Every record on this site started with one conversation.
A plan begins with a conversation, not a quiz. About thirty minutes in total, split between you and your child, done together or on different days, typed or spoken. The questions are not clever. They are the ones nobody usually asks, and the answers decide what the first project is.
- What do you do when nobody tells you what to do?
- What can you not stop talking about?
- What did you quit, and why?
These are a few of them, not the list. The conversation goes where the child goes.
Jacob, age fifteen
I quit piano. I said I was too busy. Honestly I hated recitals, and nobody asked what I would have practised for.
The intake is built to catch exactly that sentence. His first project came from what he argues about, not what he quit. See his first month.
David
Space. Mostly why everyone thinks they understand black holes when they clearly do not.
Two years of astronomy followed. See the fullest record.
Jessica, age ten
Watch videos of animal doctors fixing broken legs. I have a whole list of questions about animals that nobody answers.
That answer is why her first project was about animal shelters. Seven years and four moves later, she is preparing for medicine. See her whole record.
The profiles in the demos are demonstration profiles, seeded to show what years of use look like. No entry on them belongs to a real child. What is real is the shape: one conversation, then a plan, then a dated record that grows for years and cannot be assembled later.
The full conversation takes about half an hour. A three minute version of it is free.