Pedagogue turns AI chat into a rich learning experience. Ask about anything and it builds you a journey: a story dotted with color, visuals, interactive figures you can play with, and sidebar conversations to follow your curiosity.
Coming soon for Mac. Private beta by invite.
One question in.
A whole journey out.
Chat gives you a wall of text and a scroll bar. Pedagogue gives you a vibrant journey to explore and learn from.
Guided journeys
Every answer is shaped by one idea: people learn best from stories. Journeys start simple, keep you oriented, and layer on the detail as you go deeper.
Type a question — any question. Pedagogue answers with a journey: a titled, ordered path through the idea, written for you.
Each journey starts from the smallest true thing and the puzzle it leaves behind, then builds. Here one line of arithmetic, and a question: how can that draw something infinitely detailed?
The map on the left shows every stop on the trail: where you've been, where you are now, and how far is left. Tap any waypoint to jump straight there.
Mark a phrase, a heading, an equation, a figure or a card and ask to be quizzed on it with multiple choice and short answer questions graded by the teaching agent.
Don't just tell. Show.
When a picture carries the idea better than a paragraph, Pedagogue draws it — and brings it to life.
Rich visuals
Equations, charts, diagrams, maps, 3D scenes and working interactive figures appear in context, connected to the surrounding text.
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A journey on clutches and transmissions, reaching the question of why a CVT can beat six fixed gears on fuel.
Why do spinning baseballs curve in flight? Explore how spin affects air flow.
A lesson on swarming bees. With a parametrized simulation showing how a small number of informed bees can guide a colony to its new home.
A journey through Yugoslavia's fragmentation. Pedagogue fetches information instead of remembering it. And with Python, which Pedagogue can install for you, it can compute values to make sure it gets them right.
A few figures from real journeys. Each one was written for a single lesson, and each one moves.
Take every tangent.
Never lose the thread.
Sidebar conversations
Curiosity doesn't follow an outline. Pedagogue lets you chase the question that just occurred to you without derailing the lesson you're in.
A small toolbar lets you Highlight, Define or Discuss.
Define gives a short, exact definition. Discuss opens a side conversation about that passage.
Tethered to the words you chose, with room for follow-up questions.
The lesson waits exactly where you left it.
Here is the constraint that shaped everything else. A Roman merchantman carried a big square sail, and a square sail is superb with the wind behind it and nearly useless in front of it. Reconstructions and ancient voyage times agree:
close-hauled, these ships made less than 2 to 2½ knots — walking pace, and that is before you subtract leeway.
Every Define, Discuss and note is pinned to the map so you can revisit your detours later.
When a side question turns out to be a whole subject, open the card as its own journey, with its own map and sections, and its own cards inside it.
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Find anything with built-in fuzzy search.
Around the lesson
Stay organized with the Librarian, build custom learner profiles, and access Pedagogue on your phone.
Pedagogue's teacher is Claude, on the Claude plan you already have, so there's no extra subscription. It connects through Claude Code, Anthropic's tool, which Pedagogue installs for you.
Pick the model and how hard it thinks for each journey.
Your journeys live in folders with tags. The librarian is a second assistant that knows your whole library, not just what's on screen. Ask it what you've been learning, or ask it to tidy up.
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Pedagogue mode builds the full journey. Chat mode answers just what you asked, like a traditional chatbot, but can generate figures on demand and supports sidebar conversations.
Fidelity configures the content — choose from a traditional text-only experience, add static diagrams, or push all the way out to high fidelity interactive set-pieces.
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Set up as many as eight learners, then prompt each with a preferred learning style or point of emphasis. Learners remember your journey settings allowing you to quickly jump between preferred settings.
Three examples:
Pedagogue runs on your Mac, where your journeys live, and your phone or tablet can reach it through Tailscale, a private network for your own devices that's free for personal use. There's no separate app: setup gives you an address and a QR code, and the whole journey comes with you, map and sidebars included.
Pedagogue runs a small API on your Mac and can install skills to show Claude Code how to use it. Now an agent deep in your code or data can share its findings in a journey that you interact with in Pedagogue. It can even stay connected to the journey, allowing you to use Pedagogue’s rich interaction model to interact with Claude Code in a whole new way.
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Pedagogue is in private beta, by invitation, on the Mac.
Have an invite? Install the beta For Macs on macOS 14 or later, with a paid Claude plan such as Pro or Max. Pedagogue sets up the rest. Optional extras: importing PDFs uses Mistral AI, which charges per page. Tailscale is free for personal use.Pedagogue's rich interaction model is perfect for reading, and really understanding research papers. Import a research paper PDF and Pedagogue sets the whole thing out as a journey: every section, figure, table and equation, with a teacher ready to answer your questions.
Click Import PDF in the corner of the question box, drag a PDF onto the box, or right-click one in the Finder and choose Add to Pedagogue.
PedagogueThe teacher reads the paper first and writes a short digestible summary of its argument. Every point links to the section that makes it.
Select a phrase to highlight it, Define it or Discuss it. The answer opens in place, under the words you chose. Ask about a figure and the teacher looks at the figure itself before answering.
Figures and tables sit beside the paragraph that first mentions them (no more jumping between pages!). And you can hover a cross-reference or a citation to see what it points to.
Show in PDF opens the printed page with the passage outlined, so you can always see exactly what the authors wrote.
On an iPad, draw the Pencil across a line and the words it selects become a highlight. Its card opens with room to Scribble a note or a question by hand.
PDF imports use Mistral AI. Pedagogue sends the PDF to Mistral AI to read its text and figures. You'll need a Mistral account with a little credit, since it charges per page; a typical paper costs a few cents. Pedagogue's setup walks you through adding a key.
Paper featured in the screenshots: Gu & Dao, Mamba (arXiv:2312.00752), CC BY 4.0.
