The Central Nervous System of Education Intelligence
CatalystBox is a national feedback and intelligence infrastructure that makes student voice measurable, visible, and actionable — across schools, districts, states, and the nation.
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1.56M+
Schools & Colleges across India
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290M+
Students to empower (K-12 & HE)
REACH
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Standardised feedback systems
THE GAP
🔒100% Anonymous Feedback
🪪No Login Required
🧬Zero Personal Identifiers Stored
🔐Encrypted · Aggregated Reporting Only
The Problem
A Nation's Education System Flying Blind
The education ecosystem suffers from a severe feedback gap. Students face systemic issues daily — but have no safe, structured way to be heard.
"Systemic issues remain hidden. Reforms are slow. Student well-being is often ignored — not out of neglect, but because no one built the infrastructure to listen."
Schools lack systematic feedback infrastructure. Education boards lack ground-level insight. Without data, policy decisions are made in the dark.
Bullying & HarassmentStudents rarely report incidents due to fear of retaliation or lack of safe channels.
Instructional SupportNo structured mechanism for students to request the specific help and resources they need to thrive.
Mental Health CrisisAcademic pressure builds silently with no early detection system in place.
Infrastructure GapsPhysical environment issues go untracked and unresolved across institutions.
Policy Made in the DarkEducation boards make decisions without granular, ground-level data.
The Platform
A Standardized Feedback Infrastructure
CatalystBox deploys six interconnected components that transform raw student voice into structured national education intelligence.
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Anonymous Feedback System
No login required. No personal identifiers. QR code access with multilingual support — ensuring every student can speak freely and safely.
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School Analytics Dashboard
Each school sees its happiness scores, teaching quality, bullying reports, and infrastructure complaints — with city, state, and national benchmarks.
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CatalystBox Benchmark
A national benchmarking system measuring school performance across three core parameters — creating accountability and healthy competition.
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Education Intelligence Platform
AI-powered trend detection identifies rising incidents and declining satisfaction before they become systemic crises, with NLP sentiment analysis.
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AI Consultant Layer
Based on data insights, schools receive tailored AI tool recommendations — from attendance predictors to lesson plan generators and discipline monitoring.
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AI Solutions Add-on Layer
Custom-built AI tools — attendance predictors, lesson plan generators, homework helpers, timetable optimisers — deployed directly into school operations.
CatalystBox Benchmark
National School Performance Benchmarking
A composite score built from three core dimensions of school health — making performance visible, comparable, and improvable for every institution.
Student Engagement Index (SEI)
Teacher Effectiveness Index (TEI)
Parent/Peer Trust Index (PTI)
78.4
Sample CatalystBox Score
Student Engagement Index85 / 100
Teacher Effectiveness Index78 / 100
Parent/Peer Trust Index72 / 100
National PercentileTop 18%
How It Works
From Classroom to National Intelligence
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Scan QR Code
Students, teachers, or parents scan a school-specific QR code — no app, no login needed.
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Select & Submit
Choose a feedback category and submit anonymously in any supported language.
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AI Processing
NLP and ML models analyse sentiment, detect structural trends, and flag crucial issues aggregated over the academic cycle.
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School Dashboard
School admins see actionable insights, scores, and benchmarks against city and national averages.
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Policy Intelligence
Boards and policymakers access aggregated, anonymised intelligence for evidence-based reform.
Business Model
Built to Scale. Designed for Impact.
CatalystBox is built as sustainable public infrastructure for education — with multiple value streams that serve schools, boards, researchers, and the broader education ecosystem.
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Education Insight Reports
Aggregated intelligence sold to NGOs, policy institutes, CSR programs, and think tanks making decisions about India's education.
NGO · POLICY · CSR
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Board Partnership Program
CatalystBox partners with education boards to deploy intelligence infrastructure across all affiliated schools — creating system-wide adoption and impact at scale.
BOARDS · PARTNERSHIPS
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AI Solutions for Schools
Schools partner with CatalystBox for custom AI tool implementation — attendance, lesson planning, timetable optimisation, and more.
SCHOOLS · BOARDS
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Institutional Research Data
Universities and research institutions access anonymised, aggregated datasets for academic studies on education across India.
RESEARCH · ACADEMIA
Scaling Strategy
Board by Board. Until It's National Infrastructure.
Phase 1
Pilot Phase
Launch an initial pilot with 10 select schools to establish operational baselines, refine the CatalystBox infrastructure, and validate structural insights.
INITIAL PILOT · RESEARCH
Phase 2
Multi-Board Expansion
Systematically pitch additional state and district boards. Each new partnership multiplies school coverage exponentially. Launch the CatalystBox Benchmark for inter-board benchmarking.
MULTI-BOARD · BENCHMARK
Phase 3
State-Level Intelligence
Become the authoritative source of education intelligence at state level. Deploy AI tools across partner schools. Onboard research partners and institutional buyers.
STATE · AI TOOLS · RESEARCH
Phase 4
Embedded in Annual Board Fees
CatalystBox becomes a standard line item in annual board fees — creating universal adoption, stable recurring funding, and a self-reinforcing data network.
EMBEDDED · RECURRING
Phase 5
National Infrastructure
Nationwide adoption across all major education boards. CatalystBox becomes the central nervous system of education feedback in India — then expands globally.
NATIONAL · GLOBAL
Higher Education
Extending to Higher Education
We are extending our anonymous, AI-powered feedback infrastructure beyond K–12 to India's colleges and universities. Student, faculty, alumni, and recruiter voice are synthesized into the CatalystBox Higher Education Benchmark (CHEB).
Inaugural Cohort 2027
Institutions joining the first cohort co-shape the CHEB framework and receive the first full assessment cycle at zero cost.
Fresh Eye Foundation
Build the Future of Indian Education
CatalystBox is not merely a startup — it is public digital infrastructure for education. Like Nielsen for media, like Glassdoor for workplaces, CatalystBox becomes the trusted voice of students across a nation.
A product of Fresh Eye Foundation Aligned with NEP 2020 · Student Voice · Holistic Education · Data-Driven Policy
AI Solutions Partnership
Partner With Us to Build Smarter Schools
Schools that join the CatalystBox network unlock access to a growing suite of purpose-built AI tools — designed around real feedback data from real classrooms.
AI · 01📅
AI Attendance Predictor
Identify at-risk students early with AI models that detect absenteeism patterns before they become chronic dropout risks.
AI · 02📝
AI Lesson Plan Generator
Help teachers create curriculum-aligned, differentiated lesson plans in minutes — freeing time for what matters most: teaching.
AI · 03📚
AI Homework Helper
A safe, school-approved academic support tool that guides students through problems with hints and explanations, not just answers.
Detect early behavioural patterns flagged anonymously through CatalystBox feedback and recommend timely, evidence-based interventions.
PARTNER🤝
Build Together
Have a specific need? CatalystBox partners with schools and boards to co-develop custom AI solutions grounded in your own feedback data.
School intelligence, priced for impact.
A two-layer model — a board license gets schools into the system, a dashboard subscription unlocks deeper intelligence.
Free for govt schools via Samagra Shiksha · ₹20–₹200 per student/yr for private school boards
Pricing is per Class 10 & 12 student only.
Teachers across all classes and parents from Nursery to Class 12 give feedback
completely free —
in most schools, the parent base alone is
5 to 10 times larger
than the billable headcount.
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Board signs up
A state board, CBSE, or CISCE licenses CatalystBox at ₹20–₹200 per student per year. This covers all affiliated schools automatically.
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Every school gets Core
All affiliated schools receive the free Core dashboard — a CGEB score, three-index breakdown, and national percentile. No action needed from the school.
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Schools upgrade for more
Schools that want trends, benchmarking, AI action plans, or chain-level reporting subscribe to Gold, Platinum, or Diamond — directly, any time.
Layer 1 — Board License
Priced per student, collected by the board
Schools pay nothing directly. The board adds CatalystBox to its affiliation fee and remits — the same way it handles all per-school charges today.
The pricing covers far more than what you're billed for.
The per-student rate applies only to Class 10 and Class 12 — the two exam-year cohorts. But feedback is collected from
teachers across every class in the school and
parents from Nursery through Class 12,
both completely free. In a typical 1,200-student school with 200 students in Class 10 & 12,
you are billed for 200 students but hear from 1,000+ parents and 60+ teachers —
a feedback network 6× the size of your billable headcount.
CBSE
₹150 / student / yr
= ₹12.50 per student per month. Less than the cost of one photocopied question paper.
~29,000 schools · ~65 lakh Class 10 & 12 students
Collected via CBSE annual affiliation fee. Schools see no separate invoice.
CISCE (ICSE / ISC)
₹200 / student / yr
= ₹16.67 per month. Less than a single mock exam paper per student per year.
~2,750 schools · ~6.5 lakh Class 10 & 12 students
Collected at ICSE/ISC school registration renewal. Full network coverage from day one.
State Board — Private
₹80 / student / yr
= ₹6.67 per month. Applicable to private schools across all 30 state secondary boards.
~50,000 schools · ~5 crore students in SSC & HSC
Routed through state affiliation renewal or integrated into board annual levy.
Government Schools
₹20 / student / yr
= ₹1.67 per month. Less than the cost of printing one government circular per student.
~2.2 lakh schools · ~2 crore Class 10 & 12 students
Year 1 pilot: free. Funded from Year 2 via Samagra Shiksha Component 3, PM SHRI, or CSR partners. Schools always pay nothing.
Layer 2 — School Dashboard
From snapshot to deep intelligence
Every board-licensed school gets Core automatically. Upgrading unlocks progressively deeper layers — from trends and benchmarking to AI action plans and chain-level control.
Included free
Core
₹0 / school / yr
Bundled with every board license
A read-only annual snapshot. Designed to show enough to make the school want more.
No feature lives in two tiers. Every upgrade unlocks a completely new layer of capability.
Feature
Core
Gold
Platinum
Diamond
Core snapshot
CGEB composite score (current year)
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SEI / TEI / PTI breakdown bar
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National percentile rank
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QR code generation & deployment
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Single feedback cycle per year
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Analytics & benchmarking
3-year historical trend (all indices)
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City + state peer benchmarking
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Class & section drill-down
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Issue heatmaps (stress, safety, disengagement)
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Stakeholder split view
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Annual PDF summary report
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Unlimited feedback cycles
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Email alerts on score changes
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AI intelligence & parent engagement
National cross-board benchmarking
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Gemini AI narrative action plans
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Parent-facing quality score card (URL)
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Teacher-level anonymised feedback view
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Custom survey builder (5 questions)
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Custom-branded PDF reports
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Quarterly strategy review calls
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5-year longitudinal archive
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Enterprise & chain management
Multi-campus unified dashboard (up to 10)
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ERP / SIS API integration
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Dedicated named account manager
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Custom CGEB parameter weightage
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White-label parent portal
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Chain-level aggregate reporting
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Priority support — 4-hour SLA
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Annual in-person strategy session
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Which tier is right for you?
Built for your specific context
Gold
For ambitious private schools focused on continuous improvement and local market positioning.
Perfect for
Benchmarking Compare against city competitors.
Accreditation Prep Ready-made trend reports for NAAC / inspections.
Proactive Admin Prevent escalations by addressing heatmaps early.
Platinum
For premium schools and institutions aiming for national-level excellence and parent trust.
Perfect for
Admissions Signal Share verified quality score cards with parents.
PM SHRI & CoE AI narrative reports formatted for documentation.
Custom Strategy Quarterly review calls with CatalystBox advisors.
Diamond
For large school groups needing centralized governance, API data flow, and brand consistency.
Perfect for
Multi-Campus Mgmt One master view for 10+ campuses.
ERP Integration Direct API sync with your existing SIS/ERP.
White-Labeling Custom-branded parent portal under your domain.
Common questions
Frequently asked
No. The board license covers all affiliated schools and includes the Core dashboard for every school at no direct cost to the school. The Gold, Platinum, and Diamond tiers are optional upgrades that schools pay for directly if they want deeper intelligence. The board-to-school financial flow is entirely through the board's affiliation mechanism — schools never see a separate CatalystBox invoice for the Core tier.
Yes, for IB schools and some state board private schools. IB schools can onboard directly without central board approval. For CBSE and state board schools, we recommend waiting for board adoption so your school gets the full platform (including QR deployment and CGEB scoring) rather than a standalone dashboard. Contact us and we'll tell you the fastest path for your specific board situation.
No — and this is a design principle, not just a policy. No student name, Aadhaar number, roll number, device ID, or session token is ever collected. The only identifier attached to a response is the school's board-issued affiliation code — which the board already knows. Individual responses are never exported from the system. Only aggregate indices (CGEB, SEI, TEI, PTI) and heatmaps leave the processing layer. This architecture is DPDP Act 2023 compliant and applies to every tier including Diamond.
CGEB stands for CatalystBox Global Education Benchmark — the composite school quality score. It is weighted across three index streams: SEI (Student Experience Index, 45%), TEI (Teacher Experience Index, 30%), and PTI (Parent Engagement Index, 25%). Each stream covers five parameters: Student Wellbeing (25%), Teaching Effectiveness (20%), Learning Environment (20%), Future Readiness (20%), and Parent Engagement (15%). A school's CGEB is only published once a minimum response threshold is met — preventing statistical noise from small sample sizes. Full methodology is available at catalystbox.in/research/cgeb.
Government schools never pay from their own budget. The Year 1 pilot is entirely free — funded by Fresh Eye Foundation. From Year 2, the ₹20/student/year fee is routed through Samagra Shiksha (Component 3 — school quality improvement activities), PM SHRI scheme documentation budgets, or CSR partners with education mandates. Fresh Eye Foundation holds 12A and 80G certification, making donations CSR-eligible under Section 135 of the Companies Act. The school's only commitment is permission to operate and a list of UDISE codes.
Yes. Every board-licensed school gets the Core dashboard free indefinitely — this is not a trial, it's the permanent free tier. For schools that want to evaluate Platinum before committing, we offer a 30-day Platinum preview after your first full feedback cycle completes, so you see AI action plans and the parent score card based on real data from your school. Contact hello@catalystbox.in to request access.
Ready to hear your school?
Whether you're a board, a school principal, or a government department — let's talk about what CatalystBox can do for you.
Fresh Eye Foundation
We're Building India's Education Conscience
CatalystBox was born from a simple observation: India has 1.5 million schools and 250 million students — but no structured way for any of them to be heard.
We're changing that. Not as a technology product, but as public infrastructure for a more accountable, more responsive education system.
Mission
Make Student Voice Actionable
Across India's education system, critical issues go undetected. Bullying is underreported. Teaching quality is untracked. Mental health stress builds silently.
Not because no one cares — but because no one ever built the infrastructure to listen at scale. CatalystBox is that infrastructure.
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Trust Through Anonymity
Students speak freely only when they know they're safe. Every submission is completely anonymous — structurally guaranteed, not just promised.
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Data-Driven Reform
Turning individual voices into aggregate intelligence that informs policy decisions at district, state, and national level.
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Independent & Neutral
Governed by an independent advisory board — committed to being neutral infrastructure, never a political or commercial tool.
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Designed for Scale
Built to operate across every type of school — government, aided, private — in every language, in every state.
The Organization
FEF
Fresh Eye Foundation
Independent Non-Profit Organization
Fresh Eye Foundation built CatalystBox with a clear-eyed conviction: the biggest problem in Indian education isn't the absence of solutions — it's the absence of structured, reliable data to understand what the actual problems are.
"CatalystBox is not merely a startup. It is public digital infrastructure. Like Nielsen for media, like Glassdoor for workplaces — CatalystBox becomes the trusted, independent voice of students across a nation."
We exist to build tools that give the education ecosystem a clearer, more honest view of itself — and the data to act on it.
Governance
Independent. Credible. Neutral.
CatalystBox is governed by an independent advisory board to ensure it remains trustworthy infrastructure — never a tool for surveillance, politics, or commercial exploitation.
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Educators
Experienced school leaders who ensure the platform reflects classroom realities.
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Psychologists
Child and adolescent psychologists who guide safe, ethical feedback design.
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Policy Experts
Education policy specialists who connect insights to actionable reforms.
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Child Safety Specialists
Advocates who ensure anonymity, data protection, and student safety.
The Platform
See CatalystBox in Action
Experience how student feedback seamlessly transforms into actionable intelligence for school leaders.
Bring it to your school
Experience CatalystBox at Your School
Whether you want to implement the comprehensive CatalystBox feedback infrastructure or deploy our custom AI solutions, we partner directly with schools, administrators, and boards.
✓Integrate purpose-built AI solutions for your operations.
CB
Delhi Public School, Sector 45
Academic Year 2024–25 · Updated just now
LIVE
March 2025
CatalystBox Score
78.4
National Top 18%
Student Happiness
82
↑ +4 this month
Teaching Quality
76
↓ –2 this month
Academic Pressure
68
⚠ Monitor closely
Parent Engagement
71
→ Stable
Feedback Volume — Last 6 MonthsTREND
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Flagged CategoriesTHIS MONTH
Academic Pressure
24↑
Bullying Reports
7↓
Infrastructure
12→
Teaching Quality
5↓
vs. City Average
78.4
+6.2 ↑
vs. State Average
78.4
+9.1 ↑
vs. National Average
78.4
+11.4 ↑
SAMPLE DASHBOARD · DATA IS ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY
Vision
A Model That Has Worked Before
CatalystBox follows the blueprint of institutions that became indispensable by making invisible things measurable.
COMPARABLE MODEL · MEDIA
Nielsen
Nielsen became indispensable to the media industry by creating neutral, trusted audience measurement infrastructure. Before Nielsen, media decisions were made on intuition. CatalystBox does the same for education.
COMPARABLE MODEL · WORKPLACE
Glassdoor
Glassdoor transformed workplace transparency by giving employees an anonymous, structured voice. It became the most trusted signal of organisational health. CatalystBox does this for schools — at national scale.
Support
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything schools, boards, and partners commonly ask about CatalystBox — answered honestly and clearly.
Categories
General Questions
CatalystBox is a national education feedback and intelligence infrastructure built for India. It gives students, teachers, and parents a safe, anonymous channel to share their experiences — and turns that feedback into structured insights for schools, education boards, and policymakers.
Think of it as the central nervous system of education feedback — making student voice measurable, visible, and actionable at every level.
CatalystBox serves the entire education ecosystem. Students, teachers, and parents are the primary voices. School administrators and education boards use the analytics dashboards. Policymakers, NGOs, researchers, and CSR foundations use the intelligence reports to make informed decisions.
Yes. CatalystBox directly supports NEP 2020 principles — including student voice, holistic education, mental health focus, and data-driven policy making. It provides the feedback infrastructure that NEP 2020's vision requires but which currently does not exist in a structured form.
✓ NEP 2020 Aligned
No special hardware is required. CatalystBox works through QR codes and mobile web — students simply scan a code and submit feedback on any smartphone. School administrators access dashboards through a standard web browser. No app downloads, no installations.
Privacy & Safety
Yes — completely. CatalystBox is designed from the ground up for anonymity. No login is required, no personal identifiers are collected, and responses are not linked to any device in a way that can identify an individual. Only aggregated, anonymised data is ever shown in dashboards.
Even school administrators cannot trace a response back to a specific student, teacher, or parent. This is a structural guarantee, not a policy promise.
🔒 No Personal Identifiers Collected
CatalystBox stores anonymised feedback responses, the school identifier, the feedback category, and timestamps for trend analysis. It does not store names, phone numbers, email addresses, photos, or any information that could identify a respondent.
This is architecturally prevented. Individual responses are never surfaced in dashboards — schools only see aggregate scores and trends. There is no way for administrators, teachers, or anyone else to associate a specific response with a specific person.
Never. Individual or identifiable data is not shared with any third party. Aggregated, anonymised insights may be made available to researchers and policy institutes — but these contain no information traceable back to any individual.
Feedback System
Each school receives a unique QR code. Students scan it with any smartphone — no app needed — and are taken to a simple, mobile-friendly form. They select a feedback category, answer a few questions, and submit anonymously. The entire process takes under two minutes.
📱 Any Smartphone · No App · Multilingual
CatalystBox covers bullying and harassment, teaching quality, mental health and academic pressure, infrastructure and facilities, general school environment, and parent engagement. Schools can also request additional categories specific to their context.
Yes. CatalystBox is designed for the entire school community. Parents have forms focused on communication and transparency. Teachers can share professional feedback about working conditions and resources. All responses remain equally anonymous.
Each school has a unique QR code and submission token. The system uses IP clustering and device-level signals to limit duplicates and detect anomalous patterns. The AI layer also flags statistically unusual spikes for review — ensuring data integrity without compromising anonymity.
Dashboard & Data
Each school receives a live analytics dashboard showing their CatalystBox Score, student happiness index, teaching quality rating, bullying incident trends, infrastructure complaints, and academic pressure indicators — all benchmarked against city, state, and national averages.
📊 Live · Benchmarked · Actionable
The CatalystBox Benchmark is a composite school performance score built structurally from three core indices: Student Engagement (SEI), Teacher Effectiveness (TEI), and Parent/Peer Trust (PTI). It allows schools to track core improvement dimensions internally and compare systematically.
CatalystBox feedback and reporting are designed around the academic cycle. Dashboard metrics and AI-flagged alerts are aggregated and processed annually to provide comprehensive, systemic insights aligned with the school year. School administrators and boards receive their structured intelligence reports on a yearly cadence.
Yes. Education boards have access to an aggregated board-level view showing performance trends across all affiliated schools. This gives boards powerful ground-level intelligence for policy decisions and targeted interventions.
AI Solutions
CatalystBox offers a growing suite of AI tools purpose-built for schools: an AI Attendance Predictor, AI Lesson Plan Generator, AI Homework Helper, AI Timetable Optimiser, and an AI Discipline Monitor that uses feedback patterns to recommend early interventions.
Schools can also partner with us to co-develop custom AI tools based on their specific needs and their own data.
The AI tools are a separate layer that schools can opt into. The feedback and intelligence platform is the core of CatalystBox. AI tools are offered as an additional partnership for schools that want to go further — using CatalystBox insights to actively improve operations.
No. CatalystBox handles implementation, training, and ongoing support. School staff interact with simple, intuitive interfaces designed for educators — not engineers. Our team works closely with each school to ensure smooth onboarding.
✓ Full Implementation Support Included
Partnership
The simplest way is to reach out through our Contact page or fill in our Partner With Us form. We'll schedule a conversation to understand your context, walk you through what CatalystBox looks like for your institution, and outline next steps.
→ Start at our Contact page
Absolutely. CatalystBox is designed to serve all schools — government, aided, and private. Government schools, which often lack formal feedback mechanisms entirely, stand to benefit the most. CatalystBox can be deployed across an entire government board's school network through a single partnership agreement.
CatalystBox maintains an independent advisory board comprising educators, psychologists, child safety specialists, and policy experts. This board oversees data governance and ethical guidelines — ensuring CatalystBox remains a neutral, credible infrastructure, not a commercial surveillance tool.
Yes. NGOs, CSR foundations, and research institutions can partner with CatalystBox to access aggregated education intelligence reports, fund deployment in underserved school networks, or co-design impact measurement programs. Reach out to explore what a partnership might look like.
Still have questions?
Our team is happy to walk you through anything — whether you're a school principal, board official, NGO, or researcher.
Get In Touch
Let's Build Something That Matters
Whether you're a school principal, board official, NGO, or researcher — we'd love to hear from you. Every conversation starts with a simple hello.
For all partnership enquiries, board proposals, and general questions. We respond within 48 hours.
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Organisation
Fresh Eye Foundation
CatalystBox is a product of Fresh Eye Foundation, an independent organisation focused on building transparent, data-driven tools for India's education ecosystem.
Who Should Reach Out
SCHOOL
School Principals & AdministratorsWant to bring CatalystBox to your school? Let's talk.
BOARD
Education Boards & OfficialsInterested in a board-wide partnership? We'll put together a tailored proposal.
NGO / CSR
NGOs, Foundations & CSR TeamsLooking to fund CatalystBox deployment or access education intelligence?
RESEARCH
Researchers & AcademicsInterested in anonymised education datasets? Reach out to discuss scope.
OTHER
Media, Press & OthersFor press enquiries or any other reason — use the form and we'll get back to you.
Looking to partner with CatalystBox?Fill in our dedicated Partner With Us form and our team will reach out with a tailored proposal for your school or board.
Send Us a Message
Fill in the form below — our team will get back to you within 48 hours on working days.
Have a quick question? Many common queries about how CatalystBox works, our privacy model, and partnership process are already answered in our FAQ section.
Privacy & Safety
Your Voice. Always Anonymous.
This policy explains how CatalystBox handles the data of every student, teacher, parent, and visitor who interacts with our platform.
Our foundational commitment is absolute: we will never collect, store, or use information that could identify you as an individual.
🔒 100% Anonymous Feedback🪪 No Login Required🧬 Zero Personal Identifiers🔐 Aggregated Reporting Only
Version
1.0 — 2025
Governing Law
DPDP Act 2023 · IT Act 2000
Applies To
catalystbox.in · All CatalystBox Forms
Who We Are
About CatalystBox
CatalystBox is a national education feedback and intelligence platform operated by Fresh Eye Foundation — a civic intelligence organisation registered as a One Person Company under the Companies Act of India, headquartered in Uttar Pradesh.
For the purposes of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, Fresh Eye Foundation is the Data Fiduciary for all data processed through CatalystBox. Privacy contact: hello@catalystbox.in.
Scope
Where This Policy Applies
This Privacy Policy covers: the CatalystBox website at catalystbox.in, the CatalystBox analytics dashboard, and all anonymous feedback forms deployed by CatalystBox to schools and institutions.
It governs three groups: feedback respondents (students, teachers, parents who submit feedback), website visitors (anyone who browses catalystbox.in), and dashboard users (school administrators and board officials who access the analytics platform). Each group is addressed separately below.
Feedback Respondent Data
When You Submit Feedback
This is the most important section for students, teachers, and parents. Read it carefully — it explains exactly why you are safe when you speak through CatalystBox.
"We have built CatalystBox so that identifying who submitted a response is architecturally impossible. Not just against policy — impossible."
What we collect from you
School identifier code — pre-filled in the form link. Identifies the school, not you.
Academic year — pre-filled. Used for trend analysis over time.
Respondent type — student, teacher, or parent. A category, not an identity.
Scaled survey responses — your numeric ratings for school quality questions.
Open text response — optional. AI-processed for sentiment only. Never shared. Please don't include personal names.
Gender — student forms only, aggregated. Used for the girl student experience metric. Not used for identification.
Submission timestamp — server-generated. Used for fraud detection at school level.
What we never collect from you
Your name, email address, phone number, device ID or fingerprint, IP address (not logged), GPS location, photograph, biometric data, social media profile, caste or religion. These fields do not exist in our forms. They cannot be submitted.
Legal basis
Processing is based on your voluntary consent by choosing to submit the form. Because we collect no personal identifiers, most of what we hold does not constitute "personal data" under the DPDP Act 2023. We nonetheless apply the Act's standards as a matter of policy — not just legal compliance.
Website Visitor Data
When You Visit catalystbox.in
Our hosting infrastructure transiently processes your IP address to serve the page to your browser. We do not store it. It is not logged. It is not associated with your visit.
CatalystBox does not use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or any third-party behavioural tracking on its website. We do not track you across sessions or across sites. Our website sets no persistent cookies when you browse it.
Dashboard User Data
School Admin & Board Access
School administrators and board officials who access the CatalystBox analytics dashboard have accounts in our system. We hold: email address (for login), assigned role, affiliated institution, and account timestamps.
This data is used solely to provide authenticated access. It is not used for marketing or profiling. Accounts can be deleted at any time by writing to hello@catalystbox.in. Accounts inactive for 12 months are deleted automatically.
Cookies & Tracking
We Don't Track You
The CatalystBox website
No cookies. No tracking scripts. No analytics. Visiting catalystbox.in leaves no traceable record with us beyond what hosting infrastructure processes transiently to serve the page.
Feedback forms
Our feedback forms are delivered through a third-party form provider. That provider may set functional cookies as part of their infrastructure — governed by their own privacy policy. We do not access or process any cookies they set.
Dashboard application
The dashboard maintains your session using a session token that expires automatically after 8 hours. It is used for no purpose other than keeping you logged in.
📢 No advertising cookies — ever
CatalystBox uses no advertising or remarketing technology anywhere. No Meta Pixel. No Google Ads. This is a permanent commitment.
How We Use Data
Data Used Only for School Intelligence
Feedback response data
Scoring: Compute school quality dimension scores and the CatalystBox composite benchmark index.
Sentiment analysis: Extract qualitative signals from optional open text to detect school-level patterns.
Benchmarking: Aggregate school scores into city, district, state, and national comparisons.
Research: Provide anonymised aggregated datasets to research partners — no individual response data is used for this purpose.
Fraud prevention: Detect and exclude anomalous or duplicate submissions at school level.
Website and dashboard data
Page delivery: IP addresses processed transiently by hosting infrastructure only. Not stored by us.
Authentication: Dashboard account details used to verify identity and authorise access only.
We do not use any data for advertising, marketing, behavioural profiling, or training AI models. We do not sell data. Full stop.
Sharing & Disclosure
Who We Share Data With
CatalystBox shares data only in these specific circumstances:
With schools: Their own aggregate scores and trends only. No individual responses. No other schools' data.
With education boards: Aggregate metrics for affiliated schools only. No individual responses.
With infrastructure providers: Third-party services that power our operations process data as required for those specific functions only, under data processing agreements.
With research partners: Anonymised, aggregated datasets under signed agreements with anonymisation requirements and minimum cohort size thresholds to prevent re-identification.
Under legal compulsion: Only when required by a valid, binding legal order from a competent Indian authority. We notify affected parties to the extent the law permits.
We never share individual response data, school scores with unaffiliated parties, or any data with commercial data brokers or advertisers.
Student Privacy
Extra Protection for Every Student
CatalystBox is used by students — many of them under 18. The DPDP Act 2023 imposes specific obligations on systems handling children's data. Our architecture goes further than the law requires.
Because CatalystBox collects no personal identifiers from any respondent, it does not hold personal data about children in the conventional sense. Beyond that architectural guarantee, we apply these specific additional safeguards:
🚫No profiling, targeting, or commercial use — permanently
We do not build individual profiles from student responses. We do not use student data for advertising, recommendations, or targeting of any kind. Data from student submissions will never be sold or commercially transferred. This restriction is permanent and not subject to revision.
⏳Shorter retention for student open text
Open text from student forms is deleted after 12 months — shorter than numeric responses — because free text carries a greater risk of inadvertent personal disclosure.
🏫Schools ensure informed participation
CatalystBox has no direct contact with students outside the anonymous form. Schools that deploy our QR codes are responsible for communicating the voluntary and anonymous nature of participation to students and for applying any applicable child safety obligations.
📩 For parents and guardians
If you have concerns about data from your child's school, write to hello@catalystbox.in. We cannot retrieve a specific student's response — by design, we cannot link any response to any individual. But we can confirm our practices in writing and provide assurance of deletion per our schedule.
Your Rights
Your Rights Under DPDP Act 2023
Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, you have rights with respect to personal data held about you. Here is how those rights apply given our anonymous architecture.
🗂️ Right to Access
For feedback respondents: we hold no identifying information — no record linked to you exists. For dashboard users: contact us to receive a copy of your account data.
✏️ Right to Correction
For feedback respondents: responses cannot be linked to your identity. For dashboard users: contact us to update your account details.
🗑️ Right to Erasure
All response data is automatically deleted per our retention schedule. Dashboard users may request account deletion at any time. Completed within 30 days of request.
🔄 Right to Withdraw Consent
Participation is voluntary. Simply not submitting a form is all that is required. Dashboard users may request account closure at any time.
📢 Right to Grievance Redressal
Raise any privacy concern at hello@catalystbox.in. We acknowledge within 3 business days and resolve within 10 business days.
⚖️ Right to Escalate
If unsatisfied with our response, you have the right to escalate to the Data Protection Board of India under the DPDP Act 2023 framework.
Security
How We Protect Data
CatalystBox implements encryption in transit (TLS/HTTPS), encryption at rest, role-based access controls, and audit logging across all systems.
The most meaningful security measure is structural: a breach of our response database cannot expose personal information about respondents — the database contains none. The only data at risk in a security incident is school-level aggregate metrics, which are not personal data.
In the event of a security incident, we follow our Data Governance Charter — containing the incident within 24 hours, notifying affected parties within 72 hours, and publishing a public summary within 30 days.
Policy Changes
When This Policy Changes
Material changes — any change that reduces privacy protections or alters how we use data — require a minimum 30-day public notice period before taking effect.
Non-material changes — clarifications, corrections, additions for new features using the same data model — may be made without notice.
We acknowledge all privacy communications within 3 business days and provide a substantive response within 10 business days. For technical data architecture details, see our Data Governance Charter.
Data Governance
Our Commitment to Zero Identity Data
CatalystBox is built on a single, non-negotiable commitment:
the students, teachers, and parents who use our platform can never be identified from anything they submit.
This charter documents exactly what that means — what we collect, what we never collect, and the rules that govern every data decision we make.
🔒 Anonymity by Architecture🪪 Zero Personal Identifiers🧬 No Login Required🔐 Aggregated Reporting Only
Version
1.0 — 2025
Governing Law
DPDP Act 2023 · IT Act 2000
Operated by
Fresh Eye Foundation
Questions
hello@catalystbox.in
Foundational Principles
Rules We Will Never Break
These are not policies — they are the constraints within which CatalystBox is built. No commercial rationale, partner request, or technical shortcut can override them.
🏗️Anonymity by architecture, not by promise
We do not collect personal identifiers and then promise not to use them. We build systems where those fields do not exist. A policy can be changed. An architecture with no field for a name cannot leak one.
📐Collect only what the output requires
Every data point we collect must directly contribute to a school quality score, a trend, or an alert. If it doesn't, we don't collect it. This ensures a data breach can never expose what we never held.
📊Schools receive scores, never individual voices
No individual response is visible to any party — including the school it came from. A school sees a CatalystBox Score and dimension trends. It never sees a response traceable to a specific student, teacher, or parent.
🛡️The system protects respondents from institutions
The student most likely to have important things to say is often most at risk if identified. Our anonymity architecture ensures no administrator, teacher, or board official can ever determine who said what — regardless of their access level.
🚫No sale or commercial transfer of response data — ever
CatalystBox will never sell, licence, or commercially transfer raw response data to any third party. Our commercial model operates on aggregated intelligence products — school reports, benchmarks, policy datasets — not on the underlying responses.
What We Collect
The Complete Data Inventory
The following is every data field collected through CatalystBox feedback forms. Nothing beyond this list is collected.
Field
Type
Purpose
Collected
School Identifier Code
Institutional
Attribute responses to the correct school for scoring
✓ Yes
Academic Year
Temporal
Year-on-year trend analysis
✓ Yes
Respondent Type
Category only
Weight responses across dimension scores
✓ Yes
Scaled Survey Responses
Numeric ratings
Input to school quality dimension scores
✓ Yes
Open Text Response
Unstructured text (optional)
Qualitative signal extraction via AI sentiment analysis
✓ Yes
Gender (student forms only)
Category, aggregated
Girl student experience equity metric
✓ Yes
Submission Timestamp
Server-generated
Fraud detection at school level
✓ Yes
🔒 On the optional open text field
This field is processed by AI for sentiment classification only. Raw text is never shared externally, never shown in dashboards, and deleted on a shorter schedule than numeric responses. Please do not include personal names in this field.
What We Never Collect
Permanently Excluded Data
These categories are permanently excluded. They are not fields we hold but protect — they are fields our system cannot receive.
Data Category
Collected
Reason
Name (any)
✗ Never
Primary anonymity guarantee — foundational to the system's credibility
Email address
✗ Never
No login required; no contact information collected at any point
Phone number
✗ Never
Not requested; not required for form submission
Device ID or fingerprint
✗ Never
Fraud prevention uses session-based methods only — no persistent device tracking
IP address (stored)
✗ Never stored
Transiently visible at network layer; never logged or linked to any response
GPS or location
✗ Never
School identified by pre-filled code — no location capture performed
Biometric data
✗ Never
Not required; not requested; not captured under any circumstance
Social media profile
✗ Never
No social login; no account creation required to respond
Caste, religion, or community
✗ Never
Sensitive personal data under DPDP Act 2023; outside our scope entirely
"The school identifier code is the deepest identifier in our system. It points to an institution — never to a person."
How Data Flows
From Submission to School Intelligence
Every piece of data follows a defined path from the moment a respondent submits a form to the moment an insight reaches a dashboard.
01 · Submission
A respondent scans a school-specific QR code. The form opens with the school's identifier and academic year pre-filled. The respondent answers scaled survey questions and an optional free-text field. No personal information is requested at any point in this flow.
02 · Processing & scoring
Responses are processed into school-level quality scores across multiple dimensions. The individual response record is the input — a school-level aggregate is the only output carried into any downstream layer. Individual records are not accessible through any dashboard or report.
03 · AI sentiment analysis
Open text responses are analysed by AI for sentiment classification and signal extraction. Results are aggregated at school level before delivery. The original text is held only in secured internal systems, subject to our retention schedule, and never appears in any output delivered externally.
04 · Dashboard delivery
School and board dashboards display aggregate scores, trends, dimension breakdowns, and comparative benchmarks. No individual response appears at any point in the delivery layer. Every figure a school or board sees is a statistical aggregate derived from multiple responses.
Access & Disclosure
Who Sees What Data
Access to CatalystBox data is role-based and strictly segmented. The boundaries below are enforced at the system level — they are not guidelines, they are permissions.
School Administrator
Can see
Own school's aggregate scores, dimension trends, comparative benchmarks, risk flags
Cannot see
Individual responses, any other school's data
Education Board
Can see
Affiliated schools' aggregate metrics, board-level distribution and benchmarking
Cannot see
Individual responses, non-affiliated school data
Research Partners
Can see
Anonymised aggregate datasets — minimum cohort threshold applies
Cannot see
Individual responses, identifiable data of any kind
CSR & NGO Partners
Can see
Aggregate programme-level impact metrics per funding agreement
Cannot see
Individual responses, data outside agreed scope
Government / Law Enforcement
Can see
Data only under a valid, binding legal order — we do not volunteer data
Cannot see
Anything in the absence of legal compulsion
We do not share individual response data with any third party except under a valid legal order, to research partners under signed agreements with anonymisation requirements, or to infrastructure providers necessary to operate the platform. All research disclosures require minimum cohort sizes to prevent re-identification.
Student Data Protections
Extra Safeguards for Every Student
Most CatalystBox respondents are students — many of them under 18. The DPDP Act 2023 establishes specific protections for children's data. We apply stricter standards than the law requires.
🧬No personal data from students — structurally guaranteed
Because CatalystBox collects no personal identifiers from anyone, it does not hold personal data about minors in the conventional sense. A numeric rating submitted without any name or identifier cannot be linked to a specific student under any definition of personal data.
🚫No profiling, targeting, or commercial use — ever, permanently
We do not build individual profiles from student responses. We do not use student data for advertising, recommendations, or targeting of any kind. Data from student submissions will never be sold or commercially transferred in any form. This restriction is permanent and not subject to revision.
🏫Schools mediate student participation
CatalystBox has no direct contact with students outside the anonymous feedback form. Schools distribute QR codes and are responsible for communicating the voluntary and anonymous nature of participation, and for applying any child safety obligations under their own institutional rules.
⏳Shorter data retention for student open text
Open text responses from student forms are deleted after 12 months — shorter than numeric responses — because free text carries a greater risk of inadvertent personal disclosure. Sentiment scores derived from the text are retained separately as part of aggregate school records.
Data Retention
How Long We Hold Data
Individual response records24 months
Retained from the end of the academic year in which they were submitted. Permanently deleted at the close of this period. Cannot be restored once deleted.
Open text responses12 months
Shorter schedule than numeric responses given the higher potential for inadvertent personal information in free text. AI sentiment scores from this text are retained separately as part of aggregate school records.
School aggregate scoresIndefinite
Retained for longitudinal trend analysis and year-on-year benchmarking. These records contain no individual-level data and present no anonymity risk.
System audit logs5 years
Retained for security review and regulatory compliance. Audit logs do not contain any response content.
Your Rights
Your Rights Under DPDP Act 2023
Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, you have rights with respect to personal data held about you. Here is how those rights apply given our anonymised architecture.
Right to access and correction
Because CatalystBox holds no identifying information, there is no "your record" we can retrieve or correct for feedback respondents. This is a design choice, not a limitation on willingness. All response data is automatically deleted per our retention schedule. Dashboard users (school administrators) may contact us to access or correct account details.
Right to erasure
Respondents who want written confirmation that responses from a specific school and period have been deleted may request this at hello@catalystbox.in. We will confirm in writing.
Right to object
Participation is entirely voluntary. Not submitting a form is all that is required. Non-participation has no consequence for any respondent.
Right to grievance redressal
Any concern about our data practices may be raised at hello@catalystbox.in. We acknowledge within 3 business days and provide a substantive response within 10 business days.
Oversight
Independent. Credible. Neutral.
Independent Advisory Board
CatalystBox is governed by an Independent Advisory Board comprising educators, child psychologists, data privacy specialists, and child safety experts. The Board reviews data governance practices annually. Its recommendations on privacy protections are binding on CatalystBox operations.
Charter revision
Material changes to this charter — any change that reduces privacy protections for respondents — require a minimum 30-day public notice period before taking effect. Non-material changes (clarifications, corrections) may be made without notice.
Security incidents
In the event of a security incident, CatalystBox will: contain it within 24 hours; assess scope within 72 hours; notify affected institutional partners; notify the relevant data protection authority per DPDP Act 2023; and publish a public summary within 30 days. A breach of our response data cannot expose personal information — none is held.
Contact
Questions? We're Listening.
For questions about this charter, data practices, or your rights:
CatalystBox — Data Governance
A product of Fresh Eye Foundation · Uttar Pradesh, India hello@catalystbox.in
We respond within 10 business days. For urgent security matters, mark your subject line URGENT: Data Security.
If you have concerns about data from your child's school, write to hello@catalystbox.in. Because we hold no identifying information about students, we cannot retrieve a specific student's response — but we can confirm our practices in writing and provide assurance of deletion per our schedule.
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Abstract
Problem
Framework
Parameters
Methodology
Scoring
Privacy
Applications
Limitations
About
Methodology White Paper · Version 1.0
The CatalystBox
Global Education Benchmark
A framework for measuring school experience
across student wellbeing, teaching effectiveness,
learning environment, parent engagement, and future readiness.
Published byFresh Eye Foundation
PlatformCatalystBox
Version1.0 — April 2026
ClassificationPublic — Open Access
Preface
The CatalystBox Global Education Benchmark (CGEB) is an open methodology for measuring school experience — the lived, felt quality of education — across three stakeholder groups: students, teachers, and parents. Unlike existing assessment frameworks that measure academic outcomes through standardized tests, the CGEB captures experience, wellbeing, and institutional responsiveness in real time. This paper describes the conceptual basis of the benchmark, its five measurement parameters, the anonymous data collection methodology, the composite scoring engine, and the safeguards that protect participant privacy. The CGEB is designed for use across education systems globally, from government schools in low-income countries to international schools in high-income markets, using a single standardized measurement infrastructure.
Education systems worldwide are among the largest institutions humanity has ever built. India alone enrolls 250 million students. The United States spends over $800 billion annually on K-12 education. Indonesia's education ministry oversees 50 million learners. Yet across these systems — and virtually every other education system on Earth — there is a striking absence: no standardized infrastructure for capturing the real-time, anonymous experience of the people inside schools.
2.5M
Formal schools operating globally with no standardized experience feedback
1.7B
Students enrolled in those schools whose voices are structurally uncaptured
$6T
Annual global education expenditure with minimal ground-level experience data
3 yrs
Typical cycle between PISA assessments — the most frequent major international measure
Existing measurement frameworks, including PISA (OECD), TIMSS, and national standardized examinations, measure what students know at a point in time. They do not measure what students experience continuously. They capture outcomes, not conditions.
"Schools are not just knowledge factories. They are environments in which children spend 15,000 hours of their lives. The quality of that environment — as experienced by students, teachers, and parents — is invisible to the systems that govern it."
The consequences of this feedback void are measurable. Systemic problems — teacher disengagement, bullying cultures, inadequate infrastructure, academic pressure crises — persist undetected until they become crises. Policy reforms are designed without ground-level signal. Students who might raise early warning signs have no structured, safe, anonymous channel to do so.
The CGEB is designed to close this gap. It provides education systems with a continuous, anonymous, AI-processed signal from the three groups most directly experiencing school quality: students, teachers, and parents.
The Framework
The CGEB Architecture
The CatalystBox Global Education Benchmark is a composite index — a single numerical score between 0 and 100 that summarizes the overall quality of a school's experience environment. It is calculated from five weighted parameters, each capturing a distinct dimension of school life.
The CGEB is distinct from academic performance indexes in three fundamental ways:
Three Defining Distinctions
Experience-first, not outcome-first. The CGEB measures how school feels to its participants, not what students can demonstrate on a test.
Three-stakeholder architecture. Student voice, teacher voice, and parent voice are weighted independently and combined — no single group's perspective dominates.
Real-time and continuous. Data is collected year-round through always-available QR-based forms, not through periodic high-stakes assessments.
The framework is curriculum-agnostic by design. It makes no assumptions about pedagogical approach, subject matter, or assessment type. A government school in rural Kenya and an IB World School in Singapore can both receive meaningful CGEB scores, and those scores are comparable because they measure the same underlying dimensions of experience.
The Three Index Streams
Before calculation of the composite CGEB score, responses are organized into three independent index streams reflecting each stakeholder group. These streams are valuable in their own right — a school may have a high SEI but a low TEI, signaling that students feel well-supported but teachers do not.
SEI
Student Experience Index · 45%
+
TEI
Teacher Experience Index · 30%
+
PTI
Parent Engagement Index · 25%
=
CGEB
Composite Score 0 – 100
Student voice weighted highest (45%) · Scores normalized to 0–100 scale · Minimum response threshold required per stream
Measurement Parameters
The Five Parameters
The CGEB measures five dimensions of school experience, each weighted according to its contribution to holistic school quality. These parameters were derived from a synthesis of international education quality frameworks, including UNESCO's Education for All framework, the OECD's Education at a Glance indicators, the Sustainable Development Goal 4 targets, and empirical research on school climate and student wellbeing.
Student Wellbeing
25%
Teaching Effectiveness
20%
Learning Environment
20%
Future Readiness
20%
Parent Engagement
15%
01
Student Wellbeing
Measures the physical, emotional, and social wellbeing of students within the school environment. Covers safety from bullying and harassment, mental health support, sense of belonging, equitable treatment, and freedom to express concerns without fear. This parameter receives the highest weight (25%) because student wellbeing is foundational to all other educational outcomes.
SafetyMental HealthBelongingAnti-BullyingEquity
25%
02
Teaching Effectiveness
Captures the quality of instructional practice as experienced by students and observed by teachers themselves. Measures pedagogical quality, student engagement in lessons, feedback frequency, differentiation for diverse learners, and teacher-student relationships. Data is collected from both students (their experience of being taught) and teachers (their self-reported professional conditions).
PedagogyEngagementFeedbackRelationships
20%
03
Learning Environment
Assesses the physical and institutional conditions in which learning occurs. Covers classroom infrastructure, access to learning materials, cleanliness and safety of facilities, digital access, library resources, and the broader institutional culture (inclusion, discipline fairness, institutional responsiveness to concerns). Not limited to physical infrastructure — also captures whether the school's systems support effective learning.
InfrastructureDigital AccessInclusionResources
20%
04
Future Readiness
Measures the degree to which the school prepares students for life beyond the classroom — including career guidance, critical thinking development, digital literacy, vocational exposure, and preparation for higher education. This parameter specifically addresses whether students feel equipped for the transitions that follow school, and whether teachers feel supported in delivering future-relevant learning.
Career GuidanceCritical ThinkingDigital LiteracyTransitions
20%
05
Parent Engagement
Captures the quality of the school-family relationship. Measures communication frequency and clarity, responsiveness of school leadership to parental concerns, inclusion of parents in school decisions, and parents' sense of trust in the institution. Parent feedback is treated as an independent data stream (PTI) reflecting the family's experience of the school as an institution, distinct from the child's in-school experience.
CommunicationTrustResponsivenessInclusion
15%
Data Collection
The Methodology
The CGEB is built on an anonymous, QR-code-based, mobile-first data collection methodology. The design reflects three non-negotiable constraints: anonymity must be absolute; accessibility must not require device installation or network infrastructure beyond a basic smartphone; universality must allow deployment in any school in any country without logistical complexity.
Collection Architecture
Stakeholder
Access Method
Form Type
Frequency
Students (Cls 10 & 12)
QR code on school notice board or classroom poster
Structured + open text. Covers wellbeing, teaching, environment, future readiness.
Ongoing; minimum quarterly analysis cycles
Teachers
QR code on staffroom notice board or via school admin
Structured + open text. Covers professional conditions, support, and pedagogy confidence.
Ongoing; minimum quarterly
Parents / Guardians
QR code on school communications, report cards, or notice board
Structured + open text. Covers communication, trust, and child experience at home.
Ongoing; minimum semi-annual
The Data Pipeline
1
Response Submission
Participant scans the school-specific QR code on a smartphone. No app download required. The form loads in the mobile browser. No login, no email, no name. School identity is encoded in the QR code itself — participants do not select a school manually.
2
Raw Data Collection
Responses are written to a secure database. Each response record includes: school identifier, stakeholder type, structured scale responses (Likert, multiple choice), open-text responses, and timestamp. No device fingerprint, no IP address, no personal identifier of any kind is stored.
3
ETL Processing
Raw responses are extracted, transformed, and loaded into the analytics pipeline. Structured responses are normalized to a 0–100 scale per item. Open-text responses are queued for AI sentiment analysis.
4
AI Sentiment Analysis
Open-text responses are processed by a large language model (LLM) to extract sentiment polarity, topic classification, and issue detection. The AI layer identifies signals such as bullying mentions, safety concerns, wellbeing deterioration, and positive practice patterns. No individual response is attributed to any person.
5
CGEB Score Calculation
Parameter scores are calculated from normalized structured responses. SEI, TEI, and PTI are computed from their respective stakeholder streams. The composite CGEB is calculated using the weighted formula. A minimum response threshold per stream is required before a score is published.
6
Dashboard Publication
Scores are published to the school dashboard, visible to authorized school administrators and principals. Benchmark comparisons (city, state, national, global) are displayed contextually. Individual response data is never displayed — only aggregated scores and trend lines.
The Scoring Engine
Score Calculation & Benchmarking
All CGEB scores are expressed on a normalized 0–100 scale where higher scores indicate a more positive experience environment. The scoring engine applies a hierarchical calculation: individual items → parameter scores → stream indexes → composite CGEB.
Normalization
Structured items use Likert scales (typically 1–5 or 1–4). Each item is normalized to 0–100. For a 5-point scale, the formula is: Normalized Score = (Raw Response − 1) / (5 − 1) × 100. This ensures all items contribute equally regardless of original scale range.
Minimum Response Thresholds
To prevent statistically unreliable scores from being published, each index stream requires a minimum number of valid responses before a score is reported. Scores below threshold are shown as "Insufficient Data" in dashboards and excluded from benchmark comparisons. Thresholds are school-size-adjusted.
Stream
Minimum Responses
Rationale
SEI (Student)
15 valid responses
Sufficient for statistical reliability at school level; equivalent to ~1 classroom
TEI (Teacher)
5 valid responses
Lower threshold reflects smaller teaching populations; protects anonymity in small schools
PTI (Parent)
10 valid responses
Balanced between reliability and the practical difficulty of parent engagement
CGEB (Composite)
All three streams must meet threshold
Composite score is only published when all streams are independently valid
Benchmarking Tiers
A CGEB score is most meaningful when contextualized. Each school's score is compared against four benchmark tiers, displayed on the school dashboard:
Benchmark Tiers
School Historical: The school's own score trend over time — is it improving or declining?
City/District Average: How does this school compare to peers in the same urban or district context?
National Average: How does this school compare nationally, by board and school type?
Global Average: Once sufficient international data exists, global comparison by income band and school type.
Intelligence Layer
AI & Sentiment Processing
The CGEB includes an AI-powered intelligence layer that processes open-text responses to extract signals that structured questions alone cannot capture. This layer detects issue patterns, sentiment trends, and emerging concerns — surfacing them for school administrators without exposing individual responses.
What the AI Layer Does
Function
Description
Output
Sentiment Classification
Classifies each open-text response as positive, neutral, or negative; identifies emotional tone
Sentiment distribution per parameter per time period
Topic Extraction
Identifies the specific issues mentioned in responses (e.g., "homework pressure", "teacher favouritism", "dirty toilets")
Ranked list of most-mentioned issues per school
Issue Flagging
Detects high-severity signals including bullying mentions, safety concerns, mental health distress, and harassment language
Alert notifications to school dashboard (aggregated — never individual)
Trend Detection
Identifies statistically significant changes in sentiment or issue frequency over time
Trend alerts: "Mentions of academic pressure have increased 40% in the last 30 days"
"The AI layer does not replace human judgment. It amplifies weak signals that would otherwise be invisible in aggregated data — giving school leaders the chance to act before a pattern becomes a crisis."
What the AI Layer Does Not Do
Explicit Constraints
The AI never attempts to identify individual respondents from text content
Individual responses are never displayed in dashboards — only aggregated signals
The AI does not make decisions — it surfaces information for human review
Responses below the minimum threshold per school are excluded from AI processing
Responses flagged as potentially identifying (unusual detail that could narrow the respondent pool) are suppressed before output
Privacy & Governance
Privacy by Design. Not by Policy.
The CGEB's privacy framework rests on a single structural commitment: no personal data is collected. This is not a policy position that can be eroded. It is an architectural constraint built into the collection system.
0
Personal identifiers collected. No names, emails, student IDs, or device fingerprints.
0
IP addresses stored. Location data is not collected at any point in the pipeline.
100%
Aggregated reporting. No individual response is ever displayed to any party.
Regulatory Alignment
Because the CGEB collects no personal data by design, it is structurally outside the scope of most global data protection regulations. However, the platform is designed to align with the most stringent applicable standards:
Regulation
Jurisdiction
CatalystBox Position
GDPR
European Union / United Kingdom
Anonymous data is outside GDPR scope. No DPA agreement required for school deployments. Data processing is fully GDPR-aligned for any personally identifiable data used in account management.
FERPA
United States
CatalystBox is not a school system of record and does not collect education records as defined under FERPA. Not applicable.
COPPA
United States
Student forms target Classes 10 and 12 (ages 15–18). Forms include an age-gate confirmation. Under-13 collection is structurally prevented.
PDPA / POPIA / PIPL
Southeast Asia, South Africa, China
Anonymous collection means these regulations are largely non-applicable. Fully compliant with the data minimization principles embedded in each.
Governance Structure
The CGEB is governed under the institutional framework of Fresh Eye Foundation, a registered not-for-profit organization (12A + 80G status, India). An independent advisory board — including educators, child protection specialists, data ethicists, and policy experts — provides external oversight of the methodology and its application.
No school or government body may access individual-level response data under any circumstances. Data access is governed by a tiered permission model: school principals see their school's aggregated scores; board administrators see board-level aggregations; government partners see state or national aggregations only.
Use Cases
Applications & Use Cases
The CGEB is designed to serve multiple stakeholder groups at different levels of the education system. The same underlying data serves different purposes depending on the level of aggregation at which it is viewed.
For Schools
Identify specific, actionable areas for improvement before issues escalate to crises
Benchmark against peer schools in the city, district, and nationally
Demonstrate accountability and improvement trajectory to parents and boards
Satisfy quality assurance requirements with continuous, independent data
For Education Boards & Ministries
Monitor school experience quality across thousands of schools simultaneously
Identify districts or school clusters showing systemic decline — and intervene early
Evaluate the impact of policy reforms using before-and-after CGEB tracking
Replace infrequent, expensive inspection cycles with continuous intelligence
For Development Finance & Research
Monitor and evaluate education program outcomes using an independent, standardized measure
Provide evidence-based impact data for reporting to donors and funding bodies
Generate nationally representative datasets for academic research
Track progress toward SDG 4 indicators at country level
For Policymakers & Think Tanks
Access the Annual Global School Experience Report for cross-country comparison
Commission custom analysis of anonymized datasets for policy research
Use CGEB trend data to justify and design education reform investments
Limitations
Limitations & Future Research
The CGEB is a first-generation instrument. Intellectual honesty requires frank acknowledgment of its current limitations. Each limitation identified below represents a research agenda for future versions of the framework.
Limitation
Nature
Mitigation / Research Agenda
Self-selection bias
Participants who choose to respond may not be representative of the full school population; students with stronger feelings (positive or negative) may be overrepresented
Response rate monitoring; comparison of respondent cohorts over time; future research on representativeness
Social desirability effects
Even with anonymity guarantees, some participants may respond in ways they believe are expected, particularly in cultures with high power distance
Form design to minimize leading questions; cultural adaptation of question framing; longitudinal comparison to detect systematic bias
Cross-cultural comparability
The meaning of concepts like "teacher effectiveness" or "belonging" may vary significantly across cultures; current parameter weights were developed in an Indian context
Active research program with partner universities in each deployment region; planned parameter localization in future versions
Gaming and manipulation
Schools could theoretically encourage positive responses or suppress negative ones; organized response campaigns could distort scores
Statistical anomaly detection (sudden score changes, unusual submission timing, device clustering); minimum observation period before score changes are reflected
Causal inference limits
CGEB scores are correlational; a high score does not prove causal school quality, and a low score does not identify the cause of poor experience
CGEB is positioned as a signal, not a verdict; qualitative follow-up is recommended when scores trigger concern; research partnerships to establish causal links
"A measurement framework that acknowledges its own limits is more trustworthy than one that claims universal validity. The CGEB is a beginning, not an endpoint."
Planned Version 2.0 Developments
15-language form engineOffline-first response queuingCultural parameter calibrationPeer-reviewed methodology paperUniversity research partnershipsLongitudinal tracking cohortsSchool improvement recommendation engineSDG 4 indicator mapping
About
About CatalystBox
CatalystBox is India's national education feedback and intelligence platform — Initiative 01 of Fresh Eye Foundation. It is designed to make student voice measurable, visible, and actionable across schools, boards, districts, states, and the nation.
CatalystBox combines anonymous feedback collection, AI-driven sentiment analysis, the CatalystBox Global Education Benchmark (CGEB), and a school analytics dashboard to transform fragmented, informal feedback into structured education intelligence.
The platform is built on a cross-subsidization model: fees from private institutions fund free access for government and rural schools, ensuring that quality improvement tools are not confined to well-resourced schools.
Fresh Eye Foundation
Registered NGO with 12A and 80G status (India)
Multi-domain civic mission: education, public health, civic governance, workforce intelligence
CatalystBox (education) is Initiative 01 of the Foundation's work
Contact: support@fresheyefoundation.com
Cite this document:
Fresh Eye Foundation. (2026). The CatalystBox Global Education Benchmark: A Methodology White Paper. Version 1.0. Lucknow, India: Fresh Eye Foundation / CatalystBox. Available at: catalystbox.in/research/cgeb
For partnership enquiries, research collaborations, government engagement, or pilot deployment discussions, please contact:
Platform
hello@catalystbox.in
catalystbox.in
Foundation
support@fresheyefoundation.com
Fresh Eye Foundation
Global Partnership Programme
Bring Student Voice to Your Country.
CatalystBox is expanding globally. We're looking for governments, education boards, schools, NGOs, and research institutions who want to make anonymous, AI-driven school experience intelligence part of their education system.
CatalystBox expands in five deliberate waves — sequenced by regulatory ease, digital infrastructure, and reform appetite. Each wave funds and validates the next.
Active · 2026
South Asia
India Bangladesh Nepal Sri Lanka
01
Deploying · 2027
Southeast Asia
Indonesia Vietnam Philippines Thailand
02
Opening · 2028
Middle East & Africa
UAE · Saudi Arabia Kenya · Nigeria Rwanda
03
Planned · 2029
Anglophone West
United Kingdom Australia Canada
04
Planned · 2030+
USA & Continental Europe
United States Germany · France Netherlands · Nordics
05
Who We Work With
Four Partnership Tracks.
CatalystBox has distinct partnership tracks for different institutions — each with a tailored deployment model, pricing, and support structure.
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Governments & Ministries
National or state education ministries looking to deploy CatalystBox as a country-wide school experience monitoring system. Includes a white-label government-branded version and a national ministry dashboard.
Ministry-branded deployment on your domain
National and district-level analytics dashboard
Policy-ready aggregated reports
Integration with existing school data systems
Country-specific data residency
Dedicated implementation support team
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Schools & Education Boards
Individual private schools, school chains, or curriculum boards (CBSE, IB, Cambridge, national boards) looking to bring the CatalystBox Benchmark to their institution or network.
School-specific dashboard with your branding
CGEB score with city, national & global benchmarks
QR-based form deployment — no hardware required
AI-generated insights on sentiment and issues
Cross-subsidy model: premium schools fund free access for government schools
Annual CatalystBox Benchmark certification
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NGOs & Development Finance
International development organizations, foundations, and financing bodies (World Bank, UNICEF, ADB, bilateral donors) running education programs that require independent monitoring, evaluation, and impact measurement.
Grant-funded free deployment in low-income schools
Independent M&E data using the CGEB framework
Donor-ready impact reports
Baseline and endline measurement for program evaluation
SDG 4 indicator alignment and reporting
Co-branding on impact publications
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Research Institutions
Universities, think tanks, and policy research bodies looking to access anonymized school experience data for academic research, policy analysis, or global comparative studies.
Access to anonymized, aggregated CGEB datasets
Co-publication opportunities on the Annual Global School Experience Report
Custom data cuts by geography, school type, or parameter
Methodology collaboration and peer-review partnership
Academic licensing at research-friendly pricing
First-mover access to longitudinal data as the dataset grows
What CatalystBox Brings
The Infrastructure. You Bring the Schools.
CatalystBox handles the entire technical, analytical, and AI layer. Your country or institution brings school access and local knowledge. We build the rest together.
01 — Deployment
QR-Based, Zero Hardware
No screens, no devices, no installations. School-specific QR codes printed on posters activate the platform instantly. Works on any smartphone on any network.
02 — Intelligence
AI Sentiment Engine
Open-text responses are processed through a large language model to detect patterns, issues, and emerging signals — surfacing to dashboards without exposing individual responses.
03 — Benchmark
The CGEB Score
Every participating school receives a composite CatalystBox Global Education Benchmark score across five parameters, comparable city-, nation-, and globally.
04 — Privacy
Zero PII by Design
No personal identifiers are ever collected. The architecture makes anonymity structurally guaranteed — not policy-dependent. GDPR-aligned in every market.
05 — Localization
Multilingual Forms
Forms are available in 15 languages and growing. Curriculum-agnostic design means the same instrument works across IB, Cambridge, national boards, and government curricula.
06 — Reports
Policy-Ready Intelligence
Governments and donors receive aggregated, visualized reports ready for policy review and donor reporting — not raw data dumps that require further analysis.
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A billion children pass through school with their voices structurally uncaptured. CatalystBox exists to change that — one school at a time, one country at a time, until the whole world is listening.
Yatesh Srivastava — Founder, CatalystBox & Fresh Eye Foundation
Common Questions
FAQ
No. CatalystBox uses QR codes printed on standard A4 or A3 posters placed on school notice boards, classrooms, or staffrooms. Any participant with a smartphone and basic internet access can scan and respond. No tablets, no screens, no infrastructure beyond a printed poster.
No personal data — no names, emails, student IDs, or device fingerprints — is collected at any point. Schools only ever see aggregated scores and trends, never individual responses. Responses below the minimum threshold per school are suppressed entirely. Anonymity is architectural, not policy-based — it cannot be overridden.
Because CatalystBox collects no personal data by design, it operates outside the scope of GDPR, FERPA, and most other data protection regulations. For markets that require data residency (Indonesia, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, EU), we deploy country-specific cloud instances. Full regulatory analysis is provided as part of government partnership discussions.
CatalystBox operates on a cross-subsidy model. Fees from private schools and government contracts in higher-income markets fund free access for government and rural schools in lower-income markets. We also work with development finance institutions (World Bank, ADB, UNICEF) who fund deployment as part of their education program monitoring and evaluation budgets.
Yes. For government ministry partnerships, CatalystBox offers a fully white-labelled version with the ministry's branding, deployed on a government subdomain. The analytics and AI layer remain CatalystBox infrastructure. Schools see the ministry brand; ministry administrators see all school data; principals see only their school's data.
For individual schools, deployment is same-week — QR codes are generated within 48 hours of onboarding. For government-level deployments, timeline depends on localization, data residency, and government procurement requirements. Typical government implementation is 4–12 weeks from contract to first data collection.
Get Started
Express Interest.
Tell us who you are and what you're looking to build. We'll respond within 48 hours with a tailored brief on how CatalystBox can work in your context.
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48-hour response
We review every enquiry and respond personally — not with an automated sequence.
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No commitment required
Expressing interest is the start of a conversation, not a contract.
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Country-specific guidance
Every response includes context on regulatory fit and deployment model for your market.
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CGEB methodology included
All responses include a link to our full open-access methodology white paper.
Fill in your details and we'll be in touch.
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We've received your interest.
Expect a personal response within 48 hours at the email you provided.
We're hiring interns
Build the future of school feedback in India.
CatalystBox is India's first anonymous, AI-powered school experience feedback and intelligence platform —
transforming student, teacher, and parent voice into structured education intelligence across 28,008 CBSE
and CISCE schools. We're early, lean, remote, and mission-driven. Come build with us.
StagePre-revenue, deployment-ready
TeamSolo founder + interns
Location100% Remote
01 — Jobs
Full-time roles
We're not hiring full-time positions yet. As CatalystBox onboards its first pilot schools and grows beyond
a solo operation, we'll post roles here first.
0 OPEN
No full-time openings right now
Interested in joining when we're ready? Send a short note to
hello@catalystbox.in with what you'd like to work on. We'll keep
you in the loop.
02 — Internships
Open internships
Three remote internships, all 8–12 weeks, with a real chance to shape something national in scale.
Letter of recommendation and stipend (where applicable) on completion. Apply via the form on each role.
3 OPEN
OutreachRemoteInternship
School Partnerships Intern
Help us onboard the first cohort of CBSE and CISCE schools. You'll research school networks, draft
outreach, manage a pipeline, and run early conversations with principals. Strong written English and
comfort with cold email essential.
Support the CGEB methodology and policy work. You'll synthesise NEP 2020 and UDISE+ data, draft sections
of public-facing research briefs, and help shape the 2026 Global School Experience Report. Best fit for
a student of public policy, education, or social sciences.
Ship features on the live platform. The stack is React + Vite + Supabase + Vercel with a Gemini API
sentiment pipeline. You'll work directly on the dashboard, the QR feedback flow, or the PWA conversion —
whatever moves fastest. Best fit if you've shipped at least one full-stack project.
You'll work on something national in scale, with a founder who ships, and a mission that genuinely matters. Honest about what we are: small, ambitious, and not for everyone.
Real ownership
You'll own a stream of work end-to-end. No make-work projects, no babysitting. Your output shapes the platform.
Mission, not theatre
Education infrastructure that's policy-aligned to NEP 2020. The work matters and is held to that standard.
Build in public
Your work goes into research papers, the dashboard, or the school pipeline. Tangible artefacts you can point to.
Founder access
Direct weekly working sessions with the founder. No layers, no politics. Honest feedback both ways.
The Next Layer of Education Intelligence.
CatalystBox is extending its anonymous, AI-powered feedback infrastructure beyond K–12 — to India's colleges and universities. Real voice from students, faculty, alumni, and recruiters, synthesised into the CatalystBox Higher Education Benchmark (CHEB).
The CatalystBox K–12 platform is live. Higher Education is in active design. Institutions joining the first cohort co-shape the framework and receive the inaugural CHEB cycle at no cost.
Reach
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58k+
Colleges across India
Scale
🎓
1,200+
Universities
Voice
👥
4.3Cr
Enrolled students
The Gap
📊
0
Standardised feedback systems
🔒 100% Anonymous Feedback🪪 No Login Required🧬 Zero Personal Identifiers🔐 Aggregated Reporting Only
The Problem
India's Higher Education System Runs on Self-Report.
NAAC, NIRF, and accreditation frameworks measure what institutions say about themselves — through infrastructure data, faculty CVs, and self-submitted assessment reports. The voice that matters most — the students inside the system, the alumni who lived it, the faculty who teach it, the recruiters who hire from it — has no structured, anonymous channel into the rankings that shape institutional decisions.
Self-Reported, Infrastructure-Heavy Rankings
Existing accreditation frameworks rely on institutional self-submission. Student lived experience, faculty working conditions, and actual outcome quality go largely uncaptured in the official record.
No Independent Student Voice Layer
A student bullied by a department, harassed by a professor, or coping with mental health pressure has no anonymous, structured way to surface that signal at scale — not to the institution, not to the regulator.
Outcome Claims Without Outcome Data
Placement brochures speak louder than placement reality. Average package figures are reported without comparable methodology, and alumni one or three years out — the most honest voice — are never systematically polled.
NEP 2020 Mandate, No Instrument
The National Education Policy explicitly calls for student feedback in the National Higher Education Qualifications Framework — but does not specify an instrument. The gap between mandate and infrastructure is wide open.
"An Indian student spends four to seven years inside higher education — and leaves it without ever being asked, anonymously and at scale, what that experience was actually like. Across 58,000 institutions, there is no standardised mechanism to listen."
The Framework
Introducing the CHEB — CatalystBox Higher Education Benchmark.
CHEB extends the CGEB methodology — already deployed across India's K–12 directory — into higher education. Same architectural principles: anonymous QR-based capture, AI sentiment processing, composite scoring. Adapted for the realities of college and university life: alumni outcomes matter, recruiter voice is structured signal, parent voice fades, faculty voice gains weight.
SEI
Student Experience Index
50%
+
FEI
Faculty Experience Index
25%
+
AOI
Alumni Outcome Index
15%
=
CHEB
Composite Score
0 – 100
Recruiter Confidence Index (ECI) contributes a fourth signal at 10% weight, captured annually · Minimum response threshold required per stream · Score is suppressed if any stream is statistically thin
Measurement Dimensions
Six Dimensions. Calibrated for Higher Education.
Where CGEB measures student wellbeing, teaching effectiveness, learning environment, future readiness, and parent engagement — CHEB rebalances. Parent engagement fades; alumni outcomes and infrastructure inclusion emerge. Each dimension is computed independently and weighted into the composite.
01🎓
Student Experience
Wellbeing, mentorship access, campus life, mental health support, grievance redressal, sense of belonging.
WellbeingMentorshipBelonging
25%
02📚
Academic Quality
Teaching effectiveness, curriculum currency, research exposure, assessment fairness, intellectual rigour.
TeachingCurriculumAssessment
25%
03🚀
Outcomes & Readiness
Placement quality, internship pipelines, skill-job alignment, higher-study transitions, real career outcomes.
PlacementsInternshipsTransitions
20%
04👩🏫
Faculty Voice
Workload, autonomy, research support, administrative climate, retention signals — the voice rarely captured.
WorkloadAutonomyClimate
15%
05🌱
Alumni Signal
1-year and 3-year-out feedback on actual career outcomes versus institutional promises. The honesty test.
1-yr Out3-yr OutOutcome Truth
10%
06🏗️
Infrastructure & Inclusion
Accessibility, hostel safety, gender / caste / disability inclusion, library and lab access, digital readiness.
AccessibilitySafetyInclusion
5%
What Institutions Will See
One Dashboard. Every Layer of Voice.
A sample CHEB institutional dashboard — student, faculty, alumni, and recruiter signal synthesised into a composite score, benchmarked against city, state, and national averages, with department-level drill-down and AI-flagged signals.
ILLUSTRATIVE
XY
Sample Engineering University
Academic Year 2026–27 · Department of CSE
LIVE
82.4/100
CatalystBox Higher Education Benchmark
Top 14% nationally · Top 6% in state
Composite of 4,128 anonymous responses across student, faculty, alumni, and recruiter voice over the last cycle.
Student Experience
84
↑ +3 this cycle
Academic Quality
86
↑ +2 this cycle
Outcomes & Readiness
79
→ Stable
Faculty Voice
72
⚠ Monitor — workload signals
Alumni Signal
81
↑ +4 over 3yr cohort
Infrastructure & Inclusion
74
→ Stable
vs. City Average
82.4+4.8 ↑
vs. State Average
82.4+7.1 ↑
vs. National Average
82.4+9.3 ↑
Sample Dashboard · Data is Illustrative Only · CHEB scoring engine in active design
How It Works
From Campus to National Intelligence.
Same five-step pipeline that powers CGEB — adapted for the cadence and structure of higher education. Semester-end student cycles, annual faculty cycles, post-graduation alumni cycles, annual recruiter cycles.
01
Scan QR Code
Posters at department notice boards, hostel common areas, and alumni emails. No app, no login.
02
Select & Submit
Pick role — student, faculty, alumni, recruiter. Rate dimensions. Submit anonymously in any language.
Department-level CHEB score, dimension breakdown, benchmark against city / state / national peers.
05
Policy & Accreditation
Aggregated, anonymised intelligence available to UGC, NAAC, NIRF, and policy partners — as evidence layer for accreditation reform.
Who It's For
Four Partnership Tracks. One Methodology.
CHEB is designed to scale across India's full higher education spectrum — from premier institutions to tier-2 private colleges, from autonomous research universities to large state-board affiliated networks.
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Private Engineering & Management Colleges
Wedge 01 · 2027 Cohort
Tier-2 and tier-3 private institutions that fight for ranking position and want continuous, independent feedback to inform accreditation prep and parent-facing positioning.
Annual CHEB score with public publication option
NAAC / NIRF readiness mapping
Department-level drill-down dashboards
Inaugural cohort: zero cost for first full cycle
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State Universities & Affiliated Colleges
Wedge 02 · 2027–28
State universities and their affiliated college networks — deployment funded through CSR partnerships, giving institutions and their colleges the full CHEB layer at no direct cost.
Multi-campus aggregate view
Affiliated college benchmarking
State-level intelligence report
CSR-funded deployment model
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Autonomous & Deemed Universities
Wedge 03 · 2028
Institutions with sophisticated quality cultures — NAAC re-accredited, NIRF top-100 ambitions — that want continuous internal audit infrastructure rather than periodic external review.
Continuous accreditation evidence layer
Custom dimension weighting
Quarterly governance review
API access to anonymised aggregate data
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Central Institutions · IITs · IIMs · IISERs
Wedge 04 · 2029+
India's flagship institutions. Approached only after CHEB has been validated across 50+ institutions and a published longitudinal report — not as a first move, but as a logical next layer.
National-level benchmark contribution
UGC-aligned methodology
Defer until methodology fully proven
Express interest now, deploy later
Roadmap
Five Phases. School Proof First, Then Higher Ed.
The sequence matters. CHEB inherits credibility from CGEB only after CGEB has produced real, validated school data. Reversing the order would weaken both.
Phase 00 · 2026
Prove the K–12 Layer
Onboard real CBSE / CISCE schools. Generate first non-synthetic CGEB dataset. Validate methodology. Publish first ground-truth report.
PRE-CONDITION
Phase 01 · Q1 2027
CHEB Framework Design
Recruit academic advisors. Publish CHEB methodology white paper. Adapt Supabase schema for higher-ed entities. Open expressions of interest.
METHODOLOGY
Phase 02 · 2027
Private College Wedge
First cohort of 10 private engineering & management colleges across UP, MP, Rajasthan, Karnataka. Full inaugural CHEB cycle.
WEDGE 01
Phase 03 · 2027–28
State University + CSR
One state university partnership funded by CSR partner. Multi-campus rollout across 20+ affiliated colleges. First cross-institutional dataset.
WEDGE 02
Phase 04 · 2028+
Premium & Policy
Autonomous & deemed universities at scale. UGC engagement. Annual India Higher Education Experience Report. National policy layer activated.
WEDGE 03 & 04
Why It Matters Now
Three Reasons This Is the Right Moment.
NEP 2020 mandates feedback infrastructure that does not yet exist in implementable form. NAAC is openly searching for continuous-signal mechanisms to replace periodic review. And a generation of students who grew up with Glassdoor and AmbitionBox now expects the institutions they pay to be answerable to the voice of the people inside them.
CatalystBox already has the architecture, the methodology, the data pipeline, and the privacy model. CHEB is the natural next extension — not a separate product, but a calibrated layer of the same intelligence system.
01
Policy Tailwind
NEP 2020 explicitly calls for student feedback in higher education accountability — no current platform fills this gap structurally.
02
Methodology Inherits Credibility
CHEB extends CGEB's validated framework. Institutions trust a methodology that's already deployed at scale, not a brand-new instrument.
03
Anonymous Voice as a Generational Expectation
The students entering higher education in 2027 will expect the institutions they attend to listen — anonymously, structurally, at scale.
Express Interest
Join the First Cohort.
If you represent a college, university, or higher education board — register your interest now. Inaugural cohort institutions co-shape the CHEB framework, receive the first full cycle at no cost, and become the founding contributors to India's first independent higher education benchmark.
48-hour response
We review every enquiry personally and respond within two business days.
No commitment required
Expressing interest is the start of a conversation, not a contract.
Free inaugural cycle
First-cohort institutions receive the first full CHEB cycle at no cost.
Methodology co-design
First-cohort institutions are credited contributors in the CHEB methodology paper.
✓
We've received your interest.
Expect a personal response within 48 hours at the email you provided.