A LITTLE CLARITY. A LITTLE CONFIDENCE.

A clearer school week.
More confident moments
together.

We’re building an AI-assisted learning companion that brings your child’s school week into focus and creates personalized guidance to help you explain, encourage, and practice together.

See how it fits your week

A parent and child thinking through schoolwork together at a kitchen table. — Less figuring out what’s next.
**More being there for the moment.**

THIS WEEK

A little clarity for the week.

Try another day. Every school day looks a little different.

The classroom update

AI-assisted organization. Reviewed by you.

Reviewed

Tuesday · In the classroom

MATHMaking sense of multiplication

Quiz Thu

READINGFinding clues in the story

Test Fri

A place to start when you sit down together.

FROM THE CLASSROOM TO YOUR KITCHEN TABLE

Know what’s happening.
Find your way into helping.

You don’t need to remember every lesson.
You need a clear place to start.

Bring the week together.

Gather classroom updates and schoolwork in one place. Keep the original material close by.

IN THE PRIVATE PILOT

Make sense of what’s ahead.

AI helps turn classroom updates into suggested topics, dates, and reminders. You review them to shape a clear picture of your child’s week.

IN THE PRIVATE PILOT

Feel ready to help.

We’re building on-demand, AI-generated Parent Guides around your child’s schoolwork and the help you need right now.

WHAT WE’RE BUILDING TOWARDSee a guide example

PARENT GUIDES · WHAT WE’RE BUILDING

A parent guide for
the moment you’re in.

A worksheet tells you what’s assigned. Sometimes you need a little help finding the words to explain it.

Our goal is to use AI to create a guide when you need it, drawing on your child’s classroom material and what you tell us they’re finding tricky. A simple explanation. A useful question. A small way to practice together.

“They can tell me what happened. How do I help them explain why the author wrote it?”

Explore a guide

READING · PARENT GUIDE

Illustrative guide · Planned experience

Why did the author write this?

Help your child look for a reason, then find the clues.

A SHORT SAMPLE PASSAGE

“Bring a refillable bottle to school. Together, we can use fewer throwaway bottles.”

A WAY TO EXPLAIN: An author’s purpose is the reason for writing. Here, the author wants readers to take action: bring a refillable bottle.
SOMETHING TO SAY: “Let’s find the words that tell us what the author wants us to do.”
A QUESTION TO ASK: “Which words make this a request? What reason does the author give?”
A LITTLE PRACTICE: Try a sentence that simply explains how a bottle is made. Talk about how its purpose differs from asking someone to bring one.

OUR VISION · PERSONAL SUPPORT OVER TIME

Every child’s learning
takes a different path.

One family is working through fractions. Another is finding a way into multiplication. The support should reflect the child in front of you.

We envision PencilAide building on the schoolwork, challenges, and feedback your family shares, so each visit starts with useful context.

What was confusing. Which explanation helped. What to try next. Guidance and suggested next steps could evolve with your child, with you able to review and correct what PencilAide remembers.

BUILT FROM A FAMILIAR MOMENT

“Can you help me with this?”

Of course you want to help. It’s been a while since you learned it yourself, and you want to explain it in a way that makes sense to your child.

That’s where PencilAide begins. We’re building it around the school week in our own family, with a simple aim: help parents become more confident learning partners.

The best part still happens between you and your child.

YOU KNOW YOUR CHILD. YOU STAY INVOLVED.

A helping hand.
With you in the loop.

The original stays close.

Classroom material remains the reference, so you can check the context.

You get the final say.

AI suggestions can miss things. Review and correction are part of the process.

Your connection comes first.

The aim is to help you guide the learning and make room for your child to think.

GROWING ONE SCHOOL WEEK AT A TIME

Starting small.
Learning together.

PencilAide is in a private household pilot. We’re working through real school weeks, learning what helps, and building from there.

Access to the app isn’t open yet. On-demand AI Parent Guides, short practice, and ongoing personalization are part of the experience we’re building toward.

We also plan to add interactive AI chat to help you understand what a schoolwork question is asking and find a clear way to explain it to your child. Ask for more detail, follow up with questions of your own, and get feedback in real time as you learn together.

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A LITTLE CLOSER TO WHAT’S NEXT

Keep me in the loop.

Curious about PencilAide? Hear how it’s coming along and when there’s an opportunity to try it with your family.

A clearer school week.More confident moments together.