Brisk Teaching
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveBrowser extension and web app giving K-12 teachers feedback, reading-level, quiz and lesson tools inside Google and Microsoft classrooms
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
Free for individual teachers, covering the extension, Brisk Next, 20-plus tools and the feedback tools, with an unstated upload limit on batch feedback. Premium (schools and districts) and Intelligence (districts) are quote-only, priced per student, with pilot periods arranged through a demo; no figure is published on the plans page.
Use tool ↗About Brisk Teaching
Brisk is a Chrome and Edge extension with a companion web app, Brisk Next, that puts more than 30 AI tools for K-12 teachers on top of the Google and Microsoft documents and classroom tools they already use. It writes lesson plans, quizzes, presentations and rubrics, leaves 'glow and grow' feedback on student writing in batches, inspects a document's history for depth and originality, changes reading level and translates material into 50-plus languages, and turns text into student activities through Brisk Boost. The teacher plan is free; Premium and Intelligence tiers for schools and districts are priced per student by quote after a pilot. The vendor, Brisk Labs Corp., operates from the United States under California law and claims use in 10,000-plus districts, a self-reported figure.
- Platforms
- Chrome extension · Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Homepage: browser extension plus Brisk on the Web (Brisk Next), Brisk Intelligence and Brisk Boost; lesson plans, assessments, rubrics, glow-and-grow and batch feedback, writing inspection, reading levels and 50-plus languages; claims 10,000-plus districts and 1 in 3 US teachers; footer Brisk Labs Co. (15 October 2026)briskteaching.com ↗
- Plans page: Free $0 for teachers with Chrome and Edge extension, Brisk Next and 20-plus tools; Premium for schools and districts and Intelligence for districts at custom per-student pricing; pilots arranged via demo (15 October 2026)briskteaching.com ↗
- User agreement names Brisk Labs Corp., services operated from US-based facilities and deemed based in California, governed by California law with venue in Santa Clara County (15 October 2026)briskteaching.com ↗
- About page names founder and CEO Arman Jaffer and a team drawn from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Seesaw and NoRedInk; no founding year or address (15 October 2026)briskteaching.com ↗
Is Brisk Teaching legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jan 17, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Name.com, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 30, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Brisk Labs Corp., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Brisk Teaching
For a teacher on Google Classroom or Microsoft 365, Brisk is the rare AI tool that works where the marking happens: it sits in the browser, reads the document in front of you and writes the feedback, quiz or levelled version without copy-pasting. The free tier covers most of what an individual teacher needs, so the real decision is at district level, where the price is a per-student quote and the data agreement matters more than the feature list. Treat the feedback as a first draft a teacher edits, not as grading.
Pros
- Works inside the browser and documents teachers already use, not a separate workspace
- Free teacher plan includes the extension, Brisk Next and the feedback tools
- Writing inspection replays a document's revision history, which helps flag pasted or generated work
- Common Sense privacy rating and an ESSA Tier 3 evidence claim give districts something to check
Cons
- School and district pricing is quote-only, per student, with no figure on the site
- The 10,000-plus districts and 'one in three US teachers' figures are self-reported
- Batch feedback on the free plan carries an upload limit the page does not quantify
- Legal name is written two ways (Brisk Labs Corp. and Brisk Labs Co.) and no address is given
Best for
- Individual K-12 teachers on Google or Microsoft classrooms who want feedback and differentiation without leaving the document
- Teachers differentiating one text into several reading levels and languages
- Districts that want one vetted tool with a privacy rating and a pilot before a per-student contract
Not for
- Higher education or corporate training teams outside the K-12 classroom stack
- Schools that need a published price rather than a quote
Watch out: The free plan is for individual teachers; a school-wide rollout becomes a per-student quote, and the batch-feedback upload limit on Free is not stated, so test it before a marking deadline.
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