Ali Bahrami
Founder & CTO
“I build AI that respects people — psychology first, engineering second.”
Product EngineeringAI Safety & Privacy
The people behind MicroClass
A small team obsessed with how people actually learn
We're former students, tutors, and engineers who got tired of watching good study time get lost in open-ended chats. Here's who's building the alternative.
How we got here
MicroClass started as a shared frustration: office hours that never had room, chat AIs that answered questions but never taught anything, and study sessions that ended with a vague sense of maybe-understanding. A few of us who'd tutored, graded, and crammed for finals decided to build the tool we'd actually wanted.
- 1First prototype: one AI teacher walking through a single lesson plan, tested on our own study group.
- 2Added the assistant and student personas — one voice teaching turned out to feel nothing like a real class.
- 3Built the quiz layer after realizing 'I think I get it' isn't the same as actually getting it.
- 4Today: still a small team, still teaching the sessions we wished we'd had.
Meet the team
An engineer, a psychology advisor, and a learning consultant — the people building MicroClass.
Hadi Bahrami Ehsan
Psychology & Learning Science Advisor
“Technology earns trust when it's built on how the mind actually works, not on guesses about it.”
Clinical PsychologyConvergent Technologies
Mahdie Yousefi
M.A. in Psychology
“Understanding how someone learns starts with understanding how they think.”
Psychology
What we believe
We were students first
Most of us tutored, TA'd, or crammed for orals before we ever wrote a line of this product. We design for the version of ourselves who needed this.
AI should show its work
We'd rather ship a plan you can review and correct than a black box that sounds sure of itself. Confidence isn't the same as being right.
Understanding is checked, not assumed
We don't trust a session that ends with 'does that make sense?' We'd rather know, and so would you.
Small enough to answer you personally
No ticket queue routes you to a script. If you write in, someone from this page reads it personally.