Drift watches, waits, then helps.
Drift is an AI tutor for students with ADHD and learning differences. It works through tonight’s homework with them, one step at a time.
Five ideas, about three minutes, and a quick check at the end.
A slip gets a moment, then a circle.
A math engine checks every line as your child writes. When a step slips, Drift lets them finish the line, then circles the spot. Many students catch it themselves.
Drift waits for the line to finish.
Take another look at the 2.
That’s it. 4 times 2 is 8.
Will Drift talk over my child?
No. It never interrupts a stroke and never talks over your child.
One step more
If your child goes quiet, Drift waits their usual thinking time, then asks: “Want a hint or more time?”
Help climbs one rung at a time.
Five levels, from a nudge to showing one step. Drift climbs only as far as your child needs, and even the top rung shows one step, never the whole solution.
- Nudge
- Question
- Smaller step
- Example
- One step
Line 2 has a slip. Climb the ladder one hint at a time.
Does Drift ever just give the answer?
Not to your child’s own problem, until the top rung and one more try.
One step more
You can choose to allow answers for checking. Saying “just tell me” gets faster help that still leaves the work to your child.
Every session has a finish line.
A warm-up, work blocks of 10 to 15 minutes, a two-minute break off the screen after each, and one problem solved alone to close. Your child always sees what’s left.
How long is a session?
Most run 20 to 30 minutes.
One step more
Work blocks are 10 minutes for grades 6 to 8 and 15 minutes for grades 9 to 12, and they adjust to how your child focuses. After three blocks comes a longer five-minute break.
Paper or screen, it’s the same board.
Tablet, laptop, or paper with a phone as the camera: Drift sees the work and writes back on it in every mode. The camera reads only the page, never your child’s face.
What does it need?
Paper and a phone are enough to start.
One step more
We’re building for iPadOS 17 or later, Chrome on Chromebooks from 2020 on, and iOS 16 or Android 11 phones for Desk Cam, with a 5 Mbps connection. A QR code turns the phone into the camera, with no app to install.
It remembers what helps.
After each session Drift keeps short notes: the step that keeps slipping, the hint that worked, how long a block should be. The next session starts there.
Who can read these notes?
Your child and you.
One step more
Your child sees them in Drift’s Notebook and can correct or delete any note. You see the summary view. Anyone else sees them only if you share a report.
Your child writes −3 + 5 = −8. What does Drift do first?
Pick one. A wrong pick gets a hint, never the answer.
How this page worked: one idea per section, a picture first, smaller steps, a finish line you can see, a callback to the 2, and answers that open one step at a time.
Start with tonight’s homework.
Driftlearn is opening to families in small groups. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when there’s a place. A parent or educator signs up, never the student.