We believe knowledge should be cheap, accessible, and honest.

That question became the Learning Centre — a place where authors publish books, and students with no prior help can read on their own, supported by the app itself instead of by whoever happens to be free that hour. And once I saw how much independent practice could do, I didn't stop there: for schools that already have lesson notes and a scheme of work, the app now turns that material into flashcards automatically, so studying doesn't have to wait for a teacher either.

That was the part of teaching I loved. The rest of it — setting exams, grading stacks of scripts, doing it all over again for every subject you teach — I didn't. And I quickly learned I wasn't alone. Almost every teacher I knew carried the same weight.

I went looking for something to lighten it and found exactly one free option: Google Forms. I used it for a while. It helped, but it was built for surveys, not schools, and I kept running into its ceiling. So I decided to build my own.

It started small — just a way to run an exam. Then I realized results needed somewhere to live, so I added reports. Teachers could reuse questions instead of retyping them every term, and grading got easier — but only for multiple choice. Essays still meant reading every single one by hand.

That's when the goal changed. I stopped trying to eliminate the work and started trying to aid it instead. The system began generating questions, not just storing them. And it learned to grade essays too, not just tick boxes.

Somewhere in that process, I ran into a harder problem than workload — one about trust. I'd seen it myself and heard it from other teachers: some inflate grades to avoid trouble with their bosses or to keep students happy. Others under-grade, not out of malice, but because grading well is genuinely hard to do consistently across a hundred scripts. Either way, the grade stops meaning what it's supposed to mean.

So I built guardrails around it. Every AI-generated question goes through an admin for approval before it reaches a student. Once a grade is recorded, it can't just be quietly changed or deleted — a teacher needs their admin's permission first. None of this is about distrusting teachers. It's about making sure that when a grade says a student understood something, that's actually true.