Ekalavya · Personal learning

An AI tutor that works with your handwritten thinking.

A connected notebook captures your working. An Dvani Slate brings together spoken guidance and illustrations, helping you understand a problem one step at a time.

Slate + connected notebook ₹7,200. Subscription ₹1,200 a month, bought separately. Ordering opens when the order flow is ready.

The Dvani Slate on a student's desk

See where a mistake becomes a learning moment.

A student simplifies a fraction incorrectly on the way through an integral. Dvani points at that step and asks, “What is a quantity divided by itself?” The student answers “One”, revises the step, and carries on to the answer.

  • 1The student's working
  • 2A guiding question
  • 3A corrected step

The film of this sequence is being made. It will be labelled as an illustration unless it is a recording of the physical prototype.

They do the work. It asks the questions.

They write in the notebook — real ink, their own working, at their own pace. Nothing to log into, nothing to photograph. When they're stuck they double-tap the slate and say so. It answers with a question, and while it explains, the diagram appears on the page.

Ask it to check, and it already has the working, stroke by stroke, in the order it was written — so it marks where the thinking went wrong, not just where the answer did. Then, in Show mode, your child is the guest on a two-voice programme, answering questions about what they just studied. Explaining it out loud is what makes it stay.

A student writing in the notebook beside the slate

Two things. They only work together.

Ekalavya is not a tablet. It is electronic paper that reads like a printed page and doesn't glow at bedtime, and a real notebook that senses the pen through the paper.

The Dvani Slate
The slate

Electronic paper that listens

10.3-inch electronic paper, a pen, a microphone and a speaker. It listens when you press, explains in your language, and draws while it explains. Battery life is measured and published before it ships.

Writing in the Dvani notebook
The notebook

Paper that senses the pen

A digitiser in the cover senses the pen through the page — no camera, no scanning, nothing to line up. The pen carries a real ink refill and needs no battery, so the page fills with ink the way any notebook does while the slate follows every stroke. Refills in ruled, dot-grid and plain.

The slate, loose sheets and the pen on a desk, seen from above
Together

One desk, nothing else on it

No phone, no tablet, no app for the student. One device built for one job, and a notebook that keeps them writing by hand.

What is in the box, seen from above: the slate, the notebook with its cover cut away to show the sensing coils beneath the paper, the battery-free ink pen, and the cotton case.
The notebook is cut away at its foot so you can see the part that does the work.

This is the slate, in your browser.

Same voice, same habit of asking first. Double-tap the conch and speak, or type. Try "explain photosynthesis" and then "show me on the slate".

Open full-screen · a guided tour starts on its own. Interrupt it with a question at any time.Open full-screen

Guidance before the answer.

When a student is stuck on a step, Dvani asks what they think is happening before it explains — because a student who has to look at their own reasoning remembers the correction. Not every exchange is a question; asking for a straight explanation gets one.

Step 01

They ask

Double-tap and talk. "I don't get step three." No wake word to remember, no app to open.

Step 02

It asks back

"What do you think happens to the ball when the force stops?" One question, at their level, before anything is explained.

Step 03

It draws while it explains

The diagram appears on the slate as the explanation happens, so the words and the picture arrive together.

Step 04

Then they try it

A follow-up question on the same idea, to check that the explanation landed rather than just sounded right.

Two ways in, and a third for a different kind of thinking.

Lesson mode — learn with explanations you can question. Dvani introduces an idea with spoken guidance and illustrations. Ask a doubt aloud, or work an example through in the connected notebook.

Podcast mode — learn through a conversation you can join. An AI teacher and a virtual student discuss the topic, so the learner hears the questions being asked as well as the answers, and can step in.

Brain Gym — make room for a different kind of thinking. Chess and puzzles built around logic, reasoning and memory. We will name the specific activities and any multiplayer options once each has been through product testing, and we make no claim that they measurably improve intelligence or memory.

Lesson and Podcast are confirmed product directions. Which is ready first, and what else joins them, is not settled — earlier copy listed eight modes, which was a plan rather than a product.

The Dvani platform wheel: eight learning modes, five pedagogy pillars, three core engines

Understand how learning is progressing.

The parent app shows what your child asked and explored, so you're never guessing. It won't show you a child's work until your consent is recorded — that is the rule, and the system enforces it. Consent today is recorded rather than independently verified; verified consent is being built.

What they say becomes text. We do not clone voices, nothing a child says is used to train a model, and there are no ads and no data sold. The exact retention period is published once it is tested — see privacy.

The parent dashboard: time learning, topics covered, mastery by subject

Only what a parent needs to know.

Display
10.3″ electronic paper. It reflects the light in the room rather than emitting its own, so it reads like a printed page. Whether the shipping unit has a front light is not confirmed
Pen
Passive EMR pen, no battery, no pairing
Voice
Microphone opens on press only; speaker; 3.5 mm out
Battery
measured before shipping
Connectivity
Wi-Fi. Lessons recorded once replay with no connection.
Boards
CBSE first. Which chapters are ready is listed on each subject; ICSE mapping is not confirmed
Languages
English and Hindi. Kannada and more coming
Notebook
A5, 80 pages. Electromagnetic digitiser in the cover; senses the pen through the paper, with no camera.
Pen
Battery-free, real ink refill. Writes on the page and is sensed at the same time.
Weight · size
to be confirmed
Warranty
to be confirmed

Bought once, subscribed separately. Stop paying and the slate stays yours.

₹1,200 a month
Every subject on your board. Cancel any time. The kit is bought once; the subscription is separate.
  • Slate + notebook ₹7,200, once
  • Every mode we have shipped
  • Parent app

Ordering opens when the order flow is ready.

₹1,200 a month
Already have a slate? Subscription only.
  • Every subject, every mode
  • Parent app
  • Add a second child on a second slate

Bought with the kit, or on its own for a slate you already have.

One child per slate. It learns how they get things wrong, which is not how anybody else does. A second child needs a second one.

The first question every parent asks, answered before they ask it.

We don't keep the recording

What your child says becomes text. The audio is deleted.

We don't copy their voice

And we don't identify anyone by it. Children are never cloned.

Nothing they say trains anything

Their work is theirs. It is never used to train a model.

No ads, and no data sold

Not now, not later. We do not sell or share what a child asks.

The microphone opens on a press or the wake word, and at no other time. Parents and teachers can read what was asked, and deletion is available on request. The exact retention window is published once it is tested.

How is this better than ChatGPT or a tablet?

Those were built for adults, and they cannot see what your child wrote. Dvani works from the chapter they are on and from their handwriting in the connected notebook, and it guides them through a step rather than handing over a finished answer. It is also electronic paper rather than a backlit screen, with no feed and nothing else on it to open.

Will it help with CBSE, ICSE or other boards?

Yes. Dvani is pre-trained on your child's exact syllabus and exam pattern — chapter by chapter, paper by paper. Regional and state boards are mapped on request.

Does it work without internet?

Save a lesson while you're online and it keeps the voice, the drawings and the timing. It replays complete with no connection at all — on the bus, or when the line goes down. Record once; replay anywhere.

My daughter is five. Can it really help?

At five, the world is one giant "why?" Dvani answers gently, in voice and pictures, turning curiosity into confidence. It is built for Class 4 and up, but a curious younger child is not turned away.

What happens to what my child says?

It becomes text and the audio is deleted. We don't copy their voice, and nothing they say trains anything. No ads, no data sold. Built to DPDP, COPPA and GDPR requirements.

Why electronic paper, when 4K screens exist?

Electronic paper reflects room light instead of emitting its own, so a page of working looks like a page rather than a screen, and there is no feed or notification on it competing for attention. We do not make health claims about eye strain; the reason we chose it is focus and the way handwriting reads on it.

What if I stop paying?

You keep an hour a day, and the slate stays yours. We're not taking a device out of a child's hands over a missed month.

Two pieces of hardware. Three ways to buy them.

The Dvani Slate is sold to a family as Ekalavya or to a school as Arjuna. Saarathi is the folio: it reads printed booklets aloud and reads what you write on its EMR pad. Learn the pattern once and every product page reads itself.

Two chassis: the slate carries Ekalavya and Arjuna; the holder is Saarathi; one voice underneath both.
The slate · electronic paper that teaches

Ekalavya · Arjuna

One slate. Ekalavya is how a family buys it (₹7,200 once, plus ₹1,200 a month); Arjuna is how a school does, priced against the deployment.

The holder · a book that knows the page

Saarathi

One folio. It reads printed booklets aloud and answers about them, and its EMR writing layer lets dvani read what you write (₹2,200 once, included in every course bundle; booklets from ₹250).

One voice underneath both

Asks before it answers · reads handwriting · speaks your language · audio never kept · nothing trains on a child.

Start with a demo class.

Free, thirty minutes, on your child's actual chapter. Or pre-order now and pay when it ships.

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