Our story · live snapshot
✨ STILL COOKING · 19 MAY 2026
We started with a question we couldn't answer.6 months later
Journey · Late 2025 → Today
Tuesday · late 2025
Q asked
By dessert
Domain
Wk +1
Q01
Mo +3
Cohort 1
Mo +12
7 worlds
Mo +15
Schools
196 quests
Today
196 QUESTSWhere we are now. 196 quests across 7 worlds, ages 8–18.
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Origin · Toronto · TUE
“Is the toaster smart?”
— a nine-year-old, dessert pending
We hedged. By dessert: a name + a domain. By next Tuesday: Q01 written — still where every kid starts.
QUESTION
Tuesday
Q01
Wk +1
LIVE
Yr +1
Audit
Three buckets. None of them fit.
METHOD · 1 MONTH
N=23 PRODUCTS · 5 CRITERIA
(we did our homework.)
N=23 PRODUCTS · 5 CRITERIA
(we did our homework.)
Coverage gap · kid-AI products tested · click a row
Coding camps
VINTAGE · 2017
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AI tutors
VINTAGE · 2024
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Explainer videos
VINTAGE · 2022
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Digital CodiUS
VINTAGE · 2025
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Score = % of audit criteria met: age-appropriate · doesn't hand the answer · curriculum spine · kid-safe · privacy.
Why · not a robot
Robots in kid-media are either helpful sidekicks (boring) or threats (unhelpful). Either way they're other. Wizards mess up incantations and watch funny things happen. Wizards apprentice. So does your kid.
Mental model · hover a column
ROBOT
TUTOR
WIZARD
Feels like
other
helper
apprentice
Teaches by
demo
answer
craft
Kid is
audience
recipient
apprentice
Fails by
breaking
spoiling
sparkling
Non-negotiables
Three things we will never do.
✨ PINKY PROMISES
01 / 03
🛡
Data
Never sold. Canadian-region servers. PIPEDA + COPPA as the floor, not a checkbox.
CA-1
region
02 / 03
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Streaks
Reset to "start today." No shame popup. No 47-day guilt trip.
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shame popups
03 / 03
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Parents
Parents pick the plan. Kids never see an upsell.
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kid upsells
→ Roadmap
The plan, in four lines.
→ tap any dot
Trajectory · today → north star
TODAY
100% · shipped
196 quests · 7 worlds
Foundations → data → ML → vision → language → ethics → capstone builder labs.
EOY · 2026
65% · in build
Teacher dashboard
Every quest mapped to provincial K–12 standards in Ontario, BC, and Alberta.
2027
30% · in design
Codi’s universe
The mascot becomes a character with friends, an arc, and a few good stories.
NORTH STAR
∞ · horizon
“Codi” becomes a verb
"Did you Codi this?" — meaning: did you actually understand it.
✨ Kids said
Real receipts.(pinky promise.)
stuff our kids
actually said →
actually said →
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“i taught the toaster to tell jokes.”
M
— Maya, 9
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“the chatbot was wrong. i was right.”
A
— Arjun, 11
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“wait — AI is just math doing math?”
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— Lena, 8
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“spellcraft > coding camp.”
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— Sam, 13