# Mika Labs

> An advanced AI research lab building the learning systems universities trust to teach. MikaLabs designs, trains and proves AI for STEM education — then ships it as products. It splits into three frontiers: Mika (the institutional platform), Scripply (consumer revision, at scripply.ai), and Research (the open lab). Proven across two semesters and 600+ students.

MikaLabs deploys Mika two ways: (1) **For institutions** as a per-institution license that replaces the LMS for STEM courses, with SSO, SIS sync, curriculum ingestion, and faculty oversight; (2) **For publishers** as an embedded AI layer + API access to the Cartographer engine (a specialised model for every STEM subject) so publisher catalogs become AI-tutored at the surface level.

Headline pilot outcomes (two semesters, 600+ students, multiple STEM disciplines): **+8.7pp pass-rate lift**, **+4.35pp average-score lift**, **97% adoption among top-performing students**, **93.2% highly-satisfied (Pilot 2 survey)**, NPS **71.8**, **22K+ hours** of in-platform study, **60K+ platform visits**, **10M+ tokens** of math tutoring.

Founders: Ahmed Zraiqat (Founder & Project Lead — engineering and product) and Asma Mughrabi (Co-Founder, Chief Academic Officer & Head of Institutional Partnerships — professor at Khalifa University, 20+ years teaching university math). Contact: ahmed@mikalabs.org.

## Pages

- [Home](https://mikalabs.org/): The MikaLabs research-lab landing — the three frontiers it splits into: Mika (flagship platform), Scripply (consumer revision product, at scripply.ai), and Research (publications, the RedPen benchmark, Vector 1 models, and the team).
- [Mika](https://mikalabs.org/mika): The flagship platform — hero, classroom & pilot outcomes, two-track deployment (institutions vs. publishers), the product ecosystem with live demos, the subject-native model engine, a Mika vs. ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini capability comparison, a "What Mika creates" generation comparison, and student quotes.
- [For Institutions](https://mikalabs.org/institutions): Per-institution license model. Curriculum ingestion, identity-stack integration (SAML/OIDC + SIS), faculty oversight, deployment scope (Course Pilot → department → school → institution-wide), procurement & security (data residency, no-training guarantee, DPAs).
- [For Publishers](https://mikalabs.org/publishers): Embedded deployment inside publisher products, API access to the Cartographer engine and its subject-native STEM models, content-aware models co-trained on the publisher's catalog. Two commercial structures: integration and licensing.
- [Pilot Results](https://mikalabs.org/results): Methodology and headline numbers from two institutional pilots. Pilot 2 doubled the cohort to 600+ and reproduced the outcome lift.
- [Research](https://mikalabs.org/lab): The research-lab hub — links to Publications, the RedPen benchmark, Vector 1 models, and the team.
- [Publications](https://mikalabs.org/publications): Research notes and blog posts on the learning science behind Mika — the diagnostic loop (gap & misconception detection) and the evidence for visual, interactive, scaffolded AI tutoring.
- [RedPen Benchmark](https://mikalabs.org/redpen): Open-source benchmark for how helpful and accurate AI is in higher education — graded by educators across five axes (correctness, targetedness, level/tone, actionability, guidance), with downloadable per-subject reports (mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology).
- [Vector 1](https://mikalabs.org/vector1): Open-weight (Apache 2.0) models built to assist teachers — differentiated worksheets, mark schemes, misconception guides, lesson plans. Weights on Hugging Face.
- [Team](https://mikalabs.org/team): Founders and academic leadership.
- Scripply (external, https://scripply.ai): Also from Mika Labs — AI-powered revision for GCSE and A-level STEM.

## Products in the Mika ecosystem

- **Ask Mika** (flagship) — STEM chatbot powered by the Cartographer engine: Deep Think mode, Live Search, image/document support, speech-to-text, live document generation.
- **Mika Vision** — real-time screen-aware vision. Reads handwriting, diagrams and textbook pages with no upload.
- **Mika Live** — real-time voice tutoring across 72+ languages, every STEM subject.
- **Mika Imagine** — generation: study documents, slide decks, and narrated explainer videos from one prompt, fully editable.
- **Adaptive Practice Engine** — auto-generated, auto-marked practice (constructed responses, not just MCQ) built on retrieval and spaced repetition, with mastery gating.
- **Gap & Misconception Detection** — two detectors: traces a wrong answer to a missing prerequisite (a gap) or a confident wrong belief (a misconception), and routes each to the right remediation.
- **Mika Consultant** — autonomous AI teaching assistant. Drafts lesson plans, generates assignments, flags at-risk students, reaches out via Mika Connect.
- **Supporting suite** — Mika Docs (document editor for learning), Mika Connect (messaging + AI live meetings), Mika Heartbeat (AI weekly study plans), Smart Flashcards (spaced repetition), Deep Analytics, Productivity Suite.
- **Cartographer** — the routing engine: every question is routed to the specialised model built for its STEM subject, with a judge system that cross-verifies before any answer reaches the student.
- **Rubryx** — gradebook integration; exam scores flow into Mika's learning engine and drive personalized study plans.

## Machine-readable

- [Full content (markdown)](https://mikalabs.org/llms-full.txt): full text of every page on the site, suitable for AI ingestion.
- [Sitemap](https://mikalabs.org/sitemap.xml): canonical URL list.