Building a Real-Time AI Tutor for 5-Year-Olds in Under 1000ms

Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds

We built the first AI tutor for children ages 4-9, realizing that pedagogy must be baked into the engineering. Standard agent loops were too slow, causing kids to lose focus, so we created a custom harness that streams actions and separates generation from execution. By running an asynchronous planner alongside a real-time converser, we ensure sub-second responses that keep young learners engaged without sacrificing the quality of instruction.

"A child can't wait for a slow reply, can't read a chat interface, and can't unhear anything a model gets wrong."