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Learning products for K-12 and test prep

AI education

Five learning products, from SAT prep to reading and writing coaches, aligned to real standards and rubrics. Students, parents and teachers each get their own view.

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What ties this work together

  • Standards firstContent and scoring follow the SAT, California CCSS ELA and SBAC/CAASPP rubrics.
  • Three audiencesSeparate student, parent and teacher workflows, with accounts linked under row-level security.
  • AI that teachesTutors give hints and ask questions instead of handing out answers.

Top work

Ranked by how complete and substantial each one is, flagship first.

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Flagship

SmartSAT

A complete SAT prep platform: diagnostic, practice by micro-concept, timed exams, vocabulary, AI reports and an AI tutor.

3,200vocabulary words

  • Student, teacher and parent workflows with linked accounts
  • LLM pipelines generate and verify questions and draw math figures
  • Stripe billing, transactional email, Playwright tests
  • TanStack Router & Query
  • Supabase
  • OpenRouter
  • Stripe
  • Playwright
  • Vercel
  • Live
  • Built solo
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ReadLift AI

Reading coach anchored to California standards: a tutor named Sage reads along, asks questions and builds a skill profile; six languages, voice input.

  • Next.js 16
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Supabase
  • Live
  • Built solo
WriteLift AI screenshot

WriteLift AI

Writing trainer for CAASPP tasks: students revise until they reach a target rubric score, with an evaluation suite behind the grader.

  • Next.js 16
  • Supabase
  • OpenRouter
  • shadcn/ui
  • Live
  • Built solo

More education work

2 more, in ranked order.

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    Grade News

    Hourly pipeline rewrites current news for each grade level and checks vocabulary against grade word lists.

    • Vue 3
    • Pinia
    • Supabase
    • Python
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  2. 5

    TypeFun

    Touch-typing trainer with live WPM and accuracy, a guiding virtual keyboard and progress tracking.

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    • Vue 3
    • Pinia
    • Vue Router
    • Supabase
    Visit

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