Mock season. Hundreds of papers. Weeks of lag before students see a mark. And by the time they do, they have moved on. Amanda Tupper, English Strategy Lead at TKAT, knows exactly what that costs - in teacher time, in feedback quality, and in student progress. She also knows what happens when you give those hours back into the classroom.

In this candid Q&A with Olex CEO Lucien Bowater, Amanda shares what actually changed when TKAT embedded AI-assisted marking across 32,000 essays - the teach-assess-feedback-reteach loop that transformed results. At one TKAT school, Literature Grade 5+ mock results improved by 19% in a single year. No new staff. No new curriculum. Just a faster feedback cycle.