Your Work Is Yours

When a professor uploads a past exam to Cubby, they're handing us something built over a career: model answers refined across a decade, a grading style that took years to develop, fact patterns written and rewritten every summer. That is the accumulated craft of teaching a subject well, and it deserves to be treated that way. Every choice we've made about how Cubby stores, uses, and protects your work started from that premise.

So here, in plain terms, is exactly how we treat your materials and your students' data.

Your materials shape your Cubby, and no one else's. This is the first and most important promise. When you upload your syllabus, slides, notes, exams, or rubrics, Cubby uses them to tune your course experience so it works and sounds like you. That tuning is walled off inside your account. Your materials are never pooled into the shared models we deploy across Cubby, never used to improve the experience for another professor or another school, and never added to a general training set. In short: your work makes your Cubby better. It never makes anyone else's.

We learn your style, not your content. This is the part that surprises people, and it is the heart of how Cubby works. Cubby does not memorize your exam questions and hand them back out. It reads the way you teach and grade: what you emphasize, how you build a fact pattern, how you weigh an IRAC answer, the doctrines you care about. The substance of the law itself comes from our own lawyer-reviewed legal corpus, not from your documents. Your materials tune the system to sound like you. They are not the well it draws from.

Nothing is ever shared. Not with other professors. Not with other schools. Not with students. Not with third parties. Your exams and answer keys stay private to you. The questions your students practice and the graded questions you assign live separately, so a student can never surface your real exam through the tool. What is yours stays yours.

You control what gets assigned and graded. You approve every exam, question set, and graded assignment before it reaches a student. You can lock and unlock materials, decide what is visible and when, and export or delete your data at any time. You own it. Cubby is a tool you direct, not a system you hand your work over to.

We built the guardrails in, not on. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is tightly restricted, and student information is handled with the care FERPA demands. We designed these protections from the start rather than bolting them on later, because a tool professors cannot trust with their materials is not a tool professors will use.

And we put it in writing. Everything above is stated plainly in the agreement we sign with every partner professor and school. If your institution's general counsel or IT team wants to review exactly how Cubby handles data, we welcome that conversation and will make ourselves available for it.

We ask professors to trust us with the work of their careers and the learning of their students. That trust is not a formality to us. It is the foundation of the product. We will protect your materials, protect your students, and never build anything that quietly betrays either.

Your work is yours. It always will be.

Questions? Reach us at truman@cubby.law.