Zanaya AI · Launching summer 2026

The math tutor of
the 21st century.
Personal for every child.

Zanaya is an AI math tutor that sees exactly where a student fell behind — at the level of an atomic competency — and builds the precise learning path to fill the gap. Not 100 exercises. The right 20.

EXERCISE · 042 / LINEAR EQUATIONS
PROBLEM
Solve for x: 3(x − 4) = 2x + 5
3x − 12 = 2x + 5
3x − 2x = 5 + 12
! x = 5 + 12 = 7
Z
Step 3: arithmetic mistake in integer addition. 5 + 12 = 17, not 7. Routing you back to "Operations with integers" from grade 5.
Gap detected
Mastery: 84%
1,000+
students taught at Zanaya Academy over 5 years
2,000+
students enrolled in summer 2026 program
5 yrs
teaching experience built into the model
240+
atomic competencies in our skill tree
The problem

A single grade
tells you nothing.

An engaged parent gets the report card: a C in geometry. Now what? They don't know where the actual problem is. The kid doesn't know what to fix. The teacher has no time to diagnose 28 students individually.

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My child is getting low grades. I'm an engaged parent, but I can't figure out where exactly the problem is. Can you help?
— a question we hear from parents every week
01

The system is from the 19th century

One teacher, one large classroom, one grade for everything. Personalized attention is impossible. Real gaps go undetected and accumulate over years.

02

Today's AI tutors miss the point

They're chatbots that assume the student knows what to ask. But if the student knew, they wouldn't need a tutor. That's why nobody actually learns from them.

03

Private tutors are expensive

A good private math tutor in any major city is $20–60 an hour. Few families can afford four sessions a week. The rest go without proper support.

04

Math is learned through practice

Not by watching videos. Not by chatting with a bot. By solving the right problems in the right order. That's what the market is missing today.

The solution

Not 100 exercises.
The right 20.

Zanaya diagnoses what a student knows on every problem. It analyzes every step of their handwritten work. It finds the precise competency that's missing. Then it gives the next right exercise.

01 / DIAGNOSE

Atomic competency model

K-7 math broken down into 240+ atomic skills. Each linked to its prerequisites. Each measurable. Each backed by thousands of practice exercises.

02 / ANALYZE

Step-by-step handwriting analysis

Students solve with pen and paper, on iPad, with a smart pen, or by typing. The AI reads every step, not just the final answer. Mistakes get caught where they actually happen.

03 / PATH

Dynamic learning plan

When a gap is found, we route to the exact competency that caused it, even if it's from a previous grade. We patch the gap without losing progress on the current topic.

04 / PROFILE

Live profile of what they know

Every solved exercise updates the student's competency profile. We see what's mastered, what's forgotten, what needs review. Parents get a real picture, not just a grade.

05 / RETAIN

Spaced repetition

A skill isn't mastered when a kid gets it once. It's mastered when they keep it. The system tests it again days and weeks later, ensuring durable knowledge, not crammed facts.

06 / PLAY

Gamified by design

Defending competencies as levels. Points, rewards, leaderboards. Progress is visible and earned. Kids don't learn because they have to, they learn because they want to.

Our innovation

The skill tree.

Our academy has worked with over 1,000 children across 5 years. Out of that practice, out of thousands of private lessons and hundreds of diagnostic tests, we built something nobody else has.

An atomic model of K-7 mathematics. 240+ competencies, each linked to the others. Each backed by thousands of exercises. This is the foundation Zanaya AI runs on.

  • Every competency knows what requires it and what follows from it
  • Every exercise is tagged with the competencies it tests
  • Every type of mistake is mapped to the competency that caused it
  • The student's profile is alive — it updates with every step they solve
Grade 7 Eq. Geo. Frac. gap found grade 5 · integers
Why we're different

We tested
20+ competitors.

We spent months manually testing every AI math app on the market. None of them solves the actual problem. Each one is a chatbot, a calculator, or a list of exercises. Zanaya is a different kind of product.

Capability
Other AI math apps
Zanaya
Knows what you should study
No. Waits for you to ask.
Yes. Diagnoses and routes you.
Handwriting analysis
iPad-only or none.
Pen, pencil, iPad, smart pen.
Catches mistakes step by step
Final answer only.
Every step of the solution.
Routes back to the missing skill
No. Just gives a new answer.
Yes — even from prior grades.
Live competency profile
A topic checklist at best.
A 240+ skill tree, alive.
Curriculum coverage
Mostly US Common Core.
Built ground-up for our market.
Spaced repetition
Rare. No real cognitive science.
Yes. Built into the system.
The team

Mathematicians.
Not marketers.

The three of us are international math and physics medalists, NASA Ames contest winners, and founders of businesses that already work. We're not a marketing agency building another AI chatbot. We're solving a problem we've faced every day for the last 5 years.

Aleksandar
Co-founder · Competency model

Silver medal at the International Experimental Physics Olympiad. NASA Ames First Prize 2018 (UniSpace). Founder of ACTIVE СМУТИ, sold in 350+ retail locations. Built the competency model that powers Zanaya.

TIMO Runner-up Phys. Silver CERN Program NASA Ames 1st
Simeon
Co-founder · Curriculum

BSc Math & CS at FMI Sofia University. NASA Ames First Prize 2018. Created MatheMagical Games, Bulgaria's first gamified math competition. Personally taught 650+ students.

FMI Sofia NASA Ames 1st 650+ students 5 yrs teaching
Jacob
Co-founder · Engineering

Solo founder of JustCommit, with thousands of active users. MS AI at UCL and BS Math at Warwick. Bird-song deep learning thesis acquired by a research firm in Brazil. Two Kaggle silver medals.

AI Master's at UCL 2× Kaggle Silver Solo founder

Summer 2026 — opening to the first 2,000 families.

If you're a parent and you want your child to be among the first to use Zanaya, drop your email. We'll reach out before the public launch.

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