CurioSeedFor curious kids 5–12
CurioSeed turns kids’ curiosity into deeper thinking and opens up new possibilities.
Both end the same way: your child explaining something out loud, in their own words.
Inspired by the Protégé effect (Stanford, 2009)
Kids work harder to learn something when they have to teach it to someone. So your child teaches Curio — 80 "why?" questions across 8 islands, from rain to rockets.
Inspired by Havruta (Talmudic paired study)
For centuries, students have learned in pairs by arguing a text out loud. Here your child picks a side of a story with no right answer, and Quill — the AI — takes the other. 25 debates on the path.
Kids started to think deeper, enjoy teaching, and even challenge the AI.
“It's fascinating to me that my kid goes to history every time. I had no idea she was so into that field.”
Every child starts out full of questions. Most of them learn to stop asking.
“I'm working. Later.”
“It's not on the test.”
Nobody meant any harm. But a question that never gets an answer stops being asked.
Learning takes three steps. Most AI tutors only help with the middle one.
Teaching and debating are live today. Here's where we're going.
Teach Curio across the islands, and argue in the Debate Arena.
One friend that keeps track of your child's projects — why it rains, volcanoes, dinosaurs — and reaches for the right way to learn each one.
Kids and their grown-ups learning together at the same table, starting in Halifax.
Join the pilotKids who use AI to go further on the questions they care about — not to stop asking them.
One subscription for the whole family. Cancel any time.
$2.90/month
for your first month, then $29.90/month
Start monthly$299/year
about $24.92/month, billed once a year
Start annualFamilies already spend about $731 a year per child on enrichment. (LendingTree survey of 2,000 US parents, 2024)
Supported byAI2MarketShiftKey LabsDal InnovatesVolta
A learning app for kids 5–12 built around two things AI tutors usually skip: wanting to know, and putting it into your own words. Your child teaches Curio what they learned from a storybook, and debates questions with no right answer against an AI that argues back.
The other way round. Your child does the explaining; Curio asks the follow-up questions and only passes its test if it was taught well. In the Debate Arena, the AI takes the side your child didn't pick, so they have to give reasons.
Five to twelve. Stories and questions are pitched to your child's age, and everything can be read aloud, so younger kids can talk instead of type.
No ads, no strangers, no open internet. The AI is instructed for children, and anything worrying your child says reaches you on the parent page, behind your own PIN.
A teaching session or a debate takes about ten minutes. A daily energy budget winds the day down instead of pulling your child deeper — we don't chase minutes.
Any time, from Settings. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
Your child’s curiosity can light up a world.
Start your adventure