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Why we exist

Most of what you pay should reach the person teaching your child.

I tutored for five years before starting this, long enough to see how much of the industry works from the inside. Agencies billing families well over fifty dollars an hour, paying the tutor twenty or twenty-five, and doing little in between beyond making the introduction. No planning, no oversight, no note home.

So we publish what our tutors earn on our own recruiting page, where anyone can check it before they apply or before they hire us.

Jinhao Xie · Founder

Where a Grade 11–12 hour goes · pay-as-you-go

You pay$70
Your tutor receives$40–56
We keep the remainder$14–30

A tutor's share rises with experience and time with us, up to 80% of what you pay. Our remainder covers recruiting and screening, matching your child to the right subject specialist, covering sessions when a tutor is on practicum, and the written summary you get after every session. If we stop earning it, you'll notice, because the only thing between you and a cheaper tutor is whether we're doing that work.

What makes us different

How we compare to a typical tutoring platform

We run on three things: transparency, quality, and consistency. Those aren't slogans — each one costs us something, and here's what each one looks like next to how tutoring usually gets sold.

01

Transparency

Everything that decides what you pay — and what your tutor is paid — is published before you speak to anyone.

What it costs

✕Typical platforms

Answer a bunch of intake questions, or create an account, before you even get a chance to book a call. You don't find out the price until that call — where they're also trying to make the sale.

✓X Tutoring

No sign-up or account required to see pricing — it's all on our pricing page. See exactly what a session or package costs before you ever talk to anybody.

Where the money goes

✕Typical platforms

The cut the agency keeps is never stated. You pay one rate, the tutor is paid a much lower one, and the gap between them isn't something you're meant to see.

✓X Tutoring

We show you where your fee goes, line by line, at the top of this page — and we publish what our tutors earn on our own recruiting page. A tutor's share rises with experience, up to 80% of what you pay.

What you're committing to

✕Typical platforms

Auto-renewing subscriptions and packages that bill you again unless you remember to cancel in time.

✓X Tutoring

Nothing renews on its own, and there's no contract either way. Use a package at your pace, then decide yourself whether to buy another — and if you stop partway through one, we refund what's left.

02

Quality

Nobody is put in front of your child on the strength of a profile. What we check, and what we deliberately ignore, is written out in full.

Who's teaching

✕Typical platforms

Open marketplaces let anyone create a profile and list themselves. No one necessarily checked whether they can actually teach.

✓X Tutoring

OCT-certified teachers, teacher candidates, and experienced tutors — all screened on how they teach, not just what they know.

How they got hired

✕Typical platforms

A "verified" badge on a profile, with no explanation anywhere of what was actually checked to earn it.

✓X Tutoring

Every tutor teaches a live mock lesson to one of us first — no exceptions, including for certified teachers. The whole process is published on our tutor page, so you can read what we screen for before you hire us.

Meeting your child in person

✕Typical platforms

Background-check status is buried in a policy page, if it's stated at all, and rarely tied to the specific person coming to your door.

✓X Tutoring

Any tutor who meets your child in person holds a current vulnerable sector check that we've seen ourselves. A tutor without one takes online sessions only. Each tutor's status is on their card in the roster below.

03

Consistency

The same person every week, a written record of what happened, and a free switch the moment it isn't working.

Who shows up each week

✕Typical platforms

A different tutor each time, matched by an algorithm, with nobody checking whether the fit actually worked.

✓X Tutoring

The same tutor every week by default. If yours is briefly unavailable, we cover the session rather than cancel it, and we tell you in advance.

What you hear back

✕Typical platforms

You find out how it's going by asking your kid, and hear from the company again when it's time to renew.

✓X Tutoring

A short written summary after every single session — what was covered, what's still shaky, what's next — so you know what happened without having to ask.

If the fit is wrong

✕Typical platforms

Changing tutors means starting the search over yourself, and often explaining why to someone whose job is to talk you out of it.

✓X Tutoring

Tell us and we'll switch, at no cost and without a conversation about why. Fit matters more in tutoring than in almost anything else.

How we teach

Every session follows the research on how students actually learn

Tutoring helps most students, but how much it helps depends on what happens during the hour. Studies of tutoring keep finding the same thing: students learn most when they do the thinking, and a tutor's job is to set up the right problem and give just enough help at the right moment.

We built our session structure and our tutor training around that research, drawing on cognitive science reviews like Deans for Impact's The Science of Learning and decades of studies on what effective tutors do.

What an hour looks like

  1. Check inA quick hello and a clear goal for today, tied to what's coming up at school.
  2. Warm-up from memoryA few questions on past topics, answered without notes. Recalling is what makes learning last.
  3. See where they areYour child tries a problem or explains the idea first, so the tutor can spot exactly where the confusion is.
  4. Teach the new ideaLinked to what they already know, with a worked example and the reasoning behind every step.
  5. Practice with supportYour child solves, the tutor coaches with questions and hints, and steps back as they get it.
  6. Try it soloA few problems with no help, including an older topic, for an honest read on what stuck.
  7. Wrap upYour child sums up the lesson in their own words and we set a short plan for the week.
  8. After the sessionThe note homeA short written summary reaches you the same day — what was covered, what's solid, what's still shaky, and what the next session will pick up.

Older topics keep coming back in later sessions on purpose. Spacing practice out over weeks is one of the most reliable ways to make learning stick, and it's why short homework spread over a few days beats one long night of review.

How we prepare our tutors

Our tutors include certified teachers, teacher candidates, and experienced tutors. Research on tutoring programs shows that all of these groups can get strong results when they're trained and supported, so everyone goes through the same preparation.

Before we hire
Every candidate teaches a short mock lesson with one of us playing the student. We watch whether they get the student thinking, check understanding by having the student try things, and hold back from simply giving answers.
Before the first student
Tutors learn our session model and the research behind it, then run a full practice session where the "student" has a planted misunderstanding to find and fix.
In the first month
We observe one of their sessions, with the family's permission, and go through it together against the same checklist used in hiring.
After every session
Tutors write a short note: what was covered, what's solid, what's still shaky, and what to revisit next time. We review these regularly, and they're how your child's plan stays on track from week to week.

We're a new company, so we don't have years of our own results to point to yet. What we can show you is exactly how we teach and why.

Where this comes from
  1. Deans for Impact, The Science of Learning, 2nd edition (2026)
  2. Kirschner & Hendrick, How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice (Routledge, 2020)
  3. Nickow, Oreopoulos & Quan, The Promise of Tutoring for PreK–12 Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence, American Educational Research Journal 61(1), 2024
  4. Chi, Siler, Jeong, Yamauchi & Hausmann, Learning from Human Tutoring, Cognitive Science 25(4), 2001
  5. Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan & Willingham, Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques, Psychological Science in the Public Interest 14(1), 2013
  6. National Student Support Accelerator (Stanford), Design Principles for Accelerating Student Learning With High-Impact Tutoring, 2024
On AI

We're pro-AI. We're against AI tutors.

We use AI in this business every day, and we want students using it too. Anyone telling your child to avoid it is not doing them a favour. The claim we reject is narrower than that: it cannot take the place of the person teaching them.

Use it for this

Encouraged

Where AI is genuinely better than what a student had before, and we say so.

  • Checking your work after you have an answer of your own to compare against.
  • Getting unstuck on one step at 11pm instead of abandoning the whole problem set.
  • Drilling the parts that are pure repetition — vocabulary, formulas, verb conjugations.
  • Asking it to quiz you on a unit rather than explain it. Almost nobody thinks to.
  • Rephrasing a definition your textbook explains badly, in three different ways.
  • Generating extra practice once you already know which topic you are weak on.

Not for this

The parts that need someone who can see your child, not just their question.

  • Judging whether you actually understood it. A clear explanation feels like comprehension long before it is.
  • Deciding what you should work on this week, out of everything you could work on.
  • Telling you the thing you did not know to ask about.
  • Refusing to help, on the occasions when being refused is the entire lesson.
  • Showing a parent or a teacher that something has started to go wrong.
  • Noticing that you have gone quiet, or that you have started dreading Tuesdays.

This position is easy to hold when a family can afford a tutor. When they can't, the realistic alternative isn't a human tutor, it's nothing — and a free chatbot is meaningfully better than nothing. That's the floor being argued about, and raising it is part of why our community placements exist.

Start here

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A conversation, not a pitch. We'll ask what's going on and tell you honestly whether we can help. If we can't, we'll try to point you to someone who can.

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