March 2026
EU-compliant AI agents and GDPR
We’ve ensured that all our powerful new AI agents and platform features are fully compliant with EU data protection standards.New features
- EU data residency: All data for AI agents is now hosted exclusively on servers located within the European Union.
- GDPR compliance: We’ve implemented strict data handling measures to ensure full GDPR compliance across all new agentic features.
Improvements
- New Help Centre: We have launched a completely new Help Centre to provide better support and documentation.
- Contextual queries: The Insights Engine now supports contextual queries, allowing you to focus your insights on specific assessments rather than just basic workspace-level queries.
- Data visualizations: The Insights Engine is now much more capable, with the ability to render diagrams, pie charts, bar charts, and line charts directly inside the AI’s response.
February 2026
Agentic AI and Insights Engine
We’re bringing powerful agentic AI capabilities to the platform alongside major compliance tools.New features
- Agentic AI: You can now build and deploy powerful AI agents tailored to your specific workflows.
- Insights Engine: Leverage our new Insights Engine, powered by agentic AI, to extract deep analytical insights from your data.
- Audit and compliance: A new section dedicated to auditing and compliance to help institutions maintain strict oversight and reporting.
January 2026
Advanced reference panel, course page, and student portal
This month focuses on improving organization and navigation for educators and students.New features
- Student portal: We’ve launched a dedicated student portal to improve how students interact with their feedback and assessments.
- Reference panel: We’ve introduced a sophisticated new reference panel featuring three dedicated tabs: Table of contents, References, and My notes.
- Course page: Discover our newly redesigned course page, which now serves as the central hub for all your assessments.
Class-level performance reports and AI safeguards
We’ve made a big leap in terms of stability, bug fixes, and testing infrastructure.New features
- Class-level performance reports: Generate comprehensive performance reports for an entire assessment to evaluate overall class progress.
- AI safeguards: Discrepancies are now highlighted directly in the Reader, acting as a safeguard against AI hallucinations.
Improvements
- Enhanced AI interference tracing and hallucination detection capabilities.
- Repositioned the note input dialog to the bottom of the screen for better ergonomics.
- Upgraded our testing infrastructure for more stable releases and quality of life upgrades.
Welcome to Europe 🇪🇺
We’ve made a big leap on our mission to become fully GDPR and EU AI Act compliant.New features
- EU data processing: All data processing and storage are now securely handled within the European Union.
- Email notifications: You now receive an email notification automatically when your document uploads are finished.
Improvements
- Added a Next submission action after publishing a report to speed up your grading workflow.
- Uploaded submissions are now always pinned to the top of your list.
- Added a useful placeholder to the scratchpad and removed the
IDprefix from the Reading view. - Streamlined the new assessment creation user flow.
Onboarding and public beta
With this update, we’re officially entering our public beta 🎉New features
- Self-service signup: You can now sign up and log in using our new self-service portal.
- Dedicated onboarding: Experience a guided onboarding flow designed to help you get started quickly.
- Upload notifications: Receive email alerts as soon as your submission uploads are complete.
Improvements
- Enhanced the structure and readability of grading reports.
- Improved the Course management interface for better organization.
- Added a Grade field directly into Feedback reports.
Improved security and AI suggestion workflow
This update introduces an improved AI suggestion workflow and state-of-the-art security measures required by institutions for university-wide rollouts.New features
- Batch uploads: You can now upload student submissions in batches to save time.
- Enterprise security: Added support for state-of-the-art security testing and infrastructure.
- Context menus: Added a new context menu specifically for flagged submissions.
Improvements
- Streamlined the document-level AI suggestion workflow for a smoother grading experience.
- Improved the user experience and responsiveness of the AI chat interface.
AI settings, rubric view, and improved onboarding
This update introduces new AI settings, enhanced UX components, improved feedback features, and important navigation fixes.New features
- AI settings: You can now restrict specific inline suggestion types through the new AI settings menu.
- Clipboard support: Easily copy feedback report access details directly to your clipboard.
- Rubric suggestions: Redesigned the rubric suggestion component for a better user experience.
Improvements
- Separated comments and remarks in the Note dialog for better clarity.
- Improved the overall feedback generation quality and writing style.
- Added the ability to close the AI copilot chat panel with a mouse click, and included information about focused Blocks in the chat.
- You can now press the annotation key twice to quickly remove an annotation.
Inline suggestions, focus mode, and dynamic feedback
We’re introducing inline AI suggestions, a minimalistic focus mode, and dynamic feedback reports.New features
- Inline AI suggestions: Receive contextual, inline AI recommendations as you review submissions.
- Focus mode: A new minimalistic version of the Reading view designed to reduce distractions.
- Dynamic reports: Launched dynamic Feedback reports that adapt to your grading remarks.
Improvements
- Remarks now automatically adopt the sentiment (positive or negative) of the Block they are attached to.
- Added quick access to the Help Center directly via the navigation bar.
- Cleaned up the Inbox by removing the context menu for a more minimalistic view.
- Updated the Reading view and improved Block chunking.
Initial alpha release
We are excited to share the very first version of Claire Labs with our early testers.New features
- Core grading engine: Experience our first iteration of AI-assisted grading to speed up evaluation workflows.
- PDF support: Upload and read PDF submissions directly inside the application.
- Rubric creation: Define custom rubrics for consistent evaluations across your courses.