$200T of economic value would be
by 2050 if every child could read.
LIFTeracy is the only Hindi EdTech tool designed to teach a fully illiterate child to pass the main internationally recognized reading standard (MPL-B) without supplemental teaching input.
What LIFTeracy Does
LIFTeracy is a one-on-one AI tutor that teaches children in India to read Hindi through evening WhatsApp voice message conversations. A ten minute lesson costs just four cents.
LIFTeracy is estimated to cost $31 per income doubling at scale, beating Ambitious Impact’s funding bar of $60.
This estimate needs to be tested with a randomized control trial.
Traction
Student interactions, live
Names and student transcripts masked for child privacy reasons.Measuring Every Child
LIFTeracy estimates student performance on national (NIPUN) and international (MPL-B) tests on a daily basis with full transparency, allowing a much larger & richer sample than current once-a-year tests with a random sample of students.
Real data. Double-click an area to drill from India down to a school, a class and a student. Names and phone numbers are masked.
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What we built in 8 months
- Oct 2026
- Reading-speed gate · 13 Oct
From level 9, a child reads at 40 words a minute before moving on.
- Daily NIPUN verdicts · 12 Oct
Every school gets a NIPUN pass or fail estimate, updated daily.
- Dashboards for officials · 8 Oct
Teachers and education officials see their own schools' progress every day.
- Fourth speech engine · 2 Oct
A fourth transcription service checks every voice note.
- Sep 2026
- Mapped every school in India · 16 Sept
1.7 million schools mapped, ready for teacher dashboards.
- Sign-up by voice · 11 Sept
Parents give consent and child details just by speaking.
- Measures reading speed · 4 Sept
Words per minute from each recorded read-aloud.
- Aug 2026
- Adapts to every child · 25 Aug
Lesson difficulty moves up or down with each child's reading.
- Jul 2026
- Stories, not just words · 27 Jul
Reading passages with comprehension questions, written by AI and quality-checked before a child sees them.
- Proven at scale · 7 Jul
Handled 1,200 messages a second in load tests.
- Jun 2026
- Live monitoring · 11 Jun
Every message traced end to end, with a daily health report.
- May 2026
- Safe daily releases · 29 May
Automated tests and a staging copy before every update.
- Apr 2026
- Teaches vowels · 22 Apr
Vowels and their signs (matras) join the lessons.
- Evening reminders · 15 Apr
A short video at 7 pm every evening invites each child to their lesson.
- Mar 2026
- Hears every letter · 18 Mar
Spots exactly which letters a child misreads in a voice note.
- Live on WhatsApp · 4 Mar
Children message LIFTeracy on WhatsApp — no app to install.
Team
- Grew up in India, fluent in Hindi.
- Eight years in Indian education nonprofits; trained tens of thousands of government teachers.
- Coauthored two books (2022, 2024) and a journal article on literacy.
- Based in India, leading operations on the ground.
- Degrees in Physics and Chemical Engineering.
- Serial entrepreneur; founded a modular housing company.
- LIFTeracy’s code is open source.
- Based in Boston, leading software development, US networking and fundraising.
Help us measure what works
Our seed funding from Ambitious Impact covers the next stage: measuring how many children keep learning and how much reading they gain per hour. Those numbers decide how far LIFTeracy can scale, and that next step is where we’d love your help. Email hello@lifteracy.ai, or sign up for updates and we’ll share the results as they come in.