Almach AI

What Almach AI does

Almach AI is a Dubai-based education technology company building an AI-powered experiential learning platform for schools that are rebuilding the educational model itself rather than bolting AI onto traditional structures. The platform targets K-12 and international schools through a B2B subscription model, with teachers designing project-based challenges, students capturing field evidence (photos, voice notes, reflections), and AI suggesting competency matches that teachers must approve. The system is grounded in the Andromeda Competency Framework, comprising 8 lenses and 64 named competencies (judgment, empathy, resilience, ethical reasoning, etc.) that map human skills resistant to automation, built on the Elham Studios curriculum framework led by co-founder and CEO Russell Cailey.

The core architecture processes text, image, audio, and structured data inputs through generative AI for feedback drafting, knowledge retrieval for competency mapping, and process automation for teacher workflows. A defining feature is the Human-Machine Collaboration Spectrum, aligned with the Dubai Future Foundation's classification, which requires students to declare where each piece of work sits on a six-level scale from "All Human" to "All Machine." The platform operates as Almach Core for the main learning workflow, with sub-products Almach Studio (product feedback tooling) and Almach Foresight referenced, plus the Andromeda framework as a configurable curriculum layer that can be replaced with a school's own competency taxonomy.

Almach sells exclusively via direct enterprise sales: school administrators book demos through the website and receive personalized walkthroughs from the founding team, with multi-year contracts and no publicly disclosed pricing. The company is bootstrapped with no disclosed venture capital, private equity, or institutional investment, and operates a two-person founder team (Russell Cailey as CEO and Abdelrahman Hafrag as CTO) under UAE/DIFC jurisdiction. Geographic focus is the Middle East, with strategic positioning in the Hakuba Forum educator community suggesting future reach into East Asian international school markets.

Name

Almach AI

Legal name

Almach

Website

https://almach.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Almach AI is a Dubai-based EdTech company building an AI-powered experiential learning platform for schools, centered on the 64-competency Andromeda Framework, with teacher-approved AI competency mapping and a Human-Machine Collaboration transparency feature, sold via B2B school subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Technology

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Tutoring Systems (Conversational Tutors, Homework Helpers) (EDAFAFAC)

Keywords

• Experiential learning platform
• Competency-based education
• AI educational software
• Project-based learning
• School learning platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Dubai

HQ country

United Arab Emirates

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. School Platform Subscription: B2B subscription model targeting schools and educational institutions. Schools manage user accounts (students and educators) and pay for platform access to enable competency-based experiential learning. No pricing publicly disclosed; demo-based sales process.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Almach AI provides an AI-powered experiential learning platform for schools that enables competency-based education through real-world project design, field evidence capture, and teacher-approved competency growth tracking. The platform uses the Andromeda framework (8 lenses, 64 named competencies) to map human skills that cannot be outsourced to machines, with AI suggesting competency matches while teachers retain final approval authority. Schools subscribe to the platform to manage student and educator accounts for competency-based experiential learning workflows.

Product overview

Almach AI is an experiential learning platform for schools that combines a core product (Almach Core) with project-building tools, competency mapping (Andromeda framework with 8 lenses and 64 competencies), and a transparency feature for AI usage declaration. The platform enables teachers to design real challenges quickly, students to capture evidence through fieldwork (photos, voice notes, reflections), and AI to suggest competency matches for teacher approval. Almach Studio serves as the product feedback tool. The system emphasizes human ownership of judgment and ethics, with AI serving as a scaffold rather than a decider.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Almach Studio: Product feedback tool category referenced on feedback page
• Almach Core
• Almach Foresight

Products and services

• Almach Core

Quantifiable outcome

• Teachers design real challenges in minutes, not weekends

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Elham StudioscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerElham Studios is the Dubai curriculum consultancy behind the eight-lens, 64-competency Andromeda framework used as Almach's default curriculum. Russell Cailey serves as CEO of both Almach and Elham Studios. The partnership provides the educational framework, learning ecosystem design expertise, and institutional strategy knowledge that underpins the platform's competency mapping.
• Hakuba ForumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Hakuba Forum is a community of educators in the Japanese Alps focused on designing schools for well-being. Russell Cailey co-founded the forum. Almach shows up where educators rebuild educational models, positioning the company in educator communities focused on systemic change.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Defined Learning: Defined Learning provides performance tasks and project-based learning scenarios used in K-12 competency assessment. It is a comparable peer because schools use it to measure authentic student performance, mirroring Almach's evidence-based competency model.
• Altitude Learning: Altitude Learning is a K-12 platform purpose-built around competency-based, project-based, and personalized learning with teacher-designed challenges and student evidence. It targets the same segment of schools redesigning pedagogy rather than adding AI to traditional structures.
• JumpRope: JumpRope is a competency-based grading and assessment platform used by K-12 schools to track student mastery across standards. It competes with Almach on the competency-tracking layer, though without AI-assisted project design or field-evidence capture.
• Toddle: Toddle is a competency-based learning platform built for schools that enables project-based learning, portfolio evidence capture, and teacher-led assessment workflows. Like Almach, it sells B2B to schools and emphasizes authentic student evidence over grades.

Broad incumbents

• Khan Academy (Khanmigo): Khan Academy is an established EdTech platform that has launched Khanmigo, an AI tutor for students and teachers. It is a broad incumbent competing for the same school AI budgets, with vastly greater scale and a different pedagogical model.

Emerging players

• Curipod: Curipod is an AI-powered lesson and activity generator that engages students in interactive, teacher-led sessions. It overlaps Almach on AI-assisted teacher design but lacks the competency framework and field-evidence capture Almach centers.
• MagicSchool AI: MagicSchool AI is an AI platform for educators that drafts lesson plans, assessments, and feedback, with a human-in-the-loop stance on classroom AI use. It overlaps Almach on the educator-facing AI workflow but focuses on teacher productivity rather than competency-evidence capture.

Others

• PBLWorks: PBLWorks is the leading provider of project-based learning professional development and frameworks for K-12 teachers. It is adjacent rather than directly competitive — Almach's platform operationalizes PBL, while PBLWorks trains teachers in PBL methodology.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/almach-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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