Flint’s 2024 in Review, and What’s in Store for 2025

Sohan Choudhury | LinkedIn

Jan 5, 2025

Hey! I’m Sohan, the co-founder and CEO of Flint. I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your ongoing support of Flint over the last year, and to share what we’ve got in store for 2025.

When Jinseo and I started Flint in May 2023, the use of AI in education was incredibly taboo. Schools and districts were banning AI tools left and right due to concerns about cheating, which we felt was stifling the potential of what we saw as a transformative technology.

So, we set off to answer a deceptively simple question:

“How can AI be used to improve education?”

In the year and a half since, we’ve been blown away by just how quickly schools have embraced the use of AI for personalizing learning for students (more on our philosophy behind that here), and are endlessly grateful to the thousands of educators who have helped co-build Flint with us to where it is today.

Thank you for being an important part of this budding community! With that, here’s our 2024 in review.

2024 in review

We started 2024 as a tiny company, with just 3 employees. We’ve since doubled our team, and more importantly, have brought Flint to many more schools across the world. Here are some of the milestones we’re most proud of from this past year:

Grew by 600%. We partnered with many more schools across the world in 2024, and have seen the usage of Flint within schools increase steadily as we add new features, improve ease of use, and as the Flint community grows.

Met educators in person at over a dozen conferences and school visits. Some of our favorite conferences from the past year were the ATLIS Annual Conference and the TRC Summit. Plus, we had the opportunity to visit some of our partner schools in person, like Wesleyan (Georgia) and Pine Crest (Florida), to observe how Flint was being used in the classroom firsthand.

Made Flint much more powerful and easier to use. We added a ton of new features to Flint (math support, image creation, SIS/LMS integrations, citations, etc. — view them here), while also redesigning the interface multiple times to make it easier to use. Oh, and we renamed “tutors” to “activities”, based on popular demand.

Launched a free tier geared at individual teachers. To make Flint more accessible to educators at schools that haven’t yet purchased a Flint license, we launched a generous free tier! Teachers have been signing up and using Flint with their students much quicker than we expected, which has been awesome to see.

Picture from dinner that Flint hosted for new and existing partner school leaders at the 2024 ATLIS Annual Conference.

The Flint team!  From left to right: Sanskar Agrawal, Lulu Gao, Sami Belhareth, Jinseo Park, Sohan Choudhury, Zi Nean Teoh.

That said, it wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine. We learned some tough lessons and identified areas of improvement.

For instance, we traveled a ton for conferences, which at times was disruptive to sustained focus. Moving forward, we’ll be more selective about which conferences we attend. Plus, Jinseo and I will be moving to NYC, in part to be in closer proximity (and in a more favorable time zone) to our partner schools on the East Coast.

Additionally, we could have done better in prioritizing the ease of use of Flint. At times, in adding requested features, we made Flint harder to use. After months of iterating, we feel that Flint today is the easiest-to-use version that’s ever existed. That said, we’ll have to work extremely hard to retain the simplicity that educators love while continuing to innovate by adding new features (more on that in the next section).

That said, it wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine. We learned some tough lessons and identified areas of improvement.

What’s in store for 2025?

Beyond the obvious growth goals (bringing Flint to even more schools, and continuing to increase usage from teachers and students), we’ll be doubling down on our product philosophy and on building community.

When it comes to product, we want to make Flint the best way to personalize learning for students. To that end, we feel that a chat interface isn’t the ideal form. While a chat-like experience has its benefits (namely in that it allows for natural conversation, which we feel is a key aspect of personalized learning), it has many limitations in terms of interactivity. What if students could interact with AI via a whiteboard, or write and run code directly in the platform via an IDE? Stay tuned.

Additionally, we believe there’s a ton of potential to use AI for higher-order analysis. While Flint today includes dashboards for admins and auto-generated reports for teachers, there’s a lot more that we can enable with AI. Imagine a school admin being able to ask “How are teachers at my school using Flint?”, and getting an evidence-based summary. Or, imagine a teacher asking Flint, “Which of my students are consistently asking follow-up questions in their review sessions?”, and getting exactly the performance data they need.

This past year has also shown us just how powerful community can be. We recognized educators for their use of Flint via the Flint Innovative Educator program and thanked folks for their evangelism with special awards. In addition to doubling down on these initiatives, I’m most excited about Flint Campfire Sessions, which are synchronous virtual chats for teachers using Flint to share questions, findings, and inspiration. The three we’ve hosted so far have gone amazingly well, and we’ll be hosting a session every week during the school year — each with a different crowdsourced theme.

Here’s to a great 2025!