ABOUT

Assessment intelligence for awarding organisations, providers, and platforms.

We help you hold the standard you set - across every script, every assessor, every time.

Sainaptic began with a clear problem: open responses reveal real understanding, yet they're the hardest to assess consistently and at scale.

our mission

What started in education has grown into a focused partnership with awarding organisations, training providers, and assessment platforms. Where assessment standards need to be upheld with accuracy, transparency, and consistency. Our mission is to raise confidence, quality, and consistency in marking and feedback. not by replacing professional judgement, but by learning it, applying it at scale, and keeping humans in control.

WHy this team?

We’re educators and data scientists who understand assessment 
from the inside.

1,000s

Marking Hours Saved

£150k+

Saved per organisation

2M+

Descriptive Answers Marked

The Team

Dr Rajeshwari Iyer
CEO & Co-Founder

Research and data scientist with a PhD in computational neuroscience (Imperial College London) and an MPhil in computational biology (University of Cambridge). Raj brings strategy and technical leadership from academia and the NHS, and leads how sainaptic turns assessment practice into reliable, domain-trained systems.

Kavitha Ravindran
Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer

Cambridge PGCE, former secondary science teacher and GCSE examiner, with leadership experience in schools. Kavitha leads the pedagogical and growth side of Sainaptic - making sure the product stays true to how real assessment works, and how organisations adopt it with confidence.

Dr Bram Vandekerckhove
Head of Engineering & AI

PhD in Computational Linguistics, with research experience at Oxford and Tufts and industry roles including Hitachi. Bram leads engineering and AI at S ainaptic, building the systems that make domain-specific marking accurate, explainable, and ready for real assessment workflows.

Associated Partners

We’re supported by partners who believe assessment deserves better than shortcuts.