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You write every word — facts, insights, spiky positions. An AI that never writes for you grades them against your evidence and against reality.
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Alpha School proved AI can compress academics and lift outcomes. Expertise applies the same rigor to the one thing that compounds: knowing something deeply enough to have a defensible view.
How It Works
The Grader
Every sentence is yours. The model checks it against your own approved evidence, then against reality.
01
Grounded
Does the position actually follow from the evidence it cites? Uncited leaps get caught.
02
Correct
Is the claim actually true? A perfectly-cited falsehood still fails.
03
Spiky
Would an informed person disagree? Consensus restatements score low. Sharp, defensible stances win.
Why It Works
A week after studying, learners who practiced retrieval kept what rereaders lost. Every mechanism here is built on that evidence.
Recall after one week, Roediger & Karpicke 2006
Solving new problems, interleaved vs blocked practice, Rohrer & Taylor 2007
Live Demo
The real workspace UI, clickable. Switch views in the left sidebar; press Write for the compose flow.
What It's For
Audience
Every grade-A Position is publishable content waiting to happen — a thread, an essay, a podcast talking point. The app surfaces them; you take them into the world in your own voice.
Business
Validated, spiky Positions are the asymmetric knowledge that produces non-obvious ideas and defensible plans. Twenty grade-A Positions beat starting from zero.
You
The bar: pause an expert interview after the question, before the answer, and give an answer at least as informed as the expert's. There is no “done” state — as long as you're learning, the graph grows.
Questions
Never. The hardest deliberate constraint in the product: the AI grades, extracts candidates for your review, and quizzes you. Every graded word is yours. Extracted candidates require individual approve, edit, or reject; there is no mass-approve.
Three things: that your position actually follows from the evidence you cited, that the claim is true — a perfectly-cited falsehood still fails — and that an informed person could disagree with it. Fall short on grounding or truth and the position can never reach publishable, no matter how polished it reads.
Positions only, weighted by how well you retain them. Facts, summaries, and insights are scaffolding. A position you can't recall in the daily quiz counts for less than one you own cold — forgetting your own positions costs you.
Each focus area is a sealed workspace: one knowledge graph, one source library, one scratchpad, one quiz deck, one Score. Six views — graph, outline, tables, sources, scratchpad, publish — render the same graph from different angles; switching views never changes what's there. No tags, no folders: citations are the structure, search and pivots are how you cut across it.
Expertise is a Founders School product, built on the Alpha School model of AI-accelerated, mastery-based learning. Your publishable positions flow to the other Founders School tools, grounding idea grading and audience content.
Retrieval is the mechanism, not the measurement. One week after studying, tested learners kept 56% versus 42% for rereaders. A few spaced cards per day, a few minutes, and your positions stay yours.