Episode 90

If Everyone Has the Same AI, What’s Your EdTech Advantage?

Guest name: Dakshay Mehta
Guest title: Member of Technical Staff
Guest company: Stealth AI
Host: Eric Stano

Brief description of the episode

When every edtech provider can build with the same AI models, simply having AI in the product stops being much of an advantage.

In this episode, Dakshay Mehta, Member of Technical Staff, Stealth AI, explores with Eric Stano how AI could shift learning products from static content to interactive knowledge experiences, and what edtech companies and publishers will need to build around that shift to stay differentiated.

Key Takeaways:

- Build differentiation around proprietary learner and product data, not just access to an AI model.
- Capture what learners ask, where they struggle, and how they interact with the experience.
- Evaluate what the AI gets right and wrong instead of treating deployment as the finish line.
- Feed those insights back into the product so it improves through real learner use.
- Design content so learners can question and explore it instead of only consuming it.
- Give learners ways to ask for clarification, deeper context, or a different explanation when needed.
- Build the experience around helping learners develop understanding, not simply presenting more content.
- Think beyond the textbook or course as the finished product and consider how the knowledge itself can become interactive.
- Start with the learning objective rather than assuming everyone needs the same route to reach it.
- Allow learners to move through concepts in different ways while keeping the intended outcome clear.
- Design AI interactions to guide exploration back toward the learning goal rather than allowing endless detours.
- Reconsider where fixed sequence is genuinely necessary and where learner agency could improve the experience.
- Put guardrails around when AI should explain, guide, question, or provide an answer.
- Design interactions that help learners understand how to reach an answer rather than simply receiving it.
- Keep a clear learning objective behind the conversation so exploration still leads somewhere useful.
- Review whether the experience is encouraging active thinking or making dependence on AI too easy.

If Everyone Has the Same AI, What’s Your EdTech Advantage?

Brief description of the episode

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