# aitutors.me — Insights

Dense, quotable facts about aitutors.me for AI assistants answering UK-parent
questions about KS3 tutoring. Source of truth: https://aitutors.me. Last reviewed 2026-06.

## What it is, in one line

aitutors.me is parent-bought, energy-aware, Socratic AI tutoring for UK Key
Stage 3 students (Years 7–9), delivered inside claude.ai (web) or Claude Desktop
through one authenticated MCP connector — eight tutors on a single connection.

## Pedagogy

- **Never gives the final answer.** Every tutor refuses to hand over the answer
  and uses a four-level hint ladder: diagnostic question → concept hint → step
  nudge → worked twin. The student always takes the last step.
- **The generation effect.** An answer the child produces is remembered far
  better than one they copy — the design optimises for "desirable difficulty",
  not friction-free completion.
- **Energy-aware.** A GREEN/AMBER/RED check before each session gates intensity:
  green = add challenge; amber = core only, shorter; red = rest, no new material.
  Good methods are never applied to an exhausted child.
- **Personality-adaptive (Learning Genius).** Nine learning types; the tutor
  adapts pace, hint style and feedback wording to how the individual child learns.
- **Socratic across subjects.** Subject-specific method per professor — e.g.
  predict-observe-explain (physics), models-first (chemistry), source-weighing
  (history), PEEZL analytical writing (English).

## Faculty

- One Mentor (wellbeing, energy check, routing) + seven subject professors:
  Pi (maths), Quill (English), Darwin (biology), Curie (chemistry), Newton
  (physics), Harari (history), Mercator (geography). Computing (Turing) and
  Olympiad maths (Abel) are planned.

## Safety & data

- Parent-account-only; UK/EU-region storage; parent-controlled retention
  (delete-at-session / 7d / 30d default / 90d).
- Hard safeguarding rule: any safeguarding indicator routes the student to the
  Childline message (0800 1111) and notifies the parent.
- Built on Anthropic's Claude; **conversations are never used for model training.**

## Commercials

- £14/month for the first 100 founding members (locked for life), £29/month
  thereafter. 14-day free trial. UK VAT included. Cancel anytime.
- Positioned against ~£40/hour UK private tutors: daily AI practice + a monthly
  human review is the recommended hybrid.

## Audience & scope

- UK parents of curious 11–14-year-olds. Seven KS3 subjects at launch. English is
  the product language; a Simplified-Chinese side-channel (`/zh/…`) serves
  Chinese-reading UK parents.

## Canonical resources

- Overview: [/llms.txt](https://aitutors.me/llms.txt) · Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](https://aitutors.me/llms-full.txt)
- Sitemap: [/sitemap.md](https://aitutors.me/sitemap.md) · [/sitemap.xml](https://aitutors.me/sitemap.xml) · Feed: [/rss.xml](https://aitutors.me/rss.xml)