ThutoTech builds a vertically-integrated AI platform for South African education — from Foundation Phase teachers to Matric learners to university students. Offline-first. POPIA-compliant. 11 official languages. Grounded in real doctoral research.
Live Products
Ecosystem Layers
SA Languages
POPIA-compliant
Six products, each serving a different stage of the South African learner journey. Every product feeds the next — creating a closed-loop ecosystem that grows with every learner.
CAPS-aligned lesson generation for primary school teachers (R–7). Turns curriculum documents into slides, quizzes, audio lessons, and flashcards in seconds. Syncs with SASAMS and LURITS.
Try Fundisa AIPersonalised AI tutor for Grade 10–12 learners preparing for NSC and IEB finals. Past papers, adaptive quizzes, essay marking, and live tutor matching via StudentMart.
Try MatricMateCampus marketplace where university students buy, sell, tutor, and find services. Powered by Yoco & Zapper. 2.5% of every transaction feeds the Thuto Student Funding Pool.
Browse MarketplaceETDP SETA-aligned certifications in AI-enhanced teaching, prompt engineering, and education technology. Upskilling SA teachers for the AI era.
Learn moreApplied research at the intersection of AI, education, and public interest. Informs DBE policy, advances multilingual NLP, and produces peer-reviewed work under African conditions.
View researchVerified student ride-sharing between campus, home, and tutorials. Every trip GPS-tracked with panic buttons and SAPS integration. Affordable, transparent, no surge pricing.
Learn moreStudentMart drives daily traffic and revenue. That revenue funds the Student Funding Pool. The pool subsidises MatricMate and Fundisa for learners who can't pay. Those learners grow into StudentMart sellers. The cycle continues.
StudentMart SA isn't just a marketplace — it's the traffic engine that powers the entire ecosystem. Every transaction, every tutor booking, every ride creates a small contribution that flows back into subsidised access for learners who need it most.
Tutors, services, products, rides — daily activity drives traffic and revenue.
Every transaction contributes a small slice to the collective fund.
SASSA recipients, rural learners, and NSFAS students get discounted or free access.
Today's subsidised learner is tomorrow's campus entrepreneur. The cycle grows.
The intelligent orchestration layer that connects AI models, local databases, and external services — while maintaining POPIA compliance and offline functionality.
Progressive Web Apps hosted on GitHub Pages. Service Workers enable offline access. No login required to browse.
The brain of the ecosystem. Routes requests, enforces POPIA consent, manages multilingual translation, and coordinates across all products.
Qwen 3.6 for English content generation, InkubaLM for African languages, NLLB for translation between all 11 official languages.
Supabase (Postgres + Realtime + Auth) with Row Level Security. Local CAPS cache for offline. Audit logs for Information Regulator compliance.
ThutoTech isn't a side project — it's the commercial expression of ongoing PhD research into AI-augmented education in African contexts. Every product is informed by peer-reviewed inquiry, field-tested with real teachers, and designed for the specific challenges of South African classrooms.
In Progress · AI-Augmented Education
Official SA Languages Supported
Curriculum-Aligned by Design
Compliant from Day One
Investigating how primary school teachers adopt AI tools when they reduce admin by 70% without compromising CAPS compliance.
Advancing low-resource language models for isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana and other SA languages through InkubaLM partnerships.
Developing reference architectures for consent-first AI systems in education — work that informs DBE policy conversations.
Studying how closed-loop funding models (like StudentMart's Fund Pool) can sustainably subsidise access for marginalised learners.
We believe in telling you what's live, what's in pilot, and what's coming — no fictional claims, no vaporware. Here's our transparent build plan.
Fundisa AI launched for primary teachers. CAPS-aligned lesson generation working end-to-end. SASAMS/LURITS sync live.
LIVEMatricMate AI live for NSC/IEB prep. StudentMart in pilot with campus students. 2.5% fund pool active.
BUILDINGThuto AI Academy formalises teacher upskilling with SETA-accredited certifications. Research Studio publishes first peer-reviewed papers.
PLANNED · 2025 H2CampusLift scales across universities. Mental Health Central launches free peer-support for students. Frictionless Learner enables zero-admin enrolment.
PLANNED · 2026Every product feeds every other. A learner's journey from Grade R through Matric, university, and into professional practice — supported by one sovereign stack.
PLANNED · 2027+ThutoTech was born from a simple frustration: South African teachers spend more time on admin than teaching, and learners — especially in rural and township schools — don't have access to the tools that privileged schools take for granted.
As a PhD researcher in AI-augmented education, I'm building ThutoTech as both a commercial venture and a living research laboratory. Every product we ship is a testable hypothesis about how technology can serve — not replace — the human relationships at the heart of learning.
Whether you're a teacher wanting to try Fundisa AI, a learner preparing for Matric, a university student looking for tutors, or a school principal exploring pilots — there's a place for you here.
🇿🇦 Proudly South African · POPIA Compliant · PhD-Backed Research