Our LAM and platform are designed to unlock the creative intelligence of every student, foster the professional growth of every teacher while significantly reducing their workload, and provide schools with unprecedented access to actionable data and insights, revolutionising the way education is delivered and understood.
Paul, the work you and the ViVEDUS team are doing is incredibly inspiring. It’s exciting to see innovations that genuinely empower educators and students. The impact on education will surely be transformative for years to come (Doug Bannister, founder, Top Property Services, comment on a LinkedIn post).
Over the last nine months’ we have built what you would term as a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that schools can purchase and implement and Vivedus begin generating an income.
Possibly the most exciting aspect of our MVP is the creation of ViV-iT, a teacher’s personalised pedagogical coach that leverages Artificial Intelligence (OpenAI’s o1) to deliver targeted professional development while a teacher is doing their normal work. Teachers who have trialled ViV-iT have been astounded by its capability, even though ViV-iT is currently a prototype. One teacher was able to point to a significant time saving. It previously took her two hours to design an opening provocation for a new unit of teaching aligned to curriculum objectives. That same task took less than a minute with ViV-iT. Not only that, the quality of what ViV-iT produced was far superior to her work, and this teacher is classified as a highly experienced, Lead teacher.
We ended 2024, after just six months after our launch, on a high.
Our goal for 2024 was to secure three schools, followed by an additional five in 2025 and eight in 2026.
- Omni Academies is a new school opening in 2025 with 25+ students and three teachers—contract signed with Vivedus for implementation at the start of 2025;
- Albany Creek State High School is running a pilot for its Torch Program in 2025 (two Year 7 classes and nine teachers). The QLD Department of Education is currently assessing the contract and the Platform. Once this is done, we will be an approved provider for all QLD government schools, something we never imagined possible when we began.
- And an Australian start-up company based in NSW that is providing professional development to teachers teaching the HSC in two international schools in Beijing, China is also assessing the contract with the view to purchasing licences in 2025.
Following a meeting with the Assistant Director General of Education in Queensland, the door to an additional 6,712 schools in Australia, something we never imagined was possible, was opened. We had built our ten-year business plan on the assumption we would only be able to access the non-government school sector, and of those 2,917 schools in Australia we aimed for a very modest 3.3% market share over ten years (a total of 100 schools). 3.3% of all Australia schools is approximately 330 schools. In addition to Albany Creek State High School, we have met with two other government schools, one in Western Australia who is very interested in a 2026 adoption, and a specialist school in Darwin.
On 10 and 11 December we ran our onboarding program to 17 participants from Albany Creek State High School, Omni Academies of Learning, and a senior staff member from St Andrew’s College, Christchurch, New Zealand. This person had travelled to Australia to investigate the model. Interest is growing.
We captured the thoughts of those teachers and are releasing them over the coming weeks in a marketing campaign titled, “What teachers are saying”. The launch video can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYrntsh0xuU
The creation of these videos was paid for by a grant we received from the Global Institute of Creative Thinking, based in London. We have been shortlisted for an award for our work in school creativity. The award will be announced in September at the ceremony in Paris.
You can help us spread the word about Vivedus by liking, resharing, or posting any of our content online, particularly the series of videos, “What teachers are saying.”
