The Study Hall(r) Deep Reader(tm) platform is an AI-powered digital book platform for primary and secondary schools designed to accelerate student reading age and assessment results. The platform uses generative AI to enhance textbook and book content with educational materials such as contextual background knowledge, curriculum content, and assessments, as well as state-of-the-art study tools. This is a personalised, adaptive reading platform across all subjects that can provide better data analytics and tools for teachers to identify, assess and develop student reading abilities, and reduce reading age gaps that create persistent inequalities in student outcomes. Study Hall has been the successful recipient of a previous Innovate UK focussed on adaptive learning and assessment for English and maths. The Deep Reader AI-powered digital book platform is complimentary to adaptive learning and assessment.

The COVID-19 pandemic, closed down schools, thereby disrupting learning and increasing the need for personalised learning platforms that improve transparency, efficacy and accountability of public education systems. Student attainment gaps are deepening inequality, costing national economies tens of billions in future GDP growth. The UK alone estimates that improving attainment for a single cohort (2030 students) can add £60-90bn to GDP (DfE 2022). Adaptive learning and assessment can help optimise the large sums of public and private funds invested in high-dosage tutoring and school intervention programs. Study Hall (SH) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based adaptive learning and assessment platform that can accelerate student progress on both high-stakes (summative) and low-stakes (formative) assessments. SH's Knowledge Graph (KG) maps individual student knowledge against curriculum and standardised assessments to identify who has learned it, who has mastered it, and who has dropped off so teachers can intervene. The innovative, AI-based, Intelligent Hint System (IHS) provides scaffolded Socratic hints. SH's social features motivate learners to study together inside and outside of school. Study Hall boosts engagement, and increases teaching and learning efficiency, saving taxpayers, teachers, parents and students time and money. Study Hall has an experienced team including Paul Butcher (CTO), Professor Paul Schrater (behavioural neuroscience and deep learning scientist), Micheal Milchiadis (Lead Engineer), Gary Shiels (Data Scientist), Aisling Henihan (Instructional Design Lead), Nathan Llewellyn (Product Owner) and Sofia Fenichell (Chief Product Officer).