Everything here is built from your own work, with your participation, and stays under your control. Here is what that means in practice.
It starts with what you give it. You upload your own work: books, essays, papers, lecture recordings, talks, interviews. Documents can be PDF, Word, or plain text. Recordings can be audio or video in the common formats, and you do not need to provide transcripts; we transcribe them for you.
From there the build runs in stages you can follow from your dashboard. Your material is read, refined into what your model will learn from, and reviewed for quality and for your voice, and you review it too before anything is final. Then your model is trained and made ready at a private address that belongs to you. Nothing becomes public unless you choose it.
What to give it: work you wrote or delivered yourself. What not to give it: work you do not hold the rights to, other people's copyrighted material, or anything containing student records or private information about other people.
Your replica is built with your participation. Nothing is scraped.
Draft is a writing space where your model works next to you, drawing on everything you have written, the recent essays and the dissertation you finished twenty years ago alike. You start with an idea, it asks a few questions, and it builds an outline you can edit before a word is written. Then you write together. It pushes back, suggests, and argues the way an editor who knows your thinking would, and when you ask for a change it revises in your own voice rather than flattening you into the house style of a general chatbot.
It is built to keep you in the chair, not to replace you in it. Nothing leaves as finished until you say so, every revision is yours to accept or throw out, and the draft is exactly that, a draft you carry forward.
What stays yours: the writing, the voice, and the final say. Draft works from your material and your corrections, and the model behind it remains under your control.
Grade reads a student's paper and responds the way you would when you mark it. Your standards, your questions in the margin, your voice. You can give it the assignment or your rubric, and the feedback is judged against what you actually asked for, not a generic notion of good writing. It returns a mark and the reasons behind it, and you can talk through the grade with your model before anything is final.
The point is to help you get through the pile with steady, consistent judgment, and to give each student the clearest feedback you can, the response they would get from you. You remain the one who decides. The grade is a draft for your judgment, not a verdict handed down in your name.
What stays yours: the judgment. The student's paper is never stored, the mark is never final until you make it so, and the standards being applied are the ones you set.
Classroom turns a recorded lecture into a class your model runs. Your students watch, and as they watch they can ask questions and get your thinking on the material, in your voice, whenever they happen to be studying, not only in the narrow window of office hours. The questions the class asks are visible to the class, so the room keeps some of its shared life even when everyone is working alone.
It does not stand in for you. It extends one lecture you already gave into something your students can keep returning to, with your way of explaining attached to it.
What stays yours: the teaching. The lecture is yours, the answers come from your own material, and you choose whether a class is public or kept to your students.
Office Hours will let your students bring your model a draft or a question at any hour and talk the work through. It reads what they bring, points out what is weak, and asks the question you would ask, the way you would in your own office. It coaches, and it never puts a grade on anything. The final grade is left up to you; Office Hours is there to help a student think, not to judge them.
Arriving this summer.
What stays yours: the answers come only from your material, and you decide whether your students get it at all.
Built with you. Corrected by you. Owned by you.
Every Shryn model is made with the scholar's direct participation. Nothing is scraped. The scholar holds the copyright; Shryn is the licensed custodian. You can see what your model has been given, change it, and delete it at any time.