SNAhelper —
AI assistant for
Irish Special Needs Assistants.

An SNA alone in a classroom.
No one to call.

Ireland's 23,000+ Special Needs Assistants support children with complex needs every day. When a meltdown happens, when a child elopes, when there's a safeguarding concern — the SNA is often the first and only person there.

The next CPD webinar is next week. The SNA Hub has nothing practical. The teacher is busy with 29 other students. There is no one to ask.

Instant, practical guidance.
Grounded in Irish policy.

SNAhelper is a mobile-first AI chat assistant. Describe what's happening — get a structured response in three phases: Right now (2-3 min) / Later today / Going forward.

Every response is grounded in Irish Department of Education and NCSE guidance. Neuro-affirming, trauma-informed, never punitive. Never diagnoses. Never judges.

Not just an
OpenAI wrapper.

• ›Custom AI router — 18 behavioural scenarios matched by weighted keyword scoring. Deterministic, auditable, no vector DB.
• ›3-tier safeguarding engine — Immediate / Urgent / Concern. Runs on every message. Aligned with Children First Act 2015.
• ›GDPR by design — Irish data protection from day one. 7 sub-processors documented. EU AI Act Art. 50 disclosure.
• ›Domain expertise built in — co-founded with Magdalena Landziak, practising SNA and CPD trainer. Real classroom knowledge in every scenario.
• ›Quota + rate limiting — atomic Redis Lua script, 300 msg/month, fail-open for infra errors, fail-closed for actual limits.

Full stack,
end to end.