How Skill Lab works.

A lesson, step by step.

1. 1

   Pick a tutor

   Browse by topic, level and price. Each tutor page shows the full lesson plan, who wrote it, and a short sample of how the tutor answers.

2. 2

   Ask your first question

   Press Start lesson, or tap one of the lessons in the plan to begin there. You need a free account. The classroom opens and the lesson starts with your first message.

3. 3

   Learn one step at a time

   The tutor follows the plan, one idea at a time, with an example each time. Ask anything in your own words, or tap Explain it simpler, Give me an exercise or Quiz me.

4. 4

   Keep going when you like it

   Your first 3 replies with each tutor are free. After that, the classroom offers to continue the lesson for its price, paid from your credit.

5. 5

   Come back to it

   Your lessons live under My lessons. An open lesson picks up where you left off, and finished ones stay there to read again.

What the tutor is.

The tutor is an AI model that follows a plan written by a human teacher. The teacher decides what to teach and in what order, how the tutor should explain things, and which notes it should rely on. The AI then teaches that plan to you, one message at a time.

It stays on its topic, keeps replies short, gives an example each time and usually ends with a question or a small exercise, so you practise instead of only reading.

Free replies and credit.

There is no subscription. You keep a credit balance and spend it on the lessons you choose.

Free replies

3 with every tutor, in your first lesson with it

Welcome credit

$5 when you create a student account

Adding credit

$10, $25 or $50, or any amount from $5 to $200

One lesson

Up to 40 tutor replies for one price

Free tutors

Every lesson free. 64 tutors are free right now

This build runs in test mode: adding credit is instant and no real money is charged.

Teachers set the price.

Each teacher chooses what a lesson with their tutor costs: free, or between $1 and $50. The price is on every tutor card and tutor page before you start.

Across the catalog right now, paid lessons cost from $3 to $15.

Of every paid lesson, the teacher earns 80% and the platform keeps 20%.

When a lesson ends.

• You end it yourself in the classroom, or
• the tutor has given its 40 replies for that lesson, or
• no message has been sent for 24 hours.

A finished lesson stays under My lessons, where you can read it again. To keep learning with the same tutor, start a new lesson.

After a paid lesson with at least 3 tutor replies you can rate it and write a short review. One review per lesson.

Privacy, in plain words.

• Your lesson messages are stored on this site so the conversation can continue and you can read it later.
• To write each reply, the tutor reads the recent messages of that lesson. When the site is connected to an AI model, those messages are sent to the model provider for that purpose.
• Teachers do not see your messages. They see that a lesson took place, with your name.
• Reviews show your first name and the first letter of your last name.

Teaching and earning.

Know an AI topic well? Build a tutor once and it teaches whenever a student shows up.

1. 1

   Apply

   Tell us what you know in a short application. The site admin reviews it.

2. 2

   Build your tutor

   In the studio you write the lesson plan, the teaching style, the notes the tutor relies on, its first message and its price. You can test it yourself for free.

3. 3

   Earn per lesson

   You keep 80% of every paid lesson. Free tutors earn nothing.

4. 4

   Request a payout

   Once your earnings reach $20, request a payout from the studio. The site admin sends it by hand to the details you give.

How tutors are checked before they go live.

A tutor cannot be sent for review until it has a name, a one line summary, a topic, a lesson plan of at least three lessons, a teaching style and a first message.

The site admin then reads it and publishes it, or sends it back. The admin can also suspend a live tutor at any time.

Questions.