The school we wish existed
Build the 18-year-old you wish you'd been.
Five things school skips — money, influence, clear thinking, people, and persuasion. Taught in 25-minute Socratic sessions by an AI teacher who follows a real script, on real books. Parent transcript after every session.
3 free sessions. No credit card. 30-second setup.
Not courses. A system.
Five pillars. One capable kid.
By 18, your kid should think clearly, not get manipulated, understand money, read people, and say what they mean. RealMind is the curriculum we built to get them there. Two pillars live today. Three more shipping Q3 2026. Plans include all live pillars. Members get early access and grandfathered pricing on new pillars as they ship.
Earning, saving, investing, debt, taxes, inflation, assets vs. liabilities. Built on Kiyosaki and Buffett's letters.
Authority vs. real power, contracts, rights, how institutions actually work, incentives. Built on Machiavelli.
Thinking & Decision Making
Q3 2026See clearly. Decide correctly.
Logic, biases, decision frameworks, spotting manipulation in arguments. The pillar that makes the other four work. Built on Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, Munger's Poor Charlie's Almanack, and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.
People & Social Intelligence
Q3 2026Understand people. Don't get played.
Reading the room. Spotting when someone's running a play on you. Telling real friendship from performance. The pillar we wish someone had taught us at 14. Built on Robert Greene's The Laws of Human Nature, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, and Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
Communication & Writing
Q3 2026Say it so it lands.
Writing clearly. Framing an argument. Negotiating without flinching. Turns thinking into results. Built on Aristotle's Rhetoric, George Orwell's Politics and the English Language, and Chris Voss's Never Split the Difference.
Who it's for
Kids 5–18. Parents who want their kid to think.
Best for parents who think their kid is capable of harder ideas than school is giving them, and who want to be in the loop without being the teacher.
The two live courses fit most kids 10+. Advanced younger readers — including some 7- and 8-year-olds — handle them too; that's what the 3 free sessions are for. Younger kids: try a session and see.
What's different
Scripted lessons. Real books. Parent transcript.
Not a free-form chatbot. We write the lesson beats. The AI runs the conversation. You read what your kid said and what they understood.
Scripted lessons
Every lesson is broken into beats we wrote ourselves. The AI fills the warmth and adapts to your kid's age, but the curriculum is fixed. The AI cannot wander off into open-ended chat.
Real books
Marcus reads passages from The Prince. Elena pulls from Kiyosaki and Buffett's letters. Your kid is wrestling with the actual texts, not a generative paraphrase.
Parent transcript
Full conversation, comprehension score, and a one-line note on where they struggled. You're always in the loop without being the teacher.
How it works
Four steps. Then your kid is in a Socratic conversation.
Create a free account
Email, a name and age for your kid. Thirty seconds. No credit card.
Pick a pillar
Start with How Money Works (ages 10+) or How Power Works (ages 12+). Each is 8 sessions of 25 minutes.
Your kid does a session
They sit down with Marcus or Elena and have a real Socratic back-and-forth. Voice or text. After dinner, after school, on the weekend.
You read the transcript
Full conversation, comprehension score, and a one-line note on where they struggled. Open it Sunday morning with your coffee.
A real session
What your child will actually do in one session.
25 minutes. Five beats. A real conversation about a real idea — and a transcript on your phone before bed. Below is a real exchange from Session 1 of How Power Works.
Strong session. Your child distinguished authority from real power without prompting and used a school-yard example to test the idea. Push them next time on cases where borrowed power gets withdrawn — protests, walkouts, vote-of-no-confidence.
This is one beat from one session. Each course has 8 sessions. Each session has roughly 5 beats like this one — designed to make your kid defend a real answer, not click a multiple-choice box.
The bar
What we're actually trying to build.
A capable, dangerous-in-a-good-way 18-year-old.
Not dangerous as in reckless. Dangerous as in: hard to manipulate, can read a contract, knows what compound interest costs them, can tell when a coach or boss or politician is running a play on them, and can argue their side without flinching.
Schools don't build that kid. We've watched our own children sit through years of curriculum that fades by college, and almost no time on the things that actually shape adult life. So we wrote what was missing: real books, taught by AI teachers we built ourselves, in 25-minute Socratic sessions a kid can do after dinner.
If a kid runs all five pillars, they'll know more about money, power, thinking, people, and persuasion than most adults do. That's the bar we hold ourselves to.
The difference
Why this isn't “ChatGPT for kids”.
Side-by-side with the two things parents actually compare us to.
| RealMind | ChatGPT / general AI | Khan, Outschool | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curriculum | Hand-written by us, beat by beat | Whatever the model invents | School-aligned subjects |
| Source material | Real books — Machiavelli, Kiyosaki, Buffett's letters | Generated paraphrase | School curricula |
| Free-form chat | Disabled. Lessons follow scripted beats | On by default | N/A |
| Parent transcript | Every session, with comprehension score | None | Progress dashboards |
| Built for kids | Yes — age-calibrated language and examples | Built for adults | Yes |
| Topics | Money, power, thinking, people, persuasion | Anything | Math, reading, languages |
From parents
What kids say at the dinner table.
“My 13-year-old came home and asked me what 'fear vs love' meant in his soccer team. He'd just done Marcus's session four. I haven't heard him talk like that about a school subject ever.”
“We tried Khan, we tried Outschool. RealMind is the first thing my daughter actually asks to do. The transcripts are the part I didn't expect to love — I read them with coffee on Sunday.”
“She's 10. After session three on compound interest, she asked if she could open a savings account. I'm not exaggerating. I don't know what Elena said but it landed.”
“I was skeptical of an AI teacher. Then I read the transcript. It's not free-form — it's actually a lesson. My son finished a session on Machiavelli and could explain it back to me at dinner.”
Pricing
Plans, when you're ready.
Use 3 sessions free first. Pick a plan only if your kid wants to keep going. Cancel anytime.
Plans include all live pillars. Members get early access and grandfathered pricing on new pillars as they ship.
Academy
1 child. Ages 5-18. 8 sessions/month.
$49/month
- ✓1 child profile
- ✓Up to 8 sessions/month
- ✓Full curriculum access
- ✓Parent dashboard & progress reports
- ✓Cancel anytime
- ✓All live pillars + grandfathered pricing on new pillars
3 free sessions, no credit card.
academyFamily
Most parents pick thisUp to 3 children. Ages 5-18. 8 sessions/child/month.
$89/month
- ✓Up to 3 child profiles
- ✓8 sessions/child/month
- ✓Full curriculum access
- ✓Parent dashboard & progress reports
- ✓Priority support
- ✓Cancel anytime
- ✓All live pillars + grandfathered pricing on new pillars
3 free sessions, no credit card.
familyFull pricing details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Questions parents ask.
How is this different from ChatGPT or a generic AI tutor?+
Every word our AI teachers say is either written by us or generated inside tight, hand-built guardrails. There is no free-form chat with a stranger's chatbot. We script the lesson beat by beat — the hook, the source quote, the Socratic question, the comprehension test. The AI's job is to listen warmly, ask follow-ups, and adapt language to your kid's age, not to invent the curriculum.
How does the free trial actually work?+
Create an account with no credit card. Your kid gets 3 full sessions — same AI teachers, same scripted lessons, same transcripts as paid plans. After session 3, if they want to continue, you pick a plan. If they don't, the account just sits there and we never charge you.
How is this different from school?+
School is graded, group-paced, and built around subjects designed in the 1800s. RealMind is one-on-one, 25 minutes, on the things school skips: how power works, how money works, how to think clearly. Your kid does it after dinner.
What ages does this work for?+
We market this as 5–18, but each course is calibrated. How Power Works is best for 12+. How Money Works is best for 10+. The AI teacher adapts language and examples to the age you set when you create the child profile.
My kid is 6, 7, or 8 — will it work?+
Some advanced young readers handle the live courses fine. Many don't yet — these are written for 10+. Use the 3 free sessions to find out.
Will I see what my kid is doing?+
Yes. After every session you get the full transcript, the comprehension score, and a one-line note about where they did well and where they struggled. When a course finishes, you get a written assessment.
What about my kid's privacy?+
We collect only what's needed to deliver the lesson. No ad tracking. No third-party analytics on session pages. AI providers see the conversation under contracts that prohibit using it to train their models. Full details on our Privacy page.
Is RealMind a replacement for school?+
No. RealMind is a supplement that does what school doesn't have time to do. Your kid still goes to school, still does homework. RealMind takes 25 minutes a few times a week and teaches the things that compound for the rest of their life.
Can my kid use it without my help after the first session?+
Yes. After you set up the profile, kids 8+ can run sessions on their own — voice or text. You read the transcript afterward. Kids 5–7 are best with a parent in the room for the first few sessions.
Give your kid one Socratic conversation a week about the things that matter.
3 sessions free. No credit card. Pick a plan only if your kid wants to keep going.