Introduction

Khan Academy’s Khanmigo is one of the best-loved AI tutors on the planet. ibl.ai’s mentorAI is the enterprise-grade engine that lets colleges and universities plug that magic into their own secure, fully-owned infrastructure. Together, they give learners—and the institutions that serve them—the best of both worlds.

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1. Khan Academy’s Front-Row Strengths

Khanmigo turns GPT-4 into a patient Socratic guide that sits on top of Khan Academy’s
world-class content library, walking students step-by-step through math proofs, coding
challenges, writing drafts, and more. The nonprofit now offers Khanmigo to individual learners, districts, and—thanks to philanthropic funding—to teachers at zero cost in 49 English-speaking countries.

Why campuses love it

• Instant feedback and hints inside every exercise
• Ethically designed guardrails and age-appropriate data policies
• A familiar brand that students already trust

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2. Where Institutions Still Struggle and ibl.ai can help!

Even with a brilliant AI tutor up front, universities need to:

• Own their code and data (FERPA, GDPR, HIPAA compliance).
• Integrate with existing LMSs and SISs without waiting for a vendor road-map.
• Switch LLMs on demand as costs, licensing terms, and model quality shift.
• Expose secure, observable APIs so faculty can build their own micro-apps and researchers can experiment safely.
• Track usage and learning impact at the tenant, course, and student levels.

That’s the territory ibl.ai was built for.

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3. mentorAI: The Institutional Backend-as-a-Platform

What mentorAI Delivers	Why It Matters for a Khan Academy Partnership
Full codebase ownership & zero vendor lock-in	Campuses can embed Khanmigo today and still pivot to Gemini, Llama 3, or an on-prem open-source model tomorrow.
LLM-agnostic LangChain + LangFuse architecture	Fine-grained observability, prompt versioning, and guardrail tracing—crucial when AI decisions have legal or academic consequences.
Multi-tenant, API-first platform	A single deployment supports dozens of colleges or departments, each with its own SSO, data silos, and analytics.
85 % cheaper than ChatGPT & 75 % cheaper than Copilot at GWU	Real-world cost data from the George Washington University pilot proves scalability without budget shock.
Enterprise security & compliance toolkit	SOC 2 controls, role-based access, private-cloud or on-prem hosting—already vetted by NVIDIA, MIT, and DoD partners.

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4. How ibl.ai Augments (Not Replaces) Khan Academy

1. Plug-and-Play Integration
   Use Khanmigo as the conversation layer while mentorAI handles authentication, RAG
   over institutional content, and cross-course analytics.
2. Faculty-Controlled Fusion
   Faculty can blend Khan Academy videos with their own syllabi; mentorAI’s document
   store grounds every answer in both sources and cites them transparently.
3. Research Sandbox
   Researchers get pipeline-level traces, embeddings, and cost metrics through
   LangFuse—perfect for grant-funded studies on AI pedagogy.
4. White-Label Mobile Apps
   Universities deploy a branded iOS/Android tutor that students recognize as “their
   school,” powered jointly by Khan Academy content and mentorAI infrastructure.

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5. Proof in the Field

• George Washington University launched course-level AI mentors that faculty tune
  themselves—no lock-in, pedagogically grounded, and dramatically cheaper than
  commercial SaaS bots.
• SUNY Tompkins Cortland rolled out a 10-minute implementation that lets humanities
  professors build AI tutors from primary-source documents—showing how fast the stack
  can overlay any content.

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6. An Open Invitation

Khan Academy set the gold standard for learner-facing AI. ibl.ai built the rails that keep that AI
transparent, secure, and institution-owned. If you run a district, college, or ed-tech nonprofit that wants Khanmigo’s pedagogical spark plus enterprise-grade control, let’s talk
partnerships—not competition.

Because education wins when great tools work together.