodal_Parsing_Engine) — composes · Software
- [Accreditation Dossier Service](/Services/Accreditation_Dossier_Service) — composes · Services
- [Artifact Extraction Agent](/Agents/Artifact_Extraction_Agent) — composes · Agents
- [Engineering Format Engine](/Software/Engineering_Format_Engine) — composes · Software
- [Outcome Mapping Service](/Services/Outcome_Mapping_Service) — composes · Services
- [Criterion Evaluation Worker](/Agents/Criterion_Evaluation_Worker) — composes · Agents
- [LMS Synchronization API](/Software/LMS_Synchronization_API) — composes · Software

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