Zyntri Sidekick sits beside students as they do their school math homework — guiding, not answering. No extra curriculum to manage. No technical lift for your team. Just better learning outcomes for the students you already serve.
The difference between Zyntri Sidekick and every other AI tutoring product comes down to a single question: does the student need to do something extra, or does the AI fit into what they are already doing?
When a student gets stuck, Sidekick doesn't paste the solution. It climbs a five-level scaffold — asking, hinting, demonstrating — until the student can solve it themselves.
The AI moves up the scaffold only when the student is genuinely stuck — and comes back down as soon as they show understanding. Every session builds a persistent picture of what each student knows, what they find difficult, and how they think.
We designed this partnership model to require almost nothing from your team operationally, while giving your students, parents, and organization tangible, visible value.
Give your families access to a personalized AI learning tool aligned to their child's actual school — something no generic tutoring platform provides. A meaningful addition to your program portfolio.
Every parent receives a weekly summary: concepts covered, mastery progress, sessions this week, and a conversation starter. Your organization becomes the source of visible, measurable learning outcomes.
Parents enroll directly. Students install a browser extension. Your team doesn't manage accounts, content, or technical support. We handle all of it. Your role is the introduction — not the maintenance.
Partner organizations receive anonymized aggregate data: which math concepts your student group is finding hardest this month. Useful signal for your own instructors and curriculum planning, at no extra cost.
Partner organizations receive a share of subscription revenue for each student enrolled through their referral — ongoing, not a one-time finder's fee. The more your students benefit, the more the partnership pays.
Families who enroll through your organization receive a permanently reduced price. This makes the product more accessible to the families you serve, and strengthens the perceived value of your partnership.
Zyntri Sidekick is not another answer machine. Its design is grounded in Productive Failure research — the finding that students who struggle before receiving instruction learn more deeply and retain longer than those who receive help immediately.
When a student encounters a problem they cannot solve, the instinct is to give the answer. But decades of cognitive science show the struggle itself is where durable learning happens. Sidekick is engineered to preserve that struggle — at exactly the right level of difficulty for each student.
Every session refines a persistent model of each student: their school, their textbook, their mastered and struggling concepts, their error patterns, their preferred language. Over time the AI's guidance becomes more precise — the opposite of a generic AI tool that resets with every conversation.
The outcome we optimize for is not the correct answer. It is the frequency with which students answer the AI's guiding question correctly on their first try — the moment "I don't know" becomes "I figured it out." Each such moment strengthens the student's belief that they can work through hard problems.
Sidekick attaches to the student's school curriculum rather than running alongside it. When a student learns something in class, Sidekick reinforces it in the context of their actual homework. There is no second curriculum, no separate study session, no additional cognitive load.
Theoretical foundation: Kapur, M. (2008). Productive Failure. Cognition and Instruction, 26(3), 379–424.
We keep the process lightweight deliberately. Our goal is to have your first students using Sidekick within three to four weeks of a signed agreement.
We start with a call to understand your organization: grade levels served, how families currently access academic support, and what success looks like for you. No slide deck required from your side.
We agree on a simple framework: partner pricing for your families, the revenue share rate, and any co-branding preferences. We provide a one-page term sheet, not a 40-page contract.
We begin with a cohort of 8–15 students from your organization — enough to generate meaningful learning data, small enough to give each family proper attention. We handle all onboarding communications for parents.
After 6–8 weeks we review the pilot data together: student usage, parent satisfaction, learning outcomes. If the results are good — for students and for your organization — we discuss expanding to more families and grades.
No. Sidekick addresses the homework session — the time students spend working alone outside your programs. It doesn't replace instructor-led classes, group learning, or one-on-one tutoring. If anything, students who arrive at your classes having genuinely worked through their homework (rather than copied answers) are better prepared for what your instructors teach.
Very little. We provide you with a referral link and a brief explanation for families. You introduce Sidekick to your families — at a parents' night, in a newsletter, or via your existing communication channels. Everything else (sign-up, onboarding, technical support, billing) is handled by us. We do not require your staff to learn or manage the product.
Yes to all four. Zyntri Sidekick is a browser extension that runs on both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge on Windows and Mac. It does not require any specific hardware or school-issued device. A family's existing home computer is all that's needed.
The current version focuses on 7th grade math aligned to California Common Core standards. We chose one subject and one grade to do it properly before expanding. Support for 6th and 8th grade, and for additional subjects, is on the roadmap and will be announced to partner organizations first.
Yes. Accounts are created by parents, not students. We collect the minimum information needed to personalize the learning experience. Student conversation data is not used to train AI models (we use Anthropic's Zero Data Retention option). Parents can request full deletion of their child's data at any time. We are COPPA- and CCPA-compliant. A plain-language privacy policy is available at zyntri.net/privacy.
Standard pricing is $49/month or $199/semester. Partner organizations offer their families a reduced rate (typically $39/month), and receive a per-subscriber monthly share of that revenue for as long as the family remains active. The specific share rate is agreed in the partnership terms and depends on the size and nature of the partnership. We're happy to walk through the numbers on a call.
Every afterschool organization is different. Tell us who you serve and we'll figure out together whether Sidekick is a good fit — no pressure, no sales pitch, no follow-up you didn't ask for.