Alkimi AI

What it does

Think of generic AI like a helicopter parent who simply does a student’s homework. When a student is stuck on a complex problem, standard artificial intelligence just spits out the final answer, sometimes using tools that are not appropriate for the student. The assignment gets finished, but the student learns absolutely nothing. Alkimi was built to provide the exact opposite experience. Alkimi is a secure platform designed for colleges and universities that puts control back into the hands of educators. Rather than dictating how students learn, Alkimi provides faculty with the tools to build their own customized AI assistants. Professors can choose to set specific Socratic guardrails so their AI acts like a specialized tutor, asking guiding questions to protect the productive struggle of learning instead of handing out direct answers. Furthermore, standard AI has no idea what a professor has actually taught. Alkimi allows educators to anchor their AI tools directly to their specific course materials. When a student asks for help, the professor's customized AI only provides hints based on the concepts covered in class, rather than pulling advanced, out-of-scope methods from the internet. Finally, while public AI often absorbs user inputs to train future models, Alkimi operates as a completely locked digital vault. Everything professors and students enter remains private, ensuring the university's data is not exposed.

Who it's for

Colleges and universities

Business model

Monthly subscription, $5/person