Building an AI platform at fourteen.
Stanislaus joined Colearning at twelve to build a drone. Because the money for the parts was missing, he first sold AI chatbots to companies. Today he builds the chatbot platform himself. It is called Teydra Lab, and Salzburger Nachrichten ran a portrait about it. This is not a story about a prodigy. It is a story about a room in which a teenager is allowed to work on a real project, with people who take him seriously, and on a problem he chose himself. The drone was the occasion. The company came because the occasion was real. One ideal learning day per week, on Saturdays: an own project with real value, a shared meal, sport and people to grow with. There is no curriculum that dictates what is due today. There is one question everyone answers for themselves: what do I build that someone needs?
What Colearning does differently
One ideal learning day per week, on Saturdays: an own project with real value, a shared meal, sport and people to grow with. There is no curriculum that dictates what is due today. There is one question everyone answers for themselves: what do I build that someone needs?
Two and a half years of mentoring sit inside this story. Not as lessons, but as questions at the right time: who needs this? What does it cost you? How will you notice it works? The same questions a company has to answer.
Why this belongs in school
Freie Schule Salzburg builds exactly this structure into the school week: projects with real value, mentors instead of supervision, milestones instead of grades. Colearning is the practical foundation for it. What began on a Saturday with a drone becomes the rule during the week.
On record
Salzburger Nachrichten, business section, 19 August 2026. Colearning page on zukunftbilden.eu.
- Portrait in Salzburger Nachrichten, 19 August 2026, text and photos: Hannah Kirchgasser
- Video of Stanislaus right after the interview, on the Colearning page
- Teydra Lab in beta with first customers
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2026-09-02: Section on Freie Schule Salzburg added.
2026-08-20: Planted after the SN portrait.