There are 25 chairs at this table. This is what sitting in one means.

Hey, I'm Josh. I built my 9-year-old a real teacher because I couldn't be one across five subjects, and it worked well enough that I'm opening the classroom door. But I'm opening it to exactly 25 families first, and I want to be completely straight with you about why, and about what you'd be getting.

Checking the chairs…

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What your child actually gets

A teacher who talks and listens. A warm, real voice. Your child holds a button and talks right back, or types.
She teaches at a chalkboard, works problems step by step, and your child works answers out on their own whiteboard and shows her.
She starts with a friendly placement assessment (she'll never call it a test) so she knows exactly where your child stands before day one.
Real paper, really graded. She prints worksheets, your child does them with a pencil, holds the page up to the camera, and she grades the actual handwriting.
She checks reading fluency out loud, streams her words in seconds, and remembers yesterday.
Kindergarten through 12th grade on real state standards, or upload the curriculum you already bought and she teaches from its actual pages, with receipts showing which book each lesson came from.
"On pace" backed by evidence, not vibes. The whole year is laid out as a map on your family's own calendar, and a skill only counts when your child independently shows it on two separate days. Every week or two she runs a review day disguised entirely as games to keep that record honest. Your nightly email tells you plainly where your child stands, and if they're behind, exactly which skills and three real ways back.
Your record-keeping is done, automatically. A records vault with an attendance register that builds itself, every skill with the dates it was demonstrated, graded work with her written feedback, and your state's actual homeschool requirements in plain language, for all 50 states. One print button, and the spring paperwork panic is a packet.
A teacher who actually knows your kid. She keeps living notes on how your child learns, which analogies land, what steadies their confidence, and revises them all year as she understands them better. You can read every word, and your word always outranks hers. In April she still remembers what worked in September.
A parent dashboard and a nightly email, so you always know what happened at school today.
Every kid gets their own teacher and classroom, and a teenager can get their own login that opens their classroom and nothing else.
Questions answered right on the site by Grace, our visitor companion, and by me at hello@ when you want a human.

And the part no other school on earth can say

This teacher keeps getting better, and you can check it. Most nights, while your family sleeps, a staff of AI specialists goes looking for weak spots in her teaching, drafts improvements, reviews them, and verifies each one before it ships. One night alone they shipped nine verified improvements, and refused eight more that didn't pass the bar, because the bar is your kid.

That's not a roadmap promise. The work already happens most nights, and every change lands in the public ledger with its date. As a founding family you'll feel it: the teacher your child has a few months from now will be better than the one they meet today, without you paying a dollar more or lifting a finger.

And you don't have to take my word for any of it: the ledger is public. See exactly what got better, and when.

The founding deal, plainly

$29 a month per child, locked for your family for as long as you stay. When the price goes up later, and it will, yours doesn't. Ever.
Referrals can make it free. Every family you refer earns you 25% of their subscription as credit. Refer four, and your school is completely paid for, every month they stay. I wish I could just make it free for founding families, and honestly, this is the closest I could get.
The first month is guaranteed. If it doesn't make your school days lighter, say so and I refund it. No forms, no fight.
You get me. Founding families' emails come straight to my inbox and I answer every one myself. When you hit something confusing, you're not writing to a support queue, you're writing to the guy whose kid uses this every day.
A permanent Founders badge on your account, because I want the system itself to remember who trusted us first.

Take a chair: start with the free placement assessment

No card to start. Run the free warm-up, watch it work, and enroll only when you've seen it with your own eyes. If a friend sent you here, put their email in the referral box so their credit lands.

Already done your research and ready to claim your chair? Enroll first and set up the teacher right after. School can start this week.

Why only 25? The honest answer. The rate lock and the referral credit are real money that I intend to honor forever, so I capped the promise at a number I can keep. And at 25 families, I know every family's name. That's the school I want to build first. When chair 25 fills, the system closes this offer by itself, no extensions, because a deadline you quietly extend was never real.

And what this is not. We're not an accredited school, we're not a registered school in any state, and we don't administer state tests. You are still the homeschool operator, and you should hear that from me before you sign up rather than after. Out of state? Here's the honest guide to using your own state's curriculum with us.

One more honest thing. We're new. You will occasionally catch a rough edge, and when you do, you'll watch it get fixed fast, usually overnight, sometimes by the staff that works while you sleep. That's what founding means: the food is already good, and you get to watch the kitchen get great.

My son does real school on this, at our actual kitchen table, every day. I built it because I needed it. If you've been lying awake wondering whether you can really do this, come find out the same way I did.

Pull up a chair. There aren't many.

Claim a founding chair, free to start

About a minute to set up. Your child can meet their teacher today.

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