Czech developer builds AI tool to compare driving schools

By day, 29-year-old developer Martin Svoboda writes code for a mobile app for the betting company Fortuna; by night, using artificial intelligence, he single-handedly built Kvalty.cz — a service comparing driving schools across Czechia that already covers data on more than 1,450 driving schools.

The idea is not a new one: Svoboda had been thinking about a platform like this as far back as ten years ago, after reading articles about how Czechia has far more driving schools than neighbouring countries, and how students' experiences were often negative — ranging from instructors' pressure to cases of sexual harassment. Back then he only knew how to build Android apps, not web services with a backend and database, so the idea seemed beyond his reach.

The push to actually build it came at the end of 2024, when a plan to do the project together with friends fell through, and Svoboda decided to test what he could create alone with AI. The journey from idea to launch took about six months: at first he would ask the AI to add a single button, a month later he had moved on to generating whole pages, and today he can tell it to “keep working until you're done” and come back to a finished result.

During development he tried out several tools, from Copilot to Cursor. The result is a service that, for any given location, produces a handy comparison of driving schools: reviews, course prices, distance from the address and, importantly, official Transport Ministry statistics on exam pass rates.

According to Svoboda, the point isn't simply to pick the cheapest school — almost half of people fail their exam on the first attempt, and the price difference between neighbouring driving schools can run to several thousand crowns. His goal is to give future drivers the full picture: price, reviews, real statistics and graduate numbers, rather than just the lowest figure on a price list.