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A reading tutor that listens while kids read aloud

EducationValidateIreland
Active users
1.2K
Paying customers
14

The problem

Children need someone to listen as they practise reading, and most parents don't have twenty spare minutes every evening.

The solution

Wordloom gives them a simple product that fixes this end to end, priced for small teams and live within a day of signing up.

Who it's for

Small and mid-sized organisations in our home market first.

Market

Bottom-up: ~40k target customers at ~$1,500 a year.

Competition and edge

What people use today

Spreadsheets and enterprise suites that are too heavy for this segment.

Why this team wins

Founders lived this problem for years and already have the first customers lined up.

The team

Aoife spent years on the customer side of this problem; Sean built the technical core at a previous company.

Worked together
1–3 years

About the founder

Aoife Byrne

CEO & co-founder · Ireland · 6 years of experience

Previously built products in education for six years; started Wordloom after seeing the problem first-hand.

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