**The Problem:** Every year, elementary schools waste tens of thousands of dollars on generic edtech supplements. Imagine a fourth grader logging into her computer to do an assignment, she read "John has 3 boxes of 6 cantaloupes", and stare blankly. She's never seen a box of cantaloupes. She guesses, gets it wrong, doesn't know why, and quits out of frustration. The teacher must push her to finish, then dig through worksheets and dashboards trying to decide what to reteach.

**The Solution:** Geni allows teachers to instantly generate digital math assignments with images, text, and audio tailored to each student’s specific interests and cultural background. This makes the assignment more engaging and relatable for every student. The platform provides real-time insights on student struggles and pedagogical tips for teacher intervention.

**The Traction:** After sending hundereds of emails to schools with no responses, I cold-knocked on over 200 schools, despite 188 of them slamming the door, sometimes literally, in my face, Geni signed 12 paying schools and grew our userbase from 0 to 1,000+ MAU in just 60 days.

**The Tech:** I designed our full-stack platform using Next.js, TypeScript, and Docker. Our backend is built around a pipeline that orchestrates seven different Text, Image, and Audio models (three of which were fine-tuned by us and 1 developed from scratch). This is supported by Redis for caching and PostgreSQL/Prisma for data management. We have deployed our platform both on AWS or GCP depending on which service gave us free credits