Building Kilele Archade: an AI Learning Platform for Kenya's CBC Curriculum
The story behind kilelearchade.co.ke: why I built a CBC-focused AI tutor in Nairobi, how it took shape, and what shipping to real classrooms taught me.
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Technical writing
Lessons from building Kilele Archade, Apex and the experiments around them.
Role-Based Dashboards for Teachers, Students and Parents
One platform, three very different users: how the teacher, student and parent model behind Kilele Archade handles roles, row-level security and privacy.
Building a RAG System for an Educational Platform
How Kilele Archade grounds its AI tutor in real curriculum documents: ingestion, chunking, pgvector retrieval and provider fallback, not model memory.
Designing AI-Powered Learning Systems
What building Kilele Archade taught me about where AI genuinely helps learners — and where plain software engineering does the job better.
PostgreSQL and pgvector for AI Applications
Why I chose to keep vectors and relational data in one PostgreSQL database — and what that trade actually costs and saves.