aitutors.me now includes a tutor that runs straight in your web browser. There is nothing to download and nothing to set up: you sign in on any device, open the tutor, and your child is talking to Mentor and the subject professors within seconds. It is the same tutors and the same teaching you would get inside the Claude app โ€” we call it "one brain, two surfaces". If the words "custom connector" and "OAuth" made your eyes glaze over the first time you looked at us, this is the version built for you.

The moment this solves

You bought a tutor for your child, sat down on a Tuesday evening, and hit a wall of technical setup โ€” copy this, paste that, sign in over here. Plenty of good parents stall right there, and the tutoring never actually starts.

The web tutor removes that wall. If your child can open a website, they can start a session. It works on the family laptop, on a tablet on the sofa, or on a phone on the bus. The learning is what matters, and the fastest path to it is a page that just opens.

What "one brain, two surfaces" means

All the intelligence โ€” Mentor, the subject professors, your child's memory of past sessions, the energy system, the safeguarding rules โ€” lives in one place. There are two doors into it:

  • The web tutor (this one) โ€” reached by signing in at aitutors.me and opening /tutor. Nothing to install.
  • The Claude connector โ€” for families who already use the Claude app and want the tutors to appear inside it.

Same tutors, same teaching, same record of your child's progress. The only difference is which door you walk through. If you are weighing the two, we compare them plainly in Website Tutor or Claude Connector?.

What your child actually sees

When your child opens the tutor, they land in a space organised into rooms โ€” one per tutor. Mentor has a room; each subject professor has a room. Your child talks to whoever fits the task and moves between rooms as the work moves between subjects.

What your child does What happens
Opens the tutor Lands in Mentor's room โ€” the friendly first point of contact
Starts a subject Moves into that professor's room (maths, English, science and more)
Switches topic Hops to another room; the previous conversation is still there when they come back
Wants to concentrate Turns on Focus mode โ€” a clean, full-screen study space

Each tutor keeps its own thread, so a maths session and an English session don't get tangled together. Your child can jump between them and pick up where they left off. We walk through a full session, start to finish, in What Actually Happens in a Tutoring Session.

Focus mode: a study space, not a scroll

Screens are noisy. Focus mode answers that by clearing everything except the conversation โ€” the menus, the site navigation, the rest of the page all step back, and your child is left with a full-screen space to think in. It is a small thing that makes a real difference to a distractible eleven-year-old at the end of a school day.

What the web tutor does not do

We would rather be honest than oversell, so a few limits worth knowing:

  • It is not a homework-answer machine. The professors teach the way they always do โ€” hints and questions that lead your child to the answer, not the answer handed over. That is the point, and it does not change on the web.
  • It is not unsupervised, unlimited screen time. Sessions are shaped around your child's energy for the week, and the tutor is content to log a rest day rather than grind (see The Weekly Check-In With Mentor).
  • It does not replace the Claude connector โ€” it sits alongside it. If your family already lives inside the Claude app, that door still works exactly as before.

Getting started in one sitting

You do not need a guide open to try it. Sign in at aitutors.me, open the tutor, and let your child say hello to Mentor. That first conversation is designed to be the easiest thing you do all week. When you are ready to settle into a proper routine, Your First Week: A Parent's Getting-Started Guide lays out a gentle path through the first few days, and AI Tutors on Your Phone covers using it on the move.

FAQ

Do I need to install anything to use the web tutor?

No. The web tutor runs on the aitutors.me website. You sign in on any device with a browser โ€” laptop, tablet or phone โ€” and open the tutor at /tutor. There is nothing to download from an app store and nothing to configure.

Is the web tutor the same as the tutor inside the Claude app?

Yes โ€” it is the same tutors and the same teaching, just reached a different way. We describe it as "one brain, two surfaces". The web tutor is simply the version that needs no install.

What is Focus mode?

Focus mode is a clean, full-screen study space with the rest of the site tucked away, so your child sees only the conversation and gets on with the work. It is designed to reduce distraction during a session.

Duke Harewood built aitutors.me for his own KS3-aged daughter. The web tutor exists because the setup step was quietly stopping families from ever reaching the good part. Updated 09 July 2026.