KEY4EDU · ADAPTIVE LEARNING
It teaches by asking.
Key4EDU, our learning product, built on Key4. It understands how each learner thinks, teaches by asking rather than telling, and lets a teacher see the whole class.
Ready to deploy
WHAT IT CHANGES
A classroom that knows what it knows.
A teacher with a full classroom sees the hands that go up and the marks that come back, and little of what lies between. Key4EDU changes what a classroom can know about itself: how each learner thinks, where they are sure and wrong, what is starting to fade, and who needs attention first. It teaches by asking, because an answer handed over is forgotten and an answer reached is kept.
THREE IDEAS
Knows the learner. Teaches by asking. Shows the teacher.
KNOWS THE LEARNER
A profile across five dimensions, from how a learner takes in information to how they behave under pressure. It moves as the learner does, so the next question is never the same for two people.
TEACHES BY ASKING
Three Socratic modes, from gentle guidance to a mode that raises the difficulty until the learner reaches their edge. In every mode it asks, never tells, so the answer is reached and kept.
SHOWS THE TEACHER
A ranked queue of who needs attention first, and why, with a map of where misconceptions cluster across the class. The teacher decides; the system points.
WHAT IT DOES
Eight instruments, not a chatbot.
- THE LEARNER PROFILE
- Five dimensions, updated as the learner changes.
- THE SOCRATIC ENGINE
- Three modes. In every mode it asks, not tells.
- THE TEACH-BACK ARENA
- The learner teaches a virtual pupil that has misconceptions of its own.
- THE BLIND-SPOT SCANNER
- Measures the gap between what a learner believes they know and what they can do, with transfer problems.
- THE MISTAKE AUTOPSY
- Groups wrong answers by the pattern behind them.
- THE DECAY RADAR
- Tracks what a learner once knew and is starting to forget.
- THE PLAYGROUNDS
- Type a concept and get a simulation of it, from planetary orbits to chemical bonds, to adjust by hand.
- THE TEACHER’S AND PARENT’S VIEWS
- An exam builder set to a stated level of thinking for the teacher; progress in plain words for the parent.
HOW IT DIFFERS
| Key4EDU | A traditional system | An AI tutoring app | |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOW IT KNOWS THE LEARNER | A profile across five dimensions, updated as they change | A grade level and a subject list | A stated preference, set once |
| HOW IT TEACHES | Asks, in three modes, until the learner reaches the answer | The same lesson for everyone | Answers on request |
| HOW IT FINDS WHAT IS MISSING | Tests belief with transfer problems; tracks what is fading | Test scores after the fact | Flags a wrong answer when given |
| WHAT THE TEACHER SEES | A ranked queue of who needs help, and why | A gradebook | Usually nothing |
- BUILT TO BE CHECKED
Its tutor can be wrong. That is why it is built to be checked. The tutor runs on Key4, The Key 4 AI’s own small language model, made expert in school mathematics and science and trained against a test that knows a right answer from a wrong one.
- ON THE SCHOOL’S TERMS
Designed to run on hardware the school already has, or on a modest cloud, with the teacher in command of what the system does in their classroom. The record of every question asked and every answer given stays on the school’s own machine.
Who it is for.
A learner preparing for an examination. A learner who is struggling and needs to be seen. A teacher with a full classroom. First curricula: school syllabuses and entrance examinations in India. Built to travel.
Ready to deploy.
A product of The Key 4 AI, built on Key4. Ready to deploy on hardware the school already has, or on a modest cloud the school chooses. We begin with one class and one subject, and measure it on the questions your teachers already set.
Light by design: a small language model built for the task used 15 to 50 times less energy than a large general one for the same job (UCL and UNESCO, 2025), on machines the school already has.
Bring a problem. Bring an idea. Or pick one up.
One job, your bar, your test. Everything handed over, whether or not you continue.
OWNERSHIP OF THE MODEL, THE TEST AND THE RECORD
No lock. Just the key.
Nothing we build ties you to us. You hold the model, the test and the record, and you can run them without us.
Let intelligence grow with trust, and all of us rise with it.