Don't just chat, explore, play, understand, wander, wonder, steep, dig in, learn.

Pedagogue turns your AI agent into a teacher. Ask about anything and it builds you a journey: a story dotted with color, visuals, interactive figures you can play with, and sidebar conversations to follow your curiosity.

Coming soon for Mac. Private beta by invite.

A Pedagogue journey titled 'Mandelbrot Set: A Universe From One Line of Arithmetic', with the learner's question, the first equation, and a map of upcoming sections on the left.

The Julia-set explorer running on a phone.

One question in.
A whole journey out.

Chat gives you a wall of text and a scroll bar. Pedagogue gives you a vibrant journey to explore and learn from.

Guided journeys

Built to be understood.

Every answer is shaped by one idea: people learn best from stories. Journeys start simple, keep you oriented, and layer on the detail as you go deeper.

Ask anything.

Type a question — any question. Pedagogue answers with a journey: a titled, ordered path through the idea, written for you.
Simplest first.

Each journey starts from the smallest true thing and the puzzle it leaves behind, then builds. Here one line of arithmetic, and a question: how can that draw something infinitely detailed?
Keep your bearings.

The map on the left shows every stop on the trail: where you've been, where you are now, and how far is left. Tap any waypoint to jump straight there.
Check yourself.

Ask to be quizzed on a section, a figure, or the whole journey. Multiple choice is graded on the spot, every miss comes with the reason, and short answers are read and graded by the agent.

Don't just tell. Show.

When a picture carries the idea better than a paragraph, Pedagogue draws it — and brings it to life.

Rich visuals

Figures crafted to teach.

Equations, charts, diagrams, maps, 3D scenes and working interactive figures appear in context, connected to the surrounding text.

A journey on clutches and transmissions, with an interactive engine fuel-efficiency map in the reading pane and the journey map on the left.

A real lesson, mid-stride.
A journey on clutches and transmissions, reaching the question of why a CVT can beat six fixed gears on fuel.
Now pull the levers.
Why do spinning baseballs curve in flight? Explore how spin affects air flow.
Code, not clip art.
A lesson on swarming bees. With a parametrized simulation showing how a small number of informed bees can guide a colony to its new home.
Real data, when it matters.
A journey through Yugoslavia's fragmentation. Pedagogue fetches information instead of remembering it. And with Python installed Pedagogue can (optionally) compute values to make sure it gets them right.

Every journey comes to life.

A few figures from real journeys. Each one was written for a single lesson, and each one moves.

**Julia-set explorer**Drag across the Mandelbrot atlas to pick c.

The descent of the letter A — **The descent of the letters**Ox head, to aleph, to alpha, to A.

Earth's tilt around the Sun in 3D — **Why there are seasons**Earth's tilt around its orbit, in 3D.

3D protein backbone of crambin — **Crambin, folded**A real backbone from PDB 1CRN, one residue at a time.

A recipe card for canned-chickpea hummus: scale and print buttons, the ingredients, and the first steps of the method — **Canned-chickpea hummus**A recipe you can scale up or down, and print for the counter.

Star trails over Tyre — **Steering by the Little Bear**The night sky over Tyre, 600 BC.

Map of Rome's grain routes — **Rome's grain routes**Africa, Sicily and Egypt, and the long way round.

Euler's product plot — **Euler's product**A slider over K factors, closing in on sin x / x.

State diagram of a swarm reaching quorum — **How a swarm commits**Deliberating, quorum, airborne.

Annotated anatomy of the ear — **The ear, labelled**An annotated image, with its attribution.

Take every tangent.
Never lose the thread.

Sidebar conversations

Wander off the trail, then come back.

Curiosity doesn't follow an outline. Pedagogue lets you chase the question that just occurred to you without derailing the lesson you're in.

Select any phrase.
A small toolbar lets you Highlight, Define or Discuss.
Step off the trail.
Define gives a short, exact definition. Discuss opens a side conversation about that passage.
Each answer gets a card.
Tethered to the words you chose, with room for follow-up questions.
Then step back on.
The lesson waits exactly where you left it.

Here is the constraint that shaped everything else. A Roman merchantman carried a big square sail, and a square sail is superb with the wind behind it and nearly useless in front of it. Reconstructions and ancient voyage times agree:
close-hauled, these ships made less than 2 to 2½ knots — walking pace, and that is before you subtract leeway.

A Define card for close-hauled: the definition with a diagram of the wedge a ship cannot sail into, then the learner asks how close to the wind a Roman ship could point and gets a short answer and a table: about 60 to 70 degrees by heading, 70 to 80 by the course actually made.

A Discuss card on the passage: the learner asks why, and to see how a square sail's speed changes with its angle to the wind, and gets a polar plot with a no-go zone inside 60 degrees; then asks what that did to the trip from Alexandria back to Rome and gets a map of the straight run out and the long dogleg home.

The journey map for a Bee Swarming journey, with Discuss, Define, Note and branch cards nested under the sections they came from.

Cards branch off the map…

Every Define, Discuss and note is pinned to the map so you can revisit your detours later.

…can become their own journeys…

When a side question turns out to be a whole subject, open the card as its own journey, with its own map and sections, and its own cards inside it.

A Discuss card opened as its own journey, with a back button, its own map, and the excerpt it branched from.

…and found again at a glance.

Find anything with built-in fuzzy search.

The search picker on its In this journey tab: the query "sail win" lists matching sections, a Discuss card and two figures from the Roman Grain Supply journey.

Around the lesson

Curate your library.

Stay organized with the Librarian, build custom learner profiles, and access Pedagogue on your phone.

Runs on your local Claude Code.

Pedagogue runs using your local authenticated Claude Code.

Pick the model and how hard it thinks for each journey.

Model

OpusSonnetHaiku

Effort

LowMedHighxHighMax

A librarian for everything you've learned.

Your journeys live in folders with tags. The librarian is a second assistant that knows your whole library, not just what's on screen. Ask it what you've been learning, or ask it to tidy up.

Searches with judgement
Summarizes journeys
Tags in bulk
Renames and files
Starts new journeys
Proposes what to archive

The journey library with three near-duplicate journeys ticked for archive, and the librarian console explaining what each would lose.

Go deep, or just chat.

Pedagogue mode builds the full journey. Chat mode answers just what you asked, like a traditional chatbot, but can generate figures on demand and supports sidebar conversations.

Fidelity configures the content — choose from a traditional text-only experience, add static diagrams, or push all the way out to high fidelity interactive set-pieces.

Pedagogue mode at Text fidelity: a journey on why the sky is blue, with a map, sections and a definition callout, in prose only.

Learners, tuned to taste.

Set up as many as eight learners, then prompt each with a preferred learning style or point of emphasis. Learners remember your journey settings allowing you to quickly jump between preferred settings.

Three examples:

Keep learning from the couch.

Pedagogue runs on your Mac where your journeys live and is reachable from your phone over Tailscale. There's no separate app: open the address in Safari and the whole journey comes with you, map and sidebars included.

A journey on a phone, at an interactive figure of a planetary gearset

Coming soon.

Pedagogue is in private beta, by invitation, on the Mac.

Have an invite? Install the beta macOS 14 or later. Needs a working, authenticated Claude Code on your Mac.

Don't just chat, explore, play, understand, wander, wonder, steep, dig in, learn.

Built to be understood.

Ask anything.

Simplest first.

Keep your bearings.

Check yourself.

Figures crafted to teach.

A real lesson, mid-stride.

Now pull the levers.

Code, not clip art.

Real data, when it matters.