Meet Yee & Didy
I'm Yee Thao (known to many as Luka or Zeke). I'm a software engineer from the U.S., currently traveling Southeast Asia, with over 15 years of experience building scalable systems for education, manufacturing, and government — including an AI-readiness platform used by public agencies in 100+ countries.
My fiancée, Didy, and I lead ADMAIS (founded July 2026). She leads local operations and partner initiatives on the ground in Laos, while I lead product and technology from the U.S. Together, we built our lives around a single belief: technology is the most powerful lever we have for closing human opportunity gaps — if it is built for the people who need it most.
Literacy where books can't reach
Teaching is where this began. I'm an engineer by trade, but also a certified English teacher with my 120-hour TEFL/TESOL certification. I spent five years teaching English, math, and science to children and adults. Learners don't fail because they lack capability — they fail because they lack access.
In Laos, where we are currently building:
- Fewer than 1 in 7 children aged 7–14 have even three books at home.
- Nearly 30% of 2nd graders cannot read a single word.
- 92% of households own a mobile phone, but only 1.7% have home internet.
Physical books are expensive to print, import, and grade by reading level. Books can't reach these kids. Low-cost phones already do.
The offline literacy engine
An offline digital library and AI-assisted creator studio for low-resource environments:
- Local stories, local authors: local writers and teachers author stories rooted in their own culture.
- AI-powered production: AI assists with illustration and formatting, so one creator can publish a full book without a traditional publisher.
- Educator verified: every title is vetted and approved by an educator before release.
- Offline access: children read on the low-cost phones their families already own, tapping any word for its meaning — fully offline.
We already have a working prototype loaded with 99 published, levelled titles (A1–B2), and we're running the pilot ourselves, with local teachers already interested in taking part.
Where this is going: this library started as our Meta hackathon build — the end goal is a game that teaches English. Every book is leveled to the CEFR scale, working toward certified English speakers — which opens a real path to jobs and business.
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Back our bootstrap fund (direct gift)
Make a gift — gifts come straight to Didy and me to bootstrap our pilot programs, with no middle layer.
Your gift supports our mission and the work we do: 3E, our offline English learning library; three digital books I'm writing now (a true story about crime and the underworld, as told by a firsthand eyewitness; a novella of 13 horror stories collected across Asia, told to me by the locals themselves — documenting and archiving their culture; and a fictional AI apocalypse); a medical records app I'm building with a partner; open-source developer tools; and a business catalog for local shops.
Transparency note: ADMAIS is a for-profit LLC, so gifts are direct personal contributions to our work rather than tax-deductible charity donations. We operate this way to keep administrative overhead low, avoid bureaucracy, and stay agile.
Let's connect
Have a question, feedback, or an idea worth building together? I read every message personally — reach me through the contact us button, or directly at lukayeethao@gmail.com.
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