Reading is the gate.
Every other subject sits behind it. A child who cannot yet hear the sounds inside words is locked out of all of them, and told to keep up anyway.
Open now, and free for every family
You’re not behind. You’re just not there yet.
Prodigee is a one-room schoolhouse on a small planet, where animated teachers know your child’s name. Miss McGee teaches reading first, a few minutes every day, at your child’s own pace. Then the rest of the school opens: science with Professor Al, history with Mister Johnstone, inventions with Professor Moose, and friends to explore alongside.
A parent creates the account and starts every session. Children never sign up on their own. No ads, nothing sold, and your child’s voice is never stored.
For the child the classroom is moving past
The classroom moves at one speed. Your child doesn’t.
Thirty children, one pace, one calendar. Some are bored. Some are lost. Both stop raising their hand.
Struggle is not a verdict.
Prodigee was built for children who struggle in traditional school systems. A lesson meets your child where they are and stays there until it is solid.
Substance, not worksheets.
Classical content, modern delivery. Rich vocabulary is left intact. Complex ideas are presented honestly. Children are treated as capable.
Choose your teacher
A whole school, and every teacher knows your child.
Your child picks who to talk to. When a question belongs to someone else, the class passes it along, and your child always sees who is speaking. Four teachers, three friends, two small robots.
Teacher · ages 4 to 12
Miss McGee
Storyteller, reading teacher, and the heart of the school.
Teacher · ages 6 to 12
Mister Johnstone
Historian, adventure guide, quiet steady presence.
Teacher · ages 6 to 12
Professor Al
Science and mathematics, taught by a delighted old man.
Teacher · ages 6 to 12
Professor Moose
Inventor. Engineer. Safe explosions.
Friend · ages 6 to 10
Ella
Eight years old. Explorer. Asks "why?" until she gets an answer.
Friend · ages 5 to 10
Ozzy
Athlete, pirate captain, imagination engine.
Friend · ages 1 to 4
Gus
A toddler. Everything is new and everything is wonderful.
Helper · ages 4 to 10
RizBop
A small robot who speaks slowly and says what it feels.
Helper · ages 4 to 12
RizPop
A robot who never talks. It answers in music.
How it works
Reading first. A few minutes a day. Then the whole school.
The foundation is phonemic awareness: hearing, holding, and playing with the sounds inside spoken words. It is the skill under every other reading skill, it takes minutes a day, and a child who has it stops being afraid of the page.
- 1
A parent opens the door.
You create the account, add each child, and choose what the school may do: use the microphone, remember your child between visits. Children never sign up on their own.
- 2
Your child picks a teacher and starts talking.
A few minutes of reading practice a day: hearing the sounds inside words, blending them, playing with them. Then stories, questions, and the rest of the school, at whatever pace is theirs.
- 3
You see what happened.
The family page shows what was practiced, how it went, and the text of every conversation. Nothing moves on because the calendar said so. A skill is practiced until it holds, then the next one opens.
What they actually learn
Your struggling reader deserves Andersen, not worksheets.
Most education software talks down to children. Prodigee does not. Context does the teaching, and a child who is treated as capable tends to become so.
with Miss McGee
Reading and stories
The sounds inside words, then the words, then the tales that have lasted: Andersen, Aesop, the ones your grandparents heard. Read in full, with the vocabulary left in.
with Professor Al
Science and mathematics
Questions are treasures and mistakes are data. Real ideas, explained honestly, by a professor who is genuinely delighted your child asked.
with Mister Johnstone
History and the wider world
History as a living story of courage, mistakes, and people who were once children too. Cultures met with respect. The past as somewhere you can visit.
with Professor Moose
Technology and invention
How things work and how to build them. Engineering, code, and the permission to think big, experiment boldly, and blow something up safely.
Built for families
The rules a children’s product should have written down.
Privacy for children is not a setting we added later. It is the shape of the thing. These are the rules Prodigee runs on, and the long version is one click away.
- A parent creates the account and starts every session. Children never sign up on their own.
- Your child’s voice is turned into text and discarded in the same moment. Audio is never stored.
- Characters remember your child only if you say so. You can read every note and erase them all, any time.
- No ads. Nothing is sold inside the school, and nothing about your child is sold to anyone.
- A child is never visible to any other user. There is no chat between children, no profiles, no friend lists.
- Every reply is checked before it reaches your child, and a character that steps out of its role is stopped.
Where this is going
The School Planet is the first world.
Prodigee is the free base of something larger: a library your child can walk into, more worlds to visit, and one day a classroom you can step inside with a headset. We build the school first. Everything else has to earn its place after.
Questions parents ask
Short answers here. If yours isn’t, write to us; a person reads every message.
Yes. The School Planet is free for every family. There are no ads, nothing is sold inside it, and nothing about your child is sold to anyone.
Toddlers through about twelve today. Gus is there for the very youngest, the friends cover roughly five to ten, and the four teachers work with children from four to twelve. Every character adjusts their language to the age you enter when you add your child.
They talk with a teacher, out loud or by typing. They practice the sounds inside words. They hear stories. When a question belongs to a different teacher, the class passes it along, the way a real school would, and your child sees who they are talking to at every moment.
Never stored. Speech is turned into text so the teacher can answer, and the audio is discarded in the same moment. What remains is a text transcript you can read on the family page.
With your permission, a character keeps a few short notes between sessions: a favorite topic, what your child was working on, an inside joke. It is off by default. You can read every note and erase all of them from the family page whenever you like.
Reading comes first, with a short daily routine in phonemic awareness, the skill of hearing and playing with the sounds inside words. The other subjects grow around it. Prodigee is built to sit alongside school and to catch a child that school is moving past, not to replace a classroom.
Free for every family. Ready when your child is.
A parent account takes a minute. Your child picks a teacher and starts talking.