Who we are
Workings is a numeracy engine for Kindergarten to Year 10. Every child gets questions pitched at their frontier, with maths and reading measured apart. It was co-founded by Mark Miles, a Wiradjuri mathematics teacher, who chairs the board and owns the curriculum.
Co-founder and Chair · Wiradjuri mathematics teacher
Mark is a Wiradjuri mathematics teacher with a Masters in Mathematics and a career spent teaching the subject to the full range of a school. He chairs the board and owns the curriculum: the sequence, the dependencies, the question bank, the threshold at which a child has actually mastered something, and the approval of every question before a child sees it.
Co-founder · Product and engineering
Cale builds the product and runs the commercial side. He has spent 20 years building technology inside large organisations, most recently running a technology and transformation consultancy across Australia and New Zealand, and building AI systems that have to hold up under real scrutiny. He holds a postgraduate qualification in neuroscience. He doesn’t own the curriculum, and the architecture makes it impossible for him to change what counts as a correct answer. That’s deliberate.
The sequence of skills, what depends on what, the mastery threshold and the approval of every question sit with Mark, not with a model. The architecture means nobody else can change what counts as a correct answer.
Workings is an Aboriginal co-founded and Aboriginal-controlled business. There are two co-founders, one of them Aboriginal, which is why we say part Aboriginal founded. Mark chairs the board, and Mark and Cale co-lead the business.
Verified ownership and registration details are supplied on request. Email hello@workings.com.au.
Cultural content in Workings is co-designed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators and communities, covering what each community chooses to share. Every piece is approved before a child sees it, and AI written cultural content is prohibited.
Data about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is governed consistently with the Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles.
A stuck child gets a hint, a step down, or a walk back to a prerequisite. They take the last step.
A child is never given more subtraction because they couldn’t untangle a sentence.
Code computes every answer on the server. No child’s name, email or school is ever sent to a model.
No clocks, timers or countdowns. Twenty minutes is how long, never a deadline.
Stored in Sydney, with each school’s data kept apart in the database.
Fourteen days free. Twenty minutes a day. Every question pitched for your child, and the last step always theirs.