About Our Client
Our client is a forward-thinking education startup on a mission to transform English language learning through technology. With a focus on learners, the company combines pedagogy with artificial intelligence to deliver personalized, interactive, and engaging digital learning experiences. By integrating adaptive assessments, real-time feedback, and gamified content, the client seeks to make high-quality English education more accessible, scalable, and effective for learners at all levels.
The Challenge: Bridging the English proficiency gap in Myanmar
English proficiency remains a critical barrier to economic opportunity and global connectivity in Myanmar. Traditional learning methods – classroom-based instruction, textbooks and rote memorization – are often inaccessible, expensive and fail to adapt to individual learning needs. Many learners struggle with:
Limited access to quality education: English learning resources are concentrated in urban centers, leaving rural and underserved communities with few options. Private tutoring is prohibitively expensive, and public education infrastructure remains underdeveloped.
One-size-fits-all approaches: Traditional curricula don’t account for varying proficiency levels, learning speeds, or personal goals. Learners often feel frustrated by content that’s either too basic or too advanced, leading to high dropout rates.
Lack of real-time feedback: Without immediate correction on pronunciation, grammar, or comprehension, learners develop persistent errors that become harder to correct over time. Most learners have no access to native speakers or qualified tutors for practice.
Disconnection from practical application: Conventional methods emphasize theory over practical communication skills, leaving learners unprepared for real-world English usage in professional or social contexts.
Monetization and payment barriers: Myanmar’s unique financial ecosystem, dominated by mobile wallets like Wave Pay and KBZ Pay rather than traditional credit cards, creates friction for digital service adoption. International EdTech platforms often can’t accommodate local payment preferences, limiting market penetration.
The client recognized a significant market opportunity: millions of Myanmar citizens seeking to improve their English for career advancement, education and personal growth – but lacking affordable, personalized, and accessible learning solutions. To capture this underserved market, the client needed to deliver an innovative platform that could:
- Provide personalized learning experiences that adapt to each user’s proficiency level and learning pace
- Offer immediate, accurate feedback on pronunciation and grammar without requiring human tutors
- Make English learning accessible anytime, anywhere through mobile devices
- Create an engaging experience that motivates sustained learning and reduces dropout rates
- Implement a freemium business model that builds trust through value before monetization
- Integrate seamlessly with local payment systems to eliminate transaction friction
The challenge wasn’t just building another language learning app – it was creating an entirely new category of accessible, intelligent education that could scale to serve Myanmar’s 54 million people while establishing a sustainable business model in an emerging market.
The Solution: A mobile-first, AI-powered learning ecosystem
To address these market gaps and capture the opportunity in Myanmar’s EdTech space, the client partnered with Kyanon Digital to design and develop a comprehensive solution that combines intelligent automation, personalized learning journeys, and seamless user experience.
AI Tutoring App: Personalized learning at scale
The AI Tutoring App is designed to democratize English learning by providing accessible, adaptive, and engaging learning experiences even for users facing learning challenges. The app features two distinct modes: a Free Version and a Premium Version.
In the Free Version, users begin their journey with an AI-powered IQ and placement test, designed to assess learning capabilities, comprehension and pronunciation. Based on the results, the AI engine recommends personalized learning content, such as lessons, quizzes, and challenges tailored to the learner’s level. Users can:
- Track their learning progress in real time
- Participate in English learning assessments to unlock higher levels
- Access a limited number of gamified quizzes and activities to enhance retention and engagement
Once users are satisfied with the experience, they are encouraged to upgrade to the Premium Version, which unlocks the full suite of app features, including unlimited quizzes, games, lessons and personalized lesson plans with no restrictions.
AI-powered language intelligence
Kyanon Digital engineered advanced AI models to power core learning functions:
- Speech recognition and phonetic analysis for pronunciation feedback
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) for real-time grammar correction
- AI-driven essay scoring with insights on structure, coherence, and vocabulary
- Text summarization tools to enhance comprehension of long-form content
Each AI module was deployed as an independent microservice, ensuring scalability and seamless integration within the app’s learning flow.
Personalized & adaptive learning
The platform delivers highly personalized learning journeys:
- AI-based placement tests and adaptive IQ assessments to set the right starting point
- Dynamic daily missions based on real-time learning progress
- Gamification features such as streaks, badges, and leaderboards to improve motivation and retention
This intelligent adaptability ensures that every learner’s path is relevant, motivating, and progress-driven.
Content management & localization
A custom-built content management system (CMS) empowers non-technical teams to manage educational content effortlessly:
- Centralized creation, editing, and publishing of lessons, quizzes, and games
- Instant content updates without developer intervention
- Localization-ready infrastructure to accommodate regional language and cultural standards
This setup allows the client to maintain full control over content operations while remaining agile.
Localized payment integration
To ensure seamless access for users in Myanmar, the backend integrates with regional payment gateways:
- API integrations with Wave Pay and KBZ Pay for local transactions
- Robust transaction handling with audit trails and failover mechanisms
- Secure tokenized authentication aligned with regional compliance standards
These features facilitate frictionless onboarding and monetization in the local market.
End-to-End AI development expertise
Kyanon Digital provided comprehensive delivery through its multidisciplinary teams:
- AI/ML engineers for custom NLP and speech recognition models
- Mobile developers to ensure high-performance across iOS and Android devices
- Backend and DevOps teams for robust infrastructure, CI/CD, and scalability
- QA specialists to maintain quality across the entire user experience
This full-cycle engagement ensured rapid innovation, technical excellence, and long-term maintainability.
Results: Validating the market opportunity
Kyanon Digital successfully brought the client’s vision to life by delivering an AI-powered, mobile-first English learning platform tailored to the Myanmar market. The project met key MVP objectives, laying the groundwork for future scalability while achieving strong results across usability, AI functionality, and user engagement.
- Rapid MVP launch: Delivered a feature-complete MVP within 6 months, aligning with the client’s go-to-market timeline and enabling early user onboarding and feedback collection.
- AI-powered personalization: Integrated AI-driven placement and IQ assessments, allowing the app to tailor learning paths based on each user’s ability. Internal testing showed improved learner progression and better engagement from day one.
- Pronunciation & grammar coaching: Deployed real-time speech recognition and NLP-powered grammar correction to assist learners with pronunciation and sentence structure, features especially valuable for non-native speakers in Myanmar.
- Free-to-premium conversion path: Designed a two-tier access model, with an engaging free version that includes AI-based learning recommendations, limited quizzes, and tests, encouraging upgrades to the premium version through proven value.
- Localized payments integration: Successfully embedded Myanmar’s top mobile wallets, Wave Pay and KBZ Pay into the backend, ensuring smooth transactions, subscription access, and alignment with regional payment behaviors.
- Gamified user experience: Introduced mini-games, streaks, badges, and leaderboards, which significantly boosted daily retention and made learning feel rewarding and enjoyable.
- Future-ready architecture: Developed using modular microservices, the platform is fully equipped to support future features like advanced analytics, community interactions, multilingual content, and market expansion.
This MVP release not only validated the platform’s concept but also demonstrated strong initial adoption, technical stability, and a clear path forward for long-term growth and impact.
Technologies and tools
- Services: AI Implementation, Mobile app development, Back-end implementation, UX/UI Design, Software Dedicated Team
- Technologies: Generative AI, Large Language Models, Multimodal AI
