Winny AI builds educational AI ready to help every student in São Tomé and Príncipe

Goals São Tomé and Príncipe has set for itself

The Framework Law of the Education System and the Partnership Compact for education. Winny AI works toward these goals, not alongside them.

• Equal opportunities and educational success

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

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  “promote the democratisation of Education, guaranteeing the right to a fair and effective equality of opportunities of access to education and of educational success”

  Framework Law of the Education System, Law No. 4/2018, Article 2(2) — Diário da República, Series I, No. 14, 18 February 2019 (unofficial translation from Portuguese)

• Equity and quality of learning

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

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  “Improving equity and inclusion in access to and learning outcomes of pre-school education and during the 12 years of schooling, including technical and vocational education”

  Partnership Compact “São Tomé and Príncipe: Strengthening the Education System to Generate Quality and Equity in Learning”, Priority Reform — Government and education partners, June 2023 (unofficial translation from Portuguese)

• Information and communication technologies at school

  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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  “Provide the pedagogical conditions for the handling of the new information and communication technologies”

  Framework Law of the Education System, Law No. 4/2018, Article 10(m) — objectives of Basic Education — Diário da República, Series I, No. 14, 18 February 2019 (unofficial translation from Portuguese)

• Teachers and learning materials as pillars

  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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  “revitalising teaching through the initial and continuing training of teachers and the use of learning materials as fundamental pillars of the education system”

  Partnership Compact “São Tomé and Príncipe: Strengthening the Education System to Generate Quality and Equity in Learning”, Required changes — Government and education partners, June 2023 (unofficial translation from Portuguese)

• Psychopedagogical support and career guidance

  From each learner’s own learning, Winny AI Tutor shows their strengths, interests and talents in every subject and recommends fields of study — to support the decision of the learner and the family, not as an admission decision. It gently supports learners and helps ease stress and anxiety, for example before exams.

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  “In education establishments, the following is ensured: a) Support for psycho-pedagogical development; b) School, professional and vocational guidance”

  Framework Law of the Education System, Law No. 4/2018, Article 47(1) — Diário da República, Series I, No. 14, 18 February 2019 (unofficial translation from Portuguese)

From the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe — about 61,000 students from Class 1 to Class 12 Ministry of Education, school year 2023/2024 (figures published in September 2024)

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 students from Class 1 to Class 12 — 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 follow the approved curriculum and textbooks. For São Tomé and Príncipe, this means setup for basic education (Classes 1–⁠9) and secondary education (Classes 10–⁠12), and the formats of tests and 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 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

  Setup for the curriculum and textbooks of basic education (Classes 1–⁠9) and secondary education (Classes 10–⁠12); preparation for tests and exams.

• Language and culture

  More than 90 languages, including Portuguese and English, and cultural adaptation. The curricula of basic and secondary education develop understanding and oral and written production in Portuguese (Framework Law of the Education System, Article 67(3)).

• Models

  National and regional models, including Portuguese-language 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 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.

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, Class 1 to Class 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

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 technical-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.