AI-powered Assistance for 🇰🇪Kenyan educators and learners.
Empower your students, educators, and institution with engaging tools for continuous growth and lasting motivation in learning and teaching.
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HODARI VISION – Smart Glasses for Teachers
Hodari Vision is a wearable AI-powered assistant designed to support teachers directly in the classroom. Through discreet smart glasses, teachers get real-time lesson prompts, student engagement insights, and voice-activated support, all synced with the Hodari mobile app.
By simplifying classroom management and reducing administrative load, Hodari Vision allows teachers to focus on what matters most—teaching and connecting with students. It empowers educators with data-driven insights and personalized assistance, making every lesson more effective.
Hands-Free Assistance: Voice-activated classroom support.
Live Lesson Prompts: Stay on track with interactive guidance.
Student Engagement: Real-time attention and participation insights.
Seamless Integration: Connects with Hodari app & school systems.
Teacher Empowerment: Practical AI that elevates your teaching.
SOMANASI - for students
Somanasi tailors educational content to suit each student’s unique learning style and requirements, ensuring that vital concepts are presented in a manner that resonates best with them. This customization encompasses individualized curriculum materials, course programs, and assessment questions, pinpointing specific areas where a student requires additional support and guidance to teachers on Hodari.
Gamification encourages incentive-driven learning fostering a vibrant learning community for collaboration, support, and rewards, enhancing their educational journey and making it engaging and enjoyable.
- Interactive Learning: Dynamic textbooks, audiobooks, and courses.
- Personalized Learning: AI-supported tutor for self-paced learning.
- Embrace Mistakes: Viewing mistakes as part of the learning journey.
- Motivation: Keep students motivated for continuous improvement.
- Community: Foster collaboration providing support and rewards.
HODARI - for Teachers
Hodari serves as every teacher’s classroom assistant, efficiently managing grading, lesson planning, and administrative tasks. Hodari also pulls in data from Somanasi making it easier for teachers to have interventions for their students.
This streamlines classroom administration and enhances the teaching experience by providing more time for what truly matters – teaching and dedicated student support. The result is an empowered and more efficient teaching workforce.
- Classroom Administration: No paperwork, just simple clicks.
- Lesson Planning: Your personalized engaging lesson plans quickly.
- Professional Development: Access updated training resources.
- Student Tracking: The most reliable and accurate record-keeping.
- Collaborative Community: Join a supportive community of educators.
SUPA School - for schools
Supa School is a smarter, more efficient school management experience. The dynamic AI-powered system empowers school administrators with valuable insights, streamlining operations and simplifying support for students, teachers, and parents.
- Data Insights: Gain valuable foresight with data-driven insights.
- Cost Reduction: Save money and optimize resource allocation.
- Seamless Operations: Streamline your school’s daily tasks.
- Enhanced Communication: Improve interactions in your school community.
It's simple. No tech skills needed.
With education resources being costly and limited, the opportunity AI brings to schools, educators and learners greatly increases access, affordability and relevance. Enjoy it’s benefits today.
Access. Affordability. Convenience.
We are imagining Kenya’s pioneering Large Language Model (LLM) for primary school education. Tailored with curriculum designed to meet the unique needs of Kenyan students, while offering a globally representative educational experience it would provide a comprehensive range of educational tools and content to bring about a transformational learning journey.
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COVID may have started the migration to digital learning, but at Kytabu, we believe it is every student and educator’s biggest asset for the future of education.
"AI will not replace people, people using AI will replace people who are not using AI"
Jensen Huang – NVIDIA CEO
Frequently asked questions
What is Kytabu, and what products do you offer?
Kytabu is an African education technology company pioneering the use of AI, wearables, and local language models to solve systemic challenges in teaching and learning. Our key products include Hodari Vision (AI-powered smart glasses for teachers), Somanasi (a multimodal AI tutor for students), and Supa School (an AI-integrated school management platform). These tools are designed to work in low-resource environments and are customized for African classrooms and communities.
How can Kytabu's products benefit schools and educational institutions?
Kytabu’s ecosystem reduces administrative burden, enhances teaching quality, and supports personalized student learning through real-time AI support. Schools benefit from our integration of localized LLMs and voice-based tools that help improve outcomes without needing expensive infrastructure. Whether it’s automating attendance, tracking performance, or coaching teachers in real time, Kytabu helps schools do more with less.
What kind of educational content does Kytabu offer?
Our content is curriculum-aligned, available in both English and Swahili, and optimized for use with AI-powered tools. Teachers access AI-assisted lesson planning and real-time classroom support, while students engage with personalized tutoring through natural language interactions. Kytabu also supports inclusive content delivery, including speech-to-text and text-to-speech powered by machine learning.
How can I access Kytabu’s educational resources?
Kytabu’s platforms are accessible via smartphones, tablets, and in some cases, wearable devices like the Hodari Vision glasses. Our mobile and web apps are designed for both online and offline use to ensure broad accessibility across varying levels of connectivity. Institutions and individuals can get started with pilot programs or sign up for access through our website.
What is the Supa School Information Management System and how does it work?
Supa School is a smart, cloud-based school management system built with integrated AI to support real-time analytics, automation, and reporting. It centralizes student data, automates administrative tasks, and uses machine learning to provide actionable insights to educators and school leaders. Designed with African schools in mind, it works with or without high-speed internet and integrates easily with other Kytabu tools.
Why should I consider using Kytabu’s Supa School IMS in my school?
Supa School is not just a record-keeping tool — it’s an intelligence layer for your school. It identifies learning gaps, predicts dropout risks, and supports personalized interventions by combining classroom data with AI-driven recommendations. With an easy-to-use interface and compatibility with mobile devices, it brings modern analytics to every classroom, no matter the budget. It will also integrate with Hodari, Hodari Vision and Somanasi seamlessly.
Is Kytabu’s content aligned with the Kenyan CBE standards?
Yes, all our content — including that delivered via AI tutors and voice interfaces — aligns with Kenya’s Competency-Based Education (CBE) framework. We work directly with local educators and instructional designers to ensure compliance and relevance to the national system. Our tools are also adaptable for regional or pan-African curricula through modular and data-driven customization.
Can parents and guardians use Kytabu’s products to track their child’s academic progress?
Yes, the Supa School platform is being built to give parents a monitoring app that can help parents monitor attendance, performance trends, and learning activity in real time. It will also provide alerts and AI-generated summaries to help parents engage meaningfully with their child’s education, even if they are not digitally fluent. Parental tools will be mobile-first and designed with user simplicity in mind.
What is the cost of using Kytabu for schools and individuals?
Kytabu will offer flexible pricing models based on school size, user volume, and the specific product suite being deployed. We also work with NGOs, government programs, and development partners to subsidize access where affordability is a barrier. Our goal is to ensure no teacher or student is left behind because of cost, while keeping our business sustainable.
How can educational institutions and individuals get started with Kytabu’s products?
We recommend starting with a discovery call to understand your institution’s needs, followed by a tailored pilot with one or more of our tools. Our onboarding process includes training, integration support, and technical assistance, and we support gradual scaling to fit your capacity. Interested schools, NGOs, or governments can reach out via our website or directly at kytabu@kytabu.com.