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Aced

For families with students 11–18

Build the habit.See the proof.

Aced turns your child's homework pile into short, structured sessions — and gives you the receipts when the work is done. Photograph a worksheet or forward a school email. Your child starts in one tap. You approve from the couch. No nagging, no leaderboards, no drama.

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  • Built for ages 11–18
  • COPPA-ready
  • No ads, no data sold
  • Family-scoped, not social
Streak
12
day streak

XP this week

1,240
Active
Math · Fractions recap
5 min
Approvals
3 items waiting
MathRank 4
ScienceRank 3
EnglishRank 2

The part of parenting nobody warned you about.

Before anything else, we want to name the thing.

Assignments scatter across six subjects, three apps, and the bottom of a backpack. No single place shows what's actually due.

You ask. They forget. You remind. They resent it. The homework gets done at 10pm or not at all.

By the time the report card arrives, the grade is already set. You find out what went wrong months after it mattered.

Three moves. Then Aced takes it from there.

This is the whole product loop. You can repeat it back to a friend in thirty seconds.

01

Capture.

Photograph a worksheet, or forward a school email to your child's Aced intake address. The AI reads the document, files it under the right subject, and pulls out the due date.

02

Session.

Aced offers your child a 5-minute Snack or a 30-minute Focus — whichever fits the moment. They start in one tap. Sessions are short on purpose, because a student who finishes one usually finishes two.

Approval queue
Math · Fractions recap
Approve

03

Approve.

Completed work lands in your approval queue with the evidence attached. Approve on your phone. Reject with a reason if something needs another pass. Your child sees why.

Your kid's backpack, read by a computer.

Extracted activities

6 items

  • Fractions recap — Problem 1
    due Thu·10 XP
  • Fractions recap — Problem 2
    due Thu·10 XP
  • Fractions recap — Problem 3
    due Thu·15 XP
  • Fractions recap — Problem 4
    due Thu·15 XP
  • Fractions recap — Problem 5
    due Thu·20 XP
  • Fractions recap — Problem 6
    due Thu·20 XP

Extracted in under 30 seconds. Filed automatically.

Aced reads photos, PDFs, and forwarded school emails. Each item becomes a tracked activity, filed under the right subject, with the due date pulled automatically. A twenty-question worksheet becomes twenty small activities your child can chip away at in any spare five minutes.

Five minutes is enough to start.

Aced breaks large assignments into Snacks — five-minute chunks your child can finish on the couch, in the car, or between practice and dinner. Momentum compounds, because a student who completes one Snack usually rolls into two or three.

Aced · home

Ready for a Snack?

Math · Fractions recap · 5 min

8 day streak
Start

The home screen asks one question: ready for a Snack? No to-do list to stare down, no dashboard to decode.

Snack · 1 / 3

02:14

What is 3/4 + 1/8?

5/8
7/8
4/12
1/2
Done

While the session runs, everything else is gone. One question, one action, no notifications bleeding in from other apps.

Aced · session

Session complete.

+15 XP+8 XP+20 XP
+43 XP

Daily total

128 / 300 XP

9 day streak

Pending your approval

Completed work earns XP immediately — pending your approval, so delays never punish the student. One tap on your phone turns pending into confirmed.

You see effort. They keep their privacy.

The facilitator dashboard shows what needs approval, what's falling behind, and where your child is putting in real work. It doesn't read their messages, track their location, or grade their character. You get the signal. Your teen keeps their dignity.

Facilitator · dashboard

family · 2 kids

Approval queue

  • Math · Fractions recap

    submitted 10m ago

    ApproveReject

  • Science · Cell diagram label

    submitted 42m ago

    ApproveReject

  • English · Paragraph revision

    submitted 1h ago

    ApproveReject

Streaks

  • Ada12 days
  • Noah5 days

Priorities

  • Math70%
  • English40%
  • Science60%

Quiet hours: 3:30pm – 4:30pm (soccer)

  • Approve or reject with a reason — your child sees why.
  • Set priorities once. Aced schedules around them.
  • Quiet during soccer. On during study hour.
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Progress that isn't a slot machine.

We read the research on what makes gamification actually help students, and what makes it quietly harmful. Then we built only the first kind, and we can tell you exactly what we left out and why.

What we left out

  • Leaderboards and social comparison
  • Loss-framed streak messaging
  • Loot boxes and variable-ratio rewards
  • Pay-to-win XP or paid level skips
  • Screen-time manipulation patterns

What we built

  • Forgiveness streaks with one free rest day a week
  • Daily XP caps so binge sessions aren’t rewarded
  • Per-subject ranks from Bronze to Diamond
  • Facilitator approval on every completed activity
  • Research-grounded XP curves from Self-Determination Theory

Our gamification design notes and sources are linked in our research docs. If you care, we'll show you the citations.

Built for minors, from day one.

Aced serves students 11–18, and a meaningful share are under 13. COPPA isn't a checklist for us — it's the frame around every design decision we made before writing a line of code.

Parental consent first

Facilitators verify their own identity and approve every child added to a family. Children under 13 can't be onboarded without a verified adult on the account.

No ads, no data sold

We charge for the product, not for your family. There is no advertising network in Aced, no behavioral tracking pixel, and no third-party data broker in the stack.

Third-party AI disclosed

Uploaded documents and forwarded emails are processed by Google Gemini via OpenRouter. You're told this before onboarding finishes, not buried in page nine of a policy.

Delete everything

One button in family settings wipes your data from the database, deletes your files from cloud storage, and purges the workflow history. Permanent, irreversible, yours to run whenever you want.

Read the full privacy policy →

Free while we're in beta.

Aced is in early access. Families who sign up now get the full product at no cost while we finish polishing it. We'll give you thirty days of notice before any paid plan starts, and beta families keep a lower permanent rate when that day comes.

Early access

Beta access

$0 / month

  • Unlimited activities and sessions
  • Up to five children per family
  • Photo and email intake included
  • Full facilitator dashboard
  • All gamification, all privacy guarantees
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No credit card. No trial clock. You can delete everything in one click.

Questions parents ask us.

How is this different from Google Classroom or Khan Academy?

Aced is a task manager and habit engine; Google Classroom is a passive assignment list, and Khan Academy is a content library. Google Classroom shows a student what's assigned and leaves the execution to them. Khan Academy teaches concepts but doesn't know what your child's actual teacher assigned this week. Aced takes the real assignments from your child's school — via photo or forwarded email — breaks them into five-minute sessions, prompts your child, and shows you the effort. It doesn't replace the teacher, the curriculum, or the school portal. It replaces the reminder you've been giving three times a day.

My kid has ADHD — will this actually help?

Aced was designed around the executive-function gap, which is the exact thing ADHD taxes hardest. The gap isn't knowing what to do — it's starting, sequencing, and finishing. Aced handles the sequencing (the AI decides what to work on next) and shrinks the starting cost to one tap on a five-minute Snack. It won't replace a clinician, medication, or an IEP, and we wouldn't pretend otherwise. What it does is remove the three specific moments where ADHD breaks a homework routine: the blank-page overwhelm, the forgotten worksheet, and the lost track of time. Families with ADHD teens are the audience we thought about first.

What ages is Aced for?

Aced is built for students ages 11 to 18 — roughly middle school through high school. The session length, the subject structure, the tone of the interface, and the privacy posture are all calibrated to that age range. We don't serve elementary students; the product assumes a reading level and a degree of self-direction that typically shows up around sixth grade. We also don't serve college students; the model is family-scoped with a parent or guardian as the facilitator, which stops making sense once the student is legally an adult. If your child is ten, we'd ask you to wait. If they're nineteen, they've aged out.

Do you use my child’s data to train AI models?

No. Aced uses Google Gemini via OpenRouter to read uploaded documents and forwarded emails, and neither Aced nor the upstream providers train models on your family's data. Documents are processed to extract assignments and then stored inside your family's private account. They aren't pooled, anonymized-and-sold, or piped into a shared training set. We also don't run behavioral advertising, don't sell data to third parties, and don't share it with schools unless you explicitly export it yourself. The AI homework app privacy concern is real; our answer is to charge for the product so we never have to monetize the student. COPPA applies and we treat it as the floor, not the ceiling.

What happens when my kid misses a day?

Nothing punitive. Aced ships with a forgiveness-first streak system: every student gets one automatic free rest day per week, and there’s a 24-hour recovery window after a break to restore a streak. Students can also bank streak freezes earned through XP, capped at two. Miss a Tuesday because of a soccer tournament, you come back Wednesday and the streak is intact. We deliberately avoided the "you lost your streak" language that other apps use, because loss-framing makes students quit the product entirely on a bad week. The point of the streak is to build the habit, not to punish the gap.

Does my school need to be involved?

No. Aced is a parent-signup product that works completely separately from your child's school. You don't need a school account, a district email, or a classroom code. The only touch point with the school is the intake flow — your child photographs a worksheet the teacher handed out, or forwards a school email from the teacher to an Aced intake address. We don't connect to school portals, we don't log in to any school system on your behalf, and teachers don't need to know Aced exists. This is deliberate: it's a homework app without school account involvement, which means you can start tonight without a permission form.

Can I add more than one child?

Yes. A family account on Aced holds up to five children, each with their own profile, subjects, priorities, and notification schedule. Each child has their own XP, streak, subject ranks, and achievement gallery — the gamification is individual, not family-wide, so a younger sibling isn’t competing against an older one. You set priorities separately for each child (Math heavy for the eighth grader, Violin heavy for the fifth-grade equivalent). You can also invite a second facilitator — the other parent, a guardian, a grandparent — with full management access. One family, up to five kids, no upcharge during beta.

What if my child is already using a school portal?

Aced works alongside school portals like Google Classroom without touching them. Your child keeps using the school portal for whatever the school requires; Aced runs in parallel as the homework tracker you actually look at. The workflow is: your child sees the assignment in the portal or on paper, then brings it into Aced by photo or forwarded email. Nothing syncs back to the portal. This keeps the school's system intact and gives you one clean place to see what's being worked on, without asking the school to change anything. Most families use Aced as a homework tracker in addition to Google Classroom, not instead of it.

How is pricing going to work after beta?

Aced is free during early access, and we’ll give every beta family thirty days of notice before any paid plan starts. When pricing lands, it will be a flat family subscription — not per-child, not per-activity, not pay-to-unlock-features. Beta families will be grandfathered into a lower permanent rate than what new signups pay. We haven’t set the exact number yet because we want to price it against the real cost of running the product, not an optimistic guess. The honest answer to "how much will Aced cost" is: less than a tutor, more than free, and we’ll tell you in writing before we ever charge your card.

Can I delete everything if I change my mind?

Yes. There is a `Delete all data` action in family settings that removes your entire account: children, activities, photos, uploaded documents, approval history, workflow state, all of it. The database rows go. The files in cloud storage go. The Temporal workflow history is purged. It's one button, it's permanent, and you don't need to email us or wait on a support ticket to run it. If you change your mind at any point — tonight, in a year, after the beta ends — you can delete a homework app account in under a minute and walk away with no residue left on our servers.

Start the habit tonight.

Five minutes to set up. Your child can be on their first Snack before dinner.

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