Built in Perth, Western Australia
Powerful AI, finally built for younger minds.
Archimedes is a patient AI tutor and a learning device for kids. It asks guiding questions instead of handing over answers. Get the newsletter and follow the build as it happens.
Why now
Education has been asking for change.
Teachers, parents and education bodies have been saying the same thing for years: every child learns at a different pace, and one teacher can't sit beside thirty kids at once. Now schools are writing their first rules for AI in the classroom. We think that change should start with tools built for children, not borrowed from adults.
Why Archimedes
Most AI was built for adults. This one is built for kids.
Point a nine-year-old at a general chatbot and it hands over the answer in a wall of text. Archimedes does the opposite.
- Guiding questions, not answers
Short sentences, one question at a time, then a wait, so your child does the thinking. It moves on only once a skill is secure. - A model we train ourselves
Archimedes Think is pre-trained in-house, not a chatbot borrowed for the afternoon. A knowledge-tracing layer picks the next question from what your child actually knows. - Parents see the real picture
Skill by skill: what is secure, what is stuck, and the next step. Every day, not twice a year. More for parents. - Hardware for learning, not entertainment
A device for talking, moving and building, not tapping and scrolling. It's still in progress, and the waitlist hears first. Read about the hardware.
The hardware
A learning device, not another screen.
Archimedes isn't only software. We're building a device made for talking, moving and building, not tapping and scrolling, so learning feels more like working beside a patient tutor than staring at a tablet. It's still in progress, and newsletter readers hear first as it comes together.
The founder journey
From a Pinjarra kitchen table to a Perth startup.
Thomas Heal grew up in Pinjarra, WA. Two older sisters taught him maths and English at the kitchen table, and his mum worked as an education assistant. He went on to finish as dux of his school.
Most kids don't get that kind of patient help at home. So he started Archimedes in Perth to build it, and he writes up the journey in the newsletter as it happens. Read the mission.
"Great teaching should not depend on postcode, price, or luck."
The Archimedes mission
What you'll get
A newsletter worth opening.
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Parents get homework help, routines and what's actually going on at school. Teachers get AI in the classroom, explained plainly and without the hype. Tech readers get how we're building the tutor, the model and the hardware, and investors get company news and milestones from an early-stage edtech startup.
Recent issues: AI in schools: what AERO's new advice means for teachers, a Sunday night routine for calmer Mondays and helping kids with homework. See all issues.
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