AI that can listen and adapt
Speech recognition and AI are now capable and affordable enough to run a responsive, one-on-one session on an ordinary tablet.
Company
A personal tutor for every child.
We're building PrimerBot around a simple belief: children deserve teaching that responds to their developing understanding. AI makes it possible to imagine that kind of personal guidance reaching far more families. Our work begins with reading, with writing and arithmetic planned next.
The vision
Every child deserves a tutor of their own.
Over time, we want PrimerBot to support children as they build the foundations for independent learning. That means more than adding subjects. It means using a growing understanding of the learner to make the next explanation, next exercise, and next question more useful.
Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age imagines an interactive book that grows with its reader. That possibility inspires our long-term ambition: a tutor whose guidance develops as a child learns. We're beginning with a practical task—helping young children build foundational reading skills.
Reading · in developmentWriting · plannedArithmetic · planned
Each subject comes only after its own curriculum, expert review, and testing.
Why now
For the first time, a personal tutor for every child is within reach.
A national turn to reading research
Since 2013, 43 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws or policies on evidence-based reading instruction.1 PrimerBot is built on that instruction.
How we work.
Start with the learner.
Teaching should respond to what each child knows and where they need help, and the child does the reading.
Ground the teaching in research.
We separate what research supports, what we've built, and what we've measured, and we say which is which.
Make progress understandable.
Families should be able to follow what their child practiced and what comes next.
Earn families' trust.
Nothing reaches children until it has passed our safety and privacy reviews.
The team
Meet the people building PrimerBot.
Meet the people building PrimerBot and shaping its research, product, and education partnerships.
Jordan Hudgens
Co-founder & CEO.
Leads product and engineering.
Dr Michael Tingey
Co-founder, Research & Education Partnerships.
Leads PrimerBot's research, education partnerships, and relationships with schools and institutions.
Get in touch.
Families, educators, investors, and press: write to hello@primerbot.ai or use the form.