About Chord Hero

A machine can produce a thing. It cannot have made one.

Everything we build rests on that difference.

Our mission

We don't need to be the best. We need to be the only.

The instrument, the engine that measures the playing, the game and the classroom belong to one company — and the child physically made the thing they're learning on. Nobody else can say that sentence. It is also how we take the two real obstacles off the table: the price of a decent instrument, and the months of unrewarded practice before anything feels like progress.

We don't need to be the best. We need to be the only.

Our approach

One loop. Ordinary everywhere else.

A made instrument, measured playing, a kept record. That loop is the only thing we have to be unmatched at — our physics course needs to be sound, not remarkable; our AI course needs to be honest, not clever. Every proposal gets one test: does it deepen the loop, or is it another thing standing beside it?

One loop. Ordinary everywhere else.

What we're actually teaching

The tools will be free. The reason to use them won't be.

We don't tell parents that AI skills will make their child stand out — prompting gets easier every month, and soon it will distinguish a person about as much as knowing how to use a search engine does. What stays scarce is having something worth making, and being able to tell good from merely plausible. Which is why the painting isn't the fun part of the programme. It's the part that transfers.

The tools will be free. The reason to use them won't be.

"Chord Hero is an exemplary alumni of xEdu Edtech Accelerator. We have chosen them into the program for their amazing pedagogical innovation Maker Ukulele Set, that not only teaches music, but expands to arts, crafts, physics and other school subjects, which makes it an excellent object for phenomenal learning. It also makes a wonderful gift to anybody, whether they know how to play ukulele or not."

— Anna Dementyeva, xEdu Program Director

Global presence

From Cyberport to classrooms on three continents.

Home is Hong Kong's innovation hub. Our products have reached classrooms and homes across Asia, Europe and North America — and the newsroom is the running record of it.

From Cyberport to classrooms on three continents.

Recognition

Judged by people who teach for a living.

Education Alliance Finland CertifiedEducation Alliance Finland Certified
Digital Ehon Award Grand Prize (Japan)Digital Ehon Award Grand Prize (Japan)
GESS Education Awards Finalist (Dubai)GESS Education Awards Finalist (Dubai)
xEdu Finland Accelerator AlumnixEdu Finland Accelerator Alumni
Official Van Gogh Sites Foundation PartnerOfficial Van Gogh Sites Foundation Partner

Contact

Come and find us.

Room 8, 6/F, Core C, Cyberport 3
100 Cyberport Road, Pok Fu Lam
Hong Kong

Come and find us.