Jordan Hudgens
Co-founder & CEO.
Leads product and engineering.
AI tutor · Ages 5–7 · In development
The AI tutor that learns your child, starting with reading.
PrimerBot is designed to find what your child already knows, spot the gaps, and adapt every session to teach what comes next. Every lesson is built by reading experts. Every path is built for one child.
Learn together
sun
Listen to the sounds.
s u n
Listen to the sounds.
sat
Your turn. Read this new word.
Helper off
splash
Next on the path: a longer word.
Helper off
The fish can splash.
Read the line, then the picture and one question.
Adapts every sessionResearch-backed phonicsBuilt by reading expertsNo ads, ever
Why reading first
Reading is the skill everything else is built on.
Learning to read opens up every other subject. Yet in 2024, 40% of U.S. fourth graders read below the NAEP Basic level.1
One-on-one tutoring is one of the most reliable ways to help. A review of dozens of randomized tutoring studies found consistent, substantial gains, with reading tutoring especially effective in the early grades.2 But a tutor every day has never been realistic for most families.
So we're building an AI tutor for every child: one that learns how your child reads and adapts every session to what they need next.
Inside a session
PrimerBot teaches. Your child reads.
Each session is designed to last about 10 minutes and is led entirely by PrimerBot. It teaches, steps back so your child can read on their own, and adjusts to what just happened. There's nothing for you to prepare, and your child can stop any time.
Learn together.
PrimerBot shows each sound, looks at the letter it's teaching, and blends the sounds into a word with your child.
Research-backed. Built for one child.
Every lesson is built by reading experts.
Every path is built for one child.
Reading experts build and review what PrimerBot can teach. PrimerBot's AI decides, for your child, what to teach next, how to explain it, and when to step back and check.
Built by reading experts
- Lessons follow explicit, systematic phonics, an approach with strong research support for beginning readers.
- A reading specialist reviews every lesson, story, and check before any child uses it.
- Stories use only the sounds your child has learned, so they can really read them.
Learn
Find the gaps
Teach
Check
Recheck later
Chosen for your child
- PrimerBot keeps a running picture of every skill: solid, shaky, or missing.
- It decides what to teach next and how: more practice, a new way to explain, or the next step on the path.
- It checks progress with brand-new words and no hints, then comes back later to make sure each skill stuck.
That's what great tutors do: get to know the child, adjust, and let the child show what they know. We're building PrimerBot to do it in every session.
How PrimerBot tutorsWhere your child is, and what's next
A reading path, paced for your child.
In the first session, short, playful checks are designed to find your child's starting point. From there, PrimerBot moves at your child's pace, and you see the specific skills they can do on their own. No levels, no labels.
Knows letter sounds
connects letters to the sounds they make
Blends sounds
puts sounds together to read a short word
Our first releaseReads new words alone
decodes words they haven't practiced, without hints
Reads short stories
reads simple stories built from known sounds, and answers a question about them
Reads to learn
longer texts, more sounds, more meaning
Later
Our first release focuses on milestones 2–4, for children who know at least some letter sounds.
For parents
Know what's theirs. Know what's next.
PrimerBot teaches. You see the evidence. After each session you'll see what your child read on their own, what they read with help, and what PrimerBot will teach next. Anything it didn't hear clearly is flagged, never guessed.
Nothing to teach.
PrimerBot leads every session. You just press start.
Real evidence.
See what your child did on their own, kept separate from what they did with help.
Their pace, their path.
See how they're moving along the reading path and what comes next.
All done.
Session: about 9 minutes
- With help
- sunsat
- On their own (no in-app hint)
- pigdig
- Wasn't clear (not scored)
- 1 attempt
- Next step
- blending words that start with s
- Check again later
- pig and dig, in a few days
A helper, not a friend.
PrimerBot tells your child it's a computer helper for reading. It never asks personal questions or pretends to have feelings.
No open chat.
Your child can't have open-ended conversations with an AI. Every line PrimerBot says will be reviewed in advance.
No ads. No selling data.
Not now, not later.
Your child's data isn't used to train AI models
unless you explicitly choose to allow it.
You're in charge.
Parents set up and start sessions, and can delete their family's data at any time.
The bigger picture
Reading first. Then writing and arithmetic.
Our vision is a tutor of their own for every child, across the foundational skills. We're starting with reading because everything else is built on it, and because one subject done well matters more than three done halfway.
ReadingBuilding now
WritingLater
ArithmeticLater
Each subject will get its own curriculum, specialist review, and testing before it's released.
Who's building PrimerBot
Educators and builders, working on one problem.
Dr Michael Tingey
Co-founder, Research & Education Partnerships.
Leads PrimerBot's research, education partnerships, and relationships with schools and institutions.
FAQ
Questions about PrimerBot
Not yet. We're building it now and will start with a small early-access group. Join the waitlist to hear first.
Be among the first families to try PrimerBot.
Join the waitlist and we'll let you know when early access opens. Just your email; no child information needed.