Personalized to passions
Lessons are themed around what your kid actually cares about skateboarding, sea turtles, robotics, art. Engagement isn't a nice-to-have. It's the curriculum.
Education, reimagined
School tailor made for your student
School tailor made for your student
not the other way around.
A tailor-made K–12 curriculum that learns from every interaction including lessons, questions and answers. No more random worksheets. Just one teacher that remembers everything and adapts.
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A lesson made just for Theo.
Theo loves baseball, so Primer built his equivalent fractions lesson in the dugout. Every story, example and question in this walkthrough was tailor made for him, and Primer does the same for your student.
How Primer Works
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Five steps for you to set up. Five for your student, every lesson.
How Primer works
You do these five once.
- Add Your Student. Just a name and a date of birth. The intake comes next.
- Tell Primer About Them. Five to ten minutes on what they love, where they get stuck, and what you want them to master.
- Set the Curriculum. Choose the subjects, then the skills inside them. Kindergarten through high school.
- Review the Path. The ladder of units they will work through. Reorder, skip, or mark mastered any time.
- Generate the Lessons. The easy part, once the path is set. See the batch before it builds.
- Or Let It Keep Going. Leave auto-generation on and the next batch queues itself. Turn it off to review first.
They do these five every lesson.
- Lesson. Read and listen. Charts, illustrations, word pronunciations, and a matching video where one fits.
- Unplugged. Off the screen. About five minutes with paper and pencil.
- Plus a Worksheet. Print it or use an iPad. Built from this lesson, addressed to them by name.
- Puzzle. A crossword built from the lesson, so the new words have to be recalled, not just recognized.
- Practice. Five questions with no pressure, to find the shaky spots before the one that counts.
- Exit Ticket. The real check. How they do here decides what tomorrow's lesson looks like.
Why we built this
Education hasn't changed since the 1950s.
One teacher. Thirty students. One pace. One curriculum.
We now have the ability to customize learning for each student based on their goals, their passions, their pace. So why aren't we?
We built Primer for our own children, because every student deserves a school built around who they are and what they want to be.
What makes it different
A teacher that remembers everything.
Every lesson is built from what your student knows, loves and needs next. The system gets sharper with every answer.
Memory across every lesson
A teacher that remembers every question, every missed answer, every breakthrough. Future lessons reinforce what your student got wrong and skip what they already know.
Multiple ways to learn each lesson
Lesson content, off-screen activities, puzzles, practice. Every format reshapes itself around your student so the same idea lands from every angle.
Off-screen breaks, built in
Every lesson includes a hands-on break drawing maps, measuring rooms, building with what's around them. Screens earn their place; they don't replace doing.
Built for every kind of learner
Focused therapy-style lessons plus per-student accommodations dyslexia-friendly type, adjustable size, sentence-level highlights, read-aloud. Designed to feel native, never like a tool for kids who "need help."
Goes as deep as they go
From learning what a map is to working through the limit definition of a derivative. Primer scales from kindergarten foundations to high-school calculus, in one place.
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Available everywhere
Learn on the web.
Learn on the web.
Learn on iPad.
Primer works the same in any browser as it does on iPad. Students pick up where they left off whether that's the laptop in the morning or the iPad at the kitchen table after lunch.
Web app on any modern browser
Native iPad app via the App Store
Reading that sticks
Real passages. Real questions. Real practice.
Every lesson combines a written passage, a guided read-along, a "watch together" video, comprehension checks, and a written exit ticket. Reading isn't a worksheet anymore it's a conversation.
Read-along audio
Vocabulary highlights
Comprehension checks
Curated video
LESSONS THAT ADAPT
The right question, every time.
The lesson is themed for your student and chosen to target what they actually need. Get an answer wrong? The next lesson will adjust accordingly.
Adaptive practice
Mastery tracking
Exit tickets
Weekly summary for parents
Now on iPad
Write it out, right on the screen.
Every worksheet Primer generates can be filled out directly on iPad with Apple Pencil or any compatible stylus, no printer required. Download the app and your student can go from lesson to practice without ever leaving the table.
Apple Pencil support
No printer needed
Syncs with the web app
Custom topics
You decide what they study.
Type one sentence about what your student actually wants to learn, and Primer turns it into a sequenced course. Theo got 15 units on how circuits work. Maya got 18 on becoming a horse veterinarian. Both run alongside their core subjects, not instead of them.
Any topic, any age
Sequenced skill units
Reorder, skip or mark mastered
Alongside core subjects
Simple pricing
One price. Every subject. Every grade.
No tier games. No upsells. Pay for the students you have.
200 risk-free credits
$40
Per student, per month
Free for 14 days with 200 risk-free credits.
- Full K–12 personalized curriculum
- 1,000 credits/mo (~100 lessons)
- Adaptive lessons, puzzles and practice
- Off-screen activities
- Read-aloud + dyslexia-friendly mode
- Weekly parent progress summary
- Supportive therapy-style lessons
- Cancel anytime, no contracts
Take control of your student's future.
Spend ten minutes telling us about your student. Primer builds the rest: a full, personalized curriculum, ready on day one.
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Questions? Curious? Skeptical? Great!
We built Primer because we needed it for our students. We'd love to hear what you're looking for and whether we can help.