I am 15 years old. I am in Class 10, preparing for my CBSE board exams. And somewhere between studying for those exams and living the exact problem I am trying to solve, I built Kedovo.
This is not a story about a prodigy. It is a story about a student who paid close attention to something most adults had stopped noticing — because they stopped being students a long time ago.
What I Saw That Nobody Was Talking About
Every year, millions of Indian families make the same calculation. Their child is in Class 8 or 9, boards are coming, and the assumption is automatic — enrol in coaching. Pay the fees. Trust the system.
I watched this happen around me. I watched families in my city spend money they had carefully saved on coaching classes that were, in most cases, just someone teaching to a batch of thirty students at a fixed pace. Some students kept up. Many did not. The ones who did not would fall further behind each week — too shy to ask questions in a crowded class, unable to revisit concepts at their own pace, waiting for the next session to clear a doubt that was already three chapters old by the time they got there.
I also watched what happened when students tried to use the tools that were supposed to help — ChatGPT, Google, random YouTube videos. They would type a question and get an answer written for someone who had already studied the topic at university level. A Class 9 student asking about Newton's Laws would get a response dense with terminology they had never encountered. They would close the tab more confused than when they opened it.
The problem was not that AI was bad. The problem was that the AI did not know it was talking to a Class 9 student. It had no idea. And that one gap — that missing piece of context — made everything useless.
The Idea Was Simple. The Problem Was Real.
I did not start with a business plan. I started with a question: what if the AI actually knew who it was talking to?
What if, instead of a generic chatbot, there was a platform that knew you were in Class 9, studying CBSE Science, on Chapter 4, and had already worked through the easy practice questions? What if every explanation it gave was calibrated to exactly that — your class, your chapter, your level — and nothing else?
That was the idea. And the more I thought about it, the more obvious it became that nobody had built it. Not for Indian students. Not for CBSE. Not with the curriculum built in from the ground up rather than bolted on as an afterthought.
So I built it.
What Building Kedovo Actually Looked Like
I want to be honest about this, because the founder story gets romanticised very quickly and the reality is more useful than the romance.
Building Kedovo meant learning things as I needed them. It meant writing code that broke, understanding why it broke, fixing it, and watching it break again in a different place. It meant figuring out how to build an AI content generation pipeline that could take a CBSE textbook, understand its structure, and automatically produce eight different types of learning material — notes, flashcards, MCQs, NCERT solutions, exemplar solutions, practice questions at three difficulty levels, and a 24x7 AI tutor — all calibrated to the correct class and subject.
It meant building all of this while also being a student. While sitting in school. While preparing for the same exams that Kedovo is designed to help with. There were nights I was debugging code at midnight and mornings I was revising Science before first period.
I am not saying this to impress anyone. I am saying it because it matters to the product. Every decision I made was informed by the fact that I was living the problem in real time. When I built the AI tutor, I built it the way I wished a tutor would explain things to me — clearly, at my level, without assuming I already knew the answer. When I designed the practice question system, I built it with three difficulty levels because that is how I actually study — easy first to check understanding, medium to build confidence, hard to prepare for board-level questions.
Kedovo is not a product built by someone who read research papers about how students learn. It is built by someone who is currently a student, learning how students learn by being one.
What Adults Kept Missing
Here is the thing that frustrated me most, and still does.
The conversation about education in India — among parents, among policymakers, among EdTech companies — is almost entirely conducted by adults. Adults who went through the system decades ago. Adults who remember coaching as something that worked, because the coaching they experienced was smaller, more personal, more attentive. Adults who look at today's crowded batches and high fees and assume the structure is still the same, just scaled up.
It is not the same. The structure has scaled but the personalisation has not. A child sitting in a batch of forty students in a coaching centre in Lucknow is not getting what their parents imagine they are getting. They are getting a lecture. That is all.
And because the people making decisions about that child's education are not in the classroom — they are at home, trusting the system — nobody is questioning it loudly enough.
Students see it clearly. We live it. We know when we are confused and cannot ask. We know when the class has moved on and we are still stuck. We know when we study for three hours and retain nothing because the material was not explained in a way that made sense to us.
I built Kedovo because I was tired of that being the only option.
What Kedovo Is Now
Kedovo is live. It is deployed, serving real students and real families across India, and it is free to try.
Every chapter of every CBSE subject from Class 6 to 12 has notes, flashcards, practice questions at three difficulty levels, NCERT solutions, and access to an AI tutor that knows exactly which chapter you are on and responds at exactly your level. A student in Class 8 gets a Class 8 explanation. A student in Class 12 gets a Class 12 explanation. The AI does not guess. It knows.
We have not taken funding. We have not built a sales team. We have not run advertisements. What we have done is build something that works — and watched real students use it to reduce their dependence on expensive coaching that was not serving them well.
That is the only metric that matters to me. Not valuations. Not press coverage. Students actually learning, actually understanding, actually feeling confident enough to study on their own.
That is why I built Kedovo. And that is what it is for.
If you want to see it, it is free to try. Every chapter, every subject, Class 6 to 12 — available right now at kedovo.com.