About Langford Academy

The people behind Langford Academy.

Every class on Langford has three views: the parent’s, the student’s and the teacher’s. These are the three people who answer for all of them.

Mrs. Gayathri Jagadish, founder and director of Langford Academy

Founder & Director

Mrs. Gayathree B Jagadeesan

Mrs. Gayathree B Jagadeesan is the founder and a director of Langford Academy. The academy was founded on one idea: the person paying for a class, the person teaching it and the person learning in it should all be able to see what actually happened.

Mr. Jagadish, co-founder and director of Langford Academy

Co-founder & Director

Mr. B Jagadeesan

Mr. B Jagadeesan is the co-founder and a director of Langford Academy, and has been part of building it from the start: one platform where parents, students and teachers work from the same record instead of taking each other’s word for it.

Mr. Ankith Reddy, Chief Executive Officer of Langford Academy

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Ankith Reddy

Mr. Ankith Reddy leads Langford Academy as Chief Executive Officer. A Bengaluru entrepreneur, Mr. Reddy is also the founder and chief executive of HomePage, the zero-brokerage property app, and of the media house Vijaya Chronicle.

More about Mr. Ankith Reddy

Why we built it.

Langford Academy is one app with three ways in. A student searches for a class and attends it, a teacher publishes it and sets the fee, and a parent pays for it and sees whether it happened.

Online tuition already works. What tends not to work is everything around it. A parent pays into a system that gives them nothing back but a receipt. A teacher does good work and then spends the evening chasing people for money. A student is the only one who knows what actually happened in the hour, and nobody asks them.

The fix is not another video call. It is a single record that the person paying, the person teaching and the person learning can all see, so nobody has to take anybody’s word for it. The register is marked once, by the teacher, in the class. Everything else on the platform reads from that.

Organic Chemistry

Today, 6:00 PM · Priya R. · Class 12

Attended
  • ParentPaid ₹499, released once the class ran
  • StudentMarked present at 5:58 PM
  • TeacherCounted in this week’s payout
An example class. One register, and each person sees the part that matters to them.

What we do not do.

Four lines Langford holds, whoever is asking.

  • We do not set teachers’ fees.The teacher names the number, changes it whenever they like, and can teach for nothing if that is what they want to do.
  • We do not sell packages.The smallest thing anyone can commit to is one class with one teacher.
  • We do not take a share of a class that did not run.An empty class costs everybody nothing.
  • We do not hide the awkward reviews.Everything a verified account leaves is published, the four-star ones included.

We are opening city by city.

Verifying teachers properly is slow and does not scale the way sign-ups do, so Langford opens in stages. Join the list and we will tell you when your city is open.