Why we built teache

Ask a Ghanaian basic-school teacher what Sunday evening looks like and you'll hear the same story: an exercise book or a laptop, the NaCCA curriculum open somewhere, and hours of copying. Week ending, strand, sub-strand, indicator codes, core competencies, three phases per lesson, five days a week, every subject you teach. Then the same again for the record of work, and the tests, and the marking schemes.

Very little of that is teaching. The thinking part, how you'll actually get fractions across to your B4 class on Tuesday, is a small island in a sea of formatting. But the formatting isn't optional: notes get vetted. A headteacher or circuit supervisor signs them, and a note without the right header, the right codes and the right structure comes back.

So the job to be done was clear, and it wasn't "write my lesson plan for me." Teachers don't need a machine that invents lessons; they need the compliance work to disappear while the teaching stays theirs. That one distinction shaped everything in teache. Guided mode asks you questions and you answer in your own words. Generate mode drafts faster, but it drafts from your seed, your topic, your class. Either way, the printed note reads like you, because it is you.

The other half of the work is invisible: the curriculum itself. There's no API for NaCCA, so we transcribed it, subject by subject, from the official documents. Fourteen subjects, B1 through B9, more than 5,600 indicators, each with its exemplars and competencies. When teache cites B7.3.1.1.1, that's the real indicator, not a plausible-looking guess.

teache is Ghana-first on purpose. The print format is the one GES expects, vetting block and all. Pricing, when it arrives, is credit packs paid with mobile money from GHS 15, because that's how money actually moves, not a dollar subscription on a card you don't have.

We're in early access now, and it's free while we get it right. If you teach in Ghana, we'd genuinely like you in the first cohort: start with one week's notes and tell us what to build next.