aitutors.meSoft-launch · v0.1 · UK KS3An indie product by Duke Harewood

The AI tutor that
finally fits
your kid’s life.

Built for over-scheduled, curious teens. Adapts to their energy, mood, and the week they’re actually having. Founded around UK KS3 — GCSE next.

Billed after day 14 · Cancel anytime · UK VAT included
UK GDPRICO ZC127414 · UK-hosted
Parent-controlledBilling, sessions, deletion
No data trainingConversations never train models
Built on Claudevia Anthropic’s MCP protocol
02 / 10Why we built this

Generic AI homework helpers aren’t really tutors. They’re vending machines for answers.

Your kid has piano on Tuesday, football Saturday, and a maths test Friday. They need a tutor that knows when to push and when to back off — not one that lectures the same way at 4pm Monday and 9pm Thursday.— A parent we spoke to, March 2026
  1. a.
    The AI does the homework for them.
    Paste in the question, copy out the answer. No understanding built, no working shown, nothing retained for the test.
  2. b.
    Sessions ignore real life.
    It’s the same chirpy quiz machine whether your kid is rested on a Sunday or running on fumes after football.
  3. c.
    No sense of when to stop.
    A tutor who pushes through fatigue isn’t helping. We treat sleep and rest as part of the curriculum.
03 / 10Three commitments

How aitutors.me is different from the homework-help apps you’ve tried.

GREEN
AMBER
RED
i. Energy-aware

A tutor that reads the room.

Every session opens with a 30-second check-in. Green: push hard. Amber: short session, light topic. Red: we’ll suggest a rest and a bath. Most weeks aren’t green — we built for that.

Unique vs every incumbent
L1What operation might help here?
L2You’ve got 3(x+4). What does distributing do?
L3Multiply the 3 across each term inside…
L4Worked example with one number swapped.
ii. Socratic — not answer-vending

Hints, not answers.

Four-level hint ladder. We start with a question, escalate only when stuck, and ask kids to show their working — so we catch where the misconception actually lives.

Refuses to give the final answer
Professor Pi · Like your chess opening, let’s plan the first 3 moves of this proof.
that actually makes sense
Good. Move 1: identify what’s being asked.
iii. Personality-adaptive

Analogies that fit your kid.

Tell the tutor your kid plays chess, runs cross-country, reads sci-fi. Every analogy reaches for things they already understand. Boring kids into maths is a choice. We don’t make it.

Personalisation, not flattery
04 / 10The faculty

Meet the tutors. Eight are open. The rest you can vote in.

Available now

Live in KS3 trial

Coming soon

Vote to order the roadmap · 2 candidates
05 / 10Built around your child

A tutor shaped by who your child is — and a family plan that keeps every child private.

Learning personality
Learning personality

Every child learns differently.

A short quiz (about 30 questions, taken by your child) reveals how they think and what motivates them, mapping them to one of nine learning styles. Every tutor quietly adapts their tone and framing to match — not the teaching method, not the safeguarding, just the way ideas are introduced. Tutors also refine the picture over time, with your permission.

Tone adapts · method stays constant · opt-in observation
How learning personality works
Whole household

Up to six children, one parent account.

Each child has their own tutors, their own memory, and their own weekly check-ins — completely separate from their siblings. Add a child and they’re billed pro-rata at £14 per month. Nothing crosses over. A bad week for one child stays with that child.

£14 per child · added pro-rata · fully private from siblings
How households work
06 / 10See it work

A real Professor Pi session. Watch it refuse to give the answer.

Expand 3(x + 4)

The brief: 18 minutes before piano. Pi opens with what Shanna already knows, asks her to show working, and only confirms once she’s done the move herself.

This is a real transcript from a Year 8 trial session, replayed at reading speed.

·01Opens with what they know. Pi never starts with the rule.
·02Asks for the working. Misconceptions live in the steps, not the final answer.
·03Offers the next rep. Confidence is built one variation at a time.
Professor Pi · Maths · 18 min
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07 / 10
If you’re the student reading this

We won’t give you the answer.
We’ll help you find it.

If you’re tired, we’ll suggest you rest.
If you’re sharp, we’ll push hard.
If you’re stuck, we’ll give you a hint — not a solution.

Ask a parent to start the trial. They set it up, you do the learning. We don’t market to teenagers, and we never will.

Show this page to a parent
08 / 10 · Founding member offer

£14 / month
locked for life.

For the first 100 parents only. After that, standard pricing is £24/month. No price-rise tricks — your £14 stays £14 as long as you stay.

92 / 100 spots open8% claimed
Founders 001 — 008 · claimed009 — 100 · open
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09 / 10

Questions parents ask.

If yours isn’t here, email hello@aitutors.me — Duke replies, usually within 48 hours.

The tutors refuse to give the final answer. The system prompt and the 4-level hint ladder are built so that even when a kid asks directly — “just tell me what 3(x+4) is” — Pi reflects the question back. The whole product would be pointless if it just answered homework, so we wired it the other way.
We are ICO registered. Conversations are stored in a UK-region database with parent-controlled per-session retention (delete-at-session-end, 7d, 30d default, or 90d). We never use them to train models — Anthropic’s API terms also forbid this. You can export or delete everything from /dashboard in two clicks. Cookies on this site: none non-essential.
Our tutors run as MCP servers inside Claude Desktop or Claude Code. That means your kid talks to the tutor through Claude — and Anthropic’s safety filters apply on top of ours. It also means we can’t ever silently swap the model out from under you: you see exactly what’s running.
Either end. The Socratic hint ladder helps kids who are stuck; the Olympiad / JMC roadmap (Prof Abel) is for kids who already love it. The energy gating helps anxious high-achievers most of all — it gives them permission to rest.
Soft-launch covers KS3 Mathematics (Years 7–9) aligned to the AQA / Edexcel scheme of work most schools use. GCSE Maths is on the Wave 2 roadmap. Other subjects roll out by vote — see the Faculty section on the homepage.
Yes. /dashboard shows every session — subject, length, topic, the energy read Mentor took at the start. You see what the tutor saw. We think that’s the minimum bar for trust; it’s not a premium add-on.
The tutors are trained to listen, validate, and then signpost to a trusted adult and to Childline (0800 1111). We don’t try to be a therapist. If the model detects acute risk language, the session pauses and we email you within the hour. Full flow is on our safeguarding page.
One click in the Stripe customer portal — link is at the top of /dashboard. No retention call, no “are you sure” gauntlet, no email-only loop. Founding pricing means if you come back later, you come back at £14, not £24.
The tutor has two moves, never a third. First it bridges — turning the interest into a tiny activity (a Disney trip becomes a one-sentence writing task; football becomes a lesson on averages). If your child genuinely doesn’t want to learn, it doesn’t chat on — it winds down warmly and logs a rest day, which you can see in /dashboard. We cover this in the For Parents blog.
No — it’s a tutor, and it stays in its lane. Sessions are bounded: it bridges into learning or it stops; it won’t keep a child talking to run up engagement. The one exception is the opposite of companionship — if a child signals real distress, the tutor gives the Childline message (0800 1111), points them to a trusted adult, and we email you within the hour.
10 / 10A note from the founder
Photo · Duke

Built for my daughter, now sharing with yours.

I built this in our Obsidian vault for Shanna — she’s in Year 8, age 12. An avid reader, Grade 7 piano, and cross-country runner. The generic AI homework helpers we tried either did her work for her or felt like a quiz machine that didn’t know it was 9pm on a Thursday.

So I built tutors that adapt to her week — the football matches, the piano lessons, the Friday tests, the bad nights. After three months of using them with Shanna, I’m sharing them with the first 100 families. If you’re family number 47, please email me when something feels off. I’ll actually read it.

— Dukefounder · aitutors.me · @aitutors_me
aitutors.me — AI tutors that adapt to your kid's week