Brainback
A tutor that refuses to hand over the answer.
live at brainback.chat
Most AI tutoring is answer vending, which teaches nothing. This one withholds the answer on purpose and teaches from the student’s own material.
- timeline
- built and shipped in house
- services used
- Websites · AI Automation
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- step_01the challenge
Most AI tutoring is answer vending, which is the one thing that teaches a student nothing. It is also generic: it knows the subject in the abstract and nothing about the course the student is actually failing.
- step_02what we engineered
We built a tutor that withholds the answer by design and works Socratically instead, and we made the student the source of the curriculum. Upload the slides, the notes, the problem set, and it teaches from those, whatever the subject.
- step_03the outcome
The tutor is live with multi-format uploads and tiered plans, teaching from material the student brings rather than a fixed syllabus.
> // in depth
A student who gets handed the answer has learned how to get answers. The pedagogy had to be a product constraint, not a prompt suggestion, so the tutor is built to refuse and to work Socratically instead, pushing the student through the reasoning rather than past it.
The second decision was where the curriculum comes from. Rather than shipping a fixed syllabus, the student uploads what they are actually being tested on, slides, notes, problem sets, in whatever format they have, and that becomes the material. It works across subjects because it never assumed one.
> // how we work
A turnkey process, on a clock.
- 01discovery & strategyabout 1 week
We find the one action worth engineering around.
We map your buyer, your offer, and the single most valuable action. Everything downstream serves it. We agree on scope and a fixed launch date before any design begins.
- 02direction1 to 2 weeks
We prove the design before we build it.
Art direction benchmarked against luxury references, with type and motion proven up front so there are no surprises in the build. You see and sign off on the direction before a line of code.
- 03build & instrument2 to 4 weeks
We hand build it and wire the funnel.
Hand-coded Next.js, budgeted for speed, with the funnel instrumented and every state accessible and responsive. You review on a live staging URL at clear milestones.
- 04launch & careongoing
We launch, then stay to improve.
Managed edge hosting, a monthly report, unlimited edits, and continuous improvement. The launch is the start, not the end. We hand over everything you own.
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