What I’m building, and where AI fits in

When I first wrote this, I kept it to a couple of sentences. Enough of you have asked what I actually mean by all of it that I want to lay out the fuller picture: what is planned so far, and exactly where AI fits into each piece. None of this replaces a teacher or a therapist. It is meant to organize the work, explain it patiently, and adapt to one reader at a time.

The idea, simply put, is a patient learning companion that meets a dyslexic reader where she is. Here is what that looks like in practice, and where the AI actually lives.

Bring your own curriculum. You upload what the school already uses: the syllabus, the assignments, the assessments. AI reads those documents and turns them into a clear map of what to learn and when. Nothing gets used until a parent reviews and corrects it, so the official schoolwork always stays the source of truth.

A real plan for each day. From that map, the deadlines, and how the reader is actually doing, it builds a weekly and daily plan that is realistic and paced for a dyslexic learner, with breaks built in and no scheduling of every last minute. AI proposes the plan. Fixed rules keep it honest, so it never quietly moves a real due date and never skips something she needs first.

A reader built for how she decodes. Read aloud with the words highlighting as they are spoken, adjustable spacing and fonts, directions broken into one step at a time, tap any word to hear it, and practice that is never timed. The whole point is to strip away the friction that has nothing to do with whether she actually understands.

A coach, not an answer key. When she gets stuck, she can ask for help by typing or by voice and get a hint, a plain explanation, or a worked example of a similar problem. Never the answer to the graded work itself. It nudges her to try, asks her to explain the idea back in her own words, and knows when to suggest a break instead of pushing.

Practice that is actually hers. Original practice questions, vocabulary previews, and short decodable passages, generated around what she is working on and the things she loves, at the right reading level. Everything is labeled as practice, and a parent can read all of it.

A simple view for parents. A weekly summary in plain language, built from real evidence of what she practiced, what clicked, and what needs another pass, plus anything that needs a decision from you. No single scary score, just the honest picture.

If there is one thing I want to be clear about, it is how I think about the AI. It is the engine, not the teacher. Everywhere it touches the app, three rules hold. A parent can always see it and change it. It shows its work, so you can see why it scheduled or suggested something. And it never does a child’s graded work. Used that way, AI is genuinely good at the parts that wear families down: reading a stack of documents, keeping a plan realistic, explaining the same idea five different ways without losing patience, and writing endless fresh practice tuned to one kid. That is where it earns its place, and nowhere else.

Where this is headed next: the reader is in Reagan’s hands nightly, the parent view is what I am building right now, and after that comes early access for the families following here. It is not live yet, and I am building it one evening at a time, so some of this works today and a lot of it is still ahead. If you would want to use it when it is ready, sign up and I will tell you the moment it is. I will keep sharing the real state as I go, the wins and the dead ends both.