We give every English Learner and Special Education student the 1-on-1 speaking and learning practice their teacher cannot deliver alone.
In every ELL and Special Ed classroom, the math is impossible. One teacher, twenty to thirty students, each with a different language background, level, and learning need. Real personalization should mean each student gets focused 1-on-1 time, every day. But that time doesn’t exist.
So students who need the most support get the least of it. Teachers know it. They just can’t be in five places at once.
Telo was built to close that gap. Not to replace the teacher. To give every student, in the same classroom, the personalized speaking and practice time they should already be getting.
Make sure every English Learner and every Special Education student gets the personalized speaking and learning practice they need to thrive, anywhere in the world.
Real conversations build language faster than worksheets. Telo talks back, listens, adjusts.
Every learner is met at their level: pace, vocabulary, scaffolding. No two sessions are the same.
Telo amplifies the teacher’s instruction, never replaces it. You set the goals, the topics, the rules.
From a single charter school to a 100-school district, from a tutoring storefront to an international franchise network, Telo runs the same way: 1-on-1 with the student, aligned with the teacher.
Awarded TIPS vendor: 7,000+ districts and schools nationwide can purchase Telo without a separate RFP. Also approved in 29 ISDs and through the Region 19, 7 and 18 cooperatives.
From single-campus schools to multi-state charter networks, with the flexibility to start at one classroom.
Language centers and tutoring franchises worldwide use Telo to scale 1-on-1 practice across locations.
Two groups whose progress depends on more 1-on-1 time than any single teacher can deliver.
Telo is FERPA compliant, and these commitments go further. They are not settings a district has to turn on: they are how Telo is built, for every student and every teacher.
Telo listens and responds in real time, then lets the conversation go. We never store audio, images, video or text transcripts of a session.
Conversations with students and teachers are never used to train our AI models.
Telo runs on open-source AI models that we host ourselves. Conversations are never sent to outside AI providers.
Every response is filtered before a student hears it, so conversations stay safe and age-appropriate.
What Telo keeps: the learning insights teachers see in their dashboard, and each student’s preferences, used only to personalize their practice. Both are linked to a student ID, never to a name. Telo stores no student names or personal information: those stay in Clever or ClassLink.
Telo is built by a small team of educators, engineers, and designers obsessed with what one-on-one practice can do for a student.
Co-founder & CEO
Sets the vision, leads the company, partners directly with districts and franchises on rollout.
Co-founder & CTO
Owns the technology: the AI conversation engine, the embodied robot, the teacher dashboard.
A live demo takes under 30 minutes. We’ll show the robot, the web platform, the teacher dashboard, and answer the procurement questions you have.