What is Winny AI?
A global EdTech company building AI solutions for personalized 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 the Netherlands is nl.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 personalized 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 (AI tutoring and homework help) for learners from primary school to the final examinations: 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 from primary school to the final examinations — including Dutch, mathematics, English, French, German, geography, history, economics, biology, physics, chemistry and computer science — plus preparation for the doorstroomtoets in group 8 (formerly the eindtoets) and for the central examinations in vmbo, havo and vwo. Winny AI Tutor knows every other subject of the curriculum just as well. Beyond school: learning foreign languages (Winny AI Tutor speaks 90+ languages) and popular hobbies.
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, follows the national curriculum, adapts to the learner’s age and shows progress to teachers and parents.
Does Winny AI Tutor do the homework for the learner?
No. Winny AI Tutor does not give finished solutions to copy, but leads to understanding step by step with guiding questions and hints: the learner does the thinking. This mode cannot be switched off. Schools and parents agree among themselves on the use of AI for homework and tests; Winny AI Tutor is not used during a test or exam — only to prepare for it.
Why do people call Winny AI Tutor the best AI tutor?
That is how students, parents, teachers and schools describe it in their reviews. Winny AI Tutor does not solve tasks for the student but leads them to understanding, follows the national curriculum in the country’s language, 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 the Netherlands at nl.winnytutor.com.
Does Winny AI Tutor follow the Dutch core objectives and examination programmes?
Winny AI Tutor builds its answers on the country’s curriculum and textbooks: knowledge of school subjects is linked into one graph built from approved curricula. For the Netherlands, this means setup for the core objectives (kerndoelen) of primary and secondary education and the examination programmes of vmbo, havo and vwo.
Does Winny AI Tutor help prepare for the doorstroomtoets and the final examinations?
Preparation for national exams has been part of the product since 2024; the formats of the doorstroomtoets in group 8 (formerly the eindtoets) and of the central examinations in vmbo, havo and vwo are part of the national setup. Winny AI Tutor is not used during the exam itself — only to prepare for it.
Does Winny AI Tutor work in Dutch?
Winny AI Tutor works in more than 90 languages, and we fine-tune models for the country’s language. Working in Dutch is part of the national setup, together with the curriculum and examinations.
Where is learner data stored?
Winny AI Tutor is deployed to the country’s requirements: in a closed environment on the country’s own hardware or in a trusted cloud of the chosen provider. Learner data can stay in the Netherlands.
Is Winny AI ready for GDPR and the EU AI Act?
Yes. Winny AI Tutor is ready to operate under the GDPR (AVG) and the GDPR Implementation Act (UAVG) (GDPR-ready), and under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act-ready): deployment within the country, with learner data staying in the Netherlands, no advertising and no sale of data. We do not infer learners’ emotions from voice or faces. In every country we undergo, or are ready to undergo, review under its data protection law — for example, GDPR in the European Union, the Data Privacy Act in the Philippines, the PDPL in Saudi Arabia.
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?
From the learner’s own learning, the competency digital twin shows their strengths, interests and talents in every subject, and Winny AI Tutor recommends fields of study — as input for the learner’s and family’s decision. Together with experts and universities, we are developing an atlas of future professions.
Is neuroprofiling required? Does Winny AI Tutor recognize learners’ emotions?
It is not required. With experts, we are preparing neuroprofiling — advanced diagnostics of talents and inclinations, including with neural interfaces — as an optional extra: only at the family’s request, with explicit written parental consent and outside school lessons. Winny AI Tutor works fully without it. We do not infer learners’ emotions from biometric data — voice, face or body signals: the EU Artificial Intelligence Act prohibits inferring emotions in educational institutions, and we process voice only for transcription and photos only to work through the learning task.
Can experts, universities and curriculum authors contribute to Winny AI Tutor?
Yes — this is the Wikipedia principle: recognized 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 school information systems and learning management systems of public and private providers, the own platforms of schools, universities of applied sciences, universities and companies, 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.
Can Winny AI be integrated with Magister, Somtoday, ParnasSys or Moodle?
Yes. Winny Cloud is designed for public and private systems: the school information systems Magister, Somtoday and ParnasSys, Moodle and the custom platforms of schools, universities of applied sciences, universities and companies, with sign-in through Kennisnet’s Entree Federatie. The quickest start is a mini-app behind a “Break it down with AI” button next to an assignment: the platform passes a signed token with a pseudonymised ID, role and year group, no learner personal data is transferred, in line with the GDPR (AVG), and the connection can be switched off by configuration. Single sign-on, assignment sync with the school information system and reports to the teacher can follow.
Which AI tutor can be integrated into the digital systems of Dutch schools?
One built for public systems. Winny AI Tutor does not hand out ready answers: guiding questions lead the learner to the solution step by step, and the grade stays with the teacher. It follows the core objectives (kerndoelen) and examination programmes, can be operated in the Netherlands, and learner data can stay in the Netherlands. It is ready to operate under the GDPR and the EU AI Act (GDPR-ready, EU AI Act-ready), and its orchestrator brings in national models, including Dutch-language ones, and open-weight models. It can be integrated into school information systems and learning platforms such as Magister and Somtoday through Winny Cloud, including with sign-in through Entree Federatie.
How can AI help with homework without learners copying answers?
Winny AI Tutor does not solve the task for the learner: guiding questions lead to the solution, and the learner reaches the answer on their own. Built into a school information system or LMS, Winny adds a homework format called “Break it down with AI”: the teacher assigns a walkthrough on any topic of the curriculum, the learner works it out with a trusted AI, and the teacher and parent 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 information system, 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 integration with the platform, so it works with school information systems, LMS and educational websites in any country.
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, regions and the country are discussed with a Winny AI representative.