Incorporating AI into learning - the implications for home educators

In 2023, one in five English schoolchildren had a 10% or higher absence rate—around 110,000 kids. For many of them, being at home is not a chosen educational path but a necessity, and their parents are not trained teachers. Frederick Bionbach, a former climate activist turned edtech founder from Copenhagen, built Grade Aide to address this gap. The platform uses AI to turn a child’s specific interest—football, dinosaurs, The Simpsons—into personalized math exercises and offline projects, aiming to make learning feel less like a chore and more like an extension of what already fascinates them.

The problem AI is solving: personalization at scale

Bionbach’s starting point was a practical observation from his time as a substitute teacher and private tutor. Schools were buying software, but it was often just a PDF or worksheet digitized—same problems, same one-size-fits-all approach, just on a screen. The labor of hand-coding exercises for every possible interest is prohibitive. With AI, Grade Aide can take a single curriculum unit and regenerate it across eleven different interests (and expanding), so a child who loves football gets multiplication problems about passes and goals, while another who loves dinosaurs gets the same math concepts wrapped in prehistoric scenarios. The AI does not design the curriculum itself. Bionbach’s team synthesized what they consider the best e