The best education systems aren’t built around software. They’re built around people.
Across an institution, conversations, decisions and moments of support shape what a student experiences. We make technology for the people doing that work, informed by years of working alongside institutions across the student journey.
Our work across Ken42 spans universities, schools and skilling organisations. Each relationship has brought us closer to how institutions work and what the people within them need.
The intelligent university
Three layers, working as one institution.
Our work reaches from the first enquiry to alumni relationships. It has taught us that what a person needs to know now often depends on what happened elsewhere in the institution. That understanding shapes the technology we make.
Layer 03 · Understanding
A clearer understanding of what is happening, and why.
Institutions generate knowledge through their decisions, interactions and outcomes. Vedhra connects signals across that activity, brings relevant patterns to attention and helps people investigate the reasons behind them. It can work with information from an institution’s existing systems, including Ken42.
Explore Vedhra · coming soon
Layer 02 · Engagement
Institutional knowledge, available in the moment.
An applicant has a question. A parent wants to talk. A student needs guidance. A team needs to follow through. KAI brings the institution’s knowledge into those interactions through chat, voice, email and agents that can help people take the next step.
Ken42 brings the processes and information behind education into a platform that can reflect how an institution chooses to operate. Teams can work across admissions, academics, examinations, careers, student services and alumni with the context they need.
Ken42, KAI and Vedhra can each be a starting point. Where they work together, knowledge and context can travel further across the institution.
What we believe
Technology should make an institution more itself.
Every institution has its own history, priorities and way of working. We build technology around the people and decisions that make it distinct.
01Carry knowledge forwardWhat teams learn through conversations, decisions and outcomes should remain available when it is needed again.
02Make the next step clearStudents and staff should be able to find answers and move forward without navigating every internal process.
03Give decisions contextA result is more useful when people can see what led to it, what has changed and what it may affect next.
04Keep people in chargeTechnology can handle routine work and bring important information forward. People make the decisions.
A Turbostart company
Founded and funded by Turbostart.
Turbostart has been part of Ken42 from the beginning. Alongside its investment, it brings people and expertise across product, technology, design, strategy and growth. That support gives us the patience and range that work in education demands.
KAI is the AI engagement and intelligence layer for higher education - combining Chat, Voice and institutional intelligence across the learner lifecycle and institutional operations.
