Education got us here. We want it to take your kid anywhere.
None of us was homeschooled. We all went through school systems that moved on whether we were ready or not. Now we’re back to build what we wish we’d had.
Keagan went to school in Singapore, on the Singapore math curriculum, with every bit of the pressure that comes with it. He went on to study math at Harvard. He still remembers doing homework at the kitchen table with a book that could never tell him why.
Alex’s parents moved for work, a lot, so he kept starting over at new schools in new countries. He went on to study mechanical engineering at TUM, one of the best technical universities in Europe. He grew up in exactly the kind of family that has to make it work, wherever they land.
Hung grew up in Vietnam, where education is everything, and finished high school in the US. For him school was the only way forward, and it worked: he studied statistics at Columbia. He thinks every kid deserves that same shot, wherever they learn.
Before HeySensei
Hung and Keagan spent six years building a data company that grew to be worth hundreds of millions. That’s where we learned to keep people’s data safe at scale, and it’s why we take your kid’s data so seriously.
Then we wanted to build something that matters more than data pipelines. So we came back to the thing that got each of us here.
How we keep your kid’s data safe →Meet Sensei
We wanted a teacher who’d sit next to your kid for as long as it takes. Patient, a little funny, and stubborn about one thing: your kid does the thinking.
He’s spent a very long time getting good at one thing: staying calm when math gets hard. He drinks a lot of tea, naps in odd places, and now and then thinks upside down, because, as he puts it, the world often is.
Ask him for the answer and you’ll get a smile instead. “If I tell you, you feel better for a minute. If I help you find it, you keep it for good.”
He’s never in a hurry and he never sighs. To Sensei, a mistake is just the next step.
The people behind every lesson
Teachers who write the lessons. Experts who check every step. Tutors who know your kid by name. Far too many to list, so here are a few of them.
writing a lesson, notebook and laptop
on a video call, smiling
checking a page of handwritten work
two people at a whiteboard
marking with a red pen
headset on, mid-explanation
at a standing desk
pointing at an equation on a screen
recording Sensei’s voice
waving at the camera
holding up a geometry sketch
team meeting, laughing
reading a kid’s check-in on a phone
two experts debating a proof
at home, coffee by the laptop
pair-programming with a teammate
thumbs up after a good call
drawing a diagram for a lesson
writing on a glass board
notebook open, explaining a step
grading at the kitchen table
group photo, everyone in frame
storyboarding a lesson
laughing with a student on screen
in front of a chalkboard
whiteboard full of arrows
reviewing a lesson draft
Say hello
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