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Estonia
20+ years of experience
I’m Alvar Laigna, a tech enthusiast and serial entrepreneur who believes in technology’s power to foster positive change. Over the past two decades, I’ve navigated the worlds of software development, machine learning, AI, and electronics, blending these fields to drive tangible impact. Have been coding since pre-dialup and following BBS times, still all-in on enjoying life, discovering, experimenting, and enjoying what the gods (philosophically) have created for us. At the moment, I'm building Perxify (an agentic commerce platform) and its first example case, the bookstore Raamatuhai (https://raamatuhai.ee/). I'm often expressing my somewhat straight and crazy ideas on politics, life, cooking, and coding. I'm not stuck in my beliefs, and I change my viewpoints as I learn and gather new information. I'm not afraid of telling people what I think, and I love everyone 😉 Let's BUILD together!

Eksamilohe is a agentic AI exam-prep platform for 9th and 12th graders preparing for their national exams. Launching in Estonia for the riigieksamid and built pan-EU from the schema up, it gives every student a personal study companion, Lohe (dragon), an orange dragon mascot that progresses through five states as they learn, backed by four specialised AI agents working in concert: a Study Planner that prioritises weak outcomes by exam proximity, a Self-Assessment agent that generates and grades curriculum-aligned questions with pedagogy checks, an Exam-Deadlines tracker that handles multi-jurisdiction calendars, and a Learning-Materials recommender. The platform is genuinely free at the point of use. Every student-facing feature, diagnostic tests, study plan, focus timer, badges, conversational tutor, is deliberately unmetered, with funding coming from ministries, state innovation funds, and strategic sponsors rather than student fees. Each generated test question is tagged with the exact learning outcome it probes (HARNO eristuskiri in Estonia, equivalent frameworks elsewhere), so mastery rolls up per topic and per subject rather than as a single opaque score. Speaking practice runs in real time over the browser's audio API, with Estonian-aware speech-to-text that handles õ/ä/ö/ü properly. The architecture is opinionated for compliance and longevity: a country-agnostic database schema from day one, immutable audit logs for every mutation, and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) gateway that exposes the same typed surface to the web UI, a Telegram bot, and any future AI client. Estonia 2026 is seeded and live in production at eksamilohe.ee; Finland is next, then the Nordics, Baltics, and major Western European systems. Built by Pärle Laigna, a Tallinna 21. Kool student, with her father Alvar Laigna.
19 May 2026