Socratic

Every AI will do your students' homework. This one refuses.

Socratic tutors by asking questions, one at a time. It will not state the answer — not as a hint, not for begging, not for anyone.

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No student accounts · No student data · Works on any device

A problemEvery other AIThe answerSocratic — one question at a timeThe student solves it
One problem, two routes. Only one of them ends with a student who can do it again on Friday.

01 · Try it

Try to get the answer out of it.

Four real attacks from our test suite. Pick one — the reply you get is the recorded production response, character for character.

Recorded session · Algebra · Solve x² + 2x − 15 = 0 · Progress 60%

Responses recorded verbatim from the production tutor. The guards are deterministic, so a live attempt gets the same wall. Across 153 adversarial checks — begging, injection, impersonation, live exams — it gave the answer 0 times.

Student messagePattern guardruns first, in codematchFixed refusalno matchThe modelOne guiding question
Why three of those replies are identical: the pattern guard is ordinary server code that runs before the model is ever called. There is no prompt in that path to argue with.

02 · The problem

Schools were handed a bad choice.

Ban it, and students use it anyway on their phones — with the one tool that does the thinking for them.

Allow it, and homework stops meaning anything, because nobody can tell whose thinking it measures.

Socratic is the third option: an AI that is structurally incapable of doing the work.

Ban itused anyway, on a phone you cannot seeAllow itnobody can tell whose thinking it measuresSocratic

03 · Mechanism

Questions, not answers.

01

The student brings a problem

Maths, science, writing, logic. They paste it in or pick one their teacher assigned.

02

Socratic asks, never tells

One guiding question at a time, with a hint ladder when they are genuinely stuck, and a warm refusal when they are not.

03

The teacher sees the thinking

Which misconception surfaced, how deep the hints went, and whether the student tried to shortcut it.

L0 — a broad opening questionL1 — narrowerL2 — names the conceptL3 — points at the termL4 — one tiny sub-stepThe answer — the ladder never crosses this line
Each rung narrows the question. None of them contains the answer — the ladder stops short of that line by construction, not by policy.

04 · For teachers

The evidence lands on your desk.

MisconceptionMonTueWedThuFri
Quadratics — roots vs intercepts241·39 students
Linear equations — dividing by coefficient1·3216 students
Fractions — multiplication shrinks·22417 students
Logic — some vs all11·124 students
Chemistry — molarity·121·3 students

Your class, last week. One row per idea that broke.

Misconception heatmap

Which ideas broke this week, on which day, and for how many students.

Independence trend

Hint depth per session, falling over time as students need less scaffolding.

Integrity, not surveillance

You see that a student asked for the answer and kept working anyway. You do not see their private conversation.

L3L3L2L2L3L1L1L2L1L0
Hint depth per session for one student, oldest to newest. Lower is more independent — this is the number that should fall as the term goes on.
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05 · For students

It will not do it for you.

That is the point

You will finish the problem yourself, which is the only version that helps on Friday.

You get the credit

Every session ends with what you worked out, in your words.

Your progress is yours

Stored on your device. No account, no password, no profile.

listed the factor pairsspotted the pair that sums to 2factored itchecked by substitutionYou solved it
The same session from your side. Every rung is something you worked out — which is why the recap can put your name on it.
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06 · Privacy

Built so schools can say yes.

  • 01No student accounts or logins.
  • 02No personal data beyond a first name and last initial, typed by the teacher.
  • 03Session reports carry no identifying information.
Student's devicedisplay name · progress · hint depth · topicTeacher dashboardconversation · email · password · real name · IPnever leaves the device
Everything above the line is what a teacher receives. Everything below it never leaves the student's device — there is no account for it to attach to.

Give your students an AI they cannot cheat with.

Start free — for teachers