EdTech founders, operators, and product leads
If you're building a learning product for the Commonwealth — the frameworks, the funding path, and the mistakes worth skipping.
Guide
The six things we check before we'd co-build a learning company: system-native fit, a real wedge, mastery over engagement, the right founder, a path to learners, and honest use of AI. A checklist you can run on your own idea first.
June 2026 · Malaysia, Commonwealth · 7 min read
Feature
We built the obvious thing — an AI tutor you chat with — and the evidence made us tear up half of it. Six lessons from building a mastery-based maths tutor, including the design we got wrong.
June 2026 · Malaysia, Commonwealth · 6 min read
Explainer
Four questions — curriculum, language, price, infrastructure — that tell you whether a learning tool is built for your students' system or someone else's. Fail any one and it's product-export, however good the technology.
June 2026 · Malaysia, Commonwealth · 5 min read
Analysis
Western EdTech keeps exporting products into systems they don't fit. AI collapses one of the four mismatches — price — but the tools that win build from the Commonwealth's shared curriculum, not into it.
June 2026 · Malaysia, Commonwealth · 10 min read
Feature
The scarce input in EdTech isn't engineering — it's real domain authority. Teachers, curriculum designers, and child-development experts have the thing that can't be faked. Here's what they're missing, and how the gap gets closed.
June 2026 · Malaysia, Commonwealth · 6 min read
Review
Pandai is built for the exam Malaysian students sit, in their languages, at a price a local family can pay. It fits all four mismatches. Its model is exam practice, not adaptive mastery — which is exactly the honest limit.
June 2026 · Malaysia · 4 min read
Guide
Before you give away equity, Malaysia has a stack of grants, a tax status, cloud credits, and a training levy that can fund 18–24 months to a real product. The stack, the order to do it in, and the traps.
June 2026 · Malaysia, Commonwealth · 8 min read
Comparison
Khanmigo is the better-built tutor; Pandai is the better-fitting one. For a Malaysian student that gap decides it. A scored, side-by-side comparison through the Four Mismatches lens.
June 2026 · Malaysia, Commonwealth · 7 min read
Review
Khan Academy's Khanmigo is one of the best AI tutors built. For a Malaysian or Commonwealth buyer it also fits only one of the four mismatches — price. Our scored review.
June 2026 · Malaysia, Commonwealth · 4 min read
Feature
Two billion people inherited the same curriculum and the same structural problem — and, until now, the same access fee. AI removed the fee. Why the next decade of education building happens in markets capital has ignored.
June 2026 · Malaysia, Commonwealth · 6 min read
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