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AI developer · Manchester, UK

Secure AI
products that solve
real problems.

We build our own products, and build with partners who bring the expertise, knowledge and intellectual property. We provide the secure AI.

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2023Founded in Manchester
Sept 2023askKira Platform launches
1,000+Organisations
12Live products

Our products

Twelve live AI products. Filter by sector to find yours.

Each product has a clear job to do — in education, wellbeing, business and specialist markets. Some are ours. Others are built with partners who know their sector inside out. We bring the secure AI that turns that expertise into a working product.

The people behind them

The founders, partners and customers behind each product

Mark, founder of askKira
MarkFounder · askKira
Emily, National Lead for Strategy and Innovation at Oasis Community Learning Trust
EmilyOasis CLT
Lucy, CEO of Bounce Forward
LucyBounce AI
Bob, Managing Director of Bounce Together
BobBounce AI
Lorna, founder of askKira
LornaFounder · askKira
Suni, Director of Together Let’s Communicate
SuniTalkology
Matt, creator of Classroom Companion
MattClassroom Companion
Ben, CEO of Car Market Middle East
BenCarMarket ME
Seth, founder of askKira
SethFounder · askKira
Scott, founder and CEO of License AI
ScottLicense AI
Dean, Trust School Improvement Lead at Central Region Schools Trust
DeanCustomer · askKira Platform
John, Headteacher of Dorrington Academy
JohnCustomer · Enrichment AI

In their words

What they say about working with us

“We came to askKira with an idea for using tech and data from multiple platforms to make teachers and leaders in-the-moment, data-driven, expert-practitioners and together we have built something exciting, innovative, purposeful with the power to meet children at the forensic position to maximise their potential!”

Built together · Pupil Progress AI

EmilyNational Lead for Strategy & Innovation
Oasis Community Learning Trust
“askKira helped us create an AI product we are proud of, and we are confident it will generate significant revenue for the charity.”

Built together · Bounce AI

LucyCEO, Bounce Forward
“Wellbeing data is only useful if you know what to do with it. Bounce AI gives our schools that confidence — turning survey results into clear, practical insights and next steps, without needing a specialist to interpret them. Mark and the askKira team are a pleasure to work with and have helped us with a consultative, educator first steer on building a product that fits our vision.”

Built together · Bounce AI

BobManaging Director
Bounce Together
“They haven’t simply built what was asked of them. They have challenged ideas, suggested improvements and worked collaboratively with us to find solutions that make Classroom Companion stronger. They feel like a genuine development partner rather than simply a supplier.”

Built together · Classroom Companion

MattCreator, Classroom Companion
“Working with askKira has enabled us to support teachers effectively with a variety of tasks required across the profession such as Planning, AFL and the analysis of data. It truly has made a difference to the many Primary and Secondary Teachers we have across our Trust, and thus the learning and development of our pupils.”

Customer · askKira Platform

DeanTrust School Improvement Lead (Primary)
Central Region Schools Trust
“Kira has been so useful in preparation for Ofsted — keeping my mind focused when juggling a million things and supporting my whole staff team.”

Customer · askKira Platform

KeriHeadteacher, Brays School
“It feels like a true partnership and I cannot wait to see what we achieve together!”

Built together · Talkology

SuniDirector, Together Let’s Communicate
“Together, we have developed the Middle East’s first AI-powered car valuation and sales platform specifically built for automotive dealers. We’re excited about what we have achieved together and even more excited about where this partnership can take us next.”

Built together · CarMarket ME

BenCEO, Car Market Middle East
“It saves time, brings clarity to busy tasks, and feels like having a brilliant coach in your corner.”

Distribution partner · License AI

ScottFounder and CEO, License AI
“It helped me feel better prepared and to evidence our offer to the team.”

Customer · Enrichment AI

JohnHeadteacher, Dorrington Academy

Build a product with us

Bring your expertise and a real problem.
We build the secure AI product around it.

Some products start with us. Others start with a partner who knows a problem, a market or a profession better than we ever could. They bring the expertise, the knowledge and the IP. We build the secure AI around it.

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The organisations

The organisations that build with us and use our products

Five of the twelve products started with a partner’s expertise rather than our idea, and a sixth reaches its market through one. Their name stays on the product. Their expertise and IP remain theirs. We build the secure AI around it.

Oasis Community LearningBuilt with
Bounce ForwardBuilt with
Bounce TogetherBuilt with
Together Let’s CommunicateBuilt with
Classroom CompanionBuilt with
Car Market Middle EastBuilt with
License AIDistribution
LiFE Multi-Academy TrustUsed by
Central Region Schools TrustUsed by
Dorrington AcademyUsed by
Brays SchoolUsed by
Authentic EducationUsed by

And more than a thousand other organisations since 2023.

Build a product with askKira

askKira Secure AI

Every product runs on the same secure, UK-hosted platform

Twelve different products, one platform. It is the reason a new specialist product can exist in months rather than years, and the reason a data protection team has the architecture, the controls and the documents to assess a deployment properly.

Hosting
UK-hosted on AWS London
Your data
Never used to train an AI model
Model access
Controlled by an administrator, who decides what their organisation can use
Isolation
Each organisation’s data kept logically separate
Oversight
Admin audit logs of who accessed what and when
Certification
Cyber Essentials
Compliance
UK GDPR Article 28 DPA. ICO registered, ZB622646

Controls adapted to the context sit on top of it. A product used by children carries automated safeguarding monitoring with alerts to your own administrator; a product used by car dealers does not need it, and does not have it.

AI that does useful work,
and that you can hold to account.

These six principles shape every product while we build it. They are not a policy page written afterwards.

How we got here

How one secure platform became twelve products

2023

Founded in ManchesterSet up by Mark Unwin, Seth Shenbanjo and Lady Lorna Stockwood to give organisations a way to use AI without giving anything away. Staff were already pasting sensitive work into free tools, so we built the secure platform that made the safe option the easy one.

Sept 2023

askKira Platform launchesAn AI assistant built for UK education, refined with more than a hundred professionals before release.

Since 2023

A product becomes a foundationMore than a thousand organisations have used it. Specialist products start being built on top of it rather than beside it.

2025

Three organisations, one productaskKira, Bounce Together and Bounce Forward build one AI product from all three organisations’ data, resources and expertise: our first combinational AI product.

2026

Partners bring the problemClassroom Companion, Talkology, Pupil Progress AI and CarMarket ME are built with the organisations that knew it.

Today

Twelve live productsSix our own, five built with partners, one taken to market through a distributor. In the UK and the Gulf.

From the newsletter

Free weekly AI news, and what it means for your organisation

Free and weekly, written for UK schools and organisations, with what each development actually means in practice.

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Resources and trust

Free data protection documents and AI governance resources

Trust centre

The data protection documents your DPO will ask for

Where your data lives, what it is never used for, who can see it, and the documents to prove it.

  • UK-hosted on AWS London, logically isolated per organisation
  • Customer data never used to train an AI model
  • UK GDPR Article 28 DPA · ICO ZB622646 · Cyber Essentials
  • Privacy policy, DPA, DPIA and free policy templates

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Resources

Free AI governance tools and staff training, ready to use

Governing AI properly is largely the same job for every organisation, so we wrote it once and made it free.

  • A free AI governance audit across nine dimensions
  • Nine accreditation modules for your staff
  • AI nutrition labels, plainly enough for a governing body
  • The community, and the prompts that actually work

Open resources

Not for profit

Keep what you know from being lost

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A free archive for what you know, recorded in your own voice

A free, not-for-profit archive. Record what you know in your own voice, keep it in your name, and no AI company can use it without your permission.

  • Citadel asks one question at a time; you answer out loud
  • Encrypted, and private until you choose to share it
  • If AI companies pay for it, contributors share the money

About Citadel

The book

Average, by Mark D. Unwin

Our founder and CEO’s book on AI, institutions and the future of human expertise, and the argument that led to Citadel.

  • Why knowledge is not the same as understanding
  • How quality leaves a profession without anyone deciding it should
  • What organisations should keep before it is gone

About the book

Secure AI products for the real problems in your work.

Twelve products on one secure platform, built for problems a teacher, a tradesperson, a founder or a car dealer actually has.

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