School has a speed limit. Your kid doesn’t.

One-on-one tutoring for pre-K through 8th grade. We find the real edge of what your child can do, then keep moving it.

It takes 15 minutes. No account needed to start.

Emma is in 1st grade. This is where she’s actually working.

Progress view from the app

PRE-K
K
GRADE 1
Enrolled here
GRADE 2
GRADE 3
GRADE 4
GRADE 5
Mastered Practicing Coming up21 topics mastered, 14 of them above grade 1
Founded by UC Berkeley Applied Math GradsWe wrote the methodology and curriculum we wish we had when we were in school.
Mastery, Not Simply ProficiencyThe core standards are a floor. We teach well past them.
Adjusts as Your Child WorksDifficulty changes in real time, problem by problem.

Most tutoring exists to fix something.
Nothing’s broken here. Your child is just ready for more.

One

We find the ceiling

A short placement test that assesses where the problems stop being easy. Most families are surprised how far past current grade level that point is.

Two

We build the route

Your tutor arrives with the lesson plan, the problem set, and the method. Never “what’s hard this week?”

Three

You watch it move

Progress is tracked topic by topic, with a defined bar for every status. Nothing is labeled mastered because one session went well.

Where our tech comes in

The tutor is human. The memory isn’t.

A good tutor reads your child’s face, notices when they are guessing, and changes the problems and explanations on the spot. No computer can do that.

On the other hand, no tutor can recall all four hundred problems your child worked through this month or notice one small misunderstanding resurfacing across three different topics.

Tutors lose roughly a third of their time to work that isn’t teaching: figuring out where a student is, tracking what they covered, writing it all down. We gave that job to our proprietary tech so the tutor can spend the entire session teaching.

Difficulty adjusts in real time

Enough correct questions in a row and the next problem gets harder. A few wrong and it steps back. Every session sits at the edge of what your child can do, which is where learning happens.

The next session is automatically built from the last one

Every problem, every hesitation, every topic that needed a second explanation — not dependent on a tutor’s memory of a session four days ago.

No AI writes math for your child

Problems and explanations come from templates we built ourselves. Our tech decides what to ask and when, and our tutors override when needed. Your child talks to their tutor, never to an AI.

Mastered means something specific.

Introduced

Taught this session. Worked through examples with help.

Practicing

Solving problems, but still needs prompts or makes slips.

Proficient

Ten out of ten, independently. No hints, no clock.

Mastered

Consistently correct at the highest difficulty levels, even when mixed in among other work.

Anyone can get ten fraction problems right during a fractions lesson. Mastered is awarded by our system through consistent and deliberate testing — not by a tutor at the end of a good session. If a topic slips, it goes back to practicing and we rebuild it.

Screenshot: parent progress view
(roadmap + trajectory screens from the app)

The standards are a floor.
We’re after what sits above them.

School asks a child to be proficient. We’re after mastery — the point where the mechanics are automatic and the mind is free for the harder work: reasoning, problem solving, and critical thinking that builds foundations for success at the highest levels.

The work is demanding on purpose. A child who learns to stay with a hard problem, get it wrong, and keep going will learn skills that outlast any single subject.

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Every claim on this page comes from published research, and we cite all of it. See the research.

See what your child can do today — and where two months with us could take them.

The placement test is free and takes about fifteen minutes. You’ll get a written assessment of where your child is operating now and what they’re ready for next.

Start the placement test