The curriculum-grounded content engine for education.

The people behind MESO

  • Dr. Chris Byrne, Founder and CEO

    Dr. Chris Byrne

    Founder and CEO

    As a former teacher with a PhD in curriculum implementation, Chris leads MESO’s commercial direction and product strategy.

  • Brighid Hennessy, Head of Education & Curriculum Advisor

    Brighid Hennessy

    Head of Education & Curriculum Advisor

    As a post-primary teacher and curriculum advisor, Brighid brings extensive curriculum and clasroom expertise to MESO, ensuring it supports teachers and improves student learning.

  • Rohan Taneja, Chief Technology Officer

    Rohan Taneja

    Chief Technology Officer

    Working across cloud infrastructure and applied AI, Rohan builds the platform teachers use every day.

  • Dr. Shubbham Gupta, Lead AI Engineer

    Dr. Shubbham Gupta

    Lead AI Engineer

    Specialising in language models and retrieval, Shubbham makes sure what MESO generates is grounded in the curriculum.

  • Zeynep T. Akbiyik, Cloud & Infra Engineer

    Zeynep T. Akbiyik

    Cloud & Infra Engineer

    As an MSc student in Cloud Computing, Zeynep contributes to building the technical infrastructure that MESO lives on.

Our mission

To be the curriculum-grounded content engine for education, giving teachers back the time to inspire students, and giving education systems the content infrastructure their reforms require.

Our vision

To transform education by empowering teachers with tools that create time for what matters most: inspiring students.

Research first, from the start

MESO was founded out of teaching and research rather than out of a general-purpose AI product. That origin shapes the work: we study how curriculum change actually lands in classrooms, and we build to the standard the OECD now calls for: purpose-built tools for education, not generic chatbots.

What we value

Integrity

We say what our tools do, and no more than that.

Quality

Aligned by design, reviewed by teachers.

Grit

Education infrastructure is slow, hard work. We do it anyway.

Innovation

Purpose-built for education, not adapted from elsewhere.

What makes MESO different

01

Curriculum-native AI

Proprietary generation flows tuned to the Irish curriculum on AWS Bedrock, not a thin wrapper over a chat API.

02

Curriculum data model

A structured model of strands, outcomes and progressions that generic AI tools cannot replicate from prompts.

03

Compliance as a moat

GDPR and EU AI Act alignment designed in from day one: the procurement blocker for schools, solved.

04

Whole-workflow depth

Units, lessons, assessments, resources and exports in one system: planning that compounds, not one-off outputs.

Institutional backing

A Trinity College Dublin spin-out, supported by the ADAPT Centre, Enterprise Ireland and the Nova UCD AI Accelerator.

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Want to get involved? Become a global voice for MESO Lab and have your say on how we build and deliver tools for teachers. Join our community of education innovators as a MESO Fellow. We are seeking teachers and researchers with diverse expertise across educational disciplines and curricular backgrounds to help shape the future of educational planning tools.