Shaping the future of education through smarter learning
Shaping the future of education through smarter learning
At Somarity, we are redefining how classrooms access, create, and deliver quality education. Our AI-powered platform is focussed on empowering teachers in Africa and beyond to instantly generate syllabus-aligned content helping educators improve lesson quality, and engage students like never before.
At Somarity, we are redefining how classrooms access, create, and deliver quality education. Our AI-powered platform is focussed on empowering teachers in Africa and beyond to instantly generate syllabus-aligned content helping educators improve lesson quality, and engage students like never before.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
At Somarity, our mission is to make quality education accessible for every learner, particularly for those in resource-poor settings. For example, across Africa teachers often face large classes, limited preparation time, and scarce learning materials — while students try hard but still struggle to understand, not for lack of effort, but for lack of support and resources.
We are building an AI-powered platform that lightens teachers’ workload and makes learning more personal for students. Our tools generate curriculum-aligned, culturally relevant lessons in seconds, and provide learners with interactive support tailored to their pace and understanding. We believe it will revolutionise teaching and learning in both high- and low- resource schools.
Our aim is simple: empower teachers to teach with confidence, and help students truly learn.
At Somarity, our mission is to make quality education accessible for every learner, particularly for those in resource-poor settings. For example, across Africa teachers often face large classes, limited preparation time, and scarce learning materials — while students try hard but still struggle to understand, not for lack of effort, but for lack of support and resources.
We are building an AI-powered platform that lightens teachers’ workload and makes learning more personal for students. Our tools generate curriculum-aligned, culturally relevant lessons in seconds, and provide learners with interactive support tailored to their pace and understanding. We believe it will revolutionise teaching and learning in both high- and low- resource schools.
Our aim is simple: empower teachers to teach with confidence, and help students truly learn.
Our Story
Our Story
Our Story
Somarity (“Soma,” Swahili for read/learn) was born from a shared vision between Ugandan and UK-based educators, researchers, and technologists. With experience in teaching, curriculum design, and education technology, we saw a pressing challenge: teachers working hard with too few resources, and students eager to learn but not getting the support they need. Somarity grew from the belief that technology done thoughtfully can help close this gap.
Somarity (“Soma,” Swahili for read/learn) was born from a shared vision between Ugandan and UK-based educators, researchers, and technologists. With experience in teaching, curriculum design, and education technology, we saw a pressing challenge: teachers working hard with too few resources, and students eager to learn but not getting the support they need. Somarity grew from the belief that technology done thoughtfully can help close this gap.
Background
Background
Background
The global education landscape faces a critical challenge: ensuring foundational literacy and numeracy for all children. This crisis is particularly acute in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), where, according to UNICEF, over 600 million children, even those attending school, fail to achieve minimum proficiency levels. Factors like resource scarcity, infrastructural deficits, and pedagogical limitations hinder progress, preventing millions from reaching their full potential. While government spending on education in LMICs shows a slight upward trend, it often remains insufficient (World Bank, 2022), necessitating innovative, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. And some of these issues are more prevalent in High-Income settings than might be expected, for example in the UK 25% of state secondary schools have no specialist physics teacher (according to the Institute of Physics) & 85% report that they are not able to provide appropriate learning resources for pupils because of current funding levels (according to the National Education Union).
Some of the key problems in education:
Foundational Learning Gaps: Basic reading and math skills limit children’s learning & future career potential
Resource and Infrastructure Deficits: Lack of trained teachers, inadequate or non-existent learning materials, and poor infrastructure create difficult learning environments (critical in many LMICs according to UNICEF).
Language Barriers: Nearly 40% of students in LMICs receive instruction in languages they do not fully comprehend (World Bank, 2021).
Teacher Capacity and Support: Educators themselves often face challenges, whether they lack mastery of the content they teach (SDI 2010–2014, cited in WBRO, 2022), recruitment & deployment issues (especially in remote areas), or inadequate professional development opportunities.
Lack of Personalised Education: Traditional classroom models often fail to cater to diverse student learning levels. Research strongly indicates the effectiveness of pedagogical interventions tailored to individual student needs, both teacher-led o& technology-facilitated Evans & Popova, 2016).
Context Specific Technology: EdTech presents potential solutions, however its effectiveness hinges on addressing specific contextual challenges. Interventions focused on self-led learning reinforcement and improving instruction quality show particular promise (Rodriguez-Segura, 2022).
Our Solutions:
Resource and Infrastructure Deficits: Somarity aim to support teachers, providing low-cost quality learning materials
Language Barriers: Somarity has been developed in English in its inception, initially targeting countries in which English is a national language, with hopes of development of diverse languages in future, powered by AI.
Teacher Capacity and Support: Somarity is an adjunct to support the dedicated educators, designed with teacher’s input from multiple countries and a diversity of locations and state/private support, aiming to lighten the administrative and creative load of teachers to allow them to focus on their irreplaceable role in the classroom. By equipping them with quality resources, and support, we hope to improve retention of teachers. We also aim in future to develop an arm of professional development opportunities for teachers.
Lack of Personalised Education: Somarity harnesses AI to transform traditional classroom models to cater to diverse student learning levels at the individual level. By combining this technological tool with teacher’s experience, we aim to help streamline pedagogy to each student’s needs, powered by the adaptability of AI to the learners development.
Context Specific Technology: Somarity’s dedication to developing context-specific resources makes it unique. Each country’s content is bespoke to the experiences of its learners. For example, it is not useful to teach physics in a rural Ugandan classroom using an exam question about how the duration of contact between a golf club and a ball affects the distance the ball travels, a scenario far removed from students’ everyday lives. In the same way, it would not be useful to teach inner-city UK students ratios through examples such as bushels of wheat or crop yields, which bear little relevance to their lived experience.
The global education landscape faces a critical challenge: ensuring foundational literacy and numeracy for all children. This crisis is particularly acute in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), where, according to UNICEF, over 600 million children, even those attending school, fail to achieve minimum proficiency levels. Factors like resource scarcity, infrastructural deficits, and pedagogical limitations hinder progress, preventing millions from reaching their full potential. While government spending on education in LMICs shows a slight upward trend, it often remains insufficient (World Bank, 2022), necessitating innovative, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. And some of these issues are more prevalent in High-Income settings than might be expected, for example in the UK 25% of state secondary schools have no specialist physics teacher (according to the Institute of Physics) & 85% report that they are not able to provide appropriate learning resources for pupils because of current funding levels (according to the National Education Union).
Some of the key problems in education:
Foundational Learning Gaps: Basic reading and math skills limit children’s learning & future career potential
Resource and Infrastructure Deficits: Lack of trained teachers, inadequate or non-existent learning materials, and poor infrastructure create difficult learning environments (critical in many LMICs according to UNICEF).
Language Barriers: Nearly 40% of students in LMICs receive instruction in languages they do not fully comprehend (World Bank, 2021).
Teacher Capacity and Support: Educators themselves often face challenges, whether they lack mastery of the content they teach (SDI 2010–2014, cited in WBRO, 2022), recruitment & deployment issues (especially in remote areas), or inadequate professional development opportunities.
Lack of Personalised Education: Traditional classroom models often fail to cater to diverse student learning levels. Research strongly indicates the effectiveness of pedagogical interventions tailored to individual student needs, both teacher-led o& technology-facilitated Evans & Popova, 2016).
Context Specific Technology: EdTech presents potential solutions, however its effectiveness hinges on addressing specific contextual challenges. Interventions focused on self-led learning reinforcement and improving instruction quality show particular promise (Rodriguez-Segura, 2022).
Our Solutions:
Resource and Infrastructure Deficits: Somarity aim to support teachers, providing low-cost quality learning materials
Language Barriers: Somarity has been developed in English in its inception, initially targeting countries in which English is a national language, with hopes of development of diverse languages in future, powered by AI.
Teacher Capacity and Support: Somarity is an adjunct to support the dedicated educators, designed with teacher’s input from multiple countries and a diversity of locations and state/private support, aiming to lighten the administrative and creative load of teachers to allow them to focus on their irreplaceable role in the classroom. By equipping them with quality resources, and support, we hope to improve retention of teachers. We also aim in future to develop an arm of professional development opportunities for teachers.
Lack of Personalised Education: Somarity harnesses AI to transform traditional classroom models to cater to diverse student learning levels at the individual level. By combining this technological tool with teacher’s experience, we aim to help streamline pedagogy to each student’s needs, powered by the adaptability of AI to the learners development.
Context Specific Technology: Somarity’s dedication to developing context-specific resources makes it unique. Each country’s content is bespoke to the experiences of its learners. For example, it is not useful to teach physics in a rural Ugandan classroom using an exam question about how the duration of contact between a golf club and a ball affects the distance the ball travels, a scenario far removed from students’ everyday lives. In the same way, it would not be useful to teach inner-city UK students ratios through examples such as bushels of wheat or crop yields, which bear little relevance to their lived experience.
What We Do
What We Do
Generate lesson-ready content for any topic in seconds
Generate lesson-ready content for any topic in seconds
Generate lesson-ready content for any topic in seconds
Tailor learning materials to fit their country’s syllabus perfectly
Tailor learning materials to fit their country’s syllabus perfectly
Tailor learning materials to fit their country’s syllabus perfectly
Track student knowledge retention across multiple subjects
Track student knowledge retention across multiple subjects
Track student knowledge retention across multiple subjects
Identify learning gaps and take targeted action to support struggling students
Identify learning gaps and take targeted action to support struggling students
Identify learning gaps and take targeted action to support struggling students
Use data-driven insights to improve overall school performance
Use data-driven insights to improve overall school performance
Use data-driven insights to improve overall school performance