Phonlawat “Beam” Sirajindapirom, 17-year-old CEO of RevisionSuccess and co-founder of TuaTueng, says that learning how to use artificial intelligence (AI) and implementing it within Thailand’s education system is critical for the country’s future.
A lacking and underfunded school system underserves intelligent Thai students, Mr Phonlawat said in an interview with the Bangkok Post on July 24, 2026.
“I know people who spend hundreds of thousands on tutors, but it shouldn't be like this. And for the people who can’t? How are they supposed to compete?” he said.
Officially launched on July 18, TuaTueng is RevisionSuccess's AI-powered learning platform aimed at preparing high school students for the Thai General Aptitude Test (TGAT), which examines English and Thai literacy and comprehension, problem solving and workplace suitability. Performing well on TGAT heavily influences whether universities accept applications.
“We take the practice questions on these past papers, we train our AI models to build similar questions in similar formats, and then we have a human team factchecking and verifying the accuracy of it to ensure that every question – from the question to the experience of using TuaTueng – is as exam-like as possible,” said the young entrepreneur.
TuaTueng also provides a personalised AI tutor. The company says that the tutor leads the user step-by-step through the learning process instead of immediately giving them the answer to a question.
As an article on TuaTueng’s website explains, the AI tutor is intended to bolster rather than diminish the user’s cognitive abilities, in response to studies showing heavy use of AI models can lower users’ critical thinking skills.
RevisionSuccess, the EdTech (education technology) startup behind TuaTueng, was founded by students of Chulalongkorn University. In May 2026, the National Innovation Agency (NIA) and Chulalongkorn University invested 1 million baht into the company. This as a part of the Thai government’s continued ventures into the development of AI infrastructure in education.
The NIA-funded AI initiatives are designed to resolve the long-standing issues and inequalities embedded in Thailand’s education system. For example, the 2025 EF English Proficiency Index (EPI) placed Thailand as 116th of 123 countries in terms of English literacy, categorising it as having “Very Low Proficiency”.
Notably, more populated, wealthier and urban areas such as Bangkok, Pattaya and Chiang Mai achieved results that would place them as ‘Moderate Proficiency’ according to the EF EPI. In contrast, remote, impoverished and rural areas outside of central Thailand scored significantly lower than Thailand’s average EPI score. Thailand’s results from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment for other subjects such as Mathematics follow a similar trend.
Much of the government’s efforts have been focused on creating educational equity for struggling students and overworked teachers. However, as the NIA and Chulangakorn University’s investment into RevisionSuccess indicates, the involvement of AI in Thailand’s educational reform goes beyond supporting those in underprivileged classrooms.
