The story behind Hello Nabu

Our mission

Language barriers cost businesses billions in miscommunication, safety incidents, and missed opportunities. Traditional language courses teach grammar and vocabulary in isolation, but on a construction site, in a hospital ward, or during a client call, people need the specific words and phrases that match their actual job. We built Hello Nabu to close that gap: AI-powered practice in the exact language contexts your team faces every day, with CEFR-aligned tracking so you can prove impact to finance.

Hello Nabu combines a conversational AI tutor, real-time pronunciation feedback, and adaptive learning paths tailored to each learner's role and level. Whether you are a warehouse operator learning safety vocabulary or an executive preparing for an international board meeting, every session is built around scenarios that reflect your real working day.

What we believe in

  • Relevance over volume

    We train people on the language they actually need, not generic textbook content. A logistics coordinator practices customs forms; a nurse practices patient handovers. Every scenario is built for a real job.

  • Measurable outcomes

    CEFR-aligned progress tracking so you know exactly where your team stands. Our dashboards show individual and team-level data, from pronunciation scores to vocabulary mastery by topic.

  • Meet learners where they are

    Learning should adapt to people, not the other way around. Hello Nabu integrates into the tools teams already use, like Slack, Microsoft Teams, mobile, and web, with short sessions that fit between shifts, meetings, or commutes. No separate platform to log into, no hour to block out.

Meet the founders

Henri Falque-Pierrotin

Co-Founder & CEO

Henri speaks French, English, Spanish, and German. He didn't learn those languages from a textbook. He learned them by needing them. That experience shaped a conviction: learning a language isn't just about being understood. It's about being eloquent. Eloquence isn't complex words or perfect grammar. It's the ability to express ideas clearly, persuasively, and with impact. To make meaning land. In a world full of noise, that's what stands out. Unlike fluency, it's not just speaking correctly. Unlike confidence, it's not just speaking loudly. Hello Nabu exists because Henri believes every learner deserves to reach that level, not someday, but in the conversations they're already having at work.

Anatole Gaigneux

Co-Founder & CTO

Anatole spent seven years building software for large international organizations. He watched the same pattern everywhere: communication misalignment between local teams and headquarters driving rework, slowing delivery, and eroding trust. The root cause was rarely technical. It was linguistic. People had the skills but not the words to use them across borders. That frustration is what drives Hello Nabu's engineering. Anatole isn't guessing at the problem; he lived it. He builds the AI tutor, the speech recognition pipeline, and the adaptive learning systems with one goal: give people the specific language they need so the work moves faster and nothing gets lost in translation.

Built for real teams

Hello Nabu is designed for organizations where language gaps have real operational consequences. Not just inconvenience, but safety risks, lost deals, and slower delivery.

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