For teachers
Your students only have you for an hour.
A child who goes to school or to tutoring has that one hour, and then nobody. Build a system of agents that works with each student in the time in between, on your material and your rules, and tells you exactly where each of them got to.
The student
What it changes for the student.
The evening before a test, the weekend, the afternoon they got stuck. The moments a student gives up are rarely during your lesson.
Nothing is skipped because the class had to move on, and nothing is repeated because the group needs it.
They arrive at your lesson having already found out what they do not understand, instead of finding out during it.
The parent
What it changes for the parent.
What their child worked on, where they got stuck and what comes next. Not a grade.
They stop asking their child how it went and getting nothing back.
You
What it changes for you.
You do not spend the first twenty minutes finding out where each student is. You teach from where they actually got to.
Which concepts need reinforcing, and for whom.
Correcting written work, feedback for the student and practice tests are generated for you, from your own material.
Parents or the school subscribe monthly, through the app, directly to you. You set the packages and the prices.
What it does
Two jobs, and the second one is the point.
The main use. Each student works with the agent between your lessons, on your material and under your rules, and everything they do comes back to you as a picture of where they are.
Correcting written work against your criteria, writing feedback for a student, and generating practice tests and variants to the same specification.
How it works
You set it up in writing. There is no code.
Your rules, your method, how you want a student evaluated, and how you want them taught. In plain language, the way you would explain it to a colleague.
Short sessions, at their own pace, in the time between your lessons. It works through the material with them rather than handing over answers.
Where the student got to in the syllabus, which concepts need reinforcing, what went wrong and where. There is no button to press.
You change what the agent does for that student, and your next lesson starts from where they actually are.
The same picture, written in plain language, with your approval on the wording.
What you bring
You bring the rules. It finds the material.
This is the part most teachers expect to be the hard one, and it is not. You do not need to have your curriculum written up, digitised, or turned into content.
How you open a topic, how you check whether it landed, what you do when a student is stuck, and what the agent must never do - for example, hand over the answer.
What counts as knowing something, and how you want a student placed.
The syllabus and the material are found and structured for you. You review it and correct what does not match how you teach.
Subjects
Any subject, any exam.
The first system was built for chemistry, which is where the concrete examples on this page come from. Nothing about the method is specific to it. English, mathematics, physics and any other subject work the same way, and the whole programme can be pointed at a particular exam and worked backwards from its date.
Your page
Your own page, and your own price.
You build a landing page for your programme inside the app, in your name: what it teaches, who it is for, what it costs and how to start. Parents, students or a school subscribe from there and pay you monthly. You decide the packages and the prices, and you can change them whenever you want. No website and no developer.
Effort and cost
What it takes, and what it costs.
An afternoon to describe how you teach and how you evaluate, then a few weeks with a handful of students you know well, adjusting as it runs.
Reading the reports before your lessons, and adjusting what the agent does for a student when you want it changed.
A Surogate plan from $96 a month at the level that includes student subscriptions and payments.
Parents, students or the school pay you monthly through the app, at the price you set.
Start here
Start with one subject.
Describe how you teach it and how you know when a student has understood. You will read the first conversation your students would have before any of them has it.