Our company

Rooted in learning. Lit by intelligence.

Root Lantern Technologies exists to make great teaching available to every learner, everywhere, by building AI that strengthens the relationship between educators and the people they teach.

Our name

Two ideas, one promise.

Roots

Deep foundations in learning science, curriculum and the lived experience of educators. We build from how people actually learn.

Lantern

A light you can carry. Our platform helps learners see the next step clearly, at their own pace, wherever they are.

Our values

How we build, every day.

Our values are the standards we use to make decisions, especially the hard ones.

  • Learners first

    Every decision starts with the question: does this help someone learn?

  • Respect educators

    We build tools that extend teachers, never tools that sideline them.

  • Earn trust daily

    Security, privacy and honesty are part of the product, not paperwork.

  • Craft with care

    We sweat the details because a learner’s attention is precious.

  • Measure what matters

    We judge ourselves by learning outcomes, not by engagement metrics.

  • Build for everyone

    Accessible by default, across languages, abilities and devices.

Technology should never replace the teacher at the front of the room. It should place a lantern in every learner’s hand.

The Root Lantern founding principle

Careers

Help us put a lantern in every learner’s hand.

We are a team of educators, learning scientists, designers and engineers. If you care about building AI that makes people more capable, we would love to hear from you.

Introduce yourself

See Lantern with your own curriculum.

Book a working session with our team. We will map a course of yours into Lantern and show you the tutor, studio and insight experiences end to end.