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Winny AI builds educational AI ready to help every student in Namibia

“Accessible, equitable and inclusive quality education”
NDP6 booklet, Education for Development, p. 10

AI that teaches rather than doing the work for the learner — with adaptation to the national curriculum and explanations in English, and able to run on infrastructure in the country. Learning, personal growth and informed choices about the future — in one AI product.

Flagship product

Winny AI Tutor

An international learning ecosystem: a personal AI tutor for learners and accounts for parents, teachers and schools.

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Core features are free forever

Nominee for the 2026 UNESCO Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education

Winny AI Tutor: learners and schools in 80+ countries

Education priorities in Namibia

Five selected focus areas from the NDP6 booklet’s Education for Development section. These describe national priorities; they do not imply an existing Winny deployment.

  • Early learning foundations

    Our roadmap includes learning by voice for young children; this remains a developing product direction.

    Quote and source
    “early childhood”

    NDP6 booklet, Education for Development, p. 10

  • Support for primary learning

    Winny AI Tutor guides school learners with questions and step-by-step hints. Curriculum adaptation must be agreed and validated with local education specialists.

    Quote and source
    “quality primary education”

    NDP6 booklet, Education for Development, p. 10

  • Support for secondary learning

    Learners can practise school subjects at their own pace, while teachers and parents see progress.

    Quote and source
    “quality secondary education”

    NDP6 booklet, Education for Development, p. 10

  • Learning throughout life

    Our roadmap extends from the school tutor to further education and upskilling, developed with partners.

    Quote and source
    “lifelong learning opportunities”

    NDP6 booklet, Education for Development, p. 10

  • Skills and future choices

    Talent discovery and career guidance help learners explore fields of study; further vocational and higher-education support is on our roadmap.

    Quote and source
    “responsive to industry demands”

    NDP6 booklet, Education for Development, p. 10

About 590,000 primary learners and 236,000 secondary learners in 2024 UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), via World Bank Open Data, 2024

An AI tutor to support learning

Education research has long known the most effective way to learn: one-to-one work with a tutor. Until now, only a few could have it — AI opens it up to every learner.

98%

On average, a student with a personal tutor outperforms 98% of peers in a regular classroom.

Bloom B. S., The 2 Sigma Problem, Educational Researcher, 1984

1.5 years

Six weeks of sessions with an AI tutor raised results by about 0.3 standard deviations — roughly a year and a half of typical learning.

De Simone et al., World Bank, randomized study, Nigeria, 2025

×2

Students with an AI tutor learned more than twice as much in less time than in active-learning classes.

Kestin et al., Harvard University, Scientific Reports, 2025

+1 pp

A gain of 0.5 standard deviations in learning outcomes is associated with about 1 percentage point faster long-run growth of GDP per capita each year.

Hanushek & Woessmann, OECD, 2010

These are independent studies of tutoring (by people and by AI) and of the economics of education. We propose to measure the impact of Winny AI Tutor together with the country — in a pilot with independent evaluation.

A ready answer is not yet knowledge. Schools need AI that teaches

Students everywhere already use AI. But general-purpose assistants were not built for school: by default, they do the task for the student and follow the provider’s rules, not the country’s.

What we compareGeneral-purpose assistantAI built for school
Answersgives a finished solution by defaultguides to the solution step by step
Curriculumgeneric contentnational curriculum and assessments
Audienceone tool for everyoneage-appropriate and safe for children
Memorya shared chat historya map of each learner’s knowledge across the curriculum
Teachers and parentsnot involvedsee progress and guide learning

By 2030 the world will need 44 million more teachers. AI should support teachers, not replace them. UNESCO, Global Report on Teachers, 2024

Flagship product of Winny AI

Winny AI Tutor — an international learning ecosystem

A personal AI tutor in a chat format for school learners — across all school subjects, foreign languages and popular hobbies — with connected accounts for parents, teachers and schools. Learners, parents, teachers and schools see one shared picture of learning.

For the learner

  • Leads to understanding

    No finished solutions: guiding questions and step-by-step hints.

  • The country’s curriculum and textbooks

    Answers can be adapted to the national curriculum and textbooks, with the scope agreed with education specialists.

  • Beyond lessons

    Answers difficult questions thoughtfully, in a way that suits the learner’s age, and handles sensitive topics with care.

  • Encouragement

    Gently supports learners and helps ease stress and anxiety — for example, before exams.

Phone, tablet and computer — in the browser, nothing to install. Voice, photo and text.

Four roles. One ecosystem

  • Learner

    A personal tutor around the clock, a learning path, goals and assignments.

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  • Parent

    Their own account and chat: the child’s progress, strengths, gaps and talents.

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  • Teacher

    An AI assistant, class analytics, assignments and groups. Free, with generous limits.

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  • School and government

    Administration, aggregated insights across schools and the whole system, and deployment within the country.

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Core features are free forever. Free for teachers, with generous limits.

For every question — the best-suited model and real pedagogy, not just an answer

Winny AI’s own technology: a model orchestrator, a pedagogical agent, a safety layer and long-term memory of each learner. The product does not depend on any single AI provider.

  • Model orchestrator

    For each request it chooses the best-suited model, including national ones, and tunes its behaviour to the subject, language and task. A model can be replaced without rewriting the product.

  • Pedagogical agent

    Plans every reply to lead the learner to understanding: guiding questions and step-by-step hints instead of a finished answer. It holds firm when a learner tries to coax out the answer, and this mode cannot be switched off.

  • Safety layer

    Checks every answer for child safety and for correct references to learning materials.

  • Learner’s digital twin

    A competency profile and long-term memory: Winny AI Tutor remembers years of learning — what the learner already understands, where the gaps are, what their talents are and which goal they are working toward.

  • Ontological interdisciplinary graphs

    School subjects are connected in a single knowledge graph built from textbooks and approved curricula, so the tutor sees the links between topics across subjects.

  • Bloom’s taxonomy

    Every topic is broken down into levels of mastery following Bloom’s taxonomy: learners climb the ladder of thinking instead of collecting ready answers.

Every update goes through a pedagogical quality loop: a test bench with synthetic AI learners and quality scales. The orchestrator and the educational ecosystem are registered as intellectual property.

Global technology. National character

Winny AI Tutor adapts to the country — not the other way around.

  • Curriculum and assessments

    Adaptation to the national curriculum, textbooks and assessment requirements, to be agreed with education specialists before deployment.

  • Language and culture

    More than 90 languages, including English, with cultural adaptation and country-specific language setup.

  • Models

    National and regional models, which can be fine-tuned in the country.

  • Infrastructure

    The service and data can stay in the country, in a closed environment.

  • Transparency

    A “glass box”, not a “black box”: regulators can check how answers are built and what they contain.

Platform for experts

The Wikipedia principle: the country’s leading experts shape the AI together with us

We are building a platform where recognised experts add to and fine-tune educational AI: each contributes what they know best.

  1. Who

    Experts and communities

    • Recognized experts
    • Universities and the academic community
    • Companies
    • Authors of original curricula
  2. What

    The country’s knowledge

    • Curricula and subjects
    • Fields of knowledge
    • Languages
    • Teaching guides and books
  3. Review

    Winny AI reviews

    • Moderation
    • Safety layer
    • Pedagogical quality loop
  4. For whom

    For learners

    • Learners in the country
    • Learners around the world — through cultural bridges

That is how Wikipedia became the largest body of knowledge humanity has.

That is how Winny becomes the deepest and most distinctive AI tutor — one that passes knowledge on to the next generations.

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What the government gets

A solution that works today and stays under the country’s control.

A national picture, talents and less routine for teachers

  • Aggregated insights across schools and the whole system: gaps by topic and subject.
  • An AI education advisor: ask questions of the data in plain language — for the whole system and for each school.
  • Talents and career guidance: early discovery of every learner’s abilities in each subject, and recommendations on fields that match their strengths and interests.
  • Enrolment planning: a forecast of how many graduates are likely to choose each field — for places and programmes in vocational and higher education.
  • AI takes on routine questions and helps teachers review homework; the grade stays with the teacher.
  • Each learner works at their own pace and subject level, and the teacher sees progress.
  • Adaptation of school-subject practice to the national curriculum and assessments.
  • Support for teachers: workshops, plus materials for schools and parents.

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Child safety is built into the architecture

Age-appropriate design, transparency for regulators and international standards.

Built in

  • Age-appropriate adaptation and filtering of harmful content.
  • A safety layer checks answers for child safety.
  • AI makes recommendations; the teacher gives the grade.
  • No advertising and no sale of user data.
  • Voice is processed only for transcription, photos only to work through the learning task: the AI understands text, diagrams and drawings.

Standards

  • We check our systems against UNESCO and UN guidance on generative AI in education.
  • Our own AI governance charter.
  • Can be built into authorised school information systems and learning platforms through Winny Cloud, subject to agreement with their operators.

Personal data

  • Data protection-ready
  • Local deployment available
  • Parental consent review

Winny AI Tutor is ready for assessment against Namibia’s applicable data protection requirements before deployment. Local hosting, data processing, access permissions and parental consent requirements must be reviewed with the responsible institutions and legal specialists. No advertising and no sale of data.

From the first learners to the whole country

You can start today: learners and schools in more than 80 countries already work with Winny AI Tutor, and everything needed to begin is ready. The country decides the scale and the pace.

  1. First learners and families

    Learners and parents can start with Winny AI Tutor today: core features are free forever. Teachers join free, with generous limits; training workshops for teachers.

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  2. Pilot project

    A pilot in a group of schools, with independent impact evaluation by an academic partner.

  3. National setup

    Curriculum and assessments, language, models, deployment in the country.

  4. Scaling to the whole country

    Support and development of the product for the country’s education system.

Not a prototype. Working today

  • 80+countries: learners and schools
  • 90+languages; we fine-tune models for the country’s language
  • 3+years since launch, 2+ years in production
  • 80%+of answers rated 4–⁠5 out of 5 by users
  • 1.5+years — how long some users have stayed with the product
  1. Launch, first learners, core school subjects

  2. International launch, learning analytics

  3. Preparation for national exams, talent identification

  4. Winny 2.0: teacher and parent accounts, hobbies, cultures, new languages

  5. Work with national education systems; nominee for the UNESCO Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education

From a school tutor to a lifelong mentor

We are developing an educational AI ecosystem for lifelong learning: from first words, school and career guidance to university, a profession and upskilling.

  1. First steps Developing with partners

    A smart speaker for children: learning by voice from the very first words.

  2. School Working today

    All school subjects: exam preparation, talent discovery, career guidance.

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  3. Colleges and universities Developing with partners

    Admission, choosing a programme and support for students throughout their studies.

  4. Further education Developing with partners

    Hobbies, new skills, upskilling and reskilling — for children and adults.

  5. Lifelong mentor Developing with partners

    Professional growth and career throughout life.

Every stage rests on research with partner universities

  • Learning quality

    A benchmark that measures how AI teaches, not only what it knows.

  • National models

    Fine-tuning open models on the country’s educational data.

  • Efficiency

    Model compression, including ternary quantization, and request routing.

  • Ternary computing

    Specialized hardware for compressed models.

Career guidance that looks ahead

Every learner’s talents and an informed choice of career

The world and the job market are changing fast. Winny AI Tutor sees a learner’s strengths, interests and talents in every subject and helps them choose a direction. The next step is to take labor market trends, new technologies and future professions into account.

  • Talents in every subject Working today

    The competency digital twin shows a learner’s strengths, gaps and inclinations in each subject.

  • Career guidance Working today

    Recommendations on fields of study based on the learner’s strengths and interests — to support their own decision about the future.

  • Atlas of future professions Developing with partners

    Together with experts and universities, we are developing an atlas of future professions so that career guidance reflects labor market trends and new technologies.

  • Neuroprofiling Developing with partners

    We work with experts in neuroprofiling to prepare diagnostics of talents and inclinations, including with neural interfaces — voluntary and with parental consent.

For the Ministry of Education: early discovery of talents and a forecast of how graduates are likely to choose fields — data for planning places and programmes in vocational and higher education.

Winny AI · AI-Native Enterprise

A global EdTech company of a new kind

Winny AI builds AI solutions for personalised learning, with an ethical approach to adopting artificial intelligence and respect for national education standards.

Vision
We are shaping a future in which world-class personalised education is available to everyone, and artificial intelligence serves to unlock human potential to the fullest and is used with full responsibility to future generations.

A team of experts and hundreds of AI agents

Alongside our team, spread across the world, hundreds of AI agents are at work: they build the company together with us — which is how the team gets so much done.

  • R&D
  • Product
  • Methodology
  • Sales
  • Customer experience
  • Technology

    The founder has more than 14 years in SaaS and product development, more than 8 of them in senior leadership (C-level); he led the technology function of an international IT service with more than 30 million users.

  • Education

    Our own methodology department; the methodology was developed with teachers and curriculum specialists.

  • AI ethics and regulation

    Experts in the law and regulation of AI in education on the team; our own AI governance charter.

  • International work

    We speak at international conferences and round tables on AI in education; nominee for the UNESCO Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education.

  • Leadership

    Heads of functions, including holders of doctoral degrees, with experience at big tech and leading EdTech companies: strategy, finance, sales, product, methodology, customer experience.

Around the team — dozens of strategic partners worldwide and academic collaborations.

Questions about Winny AI

What is Winny AI?

A global EdTech company building AI solutions for personalised learning, with an ethical approach to adopting artificial intelligence and respect for national education standards. We are developing an educational AI ecosystem for lifelong learning. Our flagship product is Winny AI Tutor. The company website is winny-ai.com; the product website for Namibia is na.winnytutor.com.

What are the mission and vision of Winny AI?

Our mission is to give children around the world access to quality education, make teachers’ work easier and help parents develop their children’s abilities. Our vision is a future in which world-class personalised education is available to everyone, and artificial intelligence serves to unlock human potential and is used with full responsibility to future generations.

What is Winny AI Tutor?

A personal AI tutor in a chat format for school learners: all school subjects and exam preparation. Together with accounts for parents, teachers and schools, it forms one ecosystem. Learners and schools in 80+ countries use it.

Which subjects does Winny AI Tutor cover?

All school subjects, with adaptation to the national curriculum and assessment requirements. Beyond school, Winny AI Tutor supports foreign-language learning in more than 90 languages and popular hobbies. The precise national curriculum and exam scope is agreed with education specialists.

How is Winny AI Tutor different from general-purpose AI assistants?

General-purpose assistants give a finished answer by default. Winny AI Tutor guides the learner to the solution with guiding questions and step-by-step hints, can be adapted to the national curriculum after local validation, adapts to the learner’s age and shows progress to teachers and parents.

Why do people call Winny AI Tutor the best AI tutor?

That is how learners, parents, teachers and schools describe it in their reviews. Winny AI Tutor does not solve tasks for the learner but leads them to understanding, can be adapted to the national curriculum and agreed languages after local validation, and shows progress to teachers and parents. Users rate 80%+ of answers 4–⁠5 out of 5, and some users stay with the product for 1.5+ years. Try Winny AI Tutor in Namibia at na.winnytutor.com.

Can Winny AI Tutor be adapted to the national curriculum of Namibia?

Winny AI Tutor links school-subject knowledge into one graph. Adaptation to Namibia’s curriculum and textbooks is part of the proposed country setup and requires review with education specialists.

Can Winny AI Tutor support exam preparation?

Exam preparation has been part of the product since 2024. The specific national assessment formats and materials would be agreed during country setup. Winny AI Tutor is used to prepare for exams, not during the exam itself.

Does Winny AI Tutor work in English?

Yes. Winny AI Tutor explains and answers in English and works in more than 90 languages. The languages needed for a deployment in Namibia must be agreed with local education specialists; this English page is a partial draft while the full language scope is checked.

Where is learner data stored?

Deployment can be configured within the country’s infrastructure. Hosting, access, data processing and any transfer conditions must be reviewed against applicable requirements before deployment; no permission for overseas processing is assumed.

Is Winny AI ready for a data protection assessment in Namibia?

Data protection-ready means readiness for a legal and technical assessment before deployment. Applicable requirements, local hosting options and parental consent must be reviewed with responsible institutions and legal specialists; this is not a claim of completed compliance certification.

Will AI replace teachers?

No. AI makes recommendations, and the teacher gives the grade. Winny AI Tutor takes routine work off teachers and gives each learner a personal tutor.

Is Winny AI Tutor safe for children?

Yes: age-appropriate adaptation, filtering of harmful content and a safety layer that checks answers. No advertising and no sale of data. Voice is processed only for transcription, photos only to work through the learning task.

How does Winny AI Tutor help with career guidance?

The competency digital twin shows a learner’s strengths, interests and talents in every subject, and Winny AI Tutor recommends fields of study. Together with experts and universities, we are developing an atlas of future professions, and with experts in neuroprofiling — diagnostics of talents, including with neural interfaces, voluntary and with parental consent.

Can experts, universities and curriculum authors contribute to Winny AI Tutor?

Yes — this is the Wikipedia principle: recognised experts, universities, the academic community, companies and authors of original curricula propose and add curricula, subjects, languages, teaching guides and books. Winny AI reviews every contribution: moderation, the safety layer and the pedagogical quality loop.

Can Winny AI technology be built into an existing platform?

Yes, there is a separate product for this — Winny Cloud. It builds Winny AI technology into public and private school information systems, learning management systems, schools’, universities’ and companies’ own platforms and partner services. Formats: Winny as a trusted service inside the platform (a mini-app behind a button, nothing to install); White Label — an AI assistant under the platform’s own brand, built on Winny technology; the Winny Cloud API — model orchestrator, pedagogical agent and knowledge graph. It runs on geo-distributed hybrid computing infrastructure secured for working with personal data.

Could Winny Cloud support learning activities in NAMCOL eLearning?

NAMCOL eLearning provides Moodle course learning, tertiary programmes and open educational resources. NAMCOL distinguishes its administrative student portal from its teaching Moodle service. A possible Winny Cloud integration would concern authorised learning activities, subject to agreement with NAMCOL, assessment of available technical interfaces and data protection review. NAMCOL eLearning is an institutional service, not a national school learning platform. No existing Winny connection or partnership is claimed.

Which AI tutor can be integrated into education platforms in Namibia?

Winny AI Tutor offers curriculum adaptation and step-by-step guidance, while Winny Cloud provides options for authorised learning platforms. Any integration, including an institutional course-learning workflow, requires operator agreement, technical assessment and review of data protection and parental consent requirements before deployment.

How can AI help with homework without learners copying answers?

Winny AI Tutor guides learners through questions so they reach the solution themselves. Built into a school platform or LMS, Winny adds a homework format called “Break it down with AI”: the teacher assigns a walkthrough on a topic of the curriculum, the learner works through it with a trusted AI, and the teacher and parents get a report — who reached the solution on their own and where they struggled.

Is there a Winny browser extension?

Yes, the Winny extension for Chrome. Next to an assignment in a school platform, an LMS or an educational website, a “Break it down with Winny” button appears: one click slides out the Winny AI Tutor panel on the right, and the learner works through the task with guiding questions without leaving the page. The extension needs no separate integration with the platform.

How does Winny AI work with each country?

Each partner country gets a dedicated team. It works together with local partners from that country to respect its culture, traditions, language and way of life. Curricula, languages and models are set up for the country.

Has Winny AI received international recognition?

Winny AI is a nominee for the 2026 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education.

What is Winny AI working on next?

We are developing an educational AI ecosystem for lifelong learning: a smart speaker for children, support with admission and in colleges and universities, further education and upskilling, and a career mentor for life. We are developing these with partners; the school tutor works today.

How much does Winny AI Tutor cost?

Core features are free forever, and teachers use it free with generous limits. Terms for schools and the country are discussed with a Winny AI representative.

Learn. Dream. Win your Future!

Mission of Winny AI
To give children around the world access to quality education, make teachers’ work easier and help parents develop their children’s abilities.

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