An adaptive AI learning companion that makes the national curriculum accessible to SEND pupils
ECNA is an AI learning platform for pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. It delivers the UK national curriculum through an adaptive layer that tailors each lesson to the individual child, detects frustration in real time, and supports text, audio, and voice. Teachers get live visibility into progress and wellbeing, so they can step in before a pupil falls behind.
Outcomes
The numbers we shipped against.
100
Connected audiences
6
Task-tuned AI features
6
OpenAI models orchestrated
The story
How the engagement actually ran.
Mainstream digital learning tools are built for the average learner. For pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), that creates real barriers: - Content pitched at the wrong cognitive level, or written in language that is hard to access - No support for non-text communication such as speech, audio, or visuals - No awareness of frustration, distress, or disengagement as it happens - Teachers left guessing which pupils are struggling, and why The brief was to deliver the national curriculum inclusively and provide individualised SEND support in one platform. The guiding principle was simple: SEND pupils do not need a different curriculum, they need the same one delivered in a way that adapts to how they learn, communicate, and manage emotion.
What we did
Services applied.
Tech stack
What it was built with.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- GSAPGSAP
- Firebase
- FFirestore
- OOpenAI GPT-4o
- GGPT-4
- DDALL-E 3
- TTTS-1
- GGPT-4o Realtime
- RREST API
- EExpress
- WWebSocket
- WWeb Speech API
- Rreact-pdf
What stood out about ECNA is that it does not water the curriculum down for SEND pupils, it changes how it reaches them. Seeing a tool adapt to how a child learns and step in the moment they get stuck, while giving teachers a clear view of who needs support, is the kind of inclusion we want more of
Catherine Kane
Director of Special Education, UK Education Ministry
How we work
The same approach behind every engagement.
Whatever the project, the model is the same: a small senior team, a fixed price agreed up front, working software every week, and support that continues after launch.
Fixed price
Scoped and quoted up front. No surprise invoices.
Senior team
Experienced engineers on it from first call to launch.
Production-grade
Tested, observable, and built to run, not just demo.
Ongoing support
We stay on after launch for fixes and improvements.
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We take on a limited number of projects at a time so every client gets proper attention from start to finish. Whether you need a new SaaS platform, AI features added to your existing product, old software modernised, or a completely new system built from the ground up, we would like to hear about it.