Simplify for Kids: a school lesson in, a story the child remembers out

Context

Parents in Tunisia spend evenings re-explaining lessons a 7-year-old tuned out of. Simplify takes the actual lesson — a photo, a PDF, a few lines — and turns it into a story told by an animated narrator, followed by a quiz that shows the parent what landed.

The challenge

Build an AI pipeline that is reliable enough for children, keeps story quality consistent across three languages, and runs at a price a family will pay monthly — with children's data handled carefully.

Approach

• →Designed a lesson-to-story pipeline with a fixed pedagogical structure, so every story teaches the lesson rather than drifting into fiction.
• →Kept the child-facing surface simple and bold, and the parent surface calm: two design systems, one codebase.
• →Priced on points per story so free challenges and school resellers can be added without re-architecting billing.
• →Rebuilt v2 from the v1 prototype with the UX kept and the architecture replaced, shipped as a closed beta first.

Outcome

• →Closed beta live at beta.simplify-kids.com with families onboarding.
• →A pipeline and dataset designed to fine-tune a dedicated model later.
• →Pitched to the TICDCE programme as a bootstrapped EdTech product.

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