21 January, 2026 - Last week in TI
- Rahul Subramaniam
- Releases
- January 21, 2026
EduPaid v2.15.0: Refunds Table & Fully Automated Payment Processing
Enhanced financial visibility with dedicated refunds tracking and fully automated payment processing that eliminates manual invoice approvals and wallet updates.
- Refunds table in financial overview: Dedicated refunds table in the Financial Overview section provides easy access to all refund records with better tracking to quickly identify and review complete refund history in one place, improving refund visibility and management.
- Fully automated payment processing: Student wallets now update automatically once payments are received from finance—no manual invoice approvals or provider requests needed—with faster processing ensuring funds are reflected in student wallets without delays, reducing administrative workload.
LearnLens Studio: Learning That Adapts to You
Courses now personalize to your learner type, learning style, and goals—delivering the right content, pacing, and explanations for how you learn best.
- Personalized profiles – Set your learner type (Students Grades 1–13 or Professionals) and choose from these learning styles: Kid-Friendly (Students), Simplified (Professionals), Hands-On, Theoretical, or Balanced. Every course adapts to match.
- Professional voice narration for ‘Before You Start’ – Course introductions now include high-quality AI narration with a polished pulsing avatar UI and smart auto-play.
- Learning style-aware course curation – Comprehensive coverage of recent information and technologies, creator continuity, and style-matched content selection ensure better comprehension and fewer gaps.
- Seamless LearnLens Extension ↔ LearnLens Studio integration – Jump effortlessly between YouTube learning and LearnLens Studio with one-click cross-platform access.
Athena Applets: Custom Web Components & Show Me How Feature
3 new lessons generated, 2 lessons approved this week. Total review time was 40.0 minutes (8.0 minutes per iteration), and the current review queue holds 72 lessons.
- Production output – 3 new lessons generated and 2 lessons approved this week.
- Custom web component interactions – Added support for custom web component based interactions to enable better knowledge checks for students, expanding beyond traditional question types.
- Show me how button – Students can click ‘Show me how’ to jump directly to where the topic was taught in the lesson. After covering that section, a ‘Back to practice’ button appears to seamlessly return to the question.
- Efficient iteration cycle – 5 total iterations completed in the past 7 days (3 feedback rounds, 2 approvals) with an average of 0.7 comments per lesson (2 total comments).
- Multi-grade coverage – Lessons approved in Grade 3 (2 lessons), with a review queue of 72 lessons ready for validation (Grade 3: 1, Grade 4: 6, Grade 5: 0, Grade 6: 65).
- Review time insights – Average review time of 8.0 minutes per iteration (total 40.0 minutes).
- Complete lesson catalog – See the full list of all uploaded lessons across grades in this lesson catalog with direct links to each lesson.
BrainTrust: Advanced School Analysis & Automated Workflows
Enhanced school analysis with customizable parameters, automated downstream workflows that integrate with email, Wrike, Google Drive, and Slides, plus a new finance agent for data analysis.
- Flexible school analysis parameters – Users can now adjust reference tuition and income thresholds directly in the analysis, enabling multiple types of custom analyses for different market segments and scenarios.
- Automated real estate workflow – Daily email monitoring detects messages from Zack containing real estate details, automatically updates matching Wrike records, creates organized Google Drive folders, and generates marketing-ready Google Slide presentations—eliminating manual data transfer and coordination.
- Finance agent for data analysis – New agent helps the finance team run complex analyses on their data, with active iterations ongoing to enhance capabilities based on real-world usage.
- Coming soon: Tuition affordability analysis – Next release will include comprehensive analysis factoring in both tuition affordability and household income data for more informed decision-making.
EduLLM: Fill-In Support & Improved Accuracy
The question generator now supports fill-in questions (FILL-IN) and achieves a promising 96% acceptance rate through improvements in generation algorithms and quality controls.
- Fill-in question (FILL-IN) support: Added full support for FILL-IN question types enabling generation of questions with fill-in answers.
- Quality improvements: Reached 96% acceptance rate through systematic resolution of weak distractors, and minor bug fixes across multiple evaluation cycles.
Legal Intake: Document Processing, Request Numbers & Export Features
Legal Intake v2.2.1 Alpha enhances document processing, introduces human-friendly request identifiers, and adds export capabilities for legal admin.
- Enhanced online terms and conditions processing – Improved handling of terms and conditions mentioned as links in documents, with Firecrawl integration for reliable extraction of dynamically loaded content and reference link visibility showing which links were used to prepare documents.
- Introduced Request Number – Human-friendly identifiers for easier request management with short memorable integer identifiers alongside UUIDs, and request numbers automatically appended to request names for simpler communication.
- Bulk request export for legal admins – Legal admins can now download all requests in Excel (XLSX) format with all relevant data needed for billing and invoicing workflows.
Athena Accelerator: Learning Support & Cost Efficiency
This release introduces learn mode resources support, curriculum alignment improvements, and significant cost optimizations. Students now have direct access to video learning resources when they need additional concept reinforcement before practicing.
- Video Learning Support – Learn mode now offers direct access to curated active videos, helping students who need additional concept clarity or terminology reinforcement before beginning practice.
- Curriculum Data Sync – Implemented a synchronization mechanism to keep substandards aligned with the curriculum data model. Hundreds of substandards across grades have been updated or added. Grade 7 and 8 updates are pending curriculum team finalization.
- Answer Validation Improvements – Compound answers and similar fill-in-the-blank variations are now properly detected and rejected during quality checks. Legacy questions in the bank may occasionally still exhibit this issue.
- 5x Cost Reduction – Question supplementary data generation cost reduced from $2.00 to $0.40 per question through skill-level generation optimization and prompt batching. Further cost reduction work is ongoing.