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Notes from building a tutor that draws

Learning science, product decisions, and the things we got wrong first.

Why drawing beats explaining

Students don't get stuck on vocabulary. They get stuck on the picture nobody drew for them. Here's the research behind building a tutor around a board.

The learning team14 July 20267 min read

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words + pictures

beat words alone, every time

Product
How tokens work, in plain English
Why we bill tutoring in tokens instead of minutes, what a lesson actually costs, and how to make an allowance last a full month.
28 June 20265 min
Study plans
A six-week JAMB revision plan built around the board
A week-by-week schedule that uses saved lessons for recall and live sessions only where they earn their keep.
9 June 20269 min
Responsibility
What we don't let the tutor do
Guardrails, refusals, and why the tutor asks what you've tried before it hands you a solution.
21 May 20266 min
Design
Designing a blackboard for a 5-inch screen
Most of our learners are on phones, on mobile data. That constraint shaped the entire interface.
30 April 20268 min
Product
Voice tutoring is not a text tutor reading aloud
What changed when we let students interrupt mid-sentence, and why the board had to keep drawing while they did.
2 April 20266 min

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Notes from building a tutor that draws

Why drawing beats explaining

How tokens work, in plain English

A six-week JAMB revision plan built around the board

What we don't let the tutor do

Designing a blackboard for a 5-inch screen

Voice tutoring is not a text tutor reading aloud

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