AI & Educational Content Disclaimer

Version 1.0 · Effective: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-10

# SomaSkul AI & Educational Content Disclaimer

Version 1.0 Effective date: 2026-10-10 Last updated: 2026-10-10

## 1. SomaSkul uses artificial intelligence

ZANA is an AI, not a human teacher. SomaSkul's tutor ZANA, its homework-photo help, its flashcard and mock-exam generation, its exam marking, and its Learner Performance Analysis feature are powered by AI — specifically Anthropic's Claude models. Many of ZANA's answers come from SomaSkul's own notes stored on your phone, without any AI call.

## 2. AI responses may contain errors

AI-generated content — including step-by-step solutions, explanations, quiz questions, and extracted report-card data — can be incorrect, incomplete, or misleading, even when it sounds confident. SomaSkul's engineering includes a verification pass on the homework-solving pipeline (an independent check of the answer before it's shown to you), and ZANA's self-learning notes require a high-confidence extraction plus a separate verification pass before being saved — but no automated check eliminates the possibility of error.

Always cross-check important academic answers — especially anything that will be submitted for grading, used to study for a national examination, or relied on for a high-stakes decision — against your teacher, textbook, or official curriculum materials.

## 3. ZANA is designed to teach, not to just give answers

By default, ZANA follows a "guided" teaching style: it will not simply hand you a final answer to a question you haven't attempted. This is intentional — it's core to how SomaSkul is designed to help you actually learn, not just complete an assignment. ZANA has other modes (explanation, quiz, exam-prep, and a supportive mode for when you're struggling emotionally, not academically) that behave differently, but none of them is a substitute for the judgment of a real teacher.

## 4. AI does not replace your teachers, parents, or school

SomaSkul is a study aid. It does not replace instruction from a qualified teacher, guidance from a parent or guardian, or your school's own curriculum materials and examination guidance. Do not rely on SomaSkul as your sole source of preparation for a national examination.

## 5. How your input is processed

When ZANA needs the AI, your question, your recent conversation and any photo you attach are sent through SomaSkul's server to Anthropic to produce the reply, as described in the Privacy Policy §6-7. A short excerpt of some questions may be kept on SomaSkul's servers as part of how ZANA improves over time — see Privacy Policy §7. Your full conversation history stays on your phone; SomaSkul's server does not keep a copy.

Report cards and homework pages are images, and images can show your name. SomaSkul does not include your name in what it sends to the AI, but if you photograph a document that has your name printed on it — most report cards do — Anthropic can see that name in the picture. SomaSkul does not detect, crop, or blur names in photos.

## 6. Our AI provider

Under Anthropic's terms for business customers, the content SomaSkul sends is not used to train Anthropic's models (unless a customer opts in or sends feedback; SomaSkul does neither), and Anthropic deletes it within 30 days, except where it must keep it longer to enforce its usage policy or to comply with the law.

SomaSkul does not currently send your questions to any web-search service.

This disclaimer forms part of SomaSkul's Terms of Service (somaskul.co.ke/terms), §8.