Spar

The AI teaching partner for the future of learning

Spar is an end-to-end learning platform that pairs students with a pedagogical thinking partner and educators with an AI teaching partner. For students, Spar guides work from raw ideas to finished essays while preserving the cognitive struggle that makes learning last. For teachers, Spar turns every assignment into a verifiable record of student thinking, surfacing insights across individual sessions, classrooms, and long-term cognitive development. By giving schools AI they can trust instead of finished work they cannot grade, Spar helps educators understand how students think and support learning at scale.

Salma Alkhoudi is the founder and CEO of Spar. She is a PhD candidate in Antrhopology at Stanford University and a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. Her research spans pedagogical theory, behavioral science, and privacy-preserving AI. Before Spar, Salma spent seven years building AI institutions and capabilities across the Gulf, co-founding the Qatar Foundation AI Hub, leading strategic research at NEOM Tonomus under Saudi Vision 2030, and advising Fortune 500 executives at Gartner.

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