Who's the reader?
Same engine underneath — start by skill, 15 minutes a day, their own book at the end of every season. Two very different front doors.
A reading adventure · ages 3–18 · dyslexia-informedA reading program · ages 11–18 · placed by skill, never by grade
★ 7 days free · No credit card · No risk, all reward
The story only moves when your kid reads it.Reading that doesn't talk down to you.
We build a living adventure at your child's exact reading step. Fifteen minutes a day, together — no games as bribes, no worksheets in disguise. The reading is the adventure.Your world. Your stats. Private. We build the story at your exact reading step — fifteen minutes a day, and it only moves when you read it. No cartoons, no baby fonts, nothing on the page you'd hide from a friend.
Pick your world — watch the whole page change sides.Pick your world. The whole page follows.
Your family keeps dragons. Tonight, the egg starts tapping.
For parents: this is the hi-lo principle done with dignity — older interests, text built at the exact reading step your reader needs, placed by skill, never by grade. Nothing on these pages looks remedial, and progress stays private between your family and us.
Coming for older readers
The HeistOne crew. One night. Every word counts.
The ExpeditionUncharted, unforgiving — and unread until you.
The CircuitRace nights. Pit calls. Your call.
Built on the same science the best specialists use.
Structured literacy — explicit, systematic, step by step, with mastery checks. We cite every claim below, and we tell you where the evidence limits us.
15 minutes a day at your kitchen table.
We hand you every word — your lines, the corrections, even the praise. You read them off the screen and tap ✓ or ✗. That's the whole job.
First week free, no credit card. Then $39 a month — a specialist hour costs $150.
Start with just your email and run real sessions for seven nights before you pay a cent. After that, one month with us costs about a quarter of one specialist hour — and your child gets 30 sessions instead of 4. Cancel anytime.
Big, fantastical adventures — and every single one is safe.
These are high-stakes, edge-of-the-bed adventures: dragon eggs cracking open at midnight, last-second goals, cases that crack wide, whole worlds to rebuild block by block. The thrills are huge. What's under them never changes — courage, honesty, grit, family, and friendship, with kids and grandparents and teammates who show up for each other. We wrote every episode ourselves and checked every line before it reached a child: no romance, no politics, no social agendas of any kind — nothing you'll ever have to explain away at the dinner table. Your child gets the wonder. You get to relax.
The science we cite — in plain words
Practice spread across days sticks far better than the same minutes packed into one block. It's one of the most replicated findings in learning science. A weekly tutoring hour is the packed schedule; 15 minutes daily is the spread one.
Cepeda et al. 2006 (meta-analysis); Dunlosky et al. 2013.A meta-analysis of parent tutoring found large effects (d ≈ 0.65). The key was structure: parents running specific, scripted activities beat parents just listening to their child read. That's why every line here is written for you.
Sénéchal & Young 2008.Explicit, systematic phonics with sound-awareness and spelling, in a cumulative sequence with mastery checks — the approach the International Dyslexia Association identifies for struggling readers. Our sequence is anchored to the public UFLI Foundations scope used in thousands of schools.
IDA Structured Literacy; NRP 2000; Ehri et al. 2001; UFLI Foundations.Sounding out to write forces full letter-sound work and measurably improves word reading. Every session ends with three minutes of dictation — the highest-leverage three minutes we have.
Weiser & Mathes 2011; Graham & Hebert 2011.The famous intensive-intervention studies used 30–60+ specialist minutes daily. Fifteen parent-led minutes is a supplement, not a replacement for school-based intervention or therapy where those are needed. If your child's data ever fits the pattern that warrants a full evaluation, we say so on screen — plainly and for free.
Torgesen et al. 2001; see the FAQ below.From first check to their own book
Four steps. We do the thinking; you two do the adventure.
15–20 minutes, parent-run, in your browser. It finds your child's exact starting step — set a little easy on purpose, so the first weeks are wins, not walls.
Dragons, championships, detective cases, or builder worlds — then they build their hero with any of six looks, so the kid on the page looks the way they want.
Your child reads the hero's lines out loud — that's what moves the story. At the big moments, they choose what happens next: tell Grandpa about the egg, or keep it secret? Your whole job is tapping ✓ or ✗ as they read. Every miss gets woven into the next episode automatically — it's ready the moment they are, tonight or tomorrow.
Every season finishes as a book of their own adventure — their name, their hero, every page read by them. Read it on screen anytime, or print it at home and put it on the shelf. Either way, it's theirs forever.
We built the opposite of a reading app
We've watched kids grind through the big-name apps. Here's exactly where we split from them.
One program, five registers — ages 3 to 18
Age picks the stories. Skill picks the words. A 15-year-old working on early skills gets the dark, grown 14–18 world — built from words they can win at. No level labels, no grade numbers, nothing on their screen to be embarrassed by. The world grows up with the reader; the words quietly meet them where they are.
Sound games and stories read to them. No pressure, all play — ears first.
Phonics step by step. Their first hero lines are theirs to read out loud.
Code-cracker work for kids who can read but fight it. Wins come fast and early.
Big-word work from week one. Zero babyish stories — respect on every page.
A dark, grown register. They run it themselves; we back them up quietly.
Founding families
First week free, then $39 a month for the whole family — every child in the house, ages 3 to 18, one membership. Doors are open.
- 7 nights free — no credit card. Start tonight with just your email. We only ask for payment if you decide to keep going.
- Daily 15-minute episodes — from their exact starting point to mastery, ages 3–18
- Four worlds at launch; your child's hero, their look, their choices
- The adaptive engine: every miss returns on a spaced schedule until it's owned
- Pure-sound audio for every new sound — you never have to guess
- Our weekly progress note, printable for teachers and IEP meetings
- Their own book of their adventure at the end of every season — read on screen or print at home
- The reading check is free for everyone, member or not
- Cancel anytime. If it isn't helping, we don't want your money.
No credit card to start. Full access free for 7 nights. On day 8, keep going for $39/month or simply stop — your child's progress stays saved. And once you subscribe, a 30-day money-back guarantee: if it isn't helping, write us within 30 days and we refund the month. Cancel anytime, two clicks. Payment is handled by Stripe — we never see your card number.
Not starting tonight? Leave your email — we'll send one honest note when something real changes. Nothing else.
We never sell your information.
Questions parents actually ask
Is this a replacement for a reading tutor or therapist?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no — and we'll tell you which, from your child's own data. For many struggling readers, a structured, daily, mastery-based program at home is exactly the medicine: 30 sessions a month instead of 4. But research-grade intensive intervention uses 30–60+ specialist minutes a day. If your child faces a significant reading challenge, this is the supplement that makes the specialist's hour go further — not the whole answer. And if your child's progress data ever fits the pattern that warrants a full professional evaluation, the program says so on screen, with a free letter template to request one from your school. That flag fires on objective criteria. It is never a sales pitch.
I'm not a teacher. Can I really do this?
You read lines off a screen and tap ✓ or ✗. That's the whole job. Every teaching line, every correction ("if she says /s/ /h/ separately, say…"), even the praise line is written for you — and every new sound comes with audio of the exact pure sound, so you never have to guess whether it's /m/ or "muh." The research on parent-led practice is clear: with structure this explicit, parents get strong results.
What ages is it for?
Ages 3 to 18, in five registers: play (3–4), learn to read (5–7), strengthen (8–10), dignity (11–13), and own it (14–18). The same engine wears a different skin at each age — playful and warm for the littles, a dark, grown look for teens, with zero cartoons. Where your child starts is always set by skill, never by grade.
What if my child is way behind?
Then the reading check will say so honestly — and if a child is far enough behind (an 8-year-old starting at the very beginning, for example), we tell you at the start, not after months: this program can help, and a child that far behind deserves a full evaluation from the school district, which is free and your legal right to request. Both things are true. We'll give you the letter.
Does it diagnose dyslexia?
No. Nothing here diagnoses anything — that takes a qualified professional evaluation. What we do is teach reading the way the dyslexia field says reading should be taught to kids who struggle, and hand you honest data about how it's going.
What happens to my child's data?
Right now, everything — the starting check, sessions, errors, reports — lives in your browser on your device. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. When family accounts launch (so your phone and laptop can share progress), that page will say so in plain English first.
15 minutes. Really?
Really — and that's a feature, not a compromise. A sustainable 15 minutes done 5–6 days a week beats an ambitious 45 minutes that collapses by March. Consistency is the binding constraint for real families, so the program is engineered around it. Miss a day? It just resumes — it never doubles up.
The first episode is waiting.
Free, right now, in your browser. Pick the world; we'll write the rest.
Make my first episode →Or start with the free reading check — 15–20 minutes, nothing leaves your device.