is an ed tech company dedicated to the integration of emergent technologies in modern-day education. The company develops applications for middle and high school, as well as higher education utilizing AI, AR, and VR.
AVILAAR
Projects
Discourse is a higher education application that requires students to present their papers to a panel of AIs as well as to answer questions about their work. Students interact with custom AIs who focus on different aspects of writing and presenting: Zia focuses on facts, Micah focuses on research, and Phaedrus focuses on arguments and counterarguments. Students show that they know the material in their papers, and cannot simply rely on ChatGPT to do the work for them.
The Socr-AI-tic Builder is a web-based app that enables professors to design and deploy structured, AI-driven dialogic learning experiences for students. These replace or augment traditional reading quizzes by engaging students in guided, multi-phase conversations in an AI chat. The AI asks pedagogically robust questions about facts, themes, arguments, and/or real-world applications, and can take on the role of tutor, learner, or debate partner. Copy and paste is disabled, reducing student cheating. The interface works easily with any Learning Management System [LMS].
Link – Socr-AI-tic Builder
Trailer – Link
The AI Companion is a web-based companion app, similar in format to ChatGPT or Claude, but built for a more continuous and personalized relationship with an AI. Users can customize their companion and interact through text or voice. The app’s key difference is memory. It uses a three-tiered system: short-term conversational context, vector-based memory retrieval, and a comprehensive conversation history. This allows the companion to draw on relevant past interactions while preserving a fuller record over time. Users can edit or delete memories whenever they choose. At the same time, the app routinely organizes and updates its memory system, creating the feel of one ongoing conversation rather than a set of separate chats or projects.
Link – Socr-AI-tic Companion
Arcadia is a middle school English Language Arts (ELA) app that supports at-home reading. Students talk to AI animal avatars powered by customized GPT’s which appear on the browser of a smartphones, tablet, or PC. Students talk, play, and do projects to show they have read and understood novels, and can analyze literature. They bond with the AI animals, and watch engrossing cut scenes that reveal these characters’ lives in the hamlet of Arcadia in the world of Avilaar.
Link – Arcadia
This app supports the creation of robust AI personalities. The user enters information about an AI and the app produces a json file that can be dropped into any LLM (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, etc.) to enable the model to interact with the user as the described character.
This app is a web-based classroom tool. It transcribes what a teacher says in the class and displays it as subtitles. In addition, it integrates interaction with an LLM. When the teacher presses the spacebar, the app listens for a prompt. When the teacher presses Enter, the app sends the transcript and the prompt to ChatGPT. The LLM speaks a response to the prompt for the whole class to hear.
Link- Robin Live App
WHO WE ARE
Avilaar is an ed tech company dedicated to the integration of emergent technologies in modern-day education. The company develops applications for higher education, as well as for middle and high school, utilizing AI, AR, and VR.
Transforming Education with AI, VR, and AR Solutions
Mark Jacobs, CEO
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Mark Jacobs founded Avilaar, Inc. in 2024 and is the lead designer for the Discourse app.
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He is a professor at Clark University, where he teaches in both the Master’s in AI program and the undergraduate philosophy department.
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He is also Clark’s AI Pedagogy and Curriculum Innovation Specialist, serving as the Director of the Socr-AI-tic Lab for Collaborative Pedagogy.
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He holds master’s degrees in Teaching from Manhattanville College and in Digital Media Design from Clark University.
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He founded Longview School, a not-for-profit middle and high school, in 2001 and was its director for 22 years.
Shivansh Awasthi, Lead Programmer
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Lead Programmer on Avilaar, where he developed core gameplay systems, optimized workflows, and collaborated closely with designers and artists.
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Earned his Master’s in Game Design and Interactive Media from Clark University and currently serves as an Adjunct Instructor, teaching Digital Product Prototype Development.
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Serves as Technical Coordinator of the Socr-AI-tic Lab for Collaborative Pedagogy, focusing on leveraging dialogic interaction with AIs to enhance education.
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Holds a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from VIT University, where he built a strong foundation in technical problem-solving.
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Worked as a Data Analyst at Myntra, building a SQL/Python pipeline to track returns and cancellations, helping warehouses resolve major inefficiencies.
AVILAAR
is an ed tech company dedicated to the integration of emergent technologies in modern-day education. The company develops applications for middle and high school, as well as higher education utilizing AI, AR, and VR.
Contact Us
- Brewster, New York
- +1 (914) 382-7539
- Avilaar.world@gmail.com