🧭 Compass
TrailGuide prepares the lesson.
You teach it.
Compass generates hands-on, age-appropriate lessons tailored to each of your kids. You get a clear script, parent-guidance tips, and activities you can run with real objects at the kitchen table. Your child learns from you — not a chatbot.
You're the guide
Clear prompts tell you what to say, when to help, and when to step back.
Meets each kid
Adapts to their level, interests, and how the last lesson went.
Hands-on, not screens-on
Real objects, real conversations. The screen stays with you.
Included with HomeTrail+ at launch.
The thesis
Other apps put AI between your child
and the content.
Compass puts TrailGuide-powered prep between you and the lesson plan — so you stay between your child and the learning.
Hand the kid a tablet. Hope an AI tutor gets it right. Hope they don’t wander off.
- ✕Kid ⇄ AI (you’re out of the room)
- ✕Screen-based by default
- ✕You don’t know what they learned
- ✕No relationship, no nuance
TrailGuide does the prep behind the scenes. You show up ready to teach.
- Kid ⇄ You ⇄ activity (TrailGuide stays invisible)
- Hands-on by default: paper, blocks, conversation
- You see it. You run it. You know what stuck.
- Tuned to your kid, improved by your feedback
Every lesson comes with a coach.
You don’t need a teaching degree. Each Compass lesson is paired with a parent-view that tells you exactly what to say, when to step in, and when to let them wrestle with it.
Coach notes, not scripts
"Lean into their interest in dinosaurs here." "Watch for guessing vs. sounding out."
Dual-view player
One tap flips between the kid-facing activity and the parent-facing playbook.
Prep you can scan in 30 seconds
The lesson goal, the materials, the flow. No 40-page teacher’s manual.
Lean into: She's been asking about the moon this week. Use that as the story hook first.
Watch for: Guessing from the picture vs. actually sounding it out.
If stuck: Cover the picture. Tap each letter and say the sound together.
Adaptive, per kid
Adapts to each kid — and each day.
Every Compass lesson is generated fresh from a living profile of your child: what they love, what trips them up, what they just nailed. No rigid scope-and-sequence, no “you’re behind.” Just the next right step.
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Racing ahead? It stretches them.
When you flag a lesson as too easy, density and challenge step up.
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Struggling? It scaffolds harder.
Shorter lessons, more examples, more visual support. No shame, no grade-level drama.
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Pulls from real life.
Text TrailGuide "she's obsessed with astronauts right now" and Compass will use it.
The screen stays with the parent.
Compass lessons are designed to happen at the table, on the floor, or on a walk. The activity might be an oral story, a picture stack, a movement game, a decodable passage read aloud — but rarely “stare at a tablet.”
Decodable passages
Read aloud, take turns
Oral questions
Conversation, not quizzes
Picture stories
Visual sequencing
Comprehension checks
Short, focused, connected
Story
The cat sat on a mat. The cat had a big hat. A rat ran up the mat.
Question
Where did the cat sit?
How it works
Four steps. No curriculum shopping.
Tell Compass about your kid
A short setup covers age, reading stage, interests, and any learning needs. Transparent — you can edit it anytime.
Tap "Start Lesson"
Compass generates a lesson on demand — pulling in their latest interests and signals. No weekly planning required.
Teach it together
Flip between the parent playbook and the kid view. 10 to 20 minutes, hands-on. You’re in the room.
Tell Compass how it went
One tap: nailed it, got there, not yet. Compass tunes the next lesson automatically.
It’s not a curriculum. It’s not a scope-and-sequence. It’s a teaching co-pilot that shows up when you want to teach.
Your feedback is the curriculum.
TrailGuide-powered prep doesn’t know your kid the way you do. So every Compass lesson ends with a 5-second check-in: how did that feel? What did you notice?
Those observations feed directly into a living profile — shaping length, scaffolding, density, and theme in the very next lesson.
“Too long today, he got wiggly.”
Next lesson: 15 min max, movement break built in.
“She’s into outer space this week.”
Next story: a lost astronaut with short-vowel words.
Made for
Parents who know this actually matters.
New homeschoolers
You pulled them out. You don’t want to guess. Compass gives you the lesson-by-lesson confidence to just start.
Parents of early readers
Phonics-forward activities, decodable passages, oral comprehension, picture stories. No guesswork about what “Kindergarten” means.
Families with learning differences
Transparent student profile. You can tell Compass what to avoid and what works. It listens. No labels, no shame.
Be first in line for Compass.
Waitlist members get early access as we onboard families in phases. You’ll also lock in founding-member pricing when Compass launches inside HomeTrail+.
Included with HomeTrail+ at launch. No separate charge. Your email stays between us.
You're on the list.
We’ll reach out as we open up access. Thanks for trusting us with the teaching part.
“We didn’t want to build a chatbot that teaches our kids. We wanted something that made us better at it. That’s Compass.”
Compass, Answered
No. There’s no scope-and-sequence, no workbook, no boxed set. Compass generates lessons on demand when you want to teach — tuned to your child’s level, interests, and recent progress.
No. TrailGuide works behind the scenes to generate lessons and coach notes for you. Your child sees curated activities and reads passages with you. Compass is a parent co-pilot, not a chatbot tutor.
Not at all. Every lesson ships with a parent view that tells you what to say, when to help, and when to back off. If you can read a recipe, you can teach a Compass lesson.
Usually 10 to 20 minutes, with 2 to 4 short activities. Length adapts based on how the last lesson went. You can end a lesson early anytime — we’ll learn from that too.
At launch we’re focused on early elementary — pre-readers through solid readers (roughly ages 4 to 9). Upper elementary and middle school expansions are on the roadmap.
Yes. Plenty of families run Compass as a supplement — an extra reading session, a rainy afternoon, a gap-filler. It doesn’t try to replace your routine unless you want it to.
Compass has a transparent student profile where you tell it what works, what to avoid, and what accommodations to build in. Your feedback stays private to your account, and every lesson respects the guardrails you set.
Compass is one of three products included with HomeTrail+, alongside TrailGuide (the SMS logging assistant) and Nest (the kid app). No separate charge.
We’re in early access with a small group of families and opening up in waves through 2026. Join the waitlist above and we’ll reach out as seats open.
