AI-drafted recommendation letters for teachers and counselors.
A guided interview turns your real anecdotes into a grounded draft plus a coaching read. You own every word.
Twenty Letters Never Fit in One Free Period.
The Problem
Every fall the requests stack up, and every student deserves a letter that could not have been written about anyone else. The hard part was never the typing. So the desk asks for moments, not adjectives, your answers become the letter's only source of facts, and you own every word that goes out under your name.
Writing Them by HandWith the Desk
After the fifth letter you reach for "hardworking"
Stock phrases flagged in the draft before you send it
Pulling the right moments out of a year of teaching
An interview that asks for moments, not adjectives
No way to show where a claim came from
Every evidence paragraph cites the answers it was built from
Getting them onto the page before the deadline
The interview saves as you go and drafts run in the background
The Sample
A Letter That Proves Where Every Sentence Came From.
Sample Only. Ms. Carla Jiménez, the AP Biology teacher from the Syllabus sample, asked The Letter! Desk for a Common App teacher evaluation for Jordan Vega, a fictional student invented for this sample, the same student whose enzyme-lab answer is scored in the Rubric sample. Here is an excerpt of the draft and the coaching read it produced for her to make her own. This is the full sample that used to sit on its own page, now built right into this one.
Teacher LetterKnown About Two Years612 Words · Target ~1000
The Letter (Excerpt)
A Teacher Evaluation for Jordan Vega
Select a "From Her Answers" chip to light up the sentence it grounded. The marked phrase jumps to the coaching read.
Dear Admissions Committee,
I have taught AP Biology for eleven years, and I have known Jordan Vega for two of them: first as a student in my most demanding course, then as the lab assistant who kept showing up after the semester ended. The claim I want to make in this letter is a specific one: when the equipment fails, Jordan starts inventing.
From Her Answers:Your RoleHow LongThe Headline
In October our spectrophotometer died the morning of a pigment lab. Most students waited for instructions. Jordan taped a phone flashlight to a cardboard box, calibrated it against known samples, and had a working substitute before I had finished writing the apology on the board.The data was rougher than the real instrument's, and Jordan's write-up said so plainly, then argued for exactly how much of the conclusion survived the noise. I now keep that write-up as my model for honest error analysis.
From Her Answers:The MomentWhat Changed
Jordan is also a genuine team player: in the spring, three students who had failed the enzyme unit quietly started passing quizzes again, and it took me two weeks to trace it to the review table Jordan ran before school without telling anyone.
From Her Answers:Second Story
… the excerpt ends here; the full draft runs four more paragraphs and closes on an endorsement with no ranking claim in it.
Carla answered the guided interview, one question at a time, each asking for a moment rather than a trait. The desk drafted the letter from those answers alone: every evidence paragraph cites its sources, the one stock phrase that slipped through got flagged, and the skipped calibration question meant the draft made no comparison claims at all.
The Desk Read (Excerpt)
The Draft, Graded Honestly
Every draft ships with a five-dimension read (specificity, evidence, relationship, distinctiveness, tone), each judged with a verbatim quote from the letter itself. Two of the five:
Specificity Strong
The spectrophotometer story does what adjectives cannot: it shows the reader a specific morning and lets them draw the conclusion.
"taped a phone flashlight to a cardboard box, calibrated it against known samples"
Distinctiveness Developing
The opening claim is sharp, but the third paragraph drifts toward language that could describe any helpful student. The flagged phrase below is the fix.
"Jordan is also a genuine team player"
Generic Phrases to Replace
"team player": a résumé phrase, not an observation; it could describe anyone who wasn't a problem. The upgrade: the review-table story already shows it, so cut the label and let the moment carry the claim.
As Drafted
Jordan is also a genuine team player: in the spring, three students who had failed the enzyme unit quietly started passing quizzes again, and it took me two weeks to trace it to the review table Jordan ran before school without telling anyone.
With the Label Cut
In the spring, three students who had failed the enzyme unit quietly started passing quizzes again, and it took me two weeks to trace it to the review table Jordan ran before school without telling anyone.
Questions That Would Make This Stronger
What did Jordan say when you finally asked about the review table? A line of dialogue would anchor the second story.
How does Jordan compare with other lab assistants you have had? The letter currently makes no ranking claim because the calibration question was skipped.
From the Sample Letter · Every Sentence Traced to Its Source
Your Answers Are the Letter's Only Source of Facts.
Opening
From Her AnswersYour RoleHow LongThe Headline
The Lab Morning
From Her AnswersThe MomentWhat Changed
The Review Table
From Her AnswersSecond Story
"team player" flagged as generic, with the concrete move that replaces it
Calibration: Skipped
No paragraph came from it, so it became a follow-up question and the draft makes no comparison claims at all
Nothing in the letter arrives without a source. Where an answer ran thin the desk asks a question instead of padding, and where a stock phrase slipped through it says so. The highlighted run is the spectrophotometer story, the one the desk read scores strongest on specificity.
2letter types: teacher, counselor5dimensions in the coaching read1plain-language revision, original kept
Two Letters, One Desk, Reused Every Time
A teacher letter follows Common App conventions: one general, anecdote-led letter that goes to every college the student applies to
A counselor report frames the student within your school's context, rigor, and cohort, the story only a counselor can tell
Write your school's context once (size, community, the rigor you actually offer, your class-rank policy) and every letter starts from it
Paste one past letter you were proud of (name removed) and drafts match your rhythm and word choice. Style only: its stories never reappear
What you write about a student is sensitive. It stays private in your account, is never used to train models, and is deleted when you delete your account. Uploaded brag sheets are read in memory and never stored.
The Letter! Desk is FERPA-aware and operates under your institution's direction; you remain the decision-maker on every word that leaves your desk.
Run the Whole Recommendation Season from One Board.
When the requests stack up, a board keeps every letter moving and lets the student do the legwork.
A Request Board for Every Student
Track one request per student, each showing where it stands: waiting on the student, ready to draft, or sent
Deadlines surface the requests that need you first, so nothing slips as the pile grows
Mark a letter sent, or start its draft pre-filled with the student's name and context
Let the Student Do the Legwork
Send each student a private link to submit their own brag sheet, with no account or login on their side
What they send pre-fills only the factual fields, their name, context, and highlights, never your voice or your judgment
You still write every word that matters; the student just saves you the transcription
One Class, Three Tools.
One fictional class runs through all three tools. Keep a class in your account and they share it: plan the course once, grade with its roster, and recommend its students with the work they actually did.
Keep a class in your account and a letter opens pre-filled with the student's name and class, offering the work you graded in The Rubric! Studio and your dated notes as evidence you check in or leave out.
Selected work is woven in qualitatively ("the strongest lab write-up I graded this term"), never as a raw score.
How This Sample Was Made
Revised, Then Signed by Carla
She then applied one plain-language revision ("shorter, and lead with the spectrophotometer"), copied the letter, and signed it as her own. That last part never changes.
Fair Questions, Straight Answers.
What we would want to know before trusting a letter-writing tool.
How Much Does the Letter! Desk Cost?
It is free for every signed-in account, with no limit on how many letters you draft.
Who Actually Writes the Letter?
The desk drafts it from your interview answers, in your voice, and then coaches its own draft so nothing generic slips through. You review, edit, and own every word that goes out under your name.
Will It Make Things Up about My Student?
No. Every evidence paragraph cites which of your answers it came from, comparison claims like 'one of the strongest I have taught' can only come from your own calibration answer, and it never promises admission. If a draft cannot be verified against your answers, you get an honest scaffold built only from your own words instead.
Which Letters Can It Write?
Two kinds: a high-school teacher's letter for college applications (one general Common App evaluation) and a counselor report (the Secondary School Report narrative, framed by your school's context).
What Happens to What I Type about a Student?
It stays private in your account, is never used to train models, and is deleted when you delete your account. Uploaded brag sheets are read in memory and never stored. The Letter! Desk is FERPA-aware and operates under your institution's direction.
Can It Sound like Me?
Yes. Save a past letter in your desk profile (with the previous student's name removed) and drafts match its rhythm and word choice. Style only: the old letter's stories and claims never reappear.
Does It Connect to My Grading and My Class Roster?
Yes, if you keep a class in your EduFinder account. Start a letter from one of that class's students and the interview opens pre-filled with their name and class context, and offers the work you graded in The Rubric! Studio plus your own dated notes as evidence you check in or leave out. Selected work is described qualitatively, never as a score or percentage. You can also write a letter with no class attached; the interview alone is enough.
Do I Need My School's Approval to Use It?
No. The desk runs on your own free account: no institutional license, no IT ticket, and no waitlist. Letters draft from your own interview answers and go out under your name, exactly like the letters you already write, and the desk is FERPA-aware and operates under your institution's direction.
One Interview. One Letter Only You Could Write.
Free for every signed-in account.
The Letter! Desk
Draft As Many Letters As You Like.
Two letter types: teacher and counselor report, each with its own questions
A guided interview that asks for moments, not adjectives, and saves as you go
Every evidence paragraph cited back to your own answers, checked before you see the draft
A five-dimension coaching read, with stock phrases flagged in place
Your school context and your voice saved once, reused on every letter
A season board that tracks every request, and private links that let students submit their own brag sheets
One plain-language revision, then copy the letter or export a clean PDF
