Socratic AI tutoring · UK KS3
Ten named tutors who never hand over the answer. Every question your teenager asks lights another star in their sky.
They are 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
Hints, not answers.
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.
3(x+4). What does distributing do?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.
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.
Asks before it answers.
Every session starts with Mentor. A two-question check-in reads your kid's energy, then either points them at a tutor — or, on a Red day, suggests rest. Mentor remembers patterns across the week so it doesn't ask the same questions twice.
Socratic to a fault. Pi runs the 4-level hint ladder, insists on Show Your Working, and is fluent in the misconceptions teachers see most often — sign errors, fraction-as-division, “the variable is the answer.”
Voice-protective and reader-first. Quill runs the H-F-W ladder — How did you notice it, what does it Feel like, Why did the writer choose it — and traces every PEEZL paragraph step by step. Never writes the paragraph for your kid; develops their voice instead.
A systems thinker. Darwin explains living things by connecting structure to function and bridging scales — from cell to organism to ecosystem — and probes the misconceptions teachers see most, like “plants get food from soil.” Asks before it answers.
Models first, equations second. Curie builds the particle picture before any formula — atoms before stoichiometry — and never just hands over a chemical equation. The mental model has to come first.
Predict, Observe, Explain. Newton makes your kid commit to a guess before they see the result, then explains the gap between what they expected and what happened. Physics learned through prediction, not memorisation.
Evidence before verdicts. Harari weighs primary sources, shifts the student between perspectives, and flags anachronism — judging the past by today's standards — instead of reciting dates. Your kid builds the argument; Harari never just hands one over.
Place-first and spatial. Mercator zooms across scales — local to global — and reasons through the SEEP lens (Social, Economic, Environmental, Political) so your kid explains why a place is the way it is, not just where things are. Tied to the world they actually see in the news.
Pencil before keyboard — algorithms drawn out before they're typed.
For kids who already love maths — past papers with elegant solutions.
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.
Each child has their own tutors, their own memory, and their own weekly check-ins — completely separate from their siblings. Each child is billed separately on your one parent account, so nothing crosses over. A bad week for one child stays with that child.
Misconceptions live in the steps, not the final answer.
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 demo session, replayed at reading speed.
Every professor turns what your child got wrong into a flashcard, and brings it back just before they’d forget it. 456 of them are already written — one for every corner of the KS3 map, each checked by the professor who teaches it.
No account, no card, no limit.
A hint — not a solution.
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 try the demo with you. They set it up, you do the learning. We don’t market to teenagers, and we never will.
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If yours isn’t here, email hello@aitutors.me .
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 families who want a tutor that won’t do the homework. If something feels off, please email me. I’ll actually read it.
Find out how your child actually learns — a short quiz, a card they can share, and a report that explains what to do differently. No account needed.
Take the quizThe whole Atlas — every KS3 deck, written and checked by the professor who teaches the subject, with spacing you can see. Play any of it in your browser, no account, no limit.
Play freeLive Socratic lessons with the Mentor and seven professors — inside Claude or on the web. They remember your child, adapt to them, and never just hand over the answer.
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