The work, the people, and the name.
Built by educators. AYNI is designed and tested inside the K-12 classrooms it's made for. The primary designer is an award-winning education technology innovator who has spent his career inside schools as a classroom teacher, principal, and district administrator. Practitioner-led, research-grounded, and built so the student is always the author of the work.
Engineering by a builder of student-facing AI systems. AYNI's Co-Founder and CTO is Anamta Rizvi, a software engineer at Rutgers University's CARLab, where she recently completed her Master's in Information Technology and Analytics. Her work at CARLab runs in production inside a learning management platform used with students, including multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented question answering, and a student performance dashboard that aggregates multi-source academic data into views administrators can act on. She leads the back-end agent and data layer behind the teacher view.
AYNI is a Quechua word. It means reciprocal exchange. What you give comes back, not as transaction but as relationship.
A portion of every dollar AYNI earns will always go back. Working in partnership with Kusi Kawsay, an Indigenous K-7 school in the Sacred Valley of Peru, on the preservation of Quechua language and Andean culture. The commitment is structural, not aspirational.