Our built-in assistive AI feature-set
Create better test questions, faster, for less cost!
Quickly and effortlessly generate entire items within the Surpass Platform
Our award-winning AI-powered toolset is transformative for item creation.
Designed to revolutionize assessment, and steered by responsible guidelines, Surpass Copilot super-powers Subject Matter Experts by helping to easily generate new items, while new functionality and controls also ensures alignment with recent AI laws and policies, including the EU’s AI Act.
- Built-in to the Surpass Platform – available on demand.
- Switch on and go – no separate product or training required.
- Customer controlled training data and copyright control – you choose whether to use public knowledge data, or limit to your own provided training/domain data.
- Highly secure – using private Microsoft Azure cloud services.
- Alignment with recent AI laws and policies – including the EU’s AI Act.

Watch the demo to see how Copilot works in perfect harmony with Subject Matter Experts
For many organizations, over 50% of item development time is often spent writing high quality distractors!
But with the power of assistive AI, SMEs can effortlessly generate high-quality items and the rationale for each one, at the click of a button in the Surpass Platform. Copilot works in perfect harmony with Subject Matter Experts, augmenting their expertise and knowledge.
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Keep up to date and discover everything you need to know, in our Copilot eBook, including:
- the Copilot AI model
- copyright and security
- alignment with AI laws and policies
- frequently asked questions.

Our unique and responsible approach to AI in assessment
Community-led development
The Community-led Surpass Copilot Advisory Board meet regularly to define clear and principled guidelines that will govern the development of all future AI functionality within Surpass, and steer the future of AI in our industry.
Advisory Board members:
- Finance – Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA)
- Healthcare – National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)
- Legal – National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE)
- Engineering and Manufacturing – EAL
- IT – Microsoft
- Education – Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)
- External legal expertise – Marc Weinstein
Security locked-in
We know when it comes to assessment, security is crucial. That’s why Surpass Copilot is powered by private Microsoft Azure cloud services, which ensures the highest standards of data security, including compliance with ISO27001, SOC 2 & HIPAA.

Our responsible AI core principles*
For governing future assessment technology development that incorporates generative AI.
We believe that Generative AI should be:
Customer-driven
Customers must maintain complete authority over the adoption and use of AI technology, in alignment with their own organizational principles, objectives, and guidelines.
Accurate & transparent
AI technology outputs should be accurate and include justifications and citations to sources so that users can determine whether outputs are accurate, reliable, and appropriate for their intended uses.
Unbiased
AI technology should incorporate processes that continuously aim to identify and eliminate any bias and discrimination for its designed use, so that it does not cause harm to others.
Secure & private
AI technology must have robust enterprise security controls and compliance with current industry standards, so that no customer-provided data (including prompts and outputs) is accessible to unauthorized parties or used for training data.
Human-monitored
AI technology should be designed to enable ongoing monitoring of AI outputs for error detection and correction, and to ensure ease of human oversight.
Intuitive
The inclusion of AI technology should be engineered to be intuitive and ensure a seamless user experience, so that only minimal additional training is required for users and SMEs.
Embedded
AI technology should be embedded directly within existing user interfaces wherever possible and appropriate, so that users and SMEs can take advantage of AI at the touch of a button within their existing workflows and processes.
Expertly directed
A dedicated, multi-disciplinary Advisory Board should provide insights and thought leadership so that the responsible use of AI technology within assessment products and services is thoughtfully and effectively developed.
*The assessment technology provider will be accountable for ensuring all AI functionality adheres to these principles.
