Class Disrupted The Company Trying to Build the AI Operating System for Education
Apr 10, 2026
Andrea Passanetti, co-founder and CEO of Kira Learning and former Teach for China leader, talks about building an AI operating system for education. He discusses consolidating district tools, creating dynamic tagged curricula that replace static textbooks, and enabling real-time curriculum adaptation and personalized learning paths. The conversation highlights scaling personalized instruction and simplifying teacher workflows.
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AI Made Personalized Charter Model Scalable
- Kira began as a solution to scale the intensive personalized model Andrea built in charter schools that was too expensive to replicate.
- The team shifted from pre-LLM ML/NLP work to leveraging LLMs after 2021 to rapidly expand capabilities and reach.
Kira 2.0 Is An AI Operating System For Schools
- Kira 2.0 is positioned as an AI operating system for education that consolidates many point solutions into one platform.
- It provides an LMS overlay, AI-native MTSS, dynamic curricular content, and assessment to reduce ~3,000 district subscriptions toward a single coherent system.
Countrywide Textbook Rebuild In Three Months
- Kira rebuilt an entire country's textbook stack and started rolling out an AI-native LMS across a Central American country in three months.
- The country had no prior LMS, so Kira both authored dynamic content and implemented system infrastructure nationwide.
