The AI does the typing. Your kid does the thinking.
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AI can hand any kid an answer in seconds. Tekku is built to teach the other thing: knowing what you want, saying it clearly, and spotting when it’s wrong. The AI does the typing. Your kid does the thinking.
Screens from Tekku in testing. They may change before we open. An example session, recreated.
The best kind of screen time ends with that sentence.
The goal isn’t to learn a coding language. It’s to understand how things get built, and to make something real by directing AI.
Plan, build, test, fix: the cycle real software teams use. Every idea becomes version 1, then version 2, then better.
Say what you want, add the detail that matters, and check what AI tells you. That’s prompting, learned by building.
Make it for someone: know why they’ll like it, listen to players, share a finished game.
When they finish for the day, Teko will ask one question: what’s one thing you learned? The habit that outlasts every tool.
I’m Will, Jansen’s dad. When Jansen tried to make a math game with the same AI I use for work, he knew what he imagined but couldn’t put it into words the AI understood. When it broke, he couldn’t explain why.
I watched the frustration land on his face. A kid with a perfectly good idea, stuck trying to be understood.
In September, at UN General Assembly week, what stayed with me is how conflicted education is about AI. Kids need the fundamentals, and school matters. But AI is moving too fast for anyone to keep up. Tekku is for the families who want their kids learning this now.
5 questions to ask your kid about anything they made with AI.
In their own words, not the AI’s.
And predict what will happen first.
Spotting mistakes is the skill.
Their choice, not the first thing it offered.
If it stuck, they learned it.
Ask about anything your kid made with AI. The more they can answer, the more of the thinking was theirs.
You’ll set up the account, stay close while they build, and see what they made in your grown-up corner. Kids under 13 shouldn’t use AI on their own, and on Tekku they won’t have to.
We’d rather open late than open before Tekku has been fully tested with families. Join the list and we’ll tell you first when it’s ready.
It depends on the design. In one study of nearly 1,000 high school math students in Turkey, those who practiced with a plain chatbot scored 17% lower on the exam than classmates who never had it; a version built to give hints instead of answers largely avoided that drop (Bastani et al., PNAS, 2025; Tekku was not part of the study). Tekku is being built to make kids do the thinking.
Not on their own. UNESCO’s 2023 guidance recommends an age limit of 13 for AI tools in the classroom, and we take that seriously (Tekku is not affiliated with UNESCO). That’s why Tekku is being built for kids to use with a grown-up in charge from day one.
Teko is what we call your kid’s AI guide. It will ask questions, build what they plan, and help them test it. Your kid will give it their own name and pick its color.
No. It’s being built for after school, not instead of school: the basics, teachers and friends still matter.
We’ll share pricing with the waitlist before anyone is asked to pay. Joining the list is free and needs no card.
Yes. Choose “Teacher or school” or “Partner or investor” after you join, or write to Will at will@tekku.app.
Opening late 2026. Free to join, no card, no child’s information.
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♡Once Tekku makes a profit, we’ll give 10% of each year’s net profit to youth education nonprofits and publish where it went.