The names

Words for thinking, borrowed with care

miatz^™ is a Maya word for wisdom — the discerning knowing that arrives after the mystery is solved. We demystify; you leave with miatz. The graduate credential is an Itz’at^™ — a Maya term for a sage, a skilled master artisan.

Why Maya words, from a school built in Bangalore? Parallel genius. Two civilisations, oceans apart, independently grasped zero — the hardest idea in mathematics — because both cultures took thinking itself seriously. We borrow their words for thinking as a tribute to that, and we claim nothing more: no ancient kinship, no lineage, no mysticism.

The rule

Words, never iconography

The line is absolute, and it is enforced in our asset pipeline, not just our taste.

We borrow

Maya words for thinking — wisdom, sage, thought, speech, guard — set respectfully in our own type, glossed on first use, marked ™ and never ®, because a borrowed word is used, not owned.

We never touch

Glyph blocks, deities, calendar stones, pyramids — any sacred or ceremonial Maya imagery. Our glyphs are our own geometry on a 64-grid; our image pipeline carries an explicit negative against Maya iconography so not even a generator can drift across the line.

Honesty note: our glosses are working translations. A native-speaker review of every gloss is on our roadmap, and this page will say so until it has happened.

The family

Every name, one page

Each name marks one part of the school — and carries its honest status.

miatz^™MEE-ahts
Yucatec Maya — wisdom · learnedness. The discerning knowing that arrives after the mystery is solved. Demystify Systems demystifies; what you are left holding is miatz.
House brand.
AvailableThe school →
Itz'at^™eets-AHT
Classic Maya — sage · master artisan. The titled specialist who both knew and made. Names the graduate credential: an Open Badges 3.0 / W3C VC record of the decisions a learner actually made, verifiable by anyone including a machine. Assurance level A4.
The credential.
Available/itzat →
Tuukul^™
Yucatec Maya — thought · the act of thinking. Teaches people to think before they prompt: decompose the ask, name the constraints, state the bet, then write the instruction. Plural tuukulo'ob is attested in the ethnographic record.
Structured-thinking module.
Available/tuukul →
T'aan^™
Yucatec Maya — word · speech · language. A live, AI-moderated viva where a candidate defends their own decisions out loud and is scored on reasoning rather than recall. Assurance level A3.
The oral defence.
Beta/assurance →
Kanan^™
Yucatec Maya — to guard · to keep · to care for. Exam integrity, proctoring and the certified-proctor role. Guardianship, not surveillance. Assurance level A2.
Integrity & proctoring.
Beta/assurance →
DSAT
The one English name in the family, deliberately: the gate must read as an instrument, not a metaphor. Two hours, six sections, reasoning over syntax recall. Free, always.
The admission gate.
Free/program →
Mysty
Proposes; the learner approves, rejects or sends back with a reason. Deliberately not a Maya name — the agent is the one thing in the system that is not a discipline.
The agent.
Available/mysty →
Foundations · Core · Immersion
Foundations builds the base, Core puts you on live agent work, Immersion routes top performers to paid work. Plain English so the ladder is legible to a parent, a recruiter and a CFO.
The ladder.
Available/program →

An aperture, not a face

The mark is an open shell with a bar on its axis and a dot at the rim — a gate left ajar, the light coming through. Its geometry is locked in code and tested in CI (the “face test”: any variant that reads as a smiley is rejected). Every product glyph in the family above shares one 64-unit canvas and one stroke weight — drawn by us, owned by us, and deliberately unrelated to any Maya visual tradition.

House ritual: Maya names are always set in the display serif, never italicised, with the typographic apostrophe — Itz’at, T’aan — and ™ on first use. DSAT is always caps, always mono.

Now meet the school behind the words.

The names are the map. The record is the territory.

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