4i Studio
By Lake Union Solutions Limited
For the children in your school.
And the adults.
4i Studio provides a holistic, school-wide approach to Ofsted compliance, personal development, well-being, and the safe usage of artificial intelligence.
While pupils remain the ultimate focus, these issues affect and involve teachers, school leaders, non-teaching staff, families and entire communities.
Zen Lake™
Well-being tools, resilience framework, personal development, and analytics.
No Artificial Intelligence
Well-Being WHO-5 Index
Personal Development for Pupils
Evidence and Analytics
Resilience/Coping Framework
Personal Development for Adults
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Criteria Lake™
The framework for assessing artificial intelligence usage in schools
Digitised Rubric for AI Usage
Interactive Maturity Model
DfE/Ofsted Policy Pack
Parent Explainer
Messaging Templates
Governor/Trustee Assurance
Permission to say 'No'
(if you need to...)
Approved partnership with Oxford Rubric™
The rapid emergence of AI tools in educational contexts presents both significant opportunities and material risks for schools. The Oxford Rubric™ is a normative framework that helps school leaders and staff to assess the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in schools confidently.
Only when scenarios and tools have met all five criteria in the rubric (safety, efficacy, accountability, transparency, and agency), should AI be used in school contexts.
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Check Lake™FREE!
Ofsted inspection checklists: Understand what inspectors are looking at!
Get up-to-speed with the new criteria
The new Ofsted inspection framework has been redesigned from the ground up in an attempt to provide a fairer, more accurate, and more nuanced view of your school. While this is a good thing overall, it means that Ofsted inspectors now have many different categories to look at and report on. Further, each category is subject to a score on a new five-point grading scale and each level on that scale is subject to multiple criteria. Suffice to say that the world of Ofsted inspections just got a lot more complex!
The ONLY feasible way for you to represent your school in a fair and consistent way is if you have a strong grasp of all the criteria for all the levels in each inspection category. But that is a huge ask...
To help, we have researched, documented, and presented ALL the criteria for ALL the levels in EACH of the inspection categories and built you a neat tool that enables you to explore the new criteria in one place
And the best part? It's 100% FREE!
Ofsted Readiness Training
Let's start by ensuring YOU are Ofsted-ready!
It's not all about jumping through hoops...
About this course
This course is designed to help you get up to speed as quickly as possible with the new Ofsted framework that was announced in September 2025.
Starting from November 2025, the new framework has been in effect for all new inspections. You should ensure you are up-to-speed as quickly as possible with the new five-point grading scale, the new Ofsted report cards, the new inspection categories, and the evidence that the inspectors will be looking for in each category.
The course is modular and organised into easily consumed, bite-sized lessons. You can study the lessons whenever you have a few minutes in your busy day, and you can track your progress at a glance. You can easily revisit lessons whenever you need to and you can make notes and journal entries as you study. There is no time limit for completion and no limit to the number of times you can consume a lesson!
Modules1Introduction
2Ofsted Inspection Categories
3The Five-Point Grading Scale
4Report Cards
5Leadership and Governance
6Personal Development and Well-Being
7Attendance and Behaviour
8Curriculum and Teaching
9Achievement
10Inclusion
11Safeguarding
Introduction
Ofsted Inspection Categories
The Five-Point Grading Scale
Report Cards
Leadership and Governance
Personal Development and Well-Being
Attendance and Behaviour
Curriculum and Teaching
Achievement
Inclusion
Safeguarding
About 4i Studio
We are a diverse, varied group with a shared, burning desire to make a significant difference to society.
What better place to start than with our children?
The most valuable investment a community can make is in children's education, given that it shapes the long-term health, stability, and prosperity of every society and country.
Our Vision
We live by the idea that if children can do well, then they will do well. We envisage a world where all children have a healthy, productive education that prepares them to face challenges, recognize opportunities, become productive adults, and contribute to society.
Our Mission
For our vision to become a reality, we make it our mission to provide the tools, the data, the analytics, and the improvement frameworks that enable teachers, entire schools, and whole communities to create environments where children can "do well".
To do this, we acknowledge the value of peer-reviewed research and highly-credible organizations—including UNICEF, the US National Institute of Health (NIH), UNESCO, OECD, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the American Medicine Association, and the European Union—and we turn this wealth of research into practical tools that schools, families, and children can use.
Our Values
Our ethos is to put children's needs at the center of everything we do. In doing so, we embrace varied viewpoints, we listen to experts, and we strive to make a real difference to schools, families, and children.
We value impact above profit margins, and we refuse to be influenced by extreme or divisive politics of any flavor. We act transparently and we acknowledge the various sources and bodies of work that we have turned into actionable frameworks for schools, children, and families.
Our Stance on Artificial Intelligence
The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in educational contexts presents both significant opportunities and material risks for schools. While AI has the potential to enhance teaching, personalise learning, and reduce administrative burden its uncritical or poorly governed adoption may undermine safeguarding, pedagogical integrity, professional judgement, and teacher/pupil agency.
Our position reinforces the fact that schools and teachers have a non‑delegable duty of care to their pupils. We recognise that not all efficiency gains are educational gains, and that education is fundamentally a human endeavour. The professional agency of teachers and the developing independence of learners must not be diminished by artificial intelligence.
The software we create does NOT use artificial intelligence. This will remain the case until AI technologies, tools, and scenarios can be validated fully against the Oxford Rubric for assessing AI usage in schools.
Meet the Team!

Martin Harwar
Chief Product Officer (Interim)

Nikki Evans
Head of Curriculum & Content

Alejandro Valverde
Lead Software Engineer

Patrick Keating
Chief Analyst & Strategist

Melissa Burch
Education Consultant
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Work with us!
When you join us, you will share our principles that the most valuable investment a community can make is in children's education.
You will quickly learn that we put children's needs at the center of everything we do. We embrace varied viewpoints, we listen to experts, and we strive to make a real difference to schools, families, and children.
Our workforce is diverse by design. We are already a varied group (including teachers, psychologists, strategists, researchers, and software specialists) so join us to add your experience, enthusiasm, and energy to our mission!
Current Opportunities
We are currently recruiting for the following roles, but we are always growing and would be delighted to hear from you even if there is not currently an exact match.
- United Kingdom
- Full-time
- Onsite (London)
- £80,000 — £90,000
- Reports to: Chief Product Officer
- United Kingdom
- Full-time
- Hybrid (London)
- £90,000 — £135,000
- Reports to: Chief Product Officer
- United Kingdom
- Full-time
- Hybrid (London)
- £140,000 — £180,000
- Reports to: CEO
- United Kingdom
- Part-time
- Hybrid (London)
- £60,000 — £75,000 (pro-rata)
- Reports to: Curriculum Director
- United Kingdom
- Full-time
- Hybrid (London)
- £110,000 — £135,000
- Reports to: Chief Product Officer
- United Kingdom
- Full-time
- Remote (or hybrid in London)
- £80,000 — £95,000
- Reports to: Curriculum Director
- United Kingdom
- Part-time
- Remote
- £60,000 (pro-rata)
- Reports to: Curriculum Director
- United Kingdom
- Full-time
- Onsite (London)
- £90,000 base / OTE £150,000
- Reports to: CEO
- United Kingdom
- Full-time
- Remote (or hybrid in London)
- £60,000 — £65,000
- Reports to: Technology Director
Contact us for an initial confidential conversation.