Jordan rolls out an AI learning assistant built by one person
Originally posted on LinkedIn, October 25, 2025.
Jordan is rolling out an AI learning assistant built in a matter of days. The government has launched Siraj, a new assistant based on Replit technology that is expected to reach 1.6 million students and 90,000 teachers in public schools. It answers questions based on the curriculum, provides explanations, and helps teachers prepare materials.
The first version was built by one person in less than a month. It has since been tested by tens of thousands of students and teachers across hundreds of thousands of interactions. Now it is expanding across the public education system.
The official goal is to improve academic performance. To me, the real test is whether AI can become part of public education without replacing teachers, instead helping them do their jobs. That means becoming a teaching partner rather than a competitor.
Siraj’s success will depend on whether it can maintain trust, provide accurate answers, and bring students and teachers closer rather than pushing them apart. If it works, Jordan may become the first country in the Middle East to show how AI can be used not as a general promise for the future, but as an everyday classroom tool.
We are already living through a shift in how software gets built. Systems that once required development teams, six-figure budgets, and months or years of work can now be written by one person in less than a month. Replit’s post about Siraj is here.
