aitutors.me was built originally for one student — my daughter, Rina, then aged 12 and in Year 8. It opened to other UK families in 2026 because the system worked well enough that I felt selfish keeping it for one child.

The starting point

Rina is curious, competitive, and over-scheduled. She reads ~100 books a year. She plays Grade 7 piano. She runs cross-country. She plays football for Leeds City Juniors. She studies Spanish and Latin. By Year 7, the maths started getting harder, and the existing tutoring options weren't fitting our life.

The choices were:

  1. Weekly human tutor (£40/hour, ~£160/month). Good on quality. Bad on schedule — by the time Wednesday's 7pm slot came around, Rina was wrecked from football and the session was wasted.
  2. Khan Academy / similar (free). Good for motivated solo work. But Rina kept getting stuck and there was nobody to ask.
  3. ChatGPT (free). Catastrophic. Rina figured out it would do the homework. Maths grades went up; understanding went down. I shut that down within a week.

None of those fit. So I built something else.

What I built (the short version)

A set of AI tutors that:

  • Refuses to give the answer. Uses a 4-level hint ladder. Never reveals the final number.
  • Reads her weekly energy. A "Mentor" agent runs a GREEN / AMBER / RED traffic light. On RED, sessions are skipped, not pushed.
  • Knows her hobbies. Each tutor uses chess analogies, music analogies, football analogies — because they're stored in a profile the tutors read.
  • Lives in our Obsidian vault. The whole system was authored in a single shared notebook, with Claude Code as the agent runtime.

I worked on it nights and weekends through late 2025 and early 2026.

Why I opened it to other families

Three reasons.

One: several of my friends with Year 7–9 kids saw what we were doing and asked for it. The same problems were everywhere — the schedule, the cheating temptation, the generic tutors. The product market fit was already there.

Two: building tutors for nine subjects (we have Mentor + nine professors in the vault) for one student is over-engineered. The marginal cost of serving 100 families is small. The marginal benefit to those families is large.

Three: I wanted to test whether the methodology generalises. Rina is one student. Methods that work for her might be specific to her. Opening it to other families — with different profiles, different schedules, different strengths — is the only honest test.

What's the same vs Rina's version

Same: the agents, the skills, the energy system, the Socratic protocol, the 4-level hint ladder, the safeguarding rules.

Different: Rina's profile is now profile.md (her specific data), and aitutors.me families fill in their own profile. The tutors read it the same way; only the data is per-family.

The brand promise

"The only AI tutor that adapts to your kid's energy, mood, and schedule."

That's the line on the homepage. It's not marketing — it's literally what we built. Other AI tutors adapt to level (what a child knows). Few adapt to state (how a child is doing this week).

What we're not

We're not a CENTURY-scale platform. We're not Khan Academy. We're not promising guaranteed grades.

We are: a small, opinionated tutoring service for the kid who reads 100 books a year and plays Grade 7 piano. Built for over-scheduled, curious teens who deserve better than a generic AI homework helper.

The Founding Member offer

100 spots. £14/month locked-for-life. 14-day free trial.

The first 100 families help validate the methodology with kids who aren't Rina. In exchange, they pay less than half the standard price — forever. The deal is meant to feel fair to both sides.

What's next

KS3 maths is the launch wedge — that's Professor Pi. The other eight professors (English with Quill, biology with Darwin, physics with Newton, chemistry with Curie, geography with Mercator, history with Harari, computing with Turing, JMC competition maths with Abel) ship one per month, ordered by Founding Member vote.

GCSE comes in September 2026. A-Level is on the 12-month horizon.

What it's like to use

A typical day:

8pm Tuesday after football
Rina: "Mentor, I want to do some maths."
Mentor: "How was your week? Energy 1-3?"
Rina: "2 — tired but OK."
Mentor: "OK, short session. Routing to Pi."
Pi: "Let's do something gentle. Yesterday you were working on
     expanding brackets. Want to try 5(x + 3)?"
Rina: "Yeah."
Pi: "What's the first move?"
...

It's not magic. It's a tutor that knows her week.

How to get in touch

I read every email. Founding Members get a 15-minute onboarding call if they want one. The contact email is support@aitutors.me — and yes, I'm the support team for now.

FAQ

Who founded aitutors.me?

Jason — a UK-based parent and software developer. Built for his Year 8 daughter, opened to other families in 2026.

When did aitutors.me launch?

Soft-launch May 2026. Underlying system has been in private use since late 2025.

Is aitutors.me a UK company?

Yes. UK-based, UK GDPR-compliant, ICO-registered. Built specifically for UK secondary students.

Jason · founder, aitutors.me · Updated 20 May 2026.