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Tortin × Qatar Foundation Digital — printable deck
A partnership proposal
The teaching stays Qatari.
The coaching never sleeps.
Tortin builds the pedagogical operating system that lets institutions run their own AI-taught courses — authored by their faculty, grounded in their material, governed by them.
Who we are
You need a pedagogy partner, not a chatbot vendor. ,
Katya
Co-founder
Dr. Katherine Tatarinov, tenure-track at HEC Lausanne, with direct access to Swiss and EU academic leadership — governance, accreditation and pedagogy, not just software.
Shahzad
Co-founder
Shahzad Ahmed sits on the EDHEC Alumni board for Responsible AI. He has worked in tech for over a decade and specializes in rapid, user friendly deployments
Already in the Gulf
Incubated at Qatar Science & Technology Park, operating between Geneva and Doha, with a European university network we can bring to Qatar.
Why this moment
Learning has already moved to AI. Institutions have not moved with it.
Learners go off-syllabus
A general chatbot is the 2 a.m. default tutor. Answers arrive detached from the programme, and the institution loses the signal of where learning breaks.
Expertise gets flattened
Twenty years of framing, cases and voice come back as generic consensus that anyone could have written.
The institution carries the risk
No telemetry over external engines, yet hallucination, integrity and data-protection liability all sit with the institution.
Act II — the insight
One baton. The faculty keeps it the whole way through.
Authored, not scraped
The course is built from the faculty's own material, in their sequence.
Released, not leaked
Every artefact waits behind the faculty's release — live sessions included.
Returned, not lost
Questions, struggles and outcomes come back as signal the institution keeps.
Act II — the insight
Nothing is invented. Every answer carries its source.
The difference
Every answer is traceable back to your material.
A general model answers from the internet. A Tortin tutor answers from the course: the slide, the reading, the rubric, the case — and shows which one. If the course does not cover it, the tutor says so and routes the learner to a human.
Cited
Answers carry the source reference from the course library.
Bounded
No answer outside the approved knowledge base.
Observed
Every interaction is visible to the programme owner.
Portable
The course intelligence belongs to the institution, not to us.
Proof
Live with institutions today.
Faculty of Business & Economics
Public research university
Executive education
Global sports institution
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Trusted by higher education and global institutions
Tortin is already running with faculty-led courses and executive programmes across Europe and beyond — the same platform, governance and deployment ready for Qatar Foundation.
Deployment
Runs wherever the programme already lives.
Standalone in days
A faculty member can be teaching with it this week. No migration, no committee, no central IT dependency.
Or inside the LMS
Moodle and Canvas via LTI — a short install into the system the institution already runs.
Bilingual by design
Arabic and English side by side, with the same grounding and governance in both languages.
Part two
Built specifically for
Qatar Foundation Digital.
Not a licence for our product. A flagship entrepreneurship academy that belongs to Qatar and exports Qatari faculty to the world.
Two ways to work together
The platform across your universities — and a flagship academy on top of it.
Tortin in your classrooms
Our standard product, deployed across Qatar Foundation's universities. Every professor authors their own course, keeps the release button, and gets an AI coach grounded strictly in their material.
- —Faculty-by-faculty rollout, department at a time
- —Arabic and English, on your infrastructure
- —Per-seat or per-campus licence
- —Live in weeks, not semesters
The entrepreneurship academy
A flagship programme built with QF: Qatari faculty courses co-designed with our European ecosystem, AI coaches for every founder, and a demo day in front of real capital.
- —Eight-week founder sprint, cohort based
- —Co-authored with HBKU, QU and European schools
- —Open beyond QF — region, diaspora, alumni
- —Flagship programme
They compound: the academy runs on the same platform, so every course a QF university authors makes the flagship deeper — and every cohort feeds signal back to the campuses.
Track A — the platform in your universities
What a Qatar Foundation campus gets on day one.
For the professor
Upload the course as it already exists — decks, readings, problem sets, rubrics. The platform turns it into lessons, tasks and assessments the professor edits and releases.
For the student
A coach that answers at 2am from the actual course material, with the citation attached, in Arabic or English — never from the open web unless the faculty allows it.
For the university
Where a cohort stalls, which concepts fail, which rubrics are inconsistent — course intelligence the institution owns, term after term.
Weeks 1–2
One department
Three to five courses ingested with their faculty. Nothing published until they approve it.
Weeks 3–8
One faculty
The pilot term runs live. Usage, questions and outcomes reviewed with the deanship.
Term two
Campus-wide
Rollout across the university, then across Education City on the same licence.
The signal
Harvard just proved the model — and left the opening.
Premium entrepreneurship bootcamp with AI faculty feedback
Cohort length, delivered fully online
Clones of HBS faculty give individual feedback at any hour
Source: press coverage of the HBS Foundry launch, August 2026.
What it tells us
The world's most protective brand in management education just put its faculty into AI and sold it globally at consumer price points. The reputational question is settled.
What it leaves open
It is a broadcast: one American curriculum, one market's assumptions, no local ecosystem behind the learner. No capital, no mentors, no market entry. Qatar can build the version that actually lands founders in a real ecosystem.
Track B — the entrepreneurship academy
An entrepreneurship academy with AI coaches and a real ecosystem behind it.
Qatari faculty, at scale
Courses built with HBKU, Qatar University and the Education City partner campuses — authored by their professors, delivered by AI coaches trained on their teaching.
A European co-build
Our Swiss and French academic network co-designs the entrepreneurship curriculum, so the credential reads globally from day one.
Coaching that never sleeps
Every founder gets a personal coach, an investor to pitch, a customer to interview and a faculty voice to challenge them — around the clock, in Arabic or English.
The learner journey
An eight-week founder sprint.
Problem
Faculty-authored modules on opportunity framing. The AI coach forces evidence: who hurts, how much, who pays.
Customer
Simulated customer interviews and live fieldwork in Qatar, scored against the professor's rubric.
Build
Solution, unit economics and first traction, with European operator sessions layered on top.
Pitch
Repeated AI investor grilling, then a human demo day in front of QSTP, QF and European funds.
Every cohort ends with a human decision point — accelerator placement, grant, or an introduction into the European ecosystem. The AI carries the volume; people carry the judgement.
The AI coaching cast
Four coaches, one grounded stack.
The Faculty Voice
Trained on a named Qatari professor's course, cases and feedback style. Teaches their framing, not a textbook's.
The Investor
Runs pitch drills with real objection patterns from Gulf and European funds. Scores clarity, market logic, defensibility.
The Customer
Role-plays the buyer the founder claims to serve — procurement officer, clinic manager, SME owner.
The Operator
Walks the founder through execution: pricing, hiring, first contracts, entering a European market.
Each coach is bounded by the same course knowledge base, cites its source, and reports every interaction to the programme dashboard.
The content engine
Qatari courses, co-built with a European ecosystem.
Qatari authorship
Each course has a named Qatari faculty owner. They author it, they are credited, and the AI coach speaks with their pedagogy.
European co-design
Our academic network reviews and co-builds the entrepreneurship track — the same standard we run in Lausanne and Lille.
Two-way traffic
Qatari courses become exportable products for the academy; European founders and mentors come into Doha cohorts.
Ownership & governance
Qatar owns the asset. We run the rails.
Your brand, front and centre
The academy is a Qatar Foundation product. Tortin is the infrastructure underneath, not the name on the certificate.
Your data, your residency
Learner data and course intelligence stay under Qatari control, with a full audit trail and configurable residency.
Your faculty, protected
No faculty voice is modelled without explicit consent, defined scope and the right to withdraw.
Why it compounds
Each cohort makes the academy harder to copy.
After a few cohorts the academy holds something no one can buy: a corpus of Qatari entrepreneurship teaching, the rubrics behind it, and the record of exactly where founders in this market fail. That asset belongs to Qatar Foundation and grows every term.
Act III — the moat
Every term makes the next one harder to replace.
A competitor can copy a feature in a quarter. They cannot copy six terms of your faculty's material, marking style and learner history — that record belongs to the institution and only deepens.
How we start
Pilot in one term. Flagship within a year.
Phase 1 · One term
Lighthouse cohort
One entrepreneurship course with two Qatari faculty owners and a single cohort. Coaches configured, rubrics set, outcomes measured.
Scope shaped with QF
Phase 2 · Academic year
The academy
Multi-course programme across Education City partners, European co-designed modules, demo day with QSTP and European funds.
Scope shaped with QF
Phase 3 · Beyond
Regional export
The academy opens to the wider GCC and to European cohorts, with Qatar Foundation as the issuing institution.
Scope shaped with QF
The prize
An academy that scales past the campus.
Circles are illustrative of reach, not sized from a market study. We would build the numbers with your team during phase one.
Why Tortin
You need a pedagogy partner, not a chatbot vendor.
We are already here
QSTP incubated, working between Doha and Geneva, with European university contracts live today.
We build with faculty
Our co-founder teaches. Every design decision starts from what a professor will actually accept.
We hand over the asset
The course intelligence, the rubrics, the data — they stay yours. Our business is the platform, not your content.
One course, one term,
one cohort of Qatari founders.
Give us a single entrepreneurship course and two faculty owners. We will have the coaches live and the first cohort running inside one term.
Appendix
Further detail,
for the record.
Everything after this page is reference material — depth on the platform, the programme and the partnership, for the conversations that follow the room.
Appendix · Pricing
Start with one course.
Scale one university at a time.
Standard platform licence
+ one-time setup
Setup covers ingestion, faculty onboarding, coach configuration and go-live support for the first term.
Volume pricing
Campus-wide and multi-year agreements reduce the per-course rate and bundle setup.
Enterprise
Custom terms for Education City, multiple faculties, or white-labelled academy deployments.
Academy track
The entrepreneurship academy is priced as a joint flagship.