Embers · Lisbon, Portugal · 2026
AI-powered personalised education combining agentic AI, human mentors, peer learning, and subject experts — for children who deserve better, and adults who never stopped wanting to learn.
"AI tutors outperform well-designed active-learning classrooms on both learning gains and student engagement."
Kestin et al. · Scientific Reports, 2025 · RCT
"2.3× typical learning rate. 99th percentile standardised scores."
Alpha School · 2025 · 300+ live students
"Students performing 2–5× what their peers are — across 26 countries."
Brave Generation Academy · 53 hubs, 12 countries
A learning system for every stage of life
ignite
Personalised 2-hour morning sessions with 41 AI specialist tutors, each expert in their domain. IB and Cambridge curricula, adapting in real time to each child's pace, style, and curiosity. The rest of the day is theirs.
Pilot underway · Lisbon, Portugal · IB / Cambridge
form
A second brain for higher education. Research companion, knowledge synthesis, and academic guide — built for the depth and pressure that university demands and the transformation it should produce.
Coming soon
move
Career development that moves with you. Skills, transitions, and continuous growth for professionals who know that learning doesn't end at graduation — it's where it begins to matter most.
Coming soon
illuminate
Advanced training for senior leaders. Precision thinking, domain mastery, and the frameworks to illuminate the path for everyone around you. Not a job description. A life's work.
Coming soon
How it works
01 · Floor
A personalised academic guide. First-principles thinking, available to every child on demand. Patient. Precise. Never tired.
02 · Warmth
In-room human presence. Accountability and care that AI cannot fake, and should not be asked to pretend to.
03 · Depth
Adults who have done the thing — mathematicians, historians, makers — bringing real domain weight that textbooks can't.
04 · Mirror
Children learning from children. The fastest, oldest learning loop — designed for, not left to chance.
The evidence
98%
of children test as creative geniuses at age 5. By adulthood: 2%. The system isn't failing — it's succeeding at the wrong thing.
NASA / Breakpoint and Beyond · 1968–2025
2.3×
typical learning rate achieved with AI-guided personalised education, producing 99th percentile scores in standardised testing.
Alpha School · 2025
2 hrs
per day is all it takes. The rest belongs to the child — creativity, play, and the human connections that no curriculum can manufacture.
Embers model · 2026
#1
most critical skill on earth, according to the World Economic Forum: creative thinking. The one thing the industrial classroom reliably trains out of children.
WEF Future of Jobs Report · 2025
Embers is built on a simple belief: every child deserves a brilliant tutor — not just the children whose parents can afford one. We're wiring that tutor with AI, grounding it with human mentors, and building a system that grows with the child, not against them.
Founded in Lisbon in 2026 by Chad Cribbins and Sunil Parekh. Tested on our own children first. Currently piloting with schools in Portugal under the IB and Cambridge curricula.