One path for everyone doesn't fit anyone
Most online courses give everyone the same path. If you already know half the material, you sit through it anyway. And if you have five hours a week and an exam in two months, nobody plans backwards from that date for you.
I wanted a study plan that starts from what one person actually knows, fits the time they actually have, and gets more personal the more they use it. So I've started building Learn. It's my own product, it's in development, and it isn't launched yet.
Step one: find out what you know
You start a project with a goal, an optional deadline and, if you have one, a syllabus or course outline to paste in. If you don't have one, Learn designs the curriculum from your goal.
Then comes a short diagnostic. You describe what you already know, and Claude turns that into strengths, gaps and an estimate of your level. That's what lets the plan begin at the right difficulty instead of at chapter one.
Step two: a plan with real dates
Claude then builds a schedule of 8 to 20 steps, in order. Each step has an objective, instructions, resources, an estimated time and a date. The plan runs forward from today, fits inside the hours you said you have each week, and finishes on or before your target date.
I told it to prefer concrete steps over vague ones. "Build a small to-do app using lists and loops" is a step you can actually sit down and do. "Learn Python basics" isn't.
One small but important rule: the app tells Claude today's date every time, so a schedule can't drift onto the wrong days.
It remembers you
Each learner has a knowledgebase of their strengths, gaps, learning style and goals, which they can edit themselves. It carries across projects and feeds every new plan, so your second plan starts from more than your first one did.
Private by default
Every project, diagnostic and schedule belongs to one account, and the database itself blocks anyone else from reading them.
There's also a demo mode that needs no setup at all, with a fictional learner studying for a cloud computing certification. That means I can show Learn to people, and test it, without anyone's real data.
Where it's at
The whole flow is built: create an account, start a project, take the diagnostic, get a schedule and tick off steps as you go. It's laid out for phones as well as computers. Still to come: switching it on for real, rebuilding a plan automatically when you fall behind, and updating your knowledgebase automatically from your progress.
Why a web studio is building a study app
The same idea reaches well beyond exams: training plans, onboarding paths for new staff, anything where people start from different places and have limited time. Learn is built for individuals today, so a version for training a team would need extra pieces, like manager views and your own training material as the course.
A good plan starts from where you are, not from chapter one.
Read more in the Learn case study. If you have training or onboarding that could be smarter, let's talk about it, or see what I build under AI assistants and automation.