About us

Built by Bangladeshis,
for Bangladeshi classrooms.

We're a small team of educators and engineers in Dhaka building the AI grading platform we wished existed when we were teaching.

Our mission

Give every Bangladeshi teacher their weekends back — without compromising on grade quality.

Teachers across Bangladesh spend 30–50% of their working hours grading. That's time stolen from teaching, mentoring, and rest. We believe AI can change that — but only if it's built with deep respect for the work teachers do, the language they grade in, and the students they serve.

Bengali-first
OCR purpose-built for বাংলা
Semantic
grading that understands meaning
100%
audit trail on every AI mark
Early access
free trial, no card needed
What we believe

Four principles guide everything.

Teachers come first

Every product decision starts with one question: does this make a teacher's day easier? If the answer isn't a clear yes, we don't ship it.

Bangladesh-first design

We don't adapt foreign tools for Bangladeshi schools. We build from scratch for Bengali handwriting, Bengali rubrics, and Bengali pedagogy.

Trust over speed

Student data never leaves Bangladesh. Models are auditable. Every AI mark is reviewable. Trust takes years to build, seconds to lose.

Augment, don't replace

AI doesn't replace teachers — it returns their time. The judgment, care, and context teachers bring is irreplaceable. We free them to do more of it.

Our story

From classroom frustration to nationwide pilot.

2024

Idea born in a classroom

Watching his mother spend an entire weekend grading a single set of mid-terms was the spark. That weekend, the first prototype was sketched.

Q1 2025

Building Bengali-first OCR

Most OCR tools are built for English. We started from scratch, tuning specifically for Bengali handwriting — the messy, real kind students actually write.

Q3 2025

From reading to understanding

OCR alone isn't grading. We started building the semantic evaluation engine — matching what a student meant against the answer key, not just the words they used.

Q4 2025

Semantic grading launched

The full pipeline came together — OCR, semantic grading, confidence scoring, and a review workflow that keeps the teacher in control of every mark.

2026

Today: the full exam lifecycle

E-Porikkha now covers the whole journey — build the question paper, collect scripts by upload or phone QR scan, grade with AI, catch possible copying automatically, and share results straight with parents. We're opening enrollment to schools across Bangladesh — start with a free trial, no card needed.

The team

Educators and engineers, hand in hand.

Maruf Mia

Maruf Mia

Founder & CEO

Software developer turned founder. Got the idea after a friend pointed out how broken and slow manual exam grading still is—then spent months building E-Porikkha from the ground up to solve it.

Careers

Want to help us redefine grading?

We're hiring across engineering, ML, and education partnerships. Remote-first with optional Dhaka HQ time.

Bring E-Porikkha to your school.

Pilot enrolment is open. Start with 2 free credits — no card needed.