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Why we exist

Time for trainers. Attention for every learner.

A college trainer's week goes mostly into work that doesn't need a trainer: rewriting the same module, building the same question paper, grading the same kind of answer. The part that does need them, knowing each learner by where they're stuck, gets crowded out.

Meanwhile every learner is on a different path through the same material, and no one is tracking who is stuck on what. We're building the AI that handles the first kind of work, and watches the second, so trainers can step in where it matters and learners can actually understand.

What we believe

Five beliefs that shape every decision we make.

AI should give time back to trainers, not replace them.

A trainer who spent ten hours preparing a module should spend two, and use the rest on work only a human can do: mentoring, evaluating, listening. We measure features by hours returned to the person at the front of the room.

Learning is a workflow, not a content library.

Tools that dump content on learners fail predictably. We design around the actual sequence: prepare, deliver, assess, remediate. We refuse to ship features that don't fit into it.

Your institution's data is its IP.

We don't train shared models on your learners' work or repackage your faculty's content. Per-institution isolation is in the contract and in the architecture.

Indian higher ed deserves world-class software, not localized hand-me-downs.

We build for VTU semester structures, mixed-language classrooms, and 3G mobile as primary requirements, not afterthoughts.

Every learner deserves a path of their own.

A class of forty is forty different paths through the same material. We build for the learner stuck on chapter three while the rest are on chapter five. And for the trainer who would already know that, if she had the time.

The people

Everyone building Kwilo.

Small team. Engineering, design, and content under one roof.

Founders

Kantharaju C N

Kantharaju C N

Founder

Over a decade in production machine learning, with a focus on speech, vision, and language models. Worked across European research labs and ML platforms shipping to enterprise users. At Kwilo, works on the part where research meets a working AI tutor at 9 a.m. on a Monday.

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Bhanu Prakash

Bhanu Prakash

Cofounder

Builds the parts of Kwilo that learners and trainers actually touch. Over a decade building product and engineering teams for B2B SaaS. Now focused on product and development.

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Core team

Nishanth Antony

Core team

Engineering.

Prajwal

Core team

Engineering.

Alaap

Core team

Design.

Likitha

Core team

Content.

Marketing

Sahana Sadananda

Marketing

Marketing.

Sushmitha Keshavamurthi

Marketing

Marketing.

Advisor

Yashas Rattehalli

Yashas Rattehalli

Advisor

Founder of Hercules AI, previously Director of Engineering at DataRobot. Over fifteen years in production AI and MLOps. Advises Kwilo on scaling AI infrastructure and the messy part of going from a research demo to a system schools actually rely on.

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What's next

Want to talk?

Two ways forward.

Bring Kwilo to your institution

We run a focused pilot with every new institution. One department, one semester, real learners.

Build this with us

Small team, real ownership, and work that lands in a classroom within weeks.