Practice and assessment for English programs
Your goals.Their practice.Growth you can see, goal by goal.
Narai scores every test against your program's own goals, gives learners AI practice wired to those goals, and shows growth per goal, learner by learner and group by group.
No sales calls. We reply by email.
Nobody can say which goal moved.
Tests give totals
A score of 72 doesn't tell you whether listening improved or writing stalled.
Practice apps give streaks
You learn how many days in a row someone practiced, not which goal they got closer to.
Reports live in spreadsheets
Every term, teachers spend hours collating scores into something they can show a meeting.
How it works
You set the goals. Narai connects scoring, practice and reporting to them.
Set your goals or your service standard
Enter a learning-goal framework, or a service standard such as “offer an alternative before saying no”. Goals are tagged to CEFR-J. Bring the tests and content you already have, straight from Google Forms and Sheets.
Learners practice with AI against those goals
Speaking role-play, writing, listening and reading, varied by AI every time so nothing can be memorized. AI checks what learners write and say and gives feedback against the goal's success criteria.
See growth per goal
From the first assessment to the last, see growth per goal for each learner, class or team, as a radar and a pre-to-post report you can take straight into a meeting.
Built for two kinds of program
A required university English course and a hotel front desk work the same way in Narai: set the goals, practice, see the growth.
Universities
For coordinators of required English programs
We run pre- and post-tests every module, but we can't see results per goal.
Narai scores each test per goal automatically and keeps the history, tagged to CEFR-J.
Evidence for the dean and for accreditation is rebuilt by hand every time.
Pre-to-post reports and PDFs per class and per student, ready to hand in.
We can't change our whole workflow for a new system.
Import the Google Forms and Sheets you already use. The interface is in Japanese, and student data is handled under APPI.
Companies serving visitors
For HR development at hotels and ryokan, railways and airports, airlines, department stores and tax-free retail, restaurant chains and call centers
Too few staff can handle a complaint, an allergy question or an emergency in English.
Speaking practice built on real situations: complaints, allergy checks, emergencies, directions.
New and international hires need to be ready for the floor, fast.
Enter your own service standard as goals; staff practice against it with AI, and you see which goals they have reached.
Management wants to see what training achieved, by team and by property.
A manager dashboard shows growth per goal for each team and property. The program is designed to be registered under the 人材開発支援助成金 training subsidy.
Roles
- Front desk
- Cabin crew
- Station staff
- Tax-free counter
- Restaurant floor
- Call center
Situations
- Complaints
- Allergy checks
- Illness and emergencies
- Directions and transfers
What learners actually do
Every practice item is tied to one of the program's goals.
AI checks what learners write and say, and gives feedback. Teachers and trainers set the goals and own the final scores.
Speaking
Role-play a real situation and record it. Review the transcript and a model answer.
Writing
AI feedback judged against the goal's success criteria, so learners know what to fix and how.
Listening and reading
Items varied by AI every time, so answers can't be memorized, at the level the goal calls for.
Their own report
Learners see their own growth per goal on their phone, and what to practice next.
Evidence, goal by goal
Most products report satisfaction and time spent. Narai reports growth per goal against your own standard. Goals are tagged to CEFR-J, so results compare across classes and years.
Attainment per goal (class average)
Illustrative (fictional data)Pre-test at the start of the module compared with the post-test at the end.
| Attainment per goal (class average) | CEFR-J | Pre | Post |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listen for the main point | A2.2 | 48% | 71% |
| Read for detail | A2.2 | 55% | 68% |
| Organize a paragraph | B1.1 | 36% | 62% |
| Give an opinion with reasons | B1.1 | 41% | 58% |
| Keep a conversation going | A2.2 | 44% | 66% |
| Vocabulary range | B1.1 | 52% | 61% |
Pre to post
Illustrative (fictional data)Share of each goal's success criteria met (class average).
Case study
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Trust and data
If we hold your students' or staff's data, you should know where it lives and who processes it.
Where data lives
- Application and database: Singapore
- Files such as recordings: Tokyo
- AI processing: United States (OpenAI, Anthropic)
APPI measures
- Audit log of staff actions
- Per-learner export and deletion
- Published sub-processor list
- AI notice shown to learners
Sign-in
- Staff: Google sign-in
- Students: student number and PIN
We do not currently hold ISO 27001, SOC 2 or other third-party certifications. We are glad to answer your security questionnaire.
Pricing
We quote by the size of your program. We issue quotes, delivery notes and invoices, including qualified invoices (適格請求書) with a registered invoice number.
Universities
- Pilotone module, fixed fee
- One module (about 8 weeks) with one class, using the full product, and a per-goal growth report at the end. The fee is credited in full against the annual contract.
- Program licenseannual, per institution
- Test import and scoring, per-goal reports and PDFs, AI essay grading and teacher accounts. One price up to 300 students.
- Student materialper student a year
- AI speaking and writing practice. Designated with the license like a textbook and bought through the university co-op or a textbook distributor.
Programs above 300 students and campus-wide use are quoted by enrollment.
Companies serving visitors
- Pilotone property, fixed fee
- One property for three months: practice built on your service situations and a growth report per team. The fee is credited in full against the annual contract.
- Standardper seat a month, annual
- Your goals, AI practice and the manager dashboard.
- Plusper seat a month, annual
- Role packs and lessons, custom scenarios and single sign-on. Designed to be registered as training under the 人材開発支援助成金 subsidy.
Practice has a monthly allowance per organization, so usage never produces a surprise bill.
About
Narai was started by two founders: one from university English teaching, one from software engineering.
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PlaceholderBased in Kanagawa. Years of university English teaching led to the idea of showing growth goal by goal.
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PlaceholderSoftware engineer based in the United States. Designs and builds Narai.
The company is being formed in Kanagawa, Japan.
Contact
Ask about a pilot or request the demo. We reply by email.
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