Daniel Tran
B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota and served as a teaching assistant for two years. CEO of uNote and software engineer at Palo Alto Networks.
Our mission
AI in education should happen in the open.
We build the infrastructure schools need to see, shape, and trust AI in the classroom - so students can learn with it openly and instructors can finally see the whole picture.
Why we built uNote
We were teaching assistants at the University of Minnesota as generative AI went mainstream, and we saw the problem from both sides of the classroom.
Instructors were recreating the same rubrics and assignments every semester. AI-generated submissions were slipping through unnoticed. Meanwhile, students were using AI to learn - but hiding it, afraid of being flagged for cheating, so no one could help them use it well.
AI arrived in the classroom before anyone built the infrastructure to see it, shape it, or trust it. uNote is that infrastructure: an LMS where instructors spend less time rebuilding materials, students use AI in the open under guardrails their instructor sets, and administrators get clear insight into how AI is used across their schools.
The Founders
Samuel Nelson
B.A. in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota and served as a teaching assistant for the course, CSCI 3061: Introduction to Computer Systems. Leading technical operations at uNote and working as a programmer at Geotek.
