Upstack AI — LearnLab, AI for education, and WorkLab, AI for hiring
AI tools for teaching and for hiring, built on one in-house AI layer.
Upstack AI is a UAE company building AI-native tools for the education and hiring industries. It runs two platforms on a shared AI layer of document parsing, assessment engines and conversational AI: LearnLab for education and WorkLab for hiring. The company is Upstack AI FZ-LLC, headquartered in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, and serves customers across the Middle East, Europe, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Portugal.
LearnLab builds the course, marks the work, tutors every student, and shows you where each one is.
LearnLab is Upstack AI's education platform for universities, schools, training providers, companies and government. It combines an AI course builder, an automatic grading engine — including STEM and quantitative problems — conversational AI tutors, and per-student analytics, turning coursework into a measurable learning loop. Educators stay in control: LearnLab drafts marks and feedback, and the educator sets the final grade.
Course builder
Describe a topic or bring your own files and links. Module Crafter drafts the index, then writes the full teaching document, assessments and presentations from it — in seven authoring languages. Autopilot adds visuals and references across a whole document.
Automatic grading, including STEM
Upload a marking rubric and LearnLab marks every submission against it — multiple choice, short answer, problem sets and long open-ended responses, with LaTeX and scientific notation. Each mark comes with written feedback, and any grade can be amended in a click.
AI tutors that answer from your material
Students ask questions about the course and get answers grounded in, and cited to, the educator's own material — plus quizzes and flashcards generated from it. Tutors use Socratic questioning, are available on demand, and every conversation stays visible to the educator.
Per-student analytics
Grade distributions, scores by section, a submission clock, and a "what to reteach" list ranked by how many students it affects. Student profiles track progress and learning gaps over time, and students receive a results email showing where they can still gain marks.
In use
- A three-year departmental deployment at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, marking university physics across cohorts of several hundred students — with 99.8% grading accuracy measured there.
- Lecturers and researchers at 50+ universities worldwide have signed up individually with their own material.
- 831,216 answers graded across the platform so far.
- Rated 4.3/5 by 183 students in an independent evaluation survey at Instituto Superior Técnico (2026).
Fits the systems you already run
Fully integrated with Moodle, and connects to Canvas, Blackboard and D2L Brightspace over LTI 1.3 — marks are written back to the gradebook and class lists are read from the course. Priced per educator per year, with the per-student cost falling as a department scales; pilots are scoped around a course or department.
WorkLab turns thousands of applications into a ranked shortlist of people who can do the job.
WorkLab is Upstack AI's hiring platform. It parses CVs into structured data, scores every candidate against the requirements of the specific job description, and runs screening interviews — so a recruiter reviews a ranked shortlist, with the reasoning attached, instead of reading CVs in order of arrival. The ranking is a decision aid; a person makes the hiring decision.
CV profiling and ranking
Every CV parsed, location and requirements checked, and candidates ranked by fit to the role.
Assessments and AI interviews
Adaptive skill tests and structured AI interviews, scored against the role and fed into one candidate score.
Live interview scheduling
Book interviews with human interviewers through connected calendars.
Integrations and white-label
Calendars, LinkedIn and HR systems including BambooHR. Agencies can run WorkLab on their own domain and brand.
WorkLab has a free tier, plus monthly and annual plans priced per workspace, and is usable the same day.
The AI assists. People decide.
Human in the loop
LearnLab returns marks for an educator to approve; WorkLab returns a ranked shortlist for a recruiter to act on. Neither makes the final decision on its own.
Your data stays yours
Coursework, grades, CVs and interview transcripts are customer data and are not used to train AI models.
Hosting
Runs on Amazon Web Services with EU data hosting available. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with role-based access controls.
Regulation
GDPR- and CCPA-aligned. Built aligned by design with the principles of the EU AI Act — transparency, human oversight, documentation. Not certified, and not described as “compliant”.
More detail on the security page.
Tested in real, graded university courses
In use across courses at Instituto Superior Técnico — physics, supply chain and operations management, and materials engineering, to name a few.
Common questions
What is Upstack AI?
Upstack AI is a UAE company that builds AI-native tools for the education and hiring industries. It operates two products on a shared in-house AI layer of document parsing, assessment engines, and conversational AI: LearnLab for education and WorkLab for hiring. The company is Upstack AI FZ-LLC, headquartered in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, and serves customers globally.
What is the difference between WorkLab and LearnLab?
WorkLab is the hiring product and LearnLab is the education product. WorkLab parses CVs, ranks candidates, and runs interviews to turn a large applicant pool into a shortlist. LearnLab builds courses, grades student work automatically, and runs AI tutors. They share the same underlying AI layer but are sold, priced, and deployed separately — you do not need one to use the other.
How does LearnLab grade automatically?
Educators upload their materials and marking rubric. LearnLab's assessment engine marks submissions against that rubric — including structured and STEM problems — returns written feedback, and feeds every result into per-student analytics. A human-in-the-loop review step keeps educators in control of final grades.
Is LearnLab suitable for universities and large cohorts?
Yes. LearnLab runs a three-year departmental deployment at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, marking university physics across cohorts of several hundred students. Alongside that, lecturers and researchers at 50+ universities worldwide have signed up individually and brought their own course material. It scales to large cohorts while keeping analytics at the individual-student level.
Does a human stay in the loop for grades and hiring decisions?
Yes, by design. LearnLab returns marks and feedback for an educator to review and approve; the educator sets the final grade. WorkLab produces a ranked shortlist with the reasoning attached; the recruiter decides who to advance. Neither product is built to make the final decision on its own.
Is student or candidate data used to train AI models?
No. Student coursework, grades, candidate applications, CVs, and interview transcripts are customer data and are not used to train models. Those areas of the platform are also excluded from search and AI crawlers — see upstack.ai/robots.txt and upstack.ai/ai.txt.
How much does Upstack AI cost?
WorkLab and LearnLab are priced separately. WorkLab has a free tier plus paid monthly and annual plans, priced per workspace — see upstack.ai/pricing. LearnLab is priced per educator per year, with the per-student cost falling as a department scales — see upstack.ai/learnlab/pricing. Institutional and enterprise agreements are quoted directly.
Where is Upstack AI based, and where can it be used?
Upstack AI is headquartered in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, and operates as Upstack AI FZ-LLC. The products are used globally, with customers across the Middle East, Europe, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Portugal. Data can be hosted in the EU — see the security page for hosting detail.
All answers are on the FAQ; research on AI in education and hiring is at Insights.
Upstack AI FZ-LLC
FOAM2471, Compass Building, Al Shohada Road, AL Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. Founded 2022.
- Platforms
- LearnLab (education) · WorkLab (hiring)
- Serves
- Middle East, Europe, UK, Singapore, Portugal
- Recognition
- F6S #5 Top EdTech Company (July 2026) · QS Education Reimagined Award
- Finalist
- EBS Incubator · DOHE
- Pricing
- LearnLab per educator per year · WorkLab free tier and per-workspace plans
