No lecture halls. No cohort marching at one speed. A tutor that knows your industry, your background, and how you learn — and is incapable of leaving you behind.
Taught by Naveen Kankate — founder, AI engineering instructor at MSOE & UW-Milwaukee
In association with Milwaukee School of Engineering
Mastery-gated
Advance by proving it, not by watching it.
Fresh exams
New questions, every attempt. Nothing to cram.
Your industry
Assignments built from your real work.
Always on
Voice & chat tutoring at 2 PM or 2 AM.
One professor. Two hundred students. One speed. The format made sense when knowledge was scarce and rooms were the only way to share it. But a lecture can't know that you're a banker, that you learned statistics ten years ago, or that you almost understood yesterday's concept and need exactly one more example.
Alma can.
Every course is delivered by an intelligence that maps what you already know, teaches in the language of your work, and refuses to move on until mastery is real — then keeps it real.
Socratic by default. Nova guides you to the answer — it never hands it to you — by voice or chat, at 2 PM or 2 AM.
Hi — I'm Nova. Tell me what you do for work, and I'll show you how a course here would be taught to you specifically.
I run member services at a credit union.
Perfect — then every assignment swaps its examples for documents you already work with. Unit 1 starts with why models guess when they don't know. Want to see your placement diagnostic?
Ask anything. Alma answers in the language of your work — full courses unlock when you sign in.
Choose your industry — Alma rewrites every assignment around artifacts you actually touch at work. One assignment from the prompt engineering course, three ways:
Take three anonymized member-service transcripts and design a prompt that produces an accurate case summary with citations back to each transcript — and refuses to speculate when the record is silent. Submit your prompt and the rationale for its guardrails.
Every mastered unit is backed by evidence: the exams you passed, the work you produced, the skills you've kept sharp. Share an Alma transcript and an employer sees proof, not attendance.
Courses today confer certificates of mastery. University-credit pathways are in progress with our institutional partners.
Sample transcript
Alma doesn't replace your institution — it's your faculty's course, amplified. Your curriculum, your credit, delivered through an intelligence that meets each student where they are and hands you the evidence.
Built in association with the Milwaukee School of Engineering, where Alma's founder teaches AI engineering.
Naveen Kankate
Founder, and AI engineering instructor at MSOE & UW-Milwaukee
Naveen has spent more than a decade turning ideas into products — as a founding engineer at Remedy Analytics, as a senior product manager at Northwestern Mutual, and now as the founder of Requisor AI, where his team builds AI agents for companies. Alma's courses come straight from his classroom at the Milwaukee School of Engineering and UW-Milwaukee.
Alma is built by a founder-led team of engineers and course producers in Milwaukee and India.