A tutor your child can talk to.
Lakshya is a voice-first AI tutor for Classes 1–10. A child asks a question out loud, in Telugu or English, and gets a patient explanation — not an answer to copy down.
Early access. Built in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, for children here first.
మంచు నీటి మీద ఎందుకు తేలుతుంది?
Why does ice float on water?
Good question. First tell me — if you put a stone and a piece of wood in water, which one sinks?
The stone sinks.
Right. So what is different about the stone? Think about how heavy each one is for its size.
148 million children are behind, and tuition is out of reach
148M
Primary and middle school children in India cannot read basic text or do grade-level arithmetic.
₹1,500
A month is what private tuition typically costs — unaffordable for roughly four families in five.
1:40
Teacher to student ratio in a crowded classroom. A child who falls behind rarely gets noticed.
The children who need help most are the ones nobody is building for. JEE and NEET coaching is crowded and well funded. Lakshya serves the far larger group those platforms skip: children falling behind in their own classroom.
Why the apps haven't worked
What's on offer today
- Recorded video lessonsCourse completion sits below 8%. Watching is not learning.
- English firstQuality platforms ignore regional languages and local accents.
- ₹12,000–35,000 a yearAnnual packages price out the mass market entirely.
- Heavy appsHD video assumes a good phone and a good connection.
What Lakshya does instead
- A spoken conversationThe child talks, Lakshya asks the next question, understanding builds step by step.
- Telugu firstRegional speech and dialects handled natively, not dubbed over English.
- Free to startFree daily voice minutes for every child. Family passes from ₹49 a week.
- Audio, compressedDesigned for 2G and 3G on an entry-level phone.
What a session looks like
Five to fifteen minutes. Short enough for a child, long enough to fix one idea.
The child asks
By voice, or by typing if they prefer. Any subject in their syllabus — maths, science, social studies, languages.
Lakshya checks what they already know
A short warm-up question, so the explanation starts at the child's real level rather than the textbook's.
It guides with questions, not answers
One step at a time. Each step ends with a small question the child has to answer themselves.
It adjusts
Wrong answer, and it rephrases. Right answer, and it moves on. No timers, no streaks, no leaderboard.
Mastery updates quietly
Topic by topic, in the background. The parent sees it on their dashboard. The child never feels graded.
School mastery, not exam coaching
Foundational skills
Reading and arithmetic for Classes 1–5, aligned to NIPUN Bharat goals. A day-one diagnostic places each child at their real level.
State board mastery
Classes 6–10 mapped chapter by chapter to SCERT textbooks, starting with the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh boards and SSC exams.
Proof of learning
Measured mastery gains, not watch time. Outcome data is what schools, CSR sponsors and state programmes will pay for.
One tutor, three people it has to serve
The child
A patient study companion available whenever homework gets stuck, with no judgment about asking the same thing twice.
The parent
A weekly WhatsApp voice note in plain language: what the child studied, what is improving, where they are struggling.
The teacher
A dashboard showing which skills the class is missing, with homework checked automatically instead of by hand.
No child should have to pay to start
Our real competitor is free. So the child's tier is free, permanently. Revenue comes from the people who can pay — families who choose to, schools, and sponsors.
A free daily quota of voice tutoring. No card, no UPI, no barrier to starting.
Day passes from ₹5. A ₹199 monthly family plan covers up to three siblings sharing one phone.
Per student per month for affordable private schools. CSR sponsors and state programmes fund free seats.
Indicative pricing. Final plans will be confirmed when Lakshya opens to the public.
Where this goes next
We start deep and narrow, then widen. Telugu state boards first, then Hindi, then the full national K–12 curriculum.
Safety is the design constraint
Every message a child sends is screened before the AI replies. Automated checks catch the obvious cases, smarter detection catches the subtler ones, and trained reviewers step in when something needs a human.
Conversations are encrypted and stored in India. Parents can export or erase their child's data whenever they want.
- Built to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
- Data stored in India, no third-country transfers
- Crisis and distress speech routed to a trusted parent contact
- Every safety decision logged and reviewable
- One-tap data erasure for parents
- No data ever sold or shared with advertisers
Be first in line when Lakshya opens
Parents, schools and tuition teachers in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are being added to the pilot now.