Please advise on your policy regarding the fine line between tutoring and cheating. A quote regarding Chegg: "A study published in 2020 has found that Chegg answers student questions even though the questions have clear cues to indicate that the student is trying to buy answer...

Hi Aldert, we have various ways that address this risk: (i) Kunduz is not designed to just get solutions. We expect our students to chat with the tutors to discuss the question and the solution. Interactions between students and teachers are proven effective for active learning. This has been proven right in our pilot market by seeing that schools don't come to us to report misconduct or for a complaint. They reach out for partnership. Next year, we will be serving as many students through ou...

Please advise who is responsible for AI research in the company, how long is he or she in the company, what is the motivation (option, etc.). No offense, but Baris is entrepreneur and full-stack dev., that's nothing about scientific research.

Great question. Baris is an experienced CTO and he has gained experience in the domain since 2018. Mert Kucuk has been our AI researcher, who has been doing research in computer vision for over 12 years. His AI startup (computer vision) was funded by YC in 2014. After that, he has been a critical part of various AI-enabled tech early-stage and growth-stage startups. Volkan Cirik - CMU Ph.D. on NLP - has been our advisor for the application of Generative AI in our future plans. Our Head of Pro...

Please advise how much does it take to get answered, is it 10 minutes, 15 minutes or 30 minutes? Why do you have different number of minutes in different places?

Hi Aldert, in our pilot market, where we are using AI in full scale, our average response time is below 10 minutes (7 minutes at the moment). In the US, where we help students only manually through our tutor network, our average response time is 15 minutes. 95% of our questions are answered below 30 minutes. Thank you for asking for clarification. I'll do the needed edits on our deck to avoid any confusion.

Chegg is a large corporation. What is your defensibility against them in case they focus their resources and achieve comparable or higher speed, reconsider their pricing plans and come up with the same affordable option, and copy your interactivity ideas?

Hi Aldert, This is a David vs Goliath game and every feature we have means a significant impact on their bottom line. Making their service faster, more affordable, or interactive only comes with a higher cost of goods sold. Making such drastic changes in your bottom line requires an explanation to your public market investors and, regardless, it reflects on your stock price. For these reasons, they will be incapable of acting on it before it's too late. The mains reasons we are able to do tha...

Does your SAFE have a discount relative to the next funding round? Do you have any additional fundraising materials available for our review?

Hi David, sincere apologies for the late response here. We use the SAFE with the cap (post-money) and no discount. It was advised by renowned internal and external investors based on our metrics: We have made $2.4M in revenue in 2022. Internally, we are using the academic year for our annual projections and we are projecting $5M+ revenue in 2023-24 based on the deals signed off in B2B deals and with the most moderate B2C growth scenario. These numbers are accomplished with 2x YoY growth, 10+ ...