Free from Distinction
Two different things on this page. Tools that write the question for you, and one complete strand of our curriculum. No account, no email address, nothing stored.
The tools are the simple version of what the paid product does. The curriculum is not a sample. It is the real thing, given away, because the fastest way to explain what a Distinction project is, is to let your child do one.
Five tools that write the question
None of these give you the answer. Each one takes a few taps and hands you a well made prompt you can paste into any AI assistant, plus phrases you can type into a plain search engine. That is deliberate. The hard part for most parents is not getting an answer. It is knowing what to ask.
Find an adult who does this for a living
A prompt for finding real working people near you who might answer your child's questions, plus a list of job titles most parents never think of.
Free version above. Cora can run it for you on a paid plan.
Find something worth entering
A prompt for finding competitions your child could actually enter this year, plus the kinds of competition that exist at all.
Free version above. Cora can run it for you on a paid plan.
Find a camp or holiday programme
A prompt for finding a camp, plus the questions to ask a provider before you pay anyone anything.
Free version above. Cora can run it for you on a paid plan.
What is your child actually learning?
A prompt for mapping a real project onto the named subjects of your curriculum, including an honest account of what it does not cover.
Build a reading ladder
A prompt for a ladder of six books that starts below your child's level and ends above it.
Measure the skill before you build it
A ten minute assessment of seven emotional skills, free, no account, nothing stored. It says where your child stands today.
The Empathy Measure
Ten open questions, read properly, scored across seven skills.
One whole strand, given away
Alongside the projects a child chooses for themselves, every child on Distinction works through a curriculum of human intelligences. Resiliency is the first strand. Book One is here in full, with nothing held back and nothing to install.
Read the book, then open the editor section. Inside the product, finishing that is what marks the project complete, and the score goes to the child's mentor rather than to the child. Out here it is simply yours. More strands are being written. Resiliency came first because it is the one that decides whether a child ever finishes anything.
Resiliency Book One: The Flyers
Five chapters. Your child is a junior reporter at a 1903 newspaper covering the men trying to fly, and the story keeps stopping to ask what they would have done. It ends in a reflection portfolio, not a grade.
Resiliency Book One: The Flyers
The same story in three shorter parts, written for younger or less confident readers. The same five ideas, considerably less reading.
Not sure which one. The newsroom edition is the full version and suits most readers from about twelve. The junior edition carries the same ideas at a simpler reading level.
Why they work this way
In the tools, anything with a date, a price or a deadline is left out on purpose. A list of this year's camps is wrong by next spring, and a stale list is worse than no list at all. So they only ever hold the things that do not expire: job titles, kinds of competition, types of programme, the questions worth asking.
Everything on this page runs inside your browser. You could save any of these pages to a memory stick and it would still work on a laptop with no internet.
Behind these tools sits a longer read: what a grade keeps, and what it throws away. It explains why the question your child's school report answers is not the question you actually have.
These tools forget. Distinction remembers.
A free tool knows the six things you just clicked. It cannot tell apart two 13 year olds who both chose Science. Distinction starts with an interview with your child and then keeps everything that follows: what they say to their coach each day, the projects they start, the ones they abandon, the adults they have already spoken to, what they read, what they finished and when.
Inside the product, projects arrive from three directions. Distinction builds them around what your child is actually like, a mentor can set one, and your child can invent their own. The human intelligences curriculum runs underneath all of it, so there is always something in progress even when nobody has had a good idea that week.
So a free prompt fits any child of that age. The plan Distinction writes fits yours. Project Finder is the paid version of this idea: it matches your child to real competitions, mentors and audiences, then coaches the outreach.