Transforming Visual Content into Touchable Insights in 90 Seconds

AI-Powered STEM Accessibility Infrastructure for Blind & Low-Vision Learners

90s Processing Time
~$5 Per Image
76.6% Comprehension
📊 Graph → ⠞⠁⠉⠞⠊⠇⠑
🧬 Molecule → ⠓⠕⠗⠊⠵⠕⠝⠎
📈 Data → ⠁⠉⠉⠑⠎⠎⠊⠃⠇⠑

The Compliance Crisis

Educational institutions, publishers, and government agencies face a mounting compliance crisis.

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Regulatory Mandates

Accessible Canada Act (ACA) and ADA Title II mandate full STEM accessibility by April 2026.

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Financial Unsustainability

Manual tactile production costs $200 per image with 4-week delays, draining IDEA funding.

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Equity Failure

Operational bottlenecks deny blind learners timely access to the same materials as sighted peers.

"Current tactile production methods are a systemic barrier to equity... rendering real-time STEM learning impossible."

AI-Powered Tactile Automation

Manual Production

  • ❌ 2-4 weeks turnaround
  • ❌ $50-$200 per image
  • ❌ Cluttered, confusing outputs

Tactile Horizons AI

  • 90 seconds
  • ~$5 per image
  • WCAG 2.1 AA Compliant
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AI Interpretation

Computer vision isolates STEM-relevant features from any visual content.

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Intelligent Simplification

Removes clutter, preserves semantic meaning with 80% accuracy.

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Tactile Optimization

Outputs variable-height emboss files calibrated for fingertip discrimination.

Market Opportunity

TAM
$3.91B
Assistive Technology (Visual Impairment)
SAM
$225M
Education & Federally Regulated Sectors
SOM
$30M
ARR by Year 3 (13.3% Capture)

Growth Catalysts

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Regulatory

ADA Title II & Accessible Canada Act mandates create 2026 procurement urgency.

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Funding

IDEA federal grants ($14.2B annually) available for special education compliance.

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Global

UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (179 signatories).

Long-Term Competitive Advantage

Tactile Horizons AI's moat is built on three compounding advantages: proprietary, domain-specific training datasets generated through pilot partnerships (CINB, NIB), creating a data flywheel that continuously improves our tactile optimization models; API-first architecture that embeds directly into existing Learning Management Systems and embosser hardware, creating high switching costs; and regulatory timing leadership, where early compliance with April 2026 deadlines establishes us as the trusted infrastructure layer.

76.6% Comprehension

vs. 70.1% verbal-only — independently validated

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NIB Partnership

Invited to showcase at 2026 Conference & Expo

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Harvard & UofT

Study participant on social entrepreneurship impact

Leadership

Ibrahim Al-Jallad

Founder & CEO

Accomplished IT Project Manager and AI Generalist with over 16 years of experience in translating business imperatives into technical solutions that deliver quantifiable ROI.

Proven expertise in managing multi-million dollar projects and portfolios within government and public sector settings with a strong command of cross-functional collaboration, OPS procurement practices and vendor management.

Delivered "out of the Box" creative community development initiatives utilizing IT tools for the Canadian International Development Agency and USAID.