Teachers with Superpowers: AI Behind the Curtain

Good teachers already differentiate instruction. They adjust pacing, modify assignments, meet students where they are.

The problem is that doing this well for 20+ students is exhausting and often impossible.

What if teachers had AI working behind the curtain?

The student sees a personalized learning experience. The teacher sees a dashboard showing where each student is, what they're struggling with, what they're ready for next. The AI handles the adaptive assessments that adjust difficulty in real-time. The teacher provides the human judgment, the encouragement, the "I see you're frustrated—let's try a different approach."

That’s exactly what we’re building with Rabbithole — an open source platform where the AI runs Socratic conversations with students while teachers monitor everything from a live dashboard, inject guidance the student never sees, and review the mastery data after each session.

Teachers become conductors, not performers. They’re orchestrating learning rather than delivering it directly to every student simultaneously.

This is what becomes possible when the cost of creating custom software goes to zero. Ten years ago, building adaptive learning software required massive engineering teams and millions of dollars. Today, a teacher can describe what they want, and AI can help build it.

Personalized learning isn’t a dream anymore. The real bottleneck is that most schools are still organized around the assumption that one teacher lectures to 20+ students doing the same thing at the same time.

What if we designed schools differently from the start?