Your child's voice never leaves your kitchen table.
La voz de su hijo nunca sale de la mesa de su cocina.
Your child speaks out loud to a tutor that runs on your own computer, in English or in Spanish. The listening, the teaching and the answering all happen on that machine, which is why their voice has nowhere else to go. Switch the internet off and the lesson carries on: that is how you check it.
One note when it opens in your state, and nothing else. We do not pass your address to anyone.
- No audio leaves the computer
- Works with the internet off
- Spanish, not translated
- Delete it all, any time
Unplug the internet. The lesson keeps going.
Desconecte el internet. La clase sigue igual.
The question worth asking about any talking program is where the sound of your child's voice goes, and who can hear it later. Here it goes nowhere, and you do not have to take our word for it. Sit your child down with the connection switched off: the tutor still listens, still explains, still answers out loud.
What stays on your computer, and what leaves it
Qué se queda en su computadora y qué sale de ella
One thing about the lesson leaves your computer, and it goes to one place: your own parent account. It is a short note about the shape of the lesson, never the lesson itself. Both sides of the line are named below, and that is the whole list.
Never sent anywhere
- Recordings of your child
- A written record of what was said
- Anything at all used to train a model
Sent to your account, and nowhere else
- The subject, such as fractions or reading
- How long the session lasted
- Which skills were practised
- A safety flag, if one was raised
Watch a lesson, start to finish.
Vea una clase, de principio a fin.
Including the two parts most products would rather not show you: the moment it tells your child it is a machine, and the moment it stops the lesson and comes to find you.
A scripted walkthrough, not a live model. The real tutor runs on your own computer, which is exactly why it cannot run on this page.
Turn your wifi off before you press play. This does not need it.
This is the part you cannot un-see. Join the waitlist.
Join the waitlistYour child talks. The tutor talks back.
Su hijo habla. El tutor le responde.
Your child says the answer out loud instead of typing it, and the tutor answers out loud, on the subject that child is on, at the level that child is actually working at. It will go over the same thing four times without sighing.
Spoken both ways, nothing to type
Which matters most for the youngest ones, and for any child who reads more slowly than they think.
Reading aloud, with help on the hard words
Your child reads to the tutor and gets a nudge on the sounds that are not coming out right yet.
Pre-K through twelfth grade
Each child works at their own level, so the six year old and the fourteen year old share one computer.
Each child listed separately
Their sessions do not run together on your dashboard, so you can see who did what.
A tutor that speaks Spanish, not one that translates into it.
Un tutor que habla español, no uno que traduce del inglés.
A child can ask in Spanish, be answered in Spanish, and work through a whole subject without English coming into it at all. Reading aloud and help with pronunciation work in Spanish the same way they work in English. In a house where both languages are spoken, neither one is the exception here.
It tells your child it is a computer program.
Le dice a su hijo que es un programa, no una persona.
These are not settings buried somewhere for you to find and switch on. The first two are fixed lines on a timer rather than something the tutor decides to say, so they happen every session, whether or not an adult is watching. It is not a crisis service, and it does not stand in for the adult in the house.
It says what it is, out loud
At the start of every session, and again every three hours, it stops and tells your child it is a computer program and not a person.
It sends them off to stretch
Every three hours the lesson stops on its own and tells your child to get up, move around and drink some water.
It goes and gets you
If a child says something that sounds like a crisis, the session ends, your child is told to find a grown-up in the house, and you are told it happened. It will not catch everything, and it will sometimes stop a session that did not need stopping.
One adult signs in. The children never do.
Children have no accounts, no passwords and no email addresses. They sit down at the computer and start.
Arizona first, then further out.
Primero Arizona, después otros estados.
We are building this for homeschooling families in Arizona to begin with, including the many households where the talk at the kitchen table happens in Spanish. Several states now hand education money straight to families, and this is being built to be bought that way, with the records those programs ask for. Waitlist families get two plain answers first: what the program does, and what a computer needs in order to run it.
What parents ask first
Is my child's voice recorded and sent to you?
No. The listening happens on your own computer, and the sound of your child's voice does not leave it. We never receive it, so there is nothing on our side to store, to hand over, or to train anything with.
My child is in trouble and the computer is offline. When do I find out?
The part that protects your child does not wait for a connection: the session ends right there, and your child is told to go and find a grown-up in the house. The note telling you it happened reaches your account when that computer is next online. So if you are out and the connection is down, you could hear about it later than you would like. That is the real limit, and we would rather you knew it now than found it out then.
What will that alert say, if there is no transcript?
That a flag was raised, when it happened, and what the session was about. It will not carry your child's words, because those never leave the computer. What the alert does is send you to your child, which is the point of it.
Will my computer run it?
That is the fair question about anything that runs on your own machine, and we are not going to pretend any computer will do. The whole tutor sits on your machine, so the machine matters. Waitlist families get the requirements in plain language, so you can look at the laptop you already own and know the answer yourself.
Can you promise it will never say anything wrong to my child?
No, and be careful with anyone who promises that. It is a computer program: it can be mistaken and it can be pushed. What we can tell you is what it is built to do, which is name itself as a machine, stop when a child sounds like they are in trouble, tell you, and show you what every session covered. You are still the adult in the room, and the whole thing is built on that assumption.
Does it replace me teaching my child?
No. It takes the repetition: the twentieth time through a times table, the reading practice, the question your child is embarrassed to ask again. You keep the rest.
Be first in line when it opens in your state.
Sea de los primeros cuando llegue a su estado.
One note when it opens in your state, and nothing else. We do not pass your address to anyone.