Alexandro Ghanem

Founder and Software Engineer, Prismwell
Member of Youth Parliament for Bury

Alexandro Ghanem, also known as Sandro, is the founder of Prismwell, the company behind the GCSE revision site Yumio, and the Member of Youth Parliament for Bury. He is a software engineer who has been building things since he was seven, and a second-year student at Bury College, where he is a student representative.

“I failed my GCSE Maths the first time. I do not want any student to fail because they were taught the wrong way.”

Early life

Alexandro grew up in Lebanon and moved to the United Kingdom at fourteen, settling in Radcliffe, in the borough of Bury, Greater Manchester. He started coding at seven, building small projects for fun, and it has been part of his life ever since. He went to Whitworth Community High School before moving on to Bury College.

At school he saw students struggle, and saw methods taught that did not work for them. He pushed for stronger teaching, but he did not pass GCSE Maths the first time. That experience changed how he saw education: the problem was not students failing to try. The help needed to be done in a different way.

Founding Prismwell

Prismwell started as an idea about what learning should feel like. A prism, in maths and in science, is about seeing the structure inside something. In maths, the same shape runs all the way through a prism, so one slice shows you how the whole thing is built. In science, a prism takes light that looks plain and shows the colours hidden inside it. That is the point of the name: not just the finished answer, but the thinking that gets you there. The well is the depth: a source you can keep drawing from, not a surface-level answer you use once.

Prismwell's mission is to lead the frontier of AI in education: to build AI that understands how students learn, and to use it to make learning deeper, fairer and open to every student.

Yumio

Yumio is Prismwell's first product. Its name comes from yume, the Japanese word for dream, because Yumio is there to help students reach for theirs. It is built around one idea: every GCSE student deserves a patient tutor, not only the families who can pay for one each week.

Yumio covers GCSE Maths, Combined Science and English for students in Years 10 and 11 and for resitters. Teach me explains topics step by step on a whiteboard. Exam-style papers and worksheets are marked line by line, so a correct method still earns credit when the final answer slips. Memory brings back what a student got wrong until they get it right, and flashcards, Paper Together and Ranked make revision something to do alone, with friends or as a challenge. Students can start free.

Software engineer

Alexandro writes much of Yumio's software himself, from the tutor that teaches on the whiteboard to the marking that reads a student's working, gives method and accuracy marks the way an examiner would, and explains where a mark was lost. His focus is honest marking and teaching that adapts to each student. Next, he is deepening his work in AI research, so that Prismwell can build its own models for learning.

Member of Youth Parliament for Bury

Alexandro is Bury's Member of Youth Parliament (MYP), also known as Youth MP. He represents young people at local, regional and national level, including work through the UK Youth Parliament and the National Youth Agency.

He has pushed for investment in education: modern equipment in schools, such as tablets, and bringing AI into everyday school work. His wider priorities for young people in Bury are:

• Work and poverty: more part-time jobs and first-step roles for 16 to 18 year olds, and clearer routes into apprenticeships.
• An opportunities hub: one place for jobs, apprenticeships, volunteering, careers advice and local events.
• Football and netball: better pitches, courts and fairer access to sport for every young person.
• Activities and events: more local events and activities across all of Bury's towns.
• The environment: cleaner, cared-for public spaces.
• Fairer access to information for young people.

On his election, the Mayor of Bury, Cllr Noel Bayley, said he was sure that Alexandro would be "a fantastic ambassador for the borough". His promises, news and ways to get involved are on ghanem.uk.

Student representative at Bury College

At Bury College, Alexandro is a student representative, speaking for students on the issues that affect their education. That role feeds straight into Yumio: students tell him what makes learning hard, and their answers decide what gets built next.

What comes next

Alexandro wants to change how students are taught, so that understanding comes before memorising and good help does not depend on what a family can pay. With Prismwell he plans to grow from GCSE revision into AI that can teach any subject the way a great teacher would, built on research into how students actually learn.

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Questions about Alexandro Ghanem

Who is Alexandro Ghanem?

Alexandro Ghanem is a software engineer and the founder of Prismwell, which builds the GCSE revision site Yumio. He is the Member of Youth Parliament for Bury and a student representative at Bury College.

What is Prismwell?

Prismwell (Prismwell Labs) is a UK company founded by Alexandro Ghanem. Its mission is to lead the frontier of AI in education, and it builds Yumio, a GCSE revision site with an AI tutor.

What does Yumio mean?

Yumio comes from yume, the Japanese word for dream.

Is Alexandro Ghanem the Youth MP for Bury?

Yes. He was elected Member of Youth Parliament for Bury in February 2026 with 1,905 votes, in an election where more than 6,500 young people voted.

Where is Alexandro Ghanem from?

He grew up in Lebanon and moved to the United Kingdom at fourteen. He lives in Radcliffe, in the borough of Bury, Greater Manchester.

How can I contact Alexandro Ghanem?

For Yumio and Prismwell, email support@yumio.co.uk. For Youth Parliament work in Bury, use ghanem.uk.