Ranjani Indrajith

I built Teacher's Companion using Lovable, bringing student information, pre-class context, class reporting, and AI-generated summaries of previous lessons into one place.

• 85% less reporting time: Reduced from 20 minutes to 3 minutes.
• 10 teachers: Actively using the product.
• 2–3 weeks: From idea to working product.

Teachers can now capture observations while they're fresh and maintain better continuity across classes.

Voice-based notes and Zoom recording capture to reduce manual reporting even further.

I designed Reading Gym using principles from Atomic Habits, combining the science of habit formation with practical tools for families.

The product helps children establish reading routines, track progress, and celebrate milestones. It also educates parents on how habits form and how to support their children through interruptions and changing routines.

• The 3Rs — Routine, Reminder, Reward: Designed a simple system that reduces friction, makes reading easier to repeat, and builds consistent habits. Parents set meaningful monthly rewards that motivate children to complete books and celebrate progress.
• Parent Education: Built guidance into the product to help parents understand habit formation, sustain routines through interruptions, and create positive conversations around reading.

Product vision, habit-formation strategy, requirements, reward-system design, parent experience, and collaboration with the developer.

I built TALE, a school-based digital language lab designed to bridge the gap between reading and communicating confidently in English.

The product combined structured listening, interactive learning, and guided practice. We identified missing language skills and created experiences that helped children learn independently, while supporting teachers through training, workshops, and classroom resources.

We brought the product into schools, demonstrated it to educators, listened to their challenges, trained teachers, and continuously improved the experience based on what happened in classrooms.

• 1M+ cumulative student enrollments through TALE over several years.
• 100+ schools across two states.
• School implementation, teacher training, ongoing support, and product improvement.

Some schools had just one teacher supporting 100 children across different age groups. Even in these resource-constrained environments, we saw children making remarkable progress.

In some classrooms, first graders were reading second-grade material, despite starting well below expected reading levels.

Great product thinking doesn't start with technology. It starts with understanding a problem deeply enough to find a solution that works within real-world constraints.

Long before today's AI tools, TALE taught me that meaningful innovation isn't always about sophisticated technology. It's about removing barriers, designing for real users, and making something useful enough to work at scale.

• 40 → 4 hours: Estimated production time per book, a 90% reduction.
• Up to 30 books per person per month: Potential production capacity, subject to demand and quality review.
• Greater personalization: The ability to develop lessons around books children already enjoy, rather than limiting families to a fixed library.

I didn't use AI to replace curriculum expertise. I used it to change where that expertise was needed.

AI handles the time-consuming analysis and production work. Educators make the instructional decisions and verify the final output.

The result is a workflow designed for scale without removing human judgment.

Using AI, I built an integrated operations dashboard connecting our existing data and workflows into one system.

It brings together student progress, attendance, classroom reporting, upcoming sessions, parent communications, and business performance.

The initial working dashboard took just 2–3 hours to build. From there, I continued improving it based on how the teams actually worked.

I designed the dashboard around exceptions and next actions, not just reporting.

Instead of expecting every team member to navigate complex spreadsheets or remember every process, the system highlights missing information, incomplete work, and upcoming priorities.

• Connected five business functions through a shared operational view.
• Made reporting gaps and classroom readiness visible.
• Reduced the effort required to locate information across disconnected spreadsheets.
• Helped team members work more independently, with clearer information and fewer manual follow-ups.

Great products don't require every user to become an expert. They make complex work easier for people with different levels of experience and technical confidence.

My goal was not just to build a dashboard. It was to build a system that helps people do their best work.

When COVID shut down schools, we had seven days to launch a 21-day reading program.

The lockdown extended, and so did the product—from 21 days to 42, then 66. Parents began seeing their children read consistently, and we kept building around what worked.

What began as a short-term solution grew into My Chapter One, serving over 3,000 children and creating earning opportunities for women educators.

I've written and published educational books, developed children's activity books, and helped young writers publish their own stories.

I love showing children that an idea on a piece of paper can become a real book—something they can hold, share, and keep forever.