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.
One desk.
One semester.
A goal, a date, and a plan that answers to it.
Akiri is an AI mentor that plans your studying backwards from your exam date. Free to start.
Skip the film ↓Everything you
have not read yet.
Lecture slides, past papers, the readings you meant to do in week two.
Half of it was
already yours.
A short placement built from your own course, not a generic quiz. What you know gets skipped.
Six days away.
Nothing overdue. Nothing marked late. The plan rebuilt itself before you opened the app, and the first session back is short on purpose.
Readiness you
can point at.
Built from unassisted practice, retention checks and coverage. In your own handwriting.
What do you want to achieve?
Tell Akiri the goal. It finds where you’re starting from. It builds a study plan backwards from your date. And it adapts every day, from your own notes, slides and past papers.
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.
Will I pass?
The question every student is asking, answered from your own work, with the uncertainty left in.
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A predicted mark you can trust
Counted only from tests and past papers you write with no AI in reach, shown with an honest ± range, and never shown at all until there is enough evidence behind it.
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Past papers, marked the way the memo marks
Upload a paper and its memo. Write it timed and unassisted, keep its numbering and mark allocation, and see exactly which points earned the marks.
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Checked against your real result
After the exam, tell Akiri what you got. It shows how close its prediction was, and plans the supp or the next step from there.
See your working marked
Write out a question the way you would in the exam. Akiri marks it point by point, the way the NSC memo does: a method mark for the right approach, an accuracy mark for the right value, and follow-through when you carry an earlier slip correctly.
Marked script
Worked example
Without solving, determine the nature of the roots of 2x² − 5x − 3 = 0. (3)
Δ = (−5)² − 4(2)(−3) = 25 − 24 = 1 Δ > 0 and a perfect square: roots are real, unequal and rational
- M1 Substitution into Δ = b² − 4ac Correct substitution. Earned.
- A1 Δ = 49 −4(2)(−3) is +24, not −24. Not earned.
- CA1 Real, unequal and rational Right nature for your Δ = 1. Follow-through: one slip, one mark lost Earned.
Total
2/3
Looks like treating −4ac as a subtraction even when c is negative.
Mark a whole paper, free
Four practice questions in the style of NSC Mathematics Paper 1, marked by the same engine the app uses. Nothing you type here is saved to Akiri: it is marked once and the result comes back to this page.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Start free
Your file starts on day one. No card.
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.
+48% on practice, −17% on the real exam
— students in a randomised trial of roughly 1,000, given unrestricted AI, then measured without it.
Akiri predicts your exam mark only from tests and past papers you write with no AI in reach, so that gap can never hide from you. 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
Every subject in one place, daily lessons for one of them. 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
Daily lessons for every subject, with priority generation and generous daily limits. No monthly allowances to track.
Create your accountStart free, then upgrade from Plans inside Akiri whenever you want more.
| Allowance | Free | Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Subjects | 7 | 10 |
| Subjects with daily lessons | 1 | Every subject |
| Guide messages | 1,000 / month | No monthly limit |
| Audio lessons | 3 / month | No monthly limit |
| Video lessons | 2 / month | No monthly limit |
| Podcasts | 1 / month | No monthly limit |
| Uploads | 10 / month | No monthly limit |
| Class recording | 120 minutes / month | No monthly limit |
| Flashcard packs | 10 / month | No monthly limit |
| Practice tests | 10 / month | No monthly limit |
| Assignment reviews | 2 / month | No monthly limit |
| Assignment Coach messages | 15 / month | No monthly limit |
| Web research replies | 10 / month | No monthly limit |
| Study plans built | 6 / 30 days | 60 / 30 days |
| AI requests | 600 / day | 3,000 / day |
| Narrated sentences | 1,200 / day | 6,000 / day |
Plus has no monthly allowances to track: generation runs at priority for normal study, and its daily limits sit far above a normal study day.
AI requests are what the Guide, quizzes and lesson preparation use. Narration is counted in sentences, about 1,200 for two hours of lessons, and past the daily limit lessons carry on in your device's voice. Daily limits reset at midnight UTC.
From the pedagogy engine
Every subject is learned differently
Akiri plans anatomy as spaced recall, law as judgement drills, programming as things that must run. We published the engine’s answers for twenty disciplines — how subjects are actually learned.
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 Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)?
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) is free to start, and it works from your own material: give it your sources and it can turn them into flashcards and quizzes grounded in them. Akiri starts from a different place, which is your date. You tell it when the exam is, it works out where you are starting from, and it plans your weeks backwards from that day. What comes back for review is chosen by what you got wrong and how long ago you last got it right, and it is scheduled before the exam. Akiri is independent and not affiliated with Google. NotebookLM and Gemini are trademarks of Google LLC.
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, the streak freezes you earn by showing up cover a missed day, 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 holds up to 7 subjects, with daily lessons for one at a time and monthly allowances (1,000 Guide messages, 3 audio lessons, 2 video lessons, 1 podcast, 10 uploads, 120 minutes of class recording, 10 flashcard packs, 10 practice tests, 2 assignment reviews, 15 Assignment Coach messages and 10 web research replies), plus 600 AI requests and 1,200 narrated sentences a day and 6 study plan builds every 30 days, 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 daily lessons for every subject, up to 10 at once, with no monthly limit on lessons, uploads, practice or Guide messages, within generous daily limits.
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.
akiri · verb · Esperanto
to attain; to acquire through one’s own effort