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Cover
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The Problem
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Why AI Fails
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The Severity
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The Solution
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How It Works
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Why It Compounds
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Market Size
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Why Us
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Closing
IZMA
Paper stays.
The feedback loop
gets fixed.
A scalable evaluation pipeline that turns paper practice
into fast, actionable feedback for every student.
WE’RE JOHARI & TK, AND THIS IS IZMA
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THE PROBLEM
Walk into a low-income
classroom and count
the personal devices.
In many schools, there are none. One teacher,
40–60 students, a fixed syllabus, and the only
scalable tool is paper.
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Practice without feedback
Students do assignments, results come back late — or never — mistakes repeat, and the class moves on.
02
Teacher overload
~60 pupils per trained teacher in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Madagascar, ~40 per teacher. Fast marking is nearly impossible.
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Gaps compound
Learning poverty doesn’t stay in primary school. It compounds into secondary, especially in math and science.
WHY EXISTING SOLUTIONS FAIL
“Just use AI study tools.”
That world doesn’t exist here.
Most AI education tools assume every student can go
online, upload notes, and get personalized practice on a
personal device. Device-first tools don't reach here.
7.7%
of African households
have a computer at home
14.4%
computer access in
Côte d’Ivoire (2022)
5.23%
computer access in
Madagascar (2018)
0
devices needed
with Izma
Sources: ITU, World Bank (2018\u20132022)
THE SEVERITY
The severity shows up in outcomes.
70%
of 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries
are in learning poverty.
World Bank estimate
83%
Côte d’Ivoire
95%
Africa
learning poverty rates
in our pilot markets
These gaps don’t stay in primary school. They compound into secondary,
especially in math and science, where students need repeated practice and fast correction.
The missing piece: a scalable, school-friendly evaluation pipeline for paper-first classrooms.
THE SOLUTION
Izma builds the missing
evaluation pipeline.
Paper stays as the delivery channel. We upgrade it into a fast, measurable,
personalized learning loop.
Paper-first
Students work with pen
and paper. No devices,
no internet, no barriers.
Teacher-led
Teachers keep full control
over the syllabus sequence.
Izma assists, never replaces.
AI-powered
Advanced OCR + ML for
auto grading, gap analysis,
and targeted generation.
Syllabus-aligned
Every packet maps to the
national curriculum. Izma
follows the teacher’s plan.
All a school needs: a printer, a phone or scanner, and internet access for the teacher. Students need nothing beyond a pencil.
HOW IT WORKS
Here’s how Izma works.
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Upload & Generate
Teacher uploads syllabus topics,
past exams, and reference materials
once. Izma generates print-ready
practice packets with unique
student identifiers on every page.
02
Print & Practice
Teacher prints packets for the
whole class. Students complete
the work offline and hand
it back like normal.
Pen, paper, no barriers.
03
Scan & Grade
Teacher scans the stack using a
shared scanner or phone app.
Izma uses OCR + ML to split pages,
read identifiers, match students,
and grade at scale.
04
Report & Repeat
Izma produces actionable reports:
per-student gaps, class-wide
weaknesses, reteaching priorities.
Then generates the next targeted
round. The pipeline compounds.
Izma can also suggest student pairings based on complementary strengths, so peer learning becomes structured.
WHY IZMA COMPOUNDS
Every cycle makes
the next one better.
Shared national library
Schools on the same syllabus contribute to a shared
library of vetted questions and packet templates.
Generation is centralized and reused — not
regenerated separately per classroom.
Every gap visible
Per-student, per-class, per-region learning profiles.
Shows where students struggle most by grade and
topic. Teachers know exactly where to reinforce
across every cycle.
Data-driven peer pairing
Identifies complementary strengths across students.
Suggests structured pairings so peers support
each other — not random groupings,
but data-driven collaboration.
Teacher-led, AI-assisted
Teachers keep full control of sequence and pacing.
Izma handles generating, grading, and analyzing —
so the teacher focuses on what matters:
reteaching and regrouping.
MARKET SIZE
This is not a small market.
Paper-first secondary education covers hundreds of millions of students globally.
131.5M
secondary students \u00B7 India
81.4M
secondary students \u00B7 Sub-Saharan Africa
28.0M
secondary students \u00B7 Indonesia
19.7M
secondary students \u00B7 Pakistan
250M+
total per school year
250M students × 6 cycles/year =
1.5B+ feedback cycles annually
Using secondary enrollment as a demand proxy, with a conservative 6 practice-and-feedback cycles per year.
Go-to-market
Phase 1
Côte d’Ivoire & Madagascar — Francophone pilot schools
Phase 2
Expand across Francophone West & East Africa
Phase 3
South Asia + Anglophone Africa at scale
WHY US
We’ve lived the problem.
J
Johari
Grew up in classrooms where feedback barely existed.
Experienced firsthand how students fall behind — not
from lack of effort, but because no one told them what
they got wrong or what to practice next.
T
Tiekoura
Brings the technical and operational expertise to
build systems that work within the constraints of
low-resource environments at scale.
“We know what it feels like to work twice as hard just to be half as good —
not because of ability, but because the system doesn’t give you the tools
to practice and get feedback.”
Everyone deserves great education. Innovate through paper — not import device-first solutions that won’t work.
Every student gets feedback. Every teacher gets clarity. No one gets left behind.
IZMA
Let’s close the loop.
Paper stays. The feedback loop gets fixed.
Get in touch
hello@izma.io
PAPER-FIRST · TEACHER-LED · AI-POWERED