AI Tutor - K-12 and Higher Ed (PoC)

2025Case Study

Real-time tutoring with citations and adaptive pedagogy, delivered via WebRTC.

The Challenge

  • Limited 1:1 attention and after-hours support
  • Content not adaptive to learner pace and gaps
  • Curriculum alignment and citations are required

The Solution

  • WebRTC live room for tutoring sessions

  • Streaming pipeline with ASR, policy engine, RAG, and TTS

  • Socratic scaffolding and adaptive difficulty model

Impact

  • Students get 24 by 7 personalized tutoring

  • Teachers receive transcripts with citations and analytics

  • Institutions scale support at lower cost

Technical

Implementation Details

Daily.co rooms, Pipecat streaming, book ingestion to vector store, cited answers with page references, FastAPI endpoints for sessions and assessments, signed webhooks, JWT auth, observability dashboards.