Ask
The app that comes with the licence. Every teacher, every family, no upsell.
The weak point of every licensed curriculum
Every licensed programme has the same weak point, and it is not the material.
A school buys a curriculum. The founder comes and runs a training day. Everyone leaves the room clear about what to do. Then week seven arrives, a child gives an answer nobody expected, the teacher is alone with twenty children and a lesson plan that does not cover this, and quality drifts, quietly, across every classroom, with nobody there to catch it.
What a teacher does in week seven is where licensed programmes fail. The usual answer is more training, which does not scale, because it needs the founder in the room.
Ask is the alternative. The founder's answers, in every classroom, in the teacher's own language, at the moment the question comes up.
It is built to refuse
The Empathy Curriculum rests on one claim. Faces do not carry fixed meanings, so nobody can be told what another person feels. A smile is not happy. Tears are not sad. The only way to know what a child feels is to ask the child.
That claim is built into Ask at the deepest level.
Put a teacher's most natural question to it. What is this child feeling. It declines, and it hands back questions to ask the child instead.
Most education AI is built to produce an answer. This one is built to withhold the answer that would be most satisfying and least true, because giving it would teach the opposite of the programme.
Every answer ends with the lesson or principle it rests on. Where the curriculum is silent, it says so rather than improvising.
What is inside
Four assistants, each expert in one part of the curriculum, kept separate on purpose so their answers stay narrow and reliable.
Sprout, for feeling words, the cards and the daily check in.
Puff, for big feelings, meltdowns, refusals and the toolkit.
Bao, for conflicts between children, repair, and the four steps.
Lumi, for the whole year, planning, and explaining the programme to parents.
And two screens with no AI in them at all. A games corner holding every game in the programme, filtered by the moment a teacher is in, such as a loud class or no space. And a card shelf holding the wordless deck.
A teacher sets her level, her term and her week once. After that the home screen shows this week's lesson, words and game without her typing anything.
For families
Every family at a licensed school gets Ask too, in its own mode.
A parent can ask what her child is doing in the empathy lesson this week, why the cards have no words on them, or what to say at home when her child uses a feeling word she has not heard before. In her own language, at any hour.
What parent mode cannot reach: lesson content, and anything resembling a measurement of her child. She is not sold a report on her child and she is never told what her child feels.
Safety, as plain statements
Photographs cannot be uploaded. There is no path by which an image of a child reaches the system.
Conversations are not stored. Only how often the app is used.
It will not label or diagnose a child, and it will not help design a punishment.
Anything resembling a safeguarding disclosure stops the conversation and points to the centre's own child protection process.
What it costs
Nothing beyond the licence. Ask is included for every teacher and every family at a licensed school. It is not sold separately and there is no version to upgrade to.