About

Hi. I’m Louis. I’m passionate about building technology that support education.

Right now, I’m building Bevel: the AI workspace for instructional design teams in higher education (think Cursor for IDs).

Prior to building Bevel, I was a product manager at McGraw Hill Higher Education where I led AI projects such as AI Reader, a generative AI tool that helps learners understand difficult concepts and promotes active reading.

I began my career as an education strategy consultant at Tyton Partners, where I advised executives on the edtech market with a focus in AI and adaptive learning. I cut my teeth on research-focused projects like Time for Class: a multi-year study for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, exploring adaptive learning tools in higher education.

Outside of work, I volunteer with the Friends of the Cambridge Community Learning Center to provide scholarships to adult learners pursuing higher education.

Projects & features

• Bevel — The AI workspace for higher-ed instructional design teams.

• SmartCoach AI Sales Coach — released March 2025, side project; we made an AI sales coaching tool built right into Slack, and we piloted it with a salesperson at a car dealership. It was lots of fun hacking it together, but I learned that I wasn’t super passionate about sales training.

• Sonar Education AI Podcasts — released September 2024, side project; built a tool that generates AI educational podcasts that are made to be assigned. Right after we “launched,” Google announced their [much much better] version, and we laughed and decided to move on.

• McGraw Hill AI Reader — released August 2024, lead product manager: >3M student users. Used >60M times. I showed up to MH with a lot of excitement and this idea became a labor of love— I got it funded, and led every piece of it from design to engineering to GTM, caring an [irrational] amount about it going well. I’m very proud of the work we did and the impact we made on the millions of students who use it everyday. AI Reader later won the “McGraw Hill Product of the Year Award”

Research, Blogs, & Presentations

• EdTech Pitch Night at Boston Tech Week, hosted by LearnLaunch, Tyton Partners, Axim Collaborative, and Britebound — May 2026, Speaker

• What Happens When a 2,000 Course Audit Takes 90 Minutes? — The Learning Experience Ops Show by Jackrabbit LX — May 2026, Podcast guest

• AI Forum for Learning Professionals: AI Founders on the Future of Our Work — April 2026, panelist

• Intellect and Innovation Conference by Columbia Southern University, Rethinking Instructional Design Workflows With AI — March 2026, keynote speaker

• AIxED Boston, AI for Instructional Design — November 2025, presenter

• McGraw Hill, How McGraw Hill built, piloted and scaled its first GenAI solution, then showed that it works — October 2025, project lead

• McGraw Hill, Building AI EdTech: Creating Value, Not Hype — November 2024, panelist

• MaxEd, Maximizing Learning Conference: The Prevalence of AI in Education — November 2024, keynote presenter

• Online Learning Consortium Accelerate, Decoding AI Readiness: A Roadmap for Institutional AI Implementation — October 2023, co-presenter

• Education Philanthropy in the Age of AI: 3 Key Questions to Future-Proof Your Philanthropic Strategy — October 2023, first author

• Listening to Learners: Increasing Belonging In and Out of the Classroom — September 2023, co-author

• GRAILE AI in Higher-Ed Denver: How Can AI be Used for Systemic Change in Higher-ed — July 2023, co-presenter

• Investing in AI Edtech: Cutting Through the Hype — June 2023, first author

• Peering Past the Hype: K-12 Teacher and Administrator Perspectives on AI in the Classroom — June 2023, co-author

• Time for Class 2023: Bridging Student and Faculty Perspectives on Digital Learning — June 2023, co-author

• Generative AI in Higher Education: From Fear to Experimentation, Embracing AI’s Potential — April 2023, first author

• Time for Class 2022: The State of Digital Learning and Courseware Adoption — July 2022, co-author

• Time for Class 2021: The State of Digital Learning and Courseware Adoption — June 2021, co-author

Mentions, citations & awards

• McGraw Hill 2025 Change Agent Award winner: Given to product professional who best catalyzes innovation and change within the org — April 2025

• Fortune: Textbook giant McGraw Hill sees potential for AI in the classroom—and the risks — January 2025, product highlighted

• Top Hat: Harnessing Gen-AI for Evidence-Based Teaching — September 2024, research cited

• UNESCO: Harnessing the era of artificial intelligence in higher education: a primer for higher education stakeholders — 2023, research cited

  University of Wisconsin Green Bay: AIS4C: A Panel Report on AI in Higher Education from the Perspective of CIO’s — November 2023, research cited

• Forbes: OpenAI and Others Help Educators Navigate AI — September 2023, research cited

• Lumina Foundation: What does the future of learning look like? Faculty and students weigh in on new tech tools — August 2023, research cited

• Plagiarism Today: The Current State of Detecting AI Writing — July 2023, research cited

• Campus Technology: More than Half of Students Will use AI Writing Tools Even if Prohibited By Their Institution — April 2023, research cited

• Association of College and University Educators: Preparing for the Future Impact of AI on Higher Education — April 2023, research cited