How Pento was actually made.
A student who kept building things.
Pento's founder was still a student when his school's ATL head noticed something — he kept prototyping small ideas long after class ended. So he was invited to join the school's ATL bootcamp and turn one of those ideas into a real project.
The idea he chose was simple, and stubborn: learning should feel like a community, not a subscription.
The founder, the ATL head, the ATL teacher.
For many days, the three of them worked side-by-side on the school campus — the student writing code, the ATL head shaping the vision, the ATL teacher grounding it in what students, teachers and parents really need. Whiteboards filled up. Ideas were killed and reborn. Pento kept getting sharper.
Nothing about Pento came from a boardroom. It came from a table in a school lab.
From a bootcamp project to a community.
What started as one student's ATL project is now a growing community connecting classrooms, homes and mentors. Every feature — from student timers, to teacher planners, to parent updates — is still guided by one question: does this help a learner move forward today?
