MindMade · University
mindmade.university gives a university educator a workspace where Maya, MindMade's live tutor, holds sessions with their students. She teaches from the material staff upload, and every session comes back transcribed and summarised. Self-serve from the first workspace to the first transcript.
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One tutor per student is the best-measured condition in education research, and the hardest to afford. Maya makes it scalable at last. A live tutor for the question that arrives after dark, for study that would otherwise run unguided. Extend, not replace.
01 · The Tutor
Maya listens and speaks. Students talk with her live, and she adapts when someone finds a concept tricky. Prior sessions build into a living record of what each student has covered, so learning compounds, and staff see transcripts, summaries and usage in full.
Maya Video · mkII
A live video session, one student at a time or a whole team in one room. Maya holds the conversation on screen, works through the course material, and keeps the thread across the session. Built for the courses where presence carries the teaching.
$0.44 per minute
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Maya Voice · mkIII
Voice only, low latency, and empathic. She hears how a student says something as well as what they said. Built for oral practice, vivas, and the courses where explaining out loud is the skill being taught.
$0.25 per minute
Staff choose the engine per course. Rates are US dollars per minute of session time, rounded up per session. The widget in the corner of this page is the voice engine, live.
A student opens their course and starts talking. There is nothing to book and no queue to join. The session begins where the confusion is, at the hour it arrives.
Maya works the concept through in conversation, from the course’s own material, and adapts the moment something is tricky. Explaining out loud is the work.
The session returns as a transcript and a summary, and joins the student’s living record, so the next conversation starts further along.
02 · Proven in Production
Maya is live in a full term at UNSW. These are the first nine weeks, measured.
212 of the 222 students who used her came back on another day, and more than half returned on three days or more. Using her was voluntary and carried no marks.
UNSW · production · 9 weeksIn the deployment’s busiest teaching week, 212 of the 233 enrolled students worked with her.
UNSW · production · weeklyCounted per student in the room, across every session the deployment ran. A team room of four logs four minutes for every one on the clock.
UNSW · production · minutesAfter 8pm, overnight, or on weekends. Maya replied to every one of the 2,580 questions asked of her, 1,147 of them out of hours.
UNSW · production · out of hoursStudents who want a combination of Maya and human mentoring alongside their course. Just 5% wanted Maya alone.
UNSW · pilot surveyAt least sometimes, across the pilot cohort; 71% rated her feedback clear and aligned with the course material.
UNSW · pilot survey
“The patient TA who never makes you feel stupid for asking again.”
Built by MindMade. Proven at UNSW over the last twelve months, across multiple pilots in two schools. Two international university deployments are ahead.
03 · Research Foundations
What a session does, and why, traces to findings that education research has replicated for decades. The deployment above is the newest evidence; this is the oldest.
Learning gains over conventional classroom instruction, in standard deviations (σ).
| Intervention | Source | Effect size |
|---|---|---|
| One-to-one tutoring under mastery criteria | Bloom, 1984 | 2.00σ |
| Human tutoring, meta-analysis | VanLehn, 2011 | 0.79σ |
| Intelligent tutoring systems | VanLehn, 2011 | 0.76σ |
| Mastery learning programmes | Kulik, Kulik & Bangert-Drowns, 1990 | 0.52σ |
| Answer-based computer feedback | VanLehn, 2011 | 0.31σ |
Retrieval practice (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006) and distributed practice (Cepeda et al., 2006) further compound retention; the living record builds both in.
One to one is the default. Maya holds the tutorial condition Bloom measured, for an entire cohort at once, at the hour each student needs it.
Bloom · The 2 Sigma Problem · Educational Researcher, 1984
She teaches by conversation. Socratic questioning, explanation and immediate feedback are the mechanics that give tutorial dialogue its measured advantage.
VanLehn · Educational Psychologist, 2011
Review is retrieval. She asks students to recall and explain in their own words rather than reread, because retrieving strengthens retention more than restudying.
Roediger & Karpicke · Psychological Science, 2006
The living record lets her resurface earlier concepts across the term, so practice is distributed across weeks rather than massed before the exam.
Cepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted & Rohrer · Psychological Bulletin, 2006
She stays with a concept until the student can carry it, and the record shows staff exactly where each student stands.
Kulik, Kulik & Bangert-Drowns · Review of Educational Research, 1990
04 · The System
Everything an educator needs sits behind one sign-in. The frame holds while each instrument comes into focus.
01 · Instrument
Spreadsheet in, invitations out. Upload the XLSX or CSV you already keep, with an email column and optional team and role columns, and students sign in with those emails.
02 · Instrument
Staff upload what she teaches from. Course notes, readings and lab guides in PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT or Markdown each become an editable document you curate before it reaches a session.
03 · Instrument
Transcripts, summaries and usage, as they happen. Every session belongs to the course that ran it, returned to the people who teach as a record they can read, question and keep.
04 · Instrument
A monthly ceiling on every course. Eligible one-to-one video courses can add per-student allocations beneath it. Spend updates as sessions close, helping departments monitor and govern usage.
05 · The Term
A course goes from nothing to running in an afternoon, then the term does the rest.
Create the workspace, choose where its data lives, add a card, import the roster and upload the knowledge. A course is running before the term begins.
Students meet Maya at the hour the question arrives. Prior sessions build into a living record of what each student has covered, so week eight starts from everything week three settled.
Transcripts minutes after a session ends, summaries written for a teacher skimming forty of them, and minutes and dollars per course and per student as sessions close.
06 · Pricing
Published rates are USD. Foreign-currency conversion is handled by your card issuer or finance team. Applicable taxes depend on the billing location and are shown as appropriate at invoicing. Institutions needing procurement, annual commitments, volume arrangements, purchase orders, security review, or negotiated terms can contact MindMade at hi@mindmade.co.
See pricing in full· The Voyage
MindMade is a Sydney-based Hybrid Intelligence studio. Maya is live in a full term at UNSW, two international university deployments are ahead, and every workspace chooses where its data lives, Sydney or the European Union.
The lecture ends. The tutor stays.
For the question that arrives after the room empties, and the student who wanted to ask it again.
