The Problem I Set Out to Solve — And Why It Matters

I didn’t start SimplrAI because I wanted to build another AI app. I started it out of frustration.

Contrary to what I heard, senior year got heavy fast. Multivariable calc, data structures, dense research papers, lecture slides stacked on top of each other. I was staying on top of notes and readings, doing everything you’re supposed to do, but I kept feeling like I wasn’t actually understanding things at the level I wanted to. It took me a while to figure out why, and when I did it was kind of obvious in hindsight. 

My notes were in one place, practice problems in another, and explanations spread across random YouTube videos and textbook pages I barely remembered saving. I was spending more energy trying to keep track of everything than actually learning from it. 

So I started building SimplrAI with the guidance of Sandeep Giri. The idea was pretty simple at its core: instead of just storing information, what if something could help you actually process it? Break it down, surface what matters, and push you to think through ideas rather than just transcribe them. When I brought it up my fellow students, the response was pretty unanimous. Everyone felt the same: there was just too much content coming at them with no real system for making sense of it.

That’s what SimplrAI is trying to solve. Not access to more information, because students already have plenty of that. Just a smarter way to actually learn from it. In the coming weeks, I’ll be testing and refining SimplrAI to create an educational AI that really works.

If you want to check it out, the link is simplrAI.tech  And if you have any feedback after trying it, I’d genuinely love to hear it: https://forms.gle/vmSW3U2DxReuEia4A