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INVESTOR BRIEF · JULY 2026 · SOURCES NOTED INLINE

Learnova is a learn–practice–apply platform for university business education: an interactive economics drama, a live news-forecasting game and a free CV studio — joined by one campus account, live class interaction, and one evidence stream back to teaching. Built in Aotearoa New Zealand.

1 · The opportunity

Three shifts are landing at once, and none of them has tooling yet.

Every student is using AI while the channel between students and teachers thins. What is missing is not another chatbot — it is trusted plumbing between the two. That is what we build.

2 · Product

One loop, four surfaces: what a student produces, a lecturer can use.

• Learn — Learnova Casebook. A branching economics drama: 48 endings, a theory panel on every scene, and programme editions per major.
• Practice — Learnova Signals. Weekly real-news forecasting scored on calibration, with a live class leaderboard (45 s refresh) and a class discussion board.
• Apply — CV Studio. 400 original templates, export free forever — the platform's public, no-login front door.
• Teach — lecturer view (MVP in build). Weekly cohort summaries and an end-of-semester evidence pack; real-time assignment of students and content already works today.
• Second Opinion (pilot). Students voluntarily share an external AI exchange plus their own question; classmates respond single-blind, lecturers guide by name; one click exports a university-format AI-use disclosure appendix. Our market research found no direct precedent.

Student hub — one account, the whole platform

• One sign-in, three products. A single campus account carries a student across the drama, the forecasting game and CV Studio — no separate registrations to manage.
• Progress lives in the cloud. Chapters, forecasts and records follow the student across devices — start in the library, continue on the bus.
• Second Opinion, single-blind. Share an AI exchange plus your own question, classmates respond anonymously — and one click exports a university-format AI-use disclosure.

Teacher hub — capability up, workload zero

• Zero data entry, zero red badges. Nothing to fill in, nothing nagging to be checked — the teacher hub does not create a second job.
• The week in five minutes. A weekly digest replaces the dashboard: who is falling behind, which concept the class misread, what to teach next.
• Grouping by email, live. Paste a class list and the cohort takes effect in real time — no IT ticket, no integration project.
• Content licensed per cohort. Each group sees exactly the storyline edition and content licensed to it — nothing more.
• Invite-code identity. Teacher accounts activate only with an invite code — the teaching side is closed by design, so student data stays behind a vetted door.

3 · Why this is hard to copy

• Content assets, not just code. A million-character original narrative library and 400 original CV templates — copying it is an authoring project, not a coding sprint.
• Closed-loop data. Three products share one learning-evidence stream; each makes the others more valuable.
• A zero-touch weekly pipeline. Real news becomes playable content every week, fully automated — content cost does not scale with usage.
• Compliance-first architecture. Privacy as architecture: zero student data to AI models at runtime, row-level isolation, an NZ data-residency path and ST4S preparation — procurement review becomes a strength.
• First position on Second Opinion. A disclosure-native, single-blind peer-learning surface with, as far as our research shows, no direct precedent.

4 · Business model & price anchors

Free for lecturers; NZ$15–30 per student per year, or a whole-of-institution site licence. A Champion Partner path (bank or foundation sponsorship) mirrors the model Banqer proved in schools. Anchors below are from public pricing research, June 2026.

5 · Market, sized honestly

The table below is illustrative arithmetic, not a forecast: assumptions are stated inline, the university wedge is deliberately conservative, and the larger second markets are not counted in it.

Sizing note: the headcount base is an illustrative assumption, to be replaced with official enrolment data in due diligence.

6 · Where we are · the next 12 months

Live today: four production sites (portal + three products), real-time infrastructure (cross-user leaderboard, class discussion boards), programme-level grouping and campus Google sign-in. Pilot in preparation — every number in this brief is a product fact, not a usage claim.

7 · Contact

For a live demo, the demo runbook, or the material behind any number on this page — one email.

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