Jul 16, 2026 · 30 min · 12 segments
For many Organisations, the biggest challenge with AI is not the technology, it is having people with the skills and confidence to use it effectively. In this episode of ***Lead with Curiosity***, I…
Richard LambdenGuest
Anthony DonovanHost
And as you say, AI and data is obviously a very hot topic right now, but you started 10 years ago.
So Raoul, who is our founder, did a PhD at, so the story goes, did his PhD at Cambridge University.
And he used to, I think probably to get a bit of money on the side, used to teach the undergraduates and he subsequently written books about Java and coding languages and so on and so forth.
And back in the day, he would be setting the students some work and they would be submitting it to him over an email and he would have to go and print out their lines of code.
So as part of his PhD, he actually developed what's turned into our learner management system.
It's called Educate.ai, which is basically a fantastic piece of kit where people can, in a safe environment, like a safe simulated environment, they can build their lines of code, they can practice, they can submit it to the system, they kind of get instantaneous feedback.
So actually when the company started, it was actually teaching individuals how to code.
Obviously AI has become more and more, you know, in all of our consciousness, I guess, since the kind of gen AI tools came out a few years ago, because AI has been around for a long time.
It's no surprise that, you know, the programs that you get directed to on Netflix are the ones that you like, or the, you know, the restaurants when you're in a town that you kind of get direct to go to ones that you kind of like, because AI, you know, when you book insurance has been in the background, hasn't it? The algorithms of, uh, So I think, yes, I'm sure there was a degree of foresight within it, but initially it was very data focused.
It's really only the last, I guess, four or five years since I kind of started that there's been more and more focus on AI as people have needed to get up to speed with it.
And as you say, AI and data is obviously a very hot topic right now, but you started 10 years ago.
So Raoul, who is our founder, did a PhD at, so the story goes, did his PhD at Cambridge University.
And he used to, I think probably to get a bit of money on the side, used to teach the undergraduates and he subsequently written books about Java and coding languages and so on and so forth.
And back in the day, he would be setting the students some work and they would be submitting it to him over an email and he would have to go and print out their lines of code.
So as part of his PhD, he actually developed what's turned into our learner management system.
It's called Educate.ai, which is basically a fantastic piece of kit where people can, in a safe environment, like a safe simulated environment, they can build their lines of code, they can practice, they can submit it to the system, they kind of get instantaneous feedback.
So actually when the company started, it was actually teaching individuals how to code.
Obviously AI has become more and more, you know, in all of our consciousness, I guess, since the kind of gen AI tools came out a few years ago, because AI has been around for a long time.
It's no surprise that, you know, the programs that you get directed to on Netflix are the ones that you like, or the, you know, the restaurants when you're in a town that you kind of get direct to go to ones that you kind of like, because AI, you know, when you book insurance has been in the background, hasn't it? The algorithms of, uh, So I think, yes, I'm sure there was a degree of foresight within it, but initially it was very data focused.
It's really only the last, I guess, four or five years since I kind of started that there's been more and more focus on AI as people have needed to get up to speed with it.
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