About Edura

How It Started

In the months before graduating from UCLA in June 2025, we sat down over dim sum to reflect on 16 years of formal education. We kept returning to the same questions: When did we actually learn? What moments made things click?

We realized the best learning happened during free-response questions (FRQs) and open-ended problems. Not because they were easy—because they forced us to think. In that one-hour window, we'd throw everything at the wall, see what stuck, and learn what worked through trial and error. The partial credit system rewarded our thinking process, not just the right answer. This taught us positive habits that stuck.

The Problem

As we entered the workforce this year, we watched AI transform education—but not for the better. Students were deferring to ChatGPT instead of problem-solving. Cheating became rampant. The humanities suffered most: teachers told us students were submitting AI-generated papers instead of learning to think critically.

But there's a deeper issue: the system incentivizes the wrong behaviors. Especially in high school, students optimize for grades—not learning. When college admissions hinge on GPA, students learn to memorize facts, cram for tests, and forget everything the moment the exam ends. We've done it ourselves: deferring real understanding in favor of scoring higher. This pragmatic approach to education leaves students with impressive transcripts but shallow knowledge.

Teachers are overworked and have no time to police students. They want tools that integrate seamlessly, fit into existing workflows, and give them insights into their students. Their greatest currency is time. Meanwhile, traditional testing defaults to multiple-choice questions because grading 30 students × 6 periods × multiple FRQs manually is impossible. But those deterministic questions are obsolete in an AI world.

Our Core Belief

We believe traditional grading must place more emphasis on how students think rather than the correctness of answers. As AI becomes virtually omniscient, the highest value in society will come from those who ask the best questions, not those who memorize all the details.

In an ideal world, every student has a personalized tutor. AI can enable this—but only if it's designed to teach thinking, not shortcuts. We don't want education to be a game students play to succeed. We want to reintroduce real learning back into schools.

What We're Building

Taking the problems teachers face and our personal learning experiences, we built Edura—a Socratic discussion sandbox that focuses on evoking critical thought and teaching students how to reach answers through reasoning.

Edura is not a replacement for teachers or LMS platforms. We're an enrichment tool designed to empower teachers by:

• Providing personalized guidance to students at scale
• Creating assignments that push critical thinking and curiosity
• Gaining actionable insights into classrooms to adjust teaching

We're building integrations with major LMS platforms like Canvas to fit seamlessly into existing workflows. The goal is simple: make critical thinking visible and assessable, without sacrificing the human essence of learning.