Winny AI builds educational AI ready to help every student in New Zealand

Goals New Zealand has set for itself

The Education and Training Act 2020 and the Ministry of Education’s guidance on artificial intelligence in schools. Winny AI works toward these goals, not alongside them.

• Every student at their highest standard

  Winny AI Tutor sees the strengths, gaps and talents of each student in every learning area and works at their own pace and level — not just with a few students, but with all of them.

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  “A board’s paramount objective in governing a school is to ensure that every student at the school is able to attain their highest possible standard in educational achievement.”

  Education and Training Act 2020, section 127(1), paramount objective of school boards

• Progress that is visible

  A map of each student’s knowledge across the curriculum shows learning gaps early, and class analytics show the teacher who needs help with which topic — between lessons and at home, with whānau seeing progress too.

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  “to ensure that the school uses good quality assessment and aromatawai information to monitor and evaluate students’ progress and achievement”

  Education and Training Act 2020, section 127(2)(b)

• AI that improves teaching and learning

  The pedagogical agent leads to the solution with guiding questions, level by level on Bloom’s taxonomy, and does not do the task for the student — so AI supports thinking rather than replacing it. This mode cannot be switched off.

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  “AI in education should improve teaching and learning, supporting knowledgeable and skilled teachers.”

  Generative AI: guidance for schools, Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga, 2026

• Teachers’ professional judgement first

  The teacher’s AI assistant takes on routine questions and helps review homework, and class analytics show who needs help with which topic; the grade stays with the teacher. Free for teachers.

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  “The use of AI tools for marking should support, not replace, the professional judgement of teachers.”

  Generative AI: AI tools for marking, Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga, 2026

• Skills for life and work

  The competency digital twin shows each student’s strengths and talents in every learning area, and recommendations on fields of study support their own informed choice about further study and work.

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  “provides New Zealanders and those studying in New Zealand with the skills, knowledge, and capabilities that they need to fully participate in the labour market, society, and their communities”

  Education and Training Act 2020, section 4(a), purpose of the Act

From Year 1 to Year 13 — 856,412 students in 2,536 schools Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga, school rolls and number of schools, 1 July 2025

A personal tutor for every learner. Now at national scale

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.

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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, randomised study, Nigeria, 2025

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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

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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.

Flagship product of Winny AI

Winny AI Tutor — an international learning ecosystem

A personal AI tutor in a chat format for students from Year 1 to Year 13 — across all learning areas, languages and popular hobbies — with connected accounts for parents and whānau, teachers and schools. Students, whānau, 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 follow the approved curricula and textbooks. In New Zealand, this means setup for The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa from Year 1 to Year 13, and for NCEA assessment formats.

• 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, kura and the whole system, and deployment within New Zealand.

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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 assessment

  Setup for The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, from Year 1 to Year 13; study for NCEA Levels 1–⁠3 and University Entrance — and for the new senior secondary qualifications as they are introduced from 2028.

• Language and culture

  More than 90 languages, including English, te reo Māori and the other languages taught in New Zealand schools, and cultural adaptation.

• Models

  National and open-weight models, which can be fine-tuned in New Zealand.

• 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.

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

   The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, NCEA, languages, models, deployment in New Zealand.

4. Scaling across New Zealand

   Support and development of the product for every school and kura that chooses it.

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 learning areas, from Year 1 to Year 13: exam preparation, talent discovery, career guidance.

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3. Colleges and universities Developing with partners

   Admission, choosing a program 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.

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 labour 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 labour 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 — as an additional option chosen by the family, with parental consent and under the Biometric Processing Privacy Code; the core product works without it.

For the Ministry of Education: early discovery of talents and a forecast of how school leavers 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.

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.