Socrates AI
Master any topic with AI guided research, thoughtful prompts, and a structured path from “I’m curious” to “I can explain this.”
Overview
Socrates is a create-your-own-course learning app designed to turn curiosity into real skill, using the Socratic method to keep people actively thinking instead of passively consuming. You pick a topic, and the app scaffolds it into a structured learning path with short prompts that push you to research, reflect, and apply what you’re learning. The goal is to reduce “cognitive offloading” (letting the AI do the thinking) and replace it with guided practice that actually sticks. The experience is built around tight feedback loops: answer a prompt, get coaching-level feedback, and get nudged toward mastery with progress tracking and next-step suggestions. It’s aimed at career switchers and upskillers, health and wellness learners, and creators/educators who want structured, shareable courses. Courses can also become portfolio-style artifacts, so learning produces something you can show, not just something you “completed.”
Technologies
Challenges
- Preventing passive usage: designing prompts so users do real thinking instead of asking AI to do it for them.
- Retention and momentum: keeping learners engaged across days, not just during the first session.
- Quality and consistency of course scaffolds across wildly different topics (beginner to advanced).
- Making outcomes feel “real” and valuable: ensuring users finish with skills and artifacts they’re proud to share.
Outcomes
- Turned “learn anything” into a guided workflow with course scaffolding, prompts, feedback, and progress tracking
- Built demo-ready courses that showcase the range of use cases (career, wellness, creator education)
- Designed learning outputs to be shareable (portfolio pages), creating a built-in loop for motivation and distribution.
- Defined clear success metrics early (activation, D7 retention, share rate, conversion targets) to keep iteration grounded.
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