wisepup — a world-class tutor for every learner

The mission

The best teaching in the world is one-to-one. Almost nobody can afford it.

A private tutor is the single most effective intervention in education — and it has always been rationed by income and postcode. Everyone else gets one teacher for forty students, a fixed syllabus, and no second explanation.

wisepup exists to close that gap. AI tutors and AI agents make personal, patient, always-available teaching cheap enough to give away at scale — to a first-grader, an exam-year teenager, a career-switcher, a grandparent. Education for all, not education for those who can pay.

Grade 1 → lifelong

One learning companion, every stage

24/7

A tutor that never runs out of patience

A fraction

Of the cost of private tutoring

Any device

Low-bandwidth, multilingual, built to reach

What we build

One learning companion. Class 1 to lifelong learner.

Not a chatbot bolted onto old courseware — an AI-native stack where the model does the teaching, and the cost curve bends the right way as we grow.

Learning in every pocket

Android-first apps that run on the cheap phone a family already owns — light, offline-tolerant and multilingual, so reach isn't limited to fast laptops in English.

Grade 1 to lifelong

One adaptive curriculum spine that carries a learner from first letters to professional reskilling — the model sequences, paces and explains instead of serving the same fixed course to everyone.

A tutor for every learner

Teaching-tuned AI tutors and agents that track understanding, decide what comes next and re-explain until it lands — the one-to-one attention only the wealthy could buy, priced for everyone.

Coming soon

Our first product

ucharo

Hindi to English, zero to fluent — in 3 months.

A mobile app that teaches English entirely in Hindi, for the hundreds of millions for whom English is the gate to a better job. An AI tutor listens to you speak, corrects pronunciation in the moment, and adapts every day's practice to what you got wrong yesterday — the daily one-to-one conversation practice a coaching centre charges a month's wages for, on the phone you already own.

Speak from day oneAI pronunciation coach10 min a dayWorks on low-end phones

Pricing

Founding price, for the first 100 learners.

One price for the full 3-month ucharo course — zero to fluent, for a fraction of what a spoken-English coaching centre charges. A one-time payment, not a subscription.

First 100 learners

Founding member

₹499

for the 3-month course · one-time

The founding price for the first 100 learners. Once those spots are taken, the course is ₹999.

The complete 3-month zero-to-fluent English course
Your own AI English tutor, every day
Live pronunciation coaching as you speak
Runs on the low-end Android phone you already own

Get early access

Standard

₹999

for the 3-month course · one-time

The standard price once the founding cohort is full. Same course, same tutor — join now to get it for ₹499 instead.

The complete 3-month zero-to-fluent English course
Your own AI English tutor, every day
Live pronunciation coaching as you speak
Runs on the low-end Android phone you already own

Prices are in Indian Rupees for a one-time 3-month course — not a recurring subscription, so there is nothing to cancel. Access is digital and starts as soon as your payment is confirmed, for the duration of the course — see our Terms and Refunds & Cancellation policy.

Show, don't tell

Watch a concept click.

Projectile motion, solved live in the browser — no video, no canned animation. Move the sliders and the physics, the equations and the tutor's next sentence all update together. This is the kind of explanation we build.

Launch angle θ30°

Launch speed v12 m/s

Range: 12.7 m; v²·sin2θ / g
Peak height: 1.8 m; v²sin²θ / 2g
Hang time: 1.22 s; 2v·sinθ / g

What a tutor would say next

Try 60° next.

The dashed arc is 60° at the same speed. Different shape, different hang time — same landing spot. Complementary angles always pair up like this, because sin(2θ) = sin(180° − 2θ).

θ = 30°

90° − θ = 60°

equal time steps

g = 9.8 m/s² · no drag

Approach

Accessible and affordable aren't features. They're the constraint.

Affordable by design

A great tutor shouldn't cost a month's salary. AI lets us deliver one-to-one teaching at a fraction of the price — and the unit economics get better with every learner we add.

Learning science first

Spaced practice, retrieval, worked examples. We build on what's proven to help people learn, then let AI deliver it at exactly the right moment for each person.

Reach before polish

Low-bandwidth, low-end devices, multiple languages, offline-tolerant. If it only works on a fast laptop in English, it doesn't work for most of the world.

Built in India, for India

India put almost every child in school. Half of them still can't read.

Enrolment isn't the bottleneck any more — a quarter of a billion children are in class. Learning is. Most are first-generation learners whose parents cannot coach them and whose families cannot buy tuition. India is where the gap between what AI can teach and what a learner can afford is widest — so it's where we start.

24.69 cr

students in India's recognised schools, pre-primary to Class 12 (UDISE+ 2024-25)

48.8%

of rural Class V children can read a Class II text — the majority cannot (ASER 2024)

100,843

single-teacher schools still operating (UDISE+ 2025-26)

~10.6%

of Indians report knowing English, nearly all as a second language (Census 2011)

Who a ₹-priced tutor actually reaches

First-generation learners

The student whose parents can't help with homework gets the patient explanation a tutor would have given — at a price a daily-wage household can carry.

Girls and rural learners

Learning that travels to the phone at home removes the commute, the cost and the safety calculus that end many girls' education early.

Adults already working

The delivery rider, the shop assistant, the nurse — ten minutes a night toward the English that unlocks the next job.

Traction & funding

Early, honest, and pointed at the right problem.

We'd rather show you where we actually are than dress it up. Here's the state of play.

Today

Bootstrapped and building

Founder-funded, no outside capital yet. ucharo is in build, and every rupee has gone into the product rather than the pitch.

Now open

Pre-seed round

Raising to launch ucharo in India, fund the first cohorts of learners, and prove the cost-per-fluent-learner curve at scale.

Wanted

Schools, NGOs & state programmes

We're looking for partners to run ucharo with first-generation learners — pilots, not press releases.

The number we're building toward: cost per learner taken to fluency. Every model choice, every device we support and every rupee we raise is judged against pushing that number down — because that number is how many people we get to reach.

See the deck

Team

Founder-led, built at the frontier of AI.

Investors and partners deal directly with the person building the product — senior, hands-on, and shipping AI-native learning every day.

Nitendra B.

Founder · AI Engineer

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Harvard-certified AI agent developer with 14+ years of experience in software development and 2+ years in deep learning, AI agents and generative AI.

That mix — deep engineering maturity plus frontier AI craft — is what it takes to ship learning products that are fast, reliable, genuinely intelligent, and cheap enough to reach the learners who need them most.

Deep learningLLMsAI agentsGenerative AI

Specializations

The AI depth behind every build.

Deep learning

Training and fine-tuning small, cheap-to-serve models — the difference between a demo and a product a school in a low-income district can actually afford.

LLMs

Prompting, RAG, evaluation and tuning — shipped with guardrails, age-appropriate safety and honesty about what the model does and doesn't know.

AI agents

Tool-using agents that plan a learner's week, grade work, brief the teacher and nudge the parent — the leverage that lets one educator reach a hundred students.

Back the tutor every learner deserves.

Investor, school, NGO or founder — if you want education that reaches everyone, not just those who can pay for it, let's talk.

Pre-seed conversations
Pilots with your learners
Early access to ucharo

Prefer to talk there? Reach out on LinkedIn.

A world-class tutor for every learner.