COTIE

An AI that pulls up a seat

Cotie plans weeks, writes lessons, and works right on your board — visibly, honestly, and never without your say-so.

cotie · week 3
CotieWeek 3 · Math
This week looks heavy, and Thursday is the aquarium trip.
It is — four sessions land on Thursday. I can move Art to Friday and fold the two history halves into one session. Want me to?
Moved Art to Friday Combined History into one sessionLeft Tuesday's math alone — it's already taught

PROPOSAL

Take Nov 24–28 off for Thanksgiving

Three lessons would move to the week after. Nothing gets dropped.

AcceptDismiss

SCOPE-AWARE

It knows where you're standing

Open Cotie on the year and "this week" means the week you're looking at. Open it on a lesson and "make this simpler" means that section. Select three cards on a board and ask "connect these" — your selection is the context, described in your own words.

The conversation follows you across pages, and threads are saved per plan — pick up Sunday night where Tuesday left off.

On the year

“Where are the holes in my year?” — Cotie reads the whole grid and answers about gaps, repeats, and thin weeks.

On a week

“Is this week too heavy?” — it sees every session, every subject, and what's already taught.

On a lesson

“Make the activity more hands-on” — it revises one section and shows you the diff.

On a board

“Make a worksheet from this” — whatever you've selected is the context, in your own words.

25 TOOLS, ONE RULE

It can do a lot. It may not do everything.

Cotie can plan a whole week, draft topics, write and revise lessons, set materials, take a week off, declare a unit study, drop stickies and research onto your board, generate worksheets and images, and search the web. What it can't do: overwrite your words, touch a taught lesson, or edit a subject that belongs to another teacher. The distinction is the product.

CAN DO

plan_weekwrite_lessonadd_sectionset_materialsweek_offdeclare_threadmake_worksheetmake_imageadd_stickyweb_search+15 more

WON'T DO

× rewrite your curriculum× touch a taught lesson× edit another teacher's subject

TRUST, ENGINEERED

Why parents let Cotie near their plans

CONSENT

Proposals, not surprises

Structural changes arrive as cards you accept or dismiss. Accepting drives the same actions you'd take by hand — nothing moves behind your back.

HONESTY

Says what it did — and didn't

Every action gets a labeled chip: doing, done, or couldn't. Refusals read as plain notes, not errors, so you always know the state of your plan.

TAUGHT IS SACRED

Never rewrites history

A lesson you've marked taught is a record, not a draft. Cotie won't touch it, and it won't schedule anything into a week you've taken off.

ROLES

Members can ask, not alter

In a co-op, member families get the full conversational Cotie — but the editing tools are never even registered for them. Enforced on the server, not the UI.

GROUNDED

Real web research

When a lesson needs sources, Cotie searches the actual web and brings back real links — dropped onto your board as resource cards you can vet.

NO WAITING

Slow work lands twice

Ask for a worksheet and a placeholder card lands on the board instantly, then fills in when it's ready. You keep planning; nothing blocks.

KEEP EXPLORING

THE BOARD

A table without edges

See how

THE YEAR

The whole year on one grid

See how

WORKSHEETS

Printables, made to order

See how

Ask it something hard.

“Where are the holes in my year?” is a good place to start.