Choose with evidence
Compare tools against your students, data policy, Cantonese needs, curriculum and total cost.
EDB Empowering Learning and Teaching with AI Grant
Put your HK$500,000 AI grant to work.
We turn approved funding into useful tools, teacher-ready lessons and measurable learning across subjects.
Goes straight to David's inbox. No sales handoff.
The grant is approved. Now it has to deliver.
Circular 221/2025 sets clear outcomes. We help schools choose the right tools, prepare teachers, run lessons and keep the evidence organised.
One-off funding per approved schoolHK$500,000
3+subjects or curriculum areas
6+AI teaching examples or resources
3+open or demonstration lessons
3 + 2teacher sharing sessions and student activities
Criteva works with schools that already hold the grant, through to the end of the 2027/28 school year. The EDB application window has closed.
Read EDB Circular 221/2025A school plan teachers can actually run.
You do not need another disconnected AI subscription. You need a focused plan that fits your subjects, timetable, staff confidence and reporting duties.
Build for real lessons
Turn AI into six or more usable resources across at least three subject areas and two year levels.
Prepare the teachers
Run practical workshops around the lessons your staff will teach, with clear boundaries and fallback plans.
Launch and observe
Support demonstration lessons, gather classroom evidence and improve the workflow while teachers are using it.
Measure and report
Organise adoption, lesson evidence, student work and evaluation data for the required school reports.
How we learn
AI should follow how learning works.
Our four pillars come from cognitive science, including Benedict Carey's How We Learn, then get translated into classroom decisions.
Attention
Students learn what they attend to. Interfaces and lessons should make the next useful action obvious.
Focused prompts, calm screens, one decision at a time.Active engagement
Learning grows when students retrieve, explain, speak, write and make choices.
Students produce work instead of reading an AI answer.Error feedback
Mistakes teach when feedback arrives quickly, names the issue and shows what to try next.
Immediate feedback tied to teacher-approved criteria.Consolidation
Spacing, review and sleep move fragile knowledge into memory.
Review cycles that return at the right time.
From zero French to advanced in 12 months.
A close friend of our founder used the same learning principles with AI tools and reached C1 or C2 in listening, reading and writing on the official TCF Canada exam. Speaking reached B2.
C1Listening
C2Reading
B2Speaking
C1Writing
The method also worked in tutoring.
Mainland Chinese students at Trinity Education Group used related methods and made significant IELTS improvements in about three months.
Built by a teacher who also ships software.
From teachers to teachers
Founder David Leung has taught programming and English in Hong Kong schools and tutoring centres. Every associate-degree student he guided through university applications received at least one bachelor's degree offer.
Programming at Diocesan Boys' School, Primary DivisionSTEM and programming at Pui Kiu Middle SchoolEnglish teaching across multiple tutoring centresIELTS support for mainland Chinese learners
Originated in Denmark. Registered in Hong Kong.
David holds a Master of Engineering in Technology Entrepreneurship from the Technical University of Denmark. His ventures received support from Danish startup and education organisations.
We also worked with Monika Walczak, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, to better understand AI, trust and user psychology.
Support across our founder's ventures
Technical University of DenmarkBeyond BetaMicro Grant, Danish Foundation for EntrepreneurshipAccelerace
School names describe prior teaching experience and do not imply institutional endorsement.
Products built around real learning problems.
Criteva is one part of a broader education practice covering early language learning, classroom culture, AI literacy and teacher workload.
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Class management
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A calm class management system that helps teachers notice good things while every student keeps a companion.
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University learning system
A learning management system for a local university programme supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Details remain confidential.
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Bilingual language learning
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We also build free projects around emotional wellbeing, Hong Kong culture and access to faith across languages.
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A free emotional companion designed around culturally aware, reflective conversation. It is support, not a diagnosis or a replacement for professional care.
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A Hong Kong personality project
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The original creator of a Hong Kong version of MBTI. It was used by 800,000 people in its first two weeks and widely discussed by news and social pages.
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Translation for Christian churches
Prebabel
A free translation project helping churches carry the Word across language barriers, used by people at iSee Church and Alpha church staff.
Visit free projectBring us the plan your school has to deliver.
We will help you turn it into a practical scope for tools, lessons, teacher preparation and evidence.
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