Tanmay Agarwal
Founder and educator, AI-abled
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Who is behind it
Engineer by training.
Teacher by choice.
Founder by necessity.
I trained as a computer engineer and then spent more than a decade in classrooms instead. AI-abled exists because the honest tools I wanted for my own students did not exist, so I built them, and every instrument here has been rewritten because a real student found the place it was wrong.
I do both jobs myself. I write the code, and every week I still stand in front of a class.
About us · Dubai, UAE · Built for every student
Understand
every student.
For more than a decade we have sat across the table from thousands of families and taught students from every part of the world. AI-abled turns that into honest measurement, for any student, anywhere.
Why this exists
Fearless with the tools.
Completely unguided.
More than a decade in education, across the table from thousands of families and teaching students of many nationalities from every part of the world, kept surfacing the same gap. Students pick up AI faster than any adult in the room and use it with no idea what it costs them to let it think on their behalf.
Meanwhile their parents make the most expensive and least reversible decisions of their lives on almost no independent information, from people who are paid by the outcome. Both halves are a measurement problem. So we build the measurement and we teach the judgement, for any and every student, not one narrow age and not one national curriculum.
What shaped us
Diversity is
the whole method.
There is no better place to understand the world’s students than the UAE, where families from every part of the planet sit in the same room. A single class can hold more than twenty nationalities and twenty school systems at once. More than a decade of teaching that room is what taught us to build for every student rather than one country, and it is why our products work globally instead of being written for one curriculum and translated afterwards.
Built for many, not one
Every instrument is designed for a student in any system from the start. That decision cannot be retrofitted.
Tested against difference
If an idea only works for one background, a room of twenty nationalities finds out inside a week. It is the fairest review panel we have.
Global by consequence
Families across the Gulf, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the UK, Europe and North America use our products. The reach was a result of the room.
What we actually make
Three instruments.
Three shapes of answer.
Each product answers a different question, and each returns a different kind of answer.
A profile
How a teenager thinks, works and decides, across several dimensions at once. The value is in the dimensions that disagree with each other, because that is where a person is.
About PRISM →A range, never a point
Diagnostics for UCAT, the digital SAT and ACT, LNAT and LSAT, IELTS and cognitive ability. Every one returns a band, because the width of that band is a real finding.
About LENS →A shortlist, sorted
A university shortlist against a student’s real grades and curriculum, sorted into reach, match and safe. A sorting by likelihood, not a league table.
About SCOPE →The rules we set ourselves
What we will not do.
A report can tell you that you need no coaching
When a student is already on track, every LENS report says so plainly: you do not need formal training or paid coaching, so keep doing what you are doing. A diagnostic that can only ever recommend more spending is not a diagnostic, it is a sales call with a chart on it.
No commission from any university
Not one, anywhere. SCOPE is paid for by the family and nobody else, so the shortlist follows the student’s grades rather than a referral agreement.
We tell you what is true, not what to do
The decision belongs to the family. Our job ends at giving them something accurate enough to decide with, including when the answer is uncomfortable.
Priced so the most students benefit
Not the maximum the market will bear. The binding constraint has never been price, it is reach.
Where this is going
Not a generation that leans on AI.
One that learns to shape it.
The easy thing is to let the tool do the work, and every student finds that out in an afternoon. The valuable thing is harder: knowing what the tool is good at, keeping your own judgement in front of it, and building something with it that did not exist before. That is the whole ambition, and it is why we measure first.
Come and look
See what we are building.
Start with the measurement, or start with the class. Either way you will know more about your student by the end of it.