Press kit

In two sentences

Every school day, the app gives the child an illustrated lesson on a topic from their school year: a single picture that explains one idea, with examples and what to remember, then, from age 8, a three-question quiz. Teachers also use it to share their own material with the families in their class, free in both directions.

The story

Mon Prof Augmenté was born of a wish to go deeper into the topics covered in class, at a time when AI is making homework obsolete and screens have become serious competition. Its founder, Sylvain Corvaisier, is a dad and a developer: he has been writing for the web since 1996 and for mobile since 2008, and he has always wanted to end his career in teaching.

The approach is visual. Given the same material, what is seen is remembered better than what is read: this is the picture superiority effect, well documented in education research. One topic, one picture, a few lines, and the child moves on. The app is designed to stop by itself.

What sets it apart

• At least one lesson every school day, for the child’s school year, Monday to Friday.
• Free, for real. Every lesson is open to everyone for 7 days after it is published, and its text stays readable afterwards. There is no free trial counting down: the free version lasts. A subscription opens the whole library, every school year and every quiz.
• Sharing between teachers and families is free. A teacher publishes to their class with a code; families enter it once and receive the teacher’s lessons without paying anything.
• National lessons stay national. A history or civics lesson specific to one country is never shown to families in another country.
• Made for the car and the holidays. Lessons and quizzes download in advance and work offline.
• No ads on a child profile, no selling of data, no rankings between children.

AI, and what it doesn’t do

The illustrations are made with AI, ahead of time, and each one is tied to a curriculum topic and checked before it is published. The child never talks to a chatbot: they read a lesson that an adult, a parent or a teacher, chose to pass on to them. That is the difference between using AI’s teaching strengths and leaving a child alone with a general-purpose assistant.

Possible angles

• An independent developer up against the edtech giants: a French independent app, on four platforms and in ten languages, with no investors and no public money.
• AI and school, from the parents’ side: using AI to prepare material that someone has checked, rather than to answer in the child’s place.
• What teachers think of AI: our survey of teachers, open in ten languages, is under way, and its results will be published here.
• Screens that stop: an app built around one short lesson, with no endless feed and no guilt-tripping notifications.

Press access

If you want to test the whole app, I’ll set you up with full access, free of charge. I can also send you high-definition lesson illustrations and do an interview, in French or English.

Write to me using the form below and tell me which publication you write for. I reply within two working days.