Lesso — AI-powered lesson builder for language teachers

Overview

Lesso is an AI-powered platform built to help language teachers create engaging, personalized, and interactive lessons in minutes rather than hours. It combines artificial intelligence, content generation, student engagement tools, and classroom management into a single workflow—so educators can focus on teaching instead of assembling materials from scattered sources.

The product targets one of the biggest pain points in language education: lesson preparation. Traditional planning means hunting for exercises, writing grammar explanations, recording listening prompts, adapting content to proficiency levels, and packaging homework and speaking activities. A single lesson can take anywhere from thirty minutes to several hours. Lesso compresses that work through AI-assisted generation and a visual lesson builder teachers can refine before sharing with students.

Problem

Language teachers routinely spend a large share of their working hours preparing vocabulary drills, grammar explanations, listening activities, speaking prompts, homework, interactive games, and progress-tracking materials—often reworking the same structure for different levels and learning goals.

Most existing tools either offer static content libraries or generic AI output that does not respect how effective language lessons are actually structured: sequenced blocks, level-appropriate difficulty, speaking practice, and activities students complete—not just read.

Solution

Lesso introduces an AI-first lesson creation flow. Teachers describe the topic, select a student profile, language level, and lesson duration; the platform generates a complete lesson structure made of interactive content blocks and student activities.

The result is editable in a drag-and-drop builder before it reaches the classroom—preserving the speed of generation while keeping human judgment in the loop.

Results

Lesso reframes lesson planning from a manual, time-consuming process into a fast, interactive, AI-assisted workflow. Educators can produce materials significantly faster, deliver more engaging classroom experiences, personalize content to learner profiles, increase student participation, and spend less energy on administration—without sacrificing control over what actually gets taught.

My role

As creator and lead developer, I owned the product end to end: strategy and validation, UX/UI design, frontend and backend architecture, AI workflow and prompt design, infrastructure setup, feature planning, performance optimization, deployment, and ongoing iteration.

The project spans concept through launch—an AI-first platform that brings modern generation capabilities into everyday teaching workflows while keeping the experience simple, intuitive, and educator-focused.