About Us

Empowering learning through meaningful feedback

At Manati, we believe feedback is central to learning and professors deserve tools that make it easy to provide feedback at scale. Professors want to give students meaningful feedback. But classes are big, time is short, and the tools meant to help often just get in the way and introduce additional complexity.

Who we are

At Manati, we believe feedback should drive learning—not just document it. We're building tools that make formative feedback faster, more meaningful, and easier to act on.

Manati helps educators deliver reliable, standards-based feedback at scale. Every evaluation is grounded in your rubric ensuring results that are consistent, transparent, and aligned with your learning outcomes.

  • We're a small, Boston-based team building in the heart of the academic world.
  • We’re builders, but we don’t think technology is the center of the story (good teaching is).
  • We listen closely to educators and design tools that work with them, not around them.

Our Founders

Get to know the people behind Manati. Learn more about our founders, their journey, and what drives them to build and lead with purpose.

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Brian Ramirez

Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

Brian holds degrees in Computer Science and Education from UMass Amherst and Harvard, with research experience at MIT focused on VR experiences for learning. At Harvard, he led edtech efforts for the Kennedy School’s online programs. He later joined Google, where he led a team of 35 engineers and shipped features used by over a billion users. His work bridges pedagogy, engineering, and scale—driven by a deep belief in technology’s power to transform education.

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Louis NeJame

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Louis works at the intersection of learning, AI, and business. Before Manati, Louis led AI initiatives at McGraw Hill, launching products like AI Reader, an AI tool designed to help learners engage more deeply with course content. Before that, he advised edtech companies on adaptive learning and AI as a strategy consultant at Tyton Partners. His work focuses on using AI to make learning more active, engaging, and inquiry-based. Louis holds a degree in Business from Babson College.