Day 1
It checks where you are — it doesn’t ask
The placement never shows a score, and an honest “not yet” tells it more than a lucky guess.
What do you want to achieve?
Tell Akiri the goal. It finds where you’re starting from, builds a study plan backwards from your date, and adapts it every day, from your own notes, slides and past papers.
The free plan is a real plan. No card, no trial clock.
Your journey
Worked example
Organic Chemistry II
Starts where you are
Placement: weeks 1–2 already solid, so your plan begins at
week 3.
- Stereochemistry, rebuilt from your own notes
- SN1 and SN2, told apart under time pressure
- Mixed past-paper practice, unassisted
- Readiness check against the real syllabus
First mission · 25 min: reaction mechanisms, from your own slides.
Seven worked examples, for illustration. Your journey is built from your material, your dates and your placement; no two are the same.
How Akiri works
Five steps between “I have an exam” and being ready for it.
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Tell Akiri your goal
An exam, a certification, a skill, with your real date if you have one. The date is what the whole plan answers to.
Goal
Pass Organic Chemistry II
Exam14 OctoberTime I have3 evenings a weekEvery session below is scheduled against that date.
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Add your material — or don’t
Lecture PDFs, slides, past papers, links. No material? Akiri can teach the subject from its own knowledge; uploads are never required to begin.
Material
pdfLecture 8 — SubstitutionpdfTutorial set 4pdf2024 past paperLessons and questions are built from these, and cite them.
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A placement finds your starting point
A handful of questions built from your course, not a generic quiz. “I haven’t learned this yet” is a first-class answer, and everything you already know gets skipped.
Placement
Which factor most increases the rate of an SN1 reaction?
A more stable carbocationI haven’t learned this yetNo score is shown. A placement that feels like a test has failed.
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Your journey is built backwards from your date
Sessions sized to the time you actually have, practice interleaved so similar ideas must be told apart, and the whole plan can subscribe to your calendar.
Journey
Begins at week 3 — weeks 1–2 came back solid- Stereochemistry rebuild
- SN1 vs SN2, interleaved
- Past papers, unassisted
Live in your calendar: Apple, Google, Outlook.
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Every day, it adapts
A daily mission decides your next best move. Miss a week and the plan rebuilds before you even see it: nothing overdue, nothing to apologise for.
Today
Stereochemistry rebuild · 25 min
Why now: it blocks SN1 vs SN2, and your exam is 34 days out.
Away six days? Rebuilt. Nothing overdue.One mission a day, and it always says why.
A mentor that remembers
A chat window forgets you the moment you close it. Akiri keeps a file: where you started, what slipped, what you earned without help. No generic chatbot builds that record. One learner’s semester:
Day 9
The plan aims at her date, not a generic curve
Three evenings a week, scheduled backwards from 14 October, live in her own calendar.
Day 23
Wrong answers get explained, not scored
She picks the SN1 answer on an SN2 question. Akiri explains the exact wrong turn she took, cites her own notes, and queues the concept for review.
Day 31
A bad week gets absorbed, not punished
Six days away. The plan rebuilds before her home screen paints: nothing overdue, the first session back short and winnable, the deadline still safe.
Day 47
Praise it can prove
“Remember when SN2 confused you? You solved it on your own twice since.” Said only because the evidence exists; most days it says nothing at all.
Day 61
Ready means measured
84% ready, from unassisted practice, retention checks and coverage, then compared against the real result after the exam.
Learner file · day 61
Worked example
Learner
Naledi M.
Exam
14 October
d1
Starting point · begins at week 3
d9
Plan · 3 × week, exam −56d
d23
Misconception · SN1 ↔ SN2
d31
Lapse · absorbed, deadline safe
d47
Breakthrough · verified ×2
d61
Readiness · 84%, calibrated
Naledi is a composite for illustration, not a customer, not a testimonial. Every entry her file gains is a real Akiri capability. Your flashcards export to Anki any time; the file is yours.
One workspace, every way you learn
Your material, plan, lessons, practice and progress live in one place. Lessons arrive as text, audio or video; Akiri picks the format per topic, and it’s always one tap to change.
Material
pdfLecture 8 — Substitution
pdfTutorial set 4
pdf2024 past paper
Every pane here is built from these.
Today’s mission
Stereochemistry rebuild · 25 min
Why this, why now: it blocks SN1 vs SN2, and your exam is 34 days out.
Lesson · 12 min
Practice · 8 min
Review · 5 min
One mission a day. It always says why, never just “do this”.
Guide
Why does the SN2 rate fall with a bulkier substrate?
No carbocation to lean on here: the nucleophile attacks while the leaving group leaves, so bulk blocks the backside approach. Your week-4 notes call it steric hindrance; want the two-minute version or the full picture?
grounded in · Lecture 8, slide 14
Answers cite your material. Ask anything, at any depth, for as long as you want.
Audio lesson
SN1 vs SN2 — what actually decides it
00:00 / 12:24
A 12-minute lecture generated from your notes, for the walk, the drive, the gym. Interactive mockup; the audio itself is generated in the app.
Video lesson
Backside attack, drawn step by step in sync with the narration
For the topics that need to be seen: mechanisms, diagrams, code. Akiri chooses audio or video per topic; you can always switch.
Practice
Which factor most increases the rate of an SN1 reaction?
A. a stronger nucleophile
You picked A — that’s the
SN2 lever. SN1’s slow step doesn’t
involve the nucleophile at all; carbocation stability is
what matters.
I haven’t learned this yet
Every option’s rationale is written when the question is authored, so wrong answers teach instead of scoring.
Flashcards
Generated from your material, reviewed on a spaced schedule, and exportable to Anki any time.
Progress
84% ready
Readiness counts only what you did without help, and states its basis.
Mastery is claimed from unassisted work, never from having watched a lesson.
Same goal, three different plans
Three learners aim at the same Organic Chemistry II exam. The placement starts each of them somewhere else, so week one looks nothing alike.
Amara · starting fresh
5 short sessions a week
- Foundations: bonding, from the beginning
- Nomenclature, in 10-minute pieces
- First self-check, no score shown
Naledi · mid-course
3 sessions a week
- Skips weeks 1–2: placement found them solid
- Stereochemistry rebuild
- Interleaved SN1 / SN2 practice
Thabo · nearly ready
2 sessions a week
- Past papers under exam timing
- Review queue for two rusty concepts
- Readiness tracked against the syllabus
Worked examples, for illustration; the point is the difference between them.
It explains anything, at any depth, for as long as you want
Ask why entropy matters, what a pointer really is, or why your proof fails, grounded in your own uploaded material, with live web research when your notes aren’t enough.
The one thing it won’t do
Hand you the answer to work you’re being assessed on. In a randomised trial of roughly 1,000 students, unrestricted AI raised practice scores 48% — then those students scored 17% lower on the exam, without it, than students who never used AI at all. The person who needs to be able to do it is you.
Bastani et al., PNAS 2025
Start free. Really.
The free plan is a complete small experience you can study on for weeks, not a trial with a clock. Plus raises the ceilings.
Free
$0
a real plan, not a trial
One goal, a complete small experience. Study for weeks with no card and no clock.
Start freePlus
$89.99/year
$119.88 at the monthly rate
about $7.50 a month
Ten goals at once. Unlimited lessons, and priority generation — nothing to count, nothing to ration.
Start free, upgrade insideFounding member: the first 500 learners get their first year of Plus for $59.99. Renews at the standard annual price after the first year.
| Allowance | Free | Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Goals at once | 1 | 10 |
| Guide conversations | 100 / month | Unlimited |
| Audio lessons | 3 / month | Unlimited |
| Video lessons | 2 / month | Unlimited |
| Uploads | 10 / month | Unlimited |
| Flashcard packs | 10 / month | Unlimited |
| Practice tests | 10 / month | Unlimited |
In South Africa: R1,349 a year or R149 a month. Plus has no monthly allowances to track — generation runs at priority for normal study, and only automation-scale volume is ever slowed.
Questions
The things people ask before they start. Short answers, and none of them a maybe.
What is Akiri?
Akiri is an AI study app built around a goal and a date. You tell it what you are working toward — an exam, a certification, a skill — and it works out where you are actually starting from, schedules a plan backwards from your date, and rebuilds that plan as your week changes. Lessons, practice and flashcards are generated from your own notes, slides and past papers.
How is Akiri different from using ChatGPT to study?
A chat window starts from nothing every time you open it, and it answers whatever you happen to ask. Akiri keeps a record of where you started, what you got wrong, what you skipped and what you have since done unassisted, and it decides what you work on next. It is the difference between a tutor who answers questions and a tutor who has a plan for you.
Do I have to upload my own notes?
No. Uploads are never required to begin, and Akiri can teach a subject from its own knowledge. If you do add lecture PDFs, slides or past papers, everything is rebuilt from them and cites the specific slide or page it came from, which is what makes the practice look like your actual course rather than a generic question bank.
Will Akiri do my homework or write my assignment?
No. Akiri will explain anything at any depth, for as long as you want, but it will not hand you the answer to work you are being assessed on. In a randomised trial of roughly 1,000 students, unrestricted AI raised practice scores 48% and then those students scored 17% lower on the real exam than students who had never used AI at all.
How does Akiri know what I already know?
A short placement, built from your own course rather than a generic quiz, before the plan is drawn. No score is shown, and “I haven’t learned this yet” is a first-class answer that tells Akiri more than a lucky guess. Whatever you already know is skipped, so the plan can begin at week three rather than week one.
What happens if I miss a week?
The plan rebuilds itself before you next open the app. Nothing is marked overdue, there is no streak to lose, and the first session back is deliberately short and winnable. If the deadline is still reachable Akiri reschedules around the gap; if it genuinely is not, it tells you rather than quietly hiding the shortfall.
Is the Akiri free plan a trial?
No. The free plan has no card and no clock, and you can study on it for weeks. It runs one goal at a time with monthly allowances — 100 guide conversations, 3 audio lessons, 2 video lessons, 10 uploads, 10 flashcard packs and 10 practice tests — and it is the same product, not a crippled preview of it.
How much does Akiri cost?
Free is $0. Plus is $89.99 a year or $9.99 a month; the annual rate is 25% below the monthly rate, about $7.50 a month. Plus runs ten goals at once with unlimited lessons, uploads, practice and conversations. In South Africa, Plus is R1,349 a year or R149 a month. The first 500 learners get their first year of Plus for $59.99.
Can I export my flashcards out of Akiri?
Yes, to Anki, at any time and on the free plan. The cards Akiri generates from your material are yours, and being able to walk out with them is deliberate — a study tool that holds your revision hostage is one you cannot honestly evaluate.
What subjects does Akiri work for?
Any subject you can state as a goal. It is used for university exams, professional certifications such as AWS, programming languages including Python, mathematics such as calculus, machine learning, and career changes into fields like software engineering. Akiri picks the lesson format per topic — the ones that have to be seen, like mechanisms, diagrams and code, become video.
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to attain; to acquire through one’s own effort
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