How Study Work works

One session, from your child's side to yours — and, at the end, the honest bit about what's under the hood.

1 · The session

A session is a chapter

Your child picks a subject and a session — each one covers a chapter of their textbook. Flashcards come first and prime what's ahead; then the questions, with the tutor guiding all the way through. Fifteen to twenty-five minutes, on any device, and sessions are spaced across the term so nothing gets crammed.

Maths · Session 71 / 11
Flashcard: What do we call a fraction where the numerator is bigger than the denominator?
Heim the Leader Ready? This one comes back as a question later — watch for it.
Behind every question
The question — written the textbook's way
The answer — as the school's marking expects it
The guidance — the method, the common mistakes, and the structure of a full answer

2 · The guidance

The guidance is the difference

Every question carries three things: the question, the answer, and the guidance — the method, the common mistakes, and the structure of a proper answer, written the curriculum and textbook's way. That's why the tutor checks and explains work exactly as the school does. And it's why it can't simply hand the answer over: your child works towards it, step by step.

The opposite of pasting homework into a chatbot at 8pm the night before.

3 · Their way

It meets your child where they are

Reading, listening, talking it through, or writing it out by hand and snapping a photo — Study Work works the way your child learns best, in any language. Ask in Afrikaans about an English textbook and the tutor answers in Afrikaans, page reference included.

📖

Read

🎧

Listen

🗣️

Talk it through

✍️

Write + photo

4 · The companions

Each companion has a moment

Your child picks a companion to study with — and at the right moments, the right one steps in. A correct answer brings Nina's celebration. A wrong answer brings Vicky: mistakes are how we learn. Stuck? Alex breaks it into small steps. Drifting off? Heim brings the focus back. It's a small thing that changes everything: children stop being afraid of getting it wrong.

Alex the Guardian

Alex steps in

when a problem needs breaking down

Nina the Heart

Nina celebrates

the moment an answer lands right

Vicky the Rising

Vicky rises

when a mistake becomes a lesson

Heim the Leader

Heim leads

when focus starts to wander

5 · Memory

It gets to know your child

Study Work remembers how your child learns — what they struggle with, what they thrive at, which explanation finally made fractions click. Every session, the tutor knows them a little better, and teaches a little more like someone who does.

6 · Your report

You stay in the loop

After every session you get a report — and not just a score. A win to celebrate at the dinner table, and one or two questions worth following up with your child. You stay the parent; Study Work does the tutoring.

Session report · Maths 7
A win to celebrate: converted improper fractions correctly four times in a row — a first!
Worth a follow-up: "Can you show me how you'd order ⅗ and ⅔?"

7 · Under the hood, honestly

The journey of a question

When your child asks the tutor something, the question leaves their tablet, crosses the ocean on undersea cables, and arrives at a data centre. There, Google's Gemini — we chose it deliberately; its focus is education — reads the question together with the chapter's method and guidance, and the answer streams back. All of it in a couple of seconds.

We've built Study Work to teach a child, not just answer them — the tutor, the guidance, and your child's own history travel with every single question.

your child's tablet undersea cables data centre · Gemini question + guidance + your child's history what travels together

The best way to understand it is to feel it

Do a mini session yourself — it takes a few minutes.