Wiillow
Wiillow is an AI growth coach platform that helps elementary and middle school students build social-emotional skills through daily check-ins with friendly AI characters via voice, text, or tap. The platform turns student responses into actionable next steps—auto-drafting session plans for counselors, ready-to-use homeroom activities for teachers, and growth insights for families—while grounding its approach in Self-Determination Theory and Yale's RULER method.
- Education Technology
- AI Agents
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
Funding
Raised to date
$120KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
School counselors face growing caseloads and teachers juggle full classrooms, making consistent social-emotional support difficult to deliver. Students' emotional needs often go unnoticed until they escalate, and families lack visibility into their child's social-emotional development between school and home.
Solution
Wiillow provides an AI growth coach platform where students check in daily with friendly AI characters by voice, text, or tap, sharing how they feel and why. The AI analyzes these check-ins alongside relevant research and past counselor notes to identify which students may need a conversation, then auto-drafts personalized session plans for counselors and ready-to-use homeroom activities for teachers. Families receive growth insights showing how their child's feelings and interests change over time, with ideas for conversations at home. The platform is grounded in Self-Determination Theory and Yale's RULER method, and co-designed with counselors and psychologists.
Target Audience
Primary customers are elementary and middle schools in the US and Japan, including teachers, counselors, and school leaders, as well as families through the Wiillow Parents app.
Features
- Daily student check-ins via voice, text, or tap with friendly AI characters
- AI Session Planner for counselors that auto-drafts personalized session plans and tracks emotional trends
- AI Support Plans for teachers with homeroom activities and talking points matched to class sentiment
- Growth insights for families showing changes in feelings and interests over time
- Real-time well-being and growth trend dashboards for school leaders across classes and grades
- AI matches each student's feelings to age-appropriate activities for elementary and middle school
- COPPA and FERPA compliant, ad-free, and encrypted for student privacy and safety