Winny AI builds educational AI ready to help every learner in Portugal

Goals Portugal has set for itself

The Constitution, the Students’ Profile at the end of compulsory schooling, the action plan of the National Digital Strategy, the Digital Skills Pact, the National Artificial Intelligence Agenda and the National Council of Education’s recommendation on AI at school. Winny AI works toward these goals, not alongside them.

• Success at school for everyone

  Winny AI Tutor sees the strengths, gaps and talents of each pupil in every subject and guides them at their own pace — not just a few pupils, but all of them.

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  “Everyone has the right to education, with the guarantee of the right to equal opportunities in access to and success in schooling.”

  Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, Article 74(1) — English text of the Assembly of the Republic (7th revision)

• Skills for life

  Winny AI Tutor keeps the memory of years of learning — what the learner already understands, where the gaps are, what their talents are — and accompanies them from year 1 to year 12.

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  “to guarantee all young people who complete compulsory schooling, regardless of the educational path they have followed, the set of competences, understood as an interconnection between knowledge, skills, attitudes and values, that makes them able to invest continuously, throughout life, in their education”

  Students’ Profile at the End of Compulsory Schooling — Despacho no. 6478/2017, Diário da República, 2nd series, no. 143, 26 July 2017 — unofficial translation from Portuguese

• Personalized learning and more time to teach

  The teacher’s AI assistant takes on routine questions and helps review homework. The grade stays with the teacher. Winny AI Tutor is free for teachers.

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  “unprecedented opportunities: personalization of learning, differentiated support for pupils with specific needs, a reduction in the administrative workload of teachers”

  National Council of Education, Recommendation no. 4/2026 “Integration of Artificial Intelligence in the Portuguese education system”, Diário da República, 2nd series, no. 98, 21 May 2026 — unofficial translation from Portuguese

• AI literacy for learners

  Learners practise working with AI safely and meaningfully in every subject: the pedagogical agent leads to the solution with guiding questions and does not do the task for the learner. This mode cannot be switched off.

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  “making investment in learners’ digital literacy essential, in particular regarding the implications of Artificial Intelligence, through the revision of the Aprendizagens Essenciais (Essential Learning) for basic and secondary education”

  Digital Skills Pact — Council of Ministers Resolution no. 216/2025, Diário da República, 1st series, no. 250, 30 December 2025 — unofficial translation from Portuguese

• AI in European Portuguese

  The Winny AI orchestrator connects the models the country chooses, including European Portuguese models, without rewriting the product; the service and learner data can stay in the country.

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  “continuation of the AMALIA project, extending its use to new use cases and assessing potential international and public–private partnerships to secure its future relevance”

  National Artificial Intelligence Agenda, initiative II.7 — Council of Ministers Resolution no. 2/2026, Diário da República, 1st series, no. 5, 8 January 2026 — unofficial translation from Portuguese

From the Minho to the Algarve and the islands — more than 1.3 million pupils in basic and secondary education and more than 130,000 teachers DGEEC, Education in Numbers — Portugal 2026 (school year 2024/25)

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, randomized 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 learners from year 1 to year 12 — across all school subjects, foreign languages and popular hobbies — together 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 follow the approved curricula and textbooks. For Portugal, this means setup for the Aprendizagens Essenciais (Essential Learning) for basic and secondary education, years 1–⁠12, and for the formats of the year 9 final tests and the national exams.

• 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 regions, 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 behavior 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 examinations

  Setup for the Aprendizagens Essenciais (Essential Learning) and textbooks for basic education (years 1–⁠9) and secondary education (years 10–⁠12); preparation for the year 9 final tests and the national exams for secondary education.

• Language and culture

  More than 90 languages and cultural adaptation. Portuguese is the official language of the country (Constitution, Article 11(3)).

• Models

  National models and European Portuguese 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.

From the first students 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 students and families

   Students 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 one municipality or school cluster, with independent impact evaluation by an academic partner.

3. National setup

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

4. Scaling to the whole country

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

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 subjects, from year 1 to year 12: 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.

Career guidance that looks ahead

Advanced technology for discovering talents and choosing a career

The world and the job market are changing fast. From each learner’s own learning, Winny AI Tutor identifies their strengths, interests and talents in every subject and helps them choose a direction. With experts and universities we are adding labor market trends, new technologies and future professions — and, for families who want it, preparing neuroprofiling as an optional extra.

• Talents in every subject Working today

  The competency digital twin follows learning over the years and 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. They inform the learner’s and family’s own decision — they are not admission decisions.

• 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.

• Optional neuroprofiling Developing with partners

  With experts in neuroprofiling, we are preparing advanced diagnostics of talents and inclinations, including with neural interfaces. It is an option, not a requirement: only at the family’s request, with explicit written parental consent, outside school lessons. It is not designed to infer emotions and is not used in schools. Winny AI Tutor works fully without it.

For the government: early discovery of talents and an aggregated forecast of how graduates are likely to choose fields — data for planning places and programmes in secondary education, vocational education and higher education.

Winny AI · AI-Native Enterprise

A global EdTech company of a new kind

Winny AI builds AI solutions for personalized 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.