Find every dyslexic child. Then find the font that fits their brain.
OptiRead is a ten minute camera based reading difficulty screener and a live adaptive typography engine. It runs on the phones, tablets and laptops schools and families already own. No eye tracking hardware. No specialist required.
✓ Screen a whole class in one lesson ✓ Works on existing school devices ✓ No video ever leaves the device
Most dyslexic children are struggling in plain sight
Screening finds the children. Personalisation keeps them reading.
Most products do one or the other. OptiRead closes the loop between them, using the same measurement at both ends.
Read on screen
A child reads short, age appropriate passages while the front facing camera tracks their gaze. No extra hardware, no sensors, no lab.
The text fights back
OptiRead does not just watch. It deliberately changes the text: crowding, spacing, confusable characters, line geometry, complexity. It measures how the reader responds to each change.
A profile, not a label
The output is a mechanism level profile. Crowding sensitivity high. Line transition difficulty moderate. Spacing response strong. That is something a teacher can act on tomorrow.
The font adapts
The adaptive engine live generates typefaces, adjusting letter spacing, word spacing, weight and letterforms while measuring reading rate. Faster reading means a better fit.
One click, everywhere
Once the optimal configuration is found, it applies across the whole device. Every document, browser and app, not just one reading tool.
Evidence that builds
Termly re screening creates an objective longitudinal record of how a child actually reads, generated as a by product rather than as extra work for staff.
Two patent pending inventions
Two United Kingdom patent applications have been filed and a novelty search report has been completed. They cover both ends of one loop.
The adaptive typography engine
A computer implemented method that changes typographic rendering while monitoring ocular behaviour and reading performance, and uses those measurements as feedback to converge on an individualised typography configuration.
The valuable part is the closed control loop. Every existing dyslexia font is one fixed design offered to everyone. OptiRead measures you, and optimises for you.
- Render
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- Measure eyes
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- Score reading
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- Adjust type
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- Repeat
The perturbation screening protocol
Rather than passively watching someone read, OptiRead presents a controlled sequence of reading challenges and measures how ocular behaviour changes in response to each controlled modification of the text.
That is an actual test rather than an observation, and it produces a profile with separate, actionable dimensions.
Illustrative profile shown for explanation.
One system, four groups of people who need it
Schools and SENCOs
- Screen a whole class in a single lesson
- No specialist staff needed to run a session
- A profile for every child, not a referral queue
- Termly re screening builds a longitudinal record
- Evidence toward a pupil's normal way of working
Parents and families
- Identification at no cost to you through your school
- A tool, not just a label or a waiting list place
- The same typography follows your child home
- Understand the shape of the difficulty, not just a name
Adult readers
- Your own optimal typography across every app
- Settings sync across your devices
- Useful for anyone who reads slowly, not only dyslexic readers
- Free tier available, with an advertisement free subscription
Trusts, local authorities and institutions
Cross school dashboards showing reading difficulty prevalence and fluency by school, year group and cohort. Information that trusts and authorities do not currently hold in any systematic form, collected identically across every school. Universities and employers can license OptiRead under existing accessibility support routes.
Priced so that no school has to choose which children to screen
A private diagnostic assessment costs hundreds of pounds for one child. OptiRead screens a whole school for less.
Screening licence
Minimum £495 per school per year. A primary school of average size pays around £770 to screen every child, every year.
OptiRead Personal
Advertisement free, applied system wide across all your apps and documents, with settings synced across devices. A free tier is also available.
Enterprise
Unlimited schools within a trust, plus cross school analytics. Local authority licences available. Talk to us about your setting.
All prices exclude VAT. Pricing shown is indicative ahead of launch.
Be first when OptiRead opens
Join the waitlist for early access, pilot places for schools, and updates as the validation study progresses. No spam, and you can leave at any time.
You are on the list
Thank you for joining. We will be in touch as OptiRead opens up, and sooner if you asked about a pilot place.
The things people ask us first
Is this a dyslexia diagnosis?
No, and we are careful about this. OptiRead is a screening and guidance platform, not a diagnostic assessment. A formal diagnosis in the United Kingdom is made by a suitably qualified specialist teacher or practitioner psychologist. What OptiRead does is identify which children need a closer look, describe the mechanisms involved, and adapt how text is rendered for them. It supports professional judgement rather than replacing it.
Do we need to buy any equipment?
No. OptiRead is designed to run on the front facing camera of the devices schools and families already own, including older Chromebooks and tablets. Research grade eye tracking hardware costs thousands of pounds per unit, which is exactly why universal screening has never been affordable before now.
What happens to my child's data?
Processing happens on the device itself. Video of a child is never transmitted and never stored. Only derived measurements leave the device. The school is the data controller and OptiRead is the processor under a written agreement, and a data protection impact assessment is completed before any pupil data is processed. We follow the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Information Commissioner's Office Children's Code.
Will you show adverts to children?
Never. The free advertising supported tier is for adult users only and does not exist anywhere in the schools product. Advertising to or profiling screened children is not something we will do.
How long does a screening session take?
About ten minutes per child, and a whole class can be screened in a single lesson by a member of staff with no specialist training. There is nothing to install, because it runs in the browser.
What does patent pending mean here?
Two United Kingdom patent applications have been filed, covering the adaptive typography feedback loop and the perturbation based screening protocol, and a novelty search report has been completed. Filing is not the same as being granted, and we do not claim that either application has been granted.
Is it useful for people who are not dyslexic?
Yes. The adaptive typography engine optimises for whoever is reading. Ageing eyes, visual stress, low vision, acquired brain injury and reading in a second language all produce sub optimal reading against a fixed typeface. The engine does not need to know why you read slowly in order to help.
When does it launch?
The prototype has been built and extensively tested. School pilot places open first, followed by the wider launch. Join the waitlist and we will tell you as soon as places open in your area.