Unlock the Potential of Physical Educational Resources

Puffin brings order to your school's storerooms, simplifies access to educational inventories, and streamlines the management of your resources.

Our Mission

At Puffin, we empower schools by transforming the way physical learning resources are managed, accessed, and utilized.

Physical learning resources, such as lab equipment, interactive tools, educational kits, and assistive technologies play a crucial role in enabling more inclusive learning environments, enhancing student and teacher engagement, as well as driving better educational outcomes. However, managing these resources efficiently is a challenge. What schools have, lack, need and could share with one another is often not transparent and results in wasteful capital investments and operational expenditures across education systems.

Puffin's goal is to build a digital infrastructure that improves cost-efficient dissemination and usage of physical learning resources across education systems - similar to what library systems historically has done for books.

  • Lack of Standardization: No universal system exists for cataloging physical resources.
  • Limited Accessibility: Resources are underutilized due to lack of awareness.
  • Inefficient Management: Manual tracking leads to errors and is too time consuming for school stakeholders.
  • Inequity in Resource Distribution: Disparities exist between schools with varying levels of resources.

Stakeholder Perspectives

Explore how Puffin addresses the specific needs of educators, administrators, policymakers, and global organizations.

Empowering Teachers with Easy Access to Resources

  • Centralized Catalog: Access a digital inventory of all resources in the school.
  • Search and Discover: Find resources quickly based on subject, grade level or based off existing lesson plans.
  • Curriculum Alignment: Tag resources with syllabus relevance for easy integration into lesson plans.

Optimizing Resource Management and Budget Allocation

  • Automated Cataloging: Use AI to simplify the process of adding new resources.
  • Usage Analytics: Access data on resource utilization and aggregating demand for new resources to inform purchasing decisions.
  • Cost Savings: Reduce purchases of low-utilization assets through inventory sharing using digital tracking and accountability solutions.

Advancing Educational Outcomes and Equity

  • Resource Distribution Analysis: Assess disparities in resource availability across regions.
  • Informed Policy Making: Use data insights to create equitable access to educational resources.
  • Support for Innovation: Identify successful resource utilization models to replicate globally.

Supporting Global Education Initiatives

  • Advancing SDG 4 (Quality Education): Contribute to inclusive and equitable education for all.
  • Data Collection and Analysis: Provide data on global trends and challenges in education.
  • Future of Work: Support bridging the gap between school systems' resource constraints and the skill requirements of future technology-intensive labor markets.

Who We Are

The Puffin project is currently being driven by:

Profile: Raoul Joshi is the founder of Joshico, a professional services company dedicated to enhancing children’s education and welfare through partnerships with local governments, healthcare institutions, and law enforcement agencies. Formerly an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, he focused on digital transformation and operational improvements in industrial and public sector settings. He co-authored a study on the global impact of artificial intelligence and has taught secondary school students in Stockholm as a Teaching Fellow with Teach For Sweden and Teach For All. His career began at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations’ specialized technology agency, where he worked as an intern and consultant.

Expertise: Raoul specializes in artificial intelligence, education, and public sector innovation. He has a deep understanding of AI’s socioeconomic impacts and develops data-driven solutions for challenges in education management. His experience includes educational program development, resource optimization, and providing strategic advice to government institutions. With teaching experience in electrical engineering, business administration, and mathematics at both secondary and university levels, he is familiar with the practical needs of educators and students.

Motivation: Raoul founded Puffin, a digital platform under Joshico, to improve how schools manage resources and make decisions. His experiences as an educator revealed disparities and inefficiencies in the education system. He aims to create data-driven tools that empower educators, administrators, and policymakers to enhance operational efficiency and promote equitable access to quality education globally.

Profile: Ed is a passionate technologist who has spent roughly a decade building startups for McKinsey clients. With deep roots and expertise in technology, especially in user interfaces across various platforms, Ed has a great passion for the web. Beyond Puffin, he is also building handover and LEAGUES

Expertise: More specifically, Ed believes that everyone has the right to easily learn to use technology that is hard and complex behind the curtains. This is why he has spent more than two decades crafting highly usable and innovative customer journeys that are easy to learn and use—or don’t even require learning to use.

Motivation: Ed grew up in Romania at a time when education as we know it today was very different. Digitization was nowhere, and to a large extent, he thinks those were the good times. Some of today’s educational software tries to mimic physical experiences but generally falls short. Hence, Ed joined Raoul so he can contribute to bringing education worldwide from digital screens back to the physical world.

Get Involved

Interested in bringing Puffin to your institution? Here's how you can get involved:

  • Schedule a Demo: Experience how Puffin can transform your resource management.
  • Partner with Us: Explore opportunities for large-scale collaboration.
  • Join Our Community: Connect with us and other educators and administrators to shape the future of resource management in education.