We work with researchers, developers, SEND specialists and schools to make Lessonsmith more effective for every learner, especially those who need the most support.
Whatever your expertise, there's a way to help shape tools that teachers and students use every day.
Universities, research schools and education researchers: co-design studies, pilot new approaches in real classrooms and test what improves outcomes, building on EEF evidence and cognitive science.
SENCOs, specialist schools, educational psychologists, speech and language therapists and charities: help us make every resource more accessible for students with special educational needs and those learning English.
Product teams and developers: explore integrations with the platforms schools already use, such as learning platforms, MIS and assistive technology, so resources reach students wherever they learn.
Join as a pilot or design partner. Tell us what your teachers and students need, try new features early and help us build tools that fit how your school really works.
Lessonsmith Ltd · Investor and partner overview
What Lessonsmith does, why schools choose it, how it earns and where it goes next. Play it full screen, scroll through the slides here, or download it.
Interested? Start a conversation about investment, distribution or content partnerships.
Special schools told us the same things again and again: progress for pupils with severe and complex needs is hard to see, and timetables fall apart when staff are absent. The SEND Suite is our experiment to help. It's a research and development tool, not yet a product: we're inviting schools and organisations to try it and help us shape it.
🪙 It opens only with a trial Smith Coin that we issue to you. Read about it and watch the demo here, then request your coins.
Record the five areas of the Engagement Model in the moment, as positive progress or maintenance. Time key skills each day and see them on a celeration chart, so you can tell within days, not terms, when the teaching needs to change.
Plan each block by pathway and need. Report an absence and the cover is re-planned: Pathway 3 is protected first, internal staff and the flex pool before anyone else, and agency only as a last resort.
Short evaluative reflections and absence reporting for staff. For leaders: deployment and support density, live progress trends, plateau alerts, and CSV and print exports for governors.
Short sessions that go with the tools: precision teaching, the Engagement Model, the coaching conversation, deploying TAs well and resilient timetables. More SEND CPD is in the Lessonsmith package.
Screens from the Suite, using a made-up sample school.
Each member of staff in a trial gets their own coin. The type of coin depends on how many staff will use the Suite:
Trials last 1, 2, 4 or 8 weeks, depending on what you'd like to test and how long you need.
Syed Zaidi, Lessonsmith Ltd · ORCID 0009-0004-0800-1646 ↗
How can pupils keep their progress on a learning website without an account, a name or an email address? This paper sets out Smith Coins: progress the pupil carries away as a short code or a coin picture, so the server never needs to know who they are. It reviews the research and patents around the idea, and reports the working test in our Experiments, AI Labs and the SEND Suite, mapped against UK GDPR and the Children's Code.
Zaidi, S. (2026). Smith Coins: client-held progress tokens for data-minimised learning on the web (Preprint). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23620678
Smith Coins let learners save and resume progress with no account, no name and no email: just a short code or a coin picture they keep. If you run a learning app, a game, a platform or a training service and want progress without collecting personal data, you can test Smith Coins with us and then license them for your product.
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Every organisation licensed to use Smith Coins has a reference starting SCL-, often shown on a badge on their website. Enter it to check that it's genuine and still active.
Syed Mujtaba Zaidi, Emanations Ltd · ORCID 0009-0004-0800-1646 ↗
Facial paralysis can affect expression, eating, speech and confidence. Mimic is a pre-clinical engineering concept for a personalised wearable: it reads muscle signals (sEMG) and facial movement on camera, learns each person's own patterns, and guides soft actuators through an independent safety layer. The first prototype works only on an artificial face and eyebrow. It's a research proposal, not a clinically validated medical device.
Zaidi, S. M. (2026). Mimic: A Personalised AI and Soft-Robotic Wearable for Facial Paralysis Rehabilitation and Functional Facial Reanimation (Concept paper, Version 4.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23000415
For organisations that want more than a licence, Emanations Ltd offers corporate consultancy:
Every project starts from what helps students learn, especially those with additional needs.
We build on research such as EEF guidance, and test changes before rolling them out.
UK GDPR, Data Processing Agreements and safeguarding come as standard. We never sell data.
AI supports teachers' professional judgement, never replaces it.
Tell us a little about you and what you'd like to do together. We'll reply within two working days.
