Partnerships

Partner with us, for every classroom.

Teachers change outcomes. Partners change how many teachers we can reach. Together we take what works in one county to a whole education system.

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Ways to partner

Four ways to work with us.

Government

Amal supports national and county teacher development, working alongside the curriculum and systems already in place.

Tailored to your national education standards
Designed to scale across counties and districts while adapting to local needs.
Data is collected thoughtfully and transparently, following best practices and national data protection laws.

Foundation

Fund pilots and scale-up in new regions, with clear milestones and evidence you can share.

Defined cohorts and goals
Independent evaluation
Reporting that includes what did not work

Research

Co-design studies, share data responsibly and publish what we learn together.

Strong classroom evidence through pilots and field studies
Results shared with the wider education community for public good
Findings reflecting the realities of real classrooms

Philanthropist

Back an AI co-teacher built with teachers, and help it reach the classrooms that need it most.

Funding that goes directly into teacher support and classroom evidence
Close access to our field teams and the teachers we work with
Clear evidence of what works, shared with you

Independent evaluation

How a partnership works

From one county to a whole system.

01
Scope
We agree on the cohort, the goals and how success will be measured.
02
Pilot
Teachers start on WhatsApp and the web, with training and local support.
03
Evaluate
Independent evaluators test what changed, and we publish what did not.
04
Scale
With government and funders, what works moves into the wider system.

Our partners

Built with people who know the work.

RESEARCH PARTNER

Technical collaboration with Germany's leading AI research institution, combining scientific expertise and applied AI innovation to advance educational technology.

AI TECHNOLOGY PARTNER

Impact Programme partnership providing access to Text-to-Speech and AI Dubbing technologies for multilingual, audio-first, and inclusive learning experiences.

TECHNOLOGY PARTNER

Six-month accelerator programme focused on integrating Co-Teacher into WhatsApp to expand educational reach and accessibility in remote and underserved communities.

ECOSYSTEM PARTNER

Strategic ecosystem support for mobile-first educational solutions, enabling scalable access to digital learning tools and expanding reach in underserved communities.

DISTRIBUTION PARTNER

Strategic collaboration across market access, community building, capacity development, and needs-driven product development.

FOUNDING INVESTOR

Foundational capital and long-term strategic guidance across go-to-market strategy, organizational development, and sustainable growth.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE PARTNER

Strategic collaboration on market screening, opportunity identification, and market assessment to inform expansion, growth priorities, and investment decisions.

RESEARCH PARTNER

Research partnership supporting the implementation and evaluation of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) assessing the impact of educational solutions.

Proof

30K+

teachers supported

1.5M+

students impacted

4,500+

classrooms covered

A randomized trial in Machakos County, Kenya, found a 1.56-point gain in lesson plan quality on a 0–4 rubric.

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FAQ

Questions partners often ask.

Amal Labs is a product lab. We take on hard human challenges in the Global South and turn them into products people use every day. We start with the people who live the problem, build with them, and only scale what we can prove works. Our first product is Amal, an AI co-teacher for teachers.

We look for problems that are large, persistent and close to people’s daily lives, and that technology can realistically help solve. We also ask whether we can reach the people affected, and whether we can measure a real difference. Every challenge then follows the same method: understand deeply, assemble the right team, build simply, prove impact, then scale. If we can’t prove impact, we don’t scale.

Partnerships start with a shared problem, not a finished product. Together, we define what success means and how we’ll measure it. We then run a focused pilot with real users, learn quickly and adapt. If the results hold, we scale together. Partners can be governments, schools, NGOs, researchers or funders. Each brings what we can’t do alone: access, context, expertise or capital.

We measure success by what changes for people, not by downloads or features. For Amal, that means outcomes such as [teacher time saved, lesson quality, student learning]. We combine usage data with feedback from teachers and, where possible, independent evaluation. We define our metrics before a pilot starts, so results can’t be tailored afterwards. We share what we learn openly with partners, including what didn’t work.

We collect only the data a product needs, and we protect it. We follow local data protection laws, including Kenya’s Data Protection Act (2019) and Rwanda’s Law No. 058/2021 on the protection of personal data. Users and partners know what we collect and why. Our AI supports people; it doesn’t replace them. Teachers stay in control of what Amal suggests. We test for bias and errors with local users before we scale.