What is actually inside.
Distinction is a permanent record of who a young person is becoming, and an AI coach who helps them put something true into it. Most of what follows is free.
People usually arrive here having heard about the projects. That is one part. This is the rest.
One dated archive, from birth to eighteen.
This is the part that compounds. Everything below feeds it, and none of it is ever behind a paywall — the record is free for life, and it belongs to the family, not to us and not to a school.
The living record
Every project, milestone, obstacle, reflection and revisit, dated and kept. Nothing resets when the school year ends, the school changes, or the family moves country.
Documents and evidence
Report cards, certificates, transcripts, photographs of real work, recordings, and anything else worth keeping. Uploaded once, held permanently, organized so it can actually be found in six years.
Journal and notes
Your child's own account of what happened, in their words, alongside notes a parent or mentor can add in theirs.
Timeline and story
The whole arc in order, so a year that felt like nothing at the time reads as progress when you look back at it.
Exports
The complete record, an evidence pack, and a packet a recommender can actually use. The raw record is available to a family at any time, on any plan, including free.
What each export containsThe question a report card does not answer.
Every parent wants to know the same thing and almost never gets a straight answer: is my child actually where they should be, and if not, what do we do about it?
Assessments
A short, low-stakes check on where a young person actually is in a subject. Questions adapt to the previous answer, so it finds the real level rather than testing a guess. The result is a grade level in your own country and one thing to work on next — never a score, never a percentage, and never a comparison to another child.
How assessments workThe seven-skill measure
A picture of how your child is developing across seven skills, shown as a shape rather than a single number, with the sentence in their own words that produced each one, and one thing to practise for whichever came out lowest.
See the measureGrowth over time
The same measures, taken again months later, so you can see movement instead of guessing at it.
Tutors, mentors, camps, competitions, schools.
The searches a parent runs at eleven at night, answered properly, with the child's actual situation taken into account.
Cora Search
Ask about anything: a tutor for a subject that is not landing, a camp for the summer, a competition worth entering, a school in another country, or simply a different way through a topic. Cora answers, and real options come attached.
Try itTutors and academic help
When a subject is genuinely stuck, the answer is often a person rather than another app. Cora helps you work out which subject is actually the problem, then helps you find someone who teaches it.
Schools and programs
Search schools by curriculum, fees, boarding, age range and country. When you want to hear from one, you see exactly what would be shared before anything is sent, and nothing goes without you agreeing to it.
Adults who do it for a living
Real working people who might answer a young person's questions about what a job is actually like. Cora finds them and helps draft the first message.
Competitions and camps
Live opportunities matched to age, interest and location, with deadlines that have not already passed.
The free versionsProjects, missions and practice.
The part most people picture when they hear about Distinction. It matters, but it is one input into the record rather than the whole product.
Real projects
Work your child chose, guided by Cora from first idea to something finished. Not assignments, and not someone else's idea of what a good project looks like.
Compass missions
Simulated project missions mapped to what your child is actually interested in, for trying a direction before committing to it.
See CompassSimulations
Practice exercises, always labelled as practice. A simulation never enters the record as a verified accomplishment, because the record is only worth anything if everything in it is true.
Showcase
Real competitions, mentors and audiences for older students, and finished work worth other people seeing.
What students have builtA child does not develop alone.
Network
The adults in a young person's life — mentors, coaches, teachers, relatives who take an interest — held in one place, with what each of them actually helped with.
Mentors
A mentor can be given read access to the record without being given the family's account, so they can see the work without seeing everything.
How mentors workParent space
Somewhere for a parent to think, ask Cora questions about their own child, and add what they are noticing, separate from what the child sees.
References
When someone is willing to speak for your child, that is recorded too, with the work it refers to attached.
For the years when it starts to count.
Pathway
For students fifteen and over: target programs, what each one actually asks for, and how the record maps against it.
Deadlines and target programs
The dates that matter, held somewhere other than a parent's memory.
Essay material finder
When it comes time to write about themselves, the material is already in the record. Cora finds the moments that are worth writing about.
Recommender pack
Everything a teacher writing a reference would want, assembled, so they can write something specific instead of something generic.
See the export formatsThe record is free. Cora’s time is what you pay for.
Every young person gets the full record, the plan, the free version of every tool, and a weekly allowance of coaching, for life. A paid plan removes the coaching limit and lets Cora run the tools for you instead of handing you the framework. Nothing is ever removed from a record if a plan ends.
A simulation is always labelled a simulation. An assessment result is a level, never a ranking. Nothing reaches a school unless a family sends it. The record is only worth something if everything in it is true.