Walter Agentic AI Tutor

Noodle Factory is an AI-in-education company founded in 2018 by Yvonne Soh and Dr Jim Wagstaff, with an engineering and learning-success team that includes staff in Vietnam. It builds AI tutors designed around pedagogy so universities, polytechnics, schools and corporate training teams can give every learner guided support without adding to educator workload.

Its platform centres on Walter, an agentic AI tutor that turns an institution's own slides, readings, outcomes and rubrics into guided learning journeys: structured tutoring, quizzes with auto-grading, rubric-aligned writing feedback, role plays for professional practice and analytics with early alerts. Custom Skills turn lesson plans, rubrics and scenarios into reusable AI workflows, and NoodleMe lets students build shareable AI tutors from their notes. Users include the University of London, ITE Singapore and Taylor's University.

• Guided tutoring: Walter tutors learners step by step from uploaded course materials and learning outcomes.
• Quizzes and auto-grading: quiz questions are generated from documents and graded automatically.
• Writing feedback: submitted work receives rubric-aligned feedback before educator review.
• Role plays: learners rehearse clinical, client or sales conversations with structured feedback.
• Custom Skills: lesson plans, rubrics and scenarios become reusable, governed AI workflows.
• Analytics and LMS sync: dashboards and early alerts, with LTI and LMS sync for Canvas, Blackboard and Moodle.

A Vietnamese university can pilot Walter in a large foundation course to give students 24/7 tutoring and rubric-based essay feedback. A vocational college can use role plays for nursing or hospitality practice. A bank or insurer can use it for onboarding and compliance knowledge checks on internal materials.

Reduces marking effort: an ITE Singapore case study reports 60% less marking time across 400+ students with three times more feedback. Keeps AI answers grounded in approved course content and rubrics instead of generic chatbots. Gives faculty live dashboards and early alerts on struggling learners. Starts with a single-course pilot set up within days, then scales across departments.

Universities and schools across Southeast Asia are moving from ad hoc use of general chatbots to governed AI tools that follow their own syllabus, assessment rules and academic integrity policies. Large classes, hybrid delivery and pressure on teaching staff are pushing demand for AI tutoring and feedback that leaves educators in control, a need also visible as Vietnamese universities digitise teaching.

Founded in 2018; co-founders Yvonne Soh (CEO) and Dr Jim Wagstaff. Recognition: HolonIQ Top 50 Southeast Asia EdTech 2021-2025, AWS Partner of the Year 2023 (winner), EdtechX Awards 2024 Asia-Pacific finalist, GESAwards 2022 winner, Education Alliance Finland pedagogical quality certificate 2021. MOU with ITE Singapore. Listed on AWS Marketplace.