Accelerator 12 · Education
AI tutor (Shishya)
The tutor behind Shishya, Surge's live learning platform: step-by-step explanations, the common mistake, and practice questions.
The problem
- Aspirants for government exams and board exams cannot get a teacher to explain every doubt.
- Answer keys give the option, not the reasoning.
- Coaching content is not available in the student's language or at their level.
What it does
- Explains the solution step by step at the student's level.
- Points out the common mistake that leads to the wrong option.
- Generates practice questions on the same concept.
- Runs in production on Shishya today; the same stack can be deployed for a school, coaching institute or edtech.
Ask an exam-style question and get a worked explanation, the common trap and two practice questions.
Live demo: AI tutor (Shishya)
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Output
Step-by-step solution, the common trap and two practice questions with answers.
The demo first calls the Surge in-house AI server and falls back to a hosted open-source model if it is busy. The badge on the output shows which one answered. Limited to a few runs per visitor per day.
How it integrates
In your deployment the accelerator runs inside your environment, behind your single sign-on, and is connected to the systems below. You choose the hosting and the model.
Systems and APIs
- LMS / learning app
- Question bank import (CSV, QTI)
- Student progress store
Data we need for a pilot
- Syllabus and question bank
- Answer keys with explanations where available
Where it runs
- Cloud (as Shishya runs today)
- On-prem for institutions that need it
Open-source models we start with
- Open-source instruct model for explanations, with a foundation-model fallback where the institution approves it
- IndicTrans2 for Indian-language explanations
Walkthrough
A short recorded walkthrough of the ai tutor (shishya): the input, the output and how a reviewer uses it.
Next accelerator: Multilingual citizen services assistant (English/Hindi/Telugu) →Walkthrough video coming soon
We are recording a short walkthrough of this accelerator. Meanwhile, run the live demo above or book a working session.
Run the education accelerator on your data
In a working session we map it to your process, systems and rules, and agree what a pilot must prove before it goes live.