From your syllabus to a sitting
It starts with your course
Upload a syllabus, reading, brief, or policy. Maia drafts a structured course with milestones, learning objectives, and citations back to the pages they came from. Not a topic list: a real syllabus grounded in what you already wrote.
A teacher reviews the draft, edits what is wrong, and publishes. Nothing reaches students until that gate. Then you assign the course. Each student gets a tutor that teaches from the approved material.
Each class is a conversation
A class is a one-on-one dialogue with the tutor: text or live voice. The tutor introduces a concept from your materials, then makes the student use it. If they get it wrong, it does not just say "incorrect" — it asks a question that helps them find the error.
This is Socratic teaching. Every class has specific objectives and a grader that tracks whether they have been met. People advance when they get it right, not when they have clicked through a set of screens.
Speak in the same class
Switch to live voice without leaving the hour. Maia speaks and listens in real time. Students talk through the material, explain their reasoning, and the conversation stays on the approved pages. Same class, same grader, spoken instead of typed.
Materials sit with that class
The conversation is the class. Reading, a podcast, and a lecture are generated for the same hour — not a different way to take it. Built from the same source pages the tutor is teaching.
"..the concert is not forty dollars. It is the ticket plus the shift you did not work.."
Two hosts discuss this hour's material from different angles. They walk the concert and the shift, and why the sticker price is not the cost. Every episode includes a full transcript.
The next-best alternative
12 min · Generated from your materials
A focused walkthrough of this hour, explanation-first. Good before class or as a recap after. Generated from the same cited pages, not pulled from a library.
Opportunity cost
Every choice uses time or money that could have gone somewhere else. Opportunity cost is the value of that next-best alternative: the shift you skip, not a list of every thing you could imagine.
Key Takeaways
- •Opportunity cost is the next-best alternative
- •Add what you pay out and what you forgo
- •The sticker price is not the full cost of a choice
Written material for this hour: explanations, worked examples, and notes the learner can reopen. Always from the source you uploaded.
Multiple choice
You skip an $80 shift to buy a $40 concert ticket. What did the concert cost you?
The $40 leaves your pocket. The $80 never arrives. Economists add both.
Practice from the same class. The format follows the material: policy orderings, scenario checks, short written answers.
All of this is generated on demand from your course. There is no content library. Every podcast, lecture, reading, and exercise is unique to the hour and the pages it cites.
Spaced repetition across everything
Maia tracks memory for every concept. Things someone knows well fade out. Things they struggle with come back before they forget. Review happens in exercises, in conversation (the tutor weaves past concepts into later classes), and in the podcasts.
It learns how each person learns
As someone progresses, Maia builds a profile: strengths, recurring mistakes, pace. Later classes adapt. If they struggle with a concept, the tutor spends more time. If they are ahead, it skips what they already know. The assigned course stays the same; the path through it does not.
After each milestone, the system checks whether the planned sequence still makes sense given what it has seen, and adjusts. It is the calibration a great tutor does instinctively: for every student, not one generic track.
Pre-made courses, if you need them
Schools usually bring their own course. If a student, or you, wants a subject that's already mapped, it's in the pre-made catalog.
Each heading is its own course. Start it, or test out in one sitting. The class shape is the same: a tutor conversation, with materials for that hour.
See pre-made coursesPilot one class. If the citations don't hold up, cancel.