A private tutor's reading list · est. 2026
Tell us your goal in one sentence and your current level in two. Reading List answers with a personalized course — readings, videos, exercises, evaluations — generated for you and dripped at a pace that respects how an adult actually studies. No 47-hour mega-modules. No certificate-chasing. One page at a time.
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The arrangement
Four small steps. The interesting one is the syllabus, because the syllabus is the product. The drip is the discipline. The evaluation is the truth.
You write one sentence about the goal you want to reach in 30 / 60 / 90 days, and a short paragraph about what you already know. Five minutes. No quizzes, no bouncing through skill trees.
“I want to ship a Rust CLI by end of June.”
You receive a personalized syllabus on a single page within an hour. Modules, weekly cadence, named readings, exercises, evaluations. You read it, you push back, we revise. Then we lock it.
“Drop module 06. I already know the BorrowChecker.”
Every Monday at 09:00 your local time, the next module arrives in your inbox. One reading, one video, one exercise, one self-evaluation. No dashboards. No streaks. No homework piles.
“Same envelope, same chair, same Monday morning.”
At the end of each module you submit a small piece of work (a paragraph, a function, a recording). The course grades it against the rubric you signed off on at intake — and rewrites the next module if your level shifted.
“The course adapts to you, not the other way round.”
A worked example
This is the syllabus the system would have produced for the student in the hero card. It is not a template — every byte of it was generated against the goal and the level. We change the goal, the syllabus changes.
Course no. 0241
For: a working programmer with ten years of Python who has read half the Rust book and lost the borrow checker by chapter five.
M01 · Ownership, in five lessons
Mon Jun 1 — Sun Jun 7
M02 · Lifetimes without panic
Mon Jun 8 — Sun Jun 14
M03 · Argv to clap to a real binary
Mon Jun 15 — Sun Jun 21
M04 · Tests, errors, release
Mon Jun 22 — Mon Jun 30
You finish with a working binary, a public repo, four signed evaluations, and a body of writing about your own learning that you can re-read in a year.
Three ways in
Pricing is small on purpose. Reading List exists because adult learners are over-charged by edtech and under-served by it. We charge what a private tutor's reading list is worth, not what a marketing department thinks a 'cohort' is worth.
One goal, one course, four weeks. Pay once.
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If the syllabus we send you in the first week doesn’t feel like it was written for you, we refund the course in full. Nothing to argue. One email, one paragraph, money back.
For teams · for tutors
We work with engineering managers, study circles, and language tutors who want to issue per-student courses without buying a Coursera license. Volume starts at five seats; the rate is the standing-subscription price with a small discount for size, and a one-page agreement we sign in a day.
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Three real-shape testimonials. Reading List is a young product — these are paraphrased from intake notes and end-of-course self-evaluations, with permission. Names withheld. Cohort details accurate.
ship a Rust CLI in 30 days
“I had bounced off three Rust courses. Reading List asked me what I knew, then sent me a syllabus I actually finished. The borrow-checker stopped feeling like an enemy somewhere around module two.”
B1 → B2 Spanish
“My tutor used to mail me reading lists. Reading List does that, but it grades the homework. I keep the subscription and rotate goals every quarter — Spanish in spring, statistics in summer.”
system-design fluency
“I run a small study group of four engineers. Each gets a personalized syllabus, dripped on the same Monday. We compare notes Wednesdays. Cheaper and more honest than the corporate L&D budget I used to fight for.”
FAQ
Those are content libraries — they sell you a course someone else built for an imaginary average student. Reading List builds the course from scratch around your declared goal and your current level, then cuts the parts you already know. Most students finish; on the open platforms, fewer than 5% do. We trade scale for fit.
It uses LLMs to draft the syllabus, retrieve named readings, and grade evaluations against rubrics — but the rubric, the readings, and the grading scheme were built by educators we work with. The LLM is a tool we hold, not the product. The product is the syllabus, the drip, and the evaluation loop.
Every named reading is verified against an open citation database before it leaves our hands. If a citation is unreachable, the syllabus marks it as 'tutor to verify' and we replace it before drip. We do not ship phantom readings — that's the single thing self-directed learners cannot tolerate, and we know it.
It is the cleanest cross-border rail and it avoids 3-5% card-processing fees on the markets we serve, including Latin America, Eastern Europe, South Asia, and Africa. We invoice in USDT or USDC by default through NOWPayments. If you'd rather pay by Wise or Payoneer, write to tutor@ and we'll hand-wire it.
English by default. Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, and Indonesian are in production today. Other languages on request — we'd rather refuse a course than ship one in a language we can't grade properly. Tell us at intake; we'll say yes or no within a day.
Yes, yes, and yes. Cancel from your account any time — we don't put up dark patterns. Pause the drip from any module. Export your library as a folder of Markdown files plus PDFs of your evaluations whenever you like. The course is yours, the learning is yours. We hold the schedule.