Step Up Sidekick — A master teacher, in every tutoring session.

A master teacher, in every tutoring session.

Step Up's volunteer tutors already drive 2–4 additional months of learning per student. Sidekick, our AI copilot, makes them better at every part of the job — diagnosing what a student knows, teaching the right concept next, and tracking mastery across sessions.

We watch every session. You get a one-minute briefing.

When a tutor opens the video portal, Sidekick meets them with a personalized briefing — built by analyzing the recording of their last session: the student's work, the dialogue, and the tutor's own teaching moves.

Where the student is

Concepts covered last session, what's mastered, what's still developing — distilled from the video itself, not a separate test.

How the tutor is growing

A specific teaching technique to try today, grounded in what actually happened last session — with an example script and benchmarks against other Step Up tutors.

One action for today

No sprawling report. One focus technique, one sentence they could try, one concrete move to make this session better than the last.

Four capabilities, built for the session itself.

Every feature was designed by watching real Step Up tutors run real sessions — then removing the friction we saw.

This week's priority skills Grade 4

Build fractions from unit fractions

4.NF.B

Generalize place value understanding

4.NBT.A

Compare decimal fractions

4.NF.C

Curriculum aligned

Aligned to what they're learning in class.

Sidekick is built on grade-level Priority Skills anchored to the Major Work of the Grade from Achieve the Core — and mapped to whichever core curriculum the student's school uses, from Eureka to Illustrative Math to iReady. So every session — and every tutor breakdown of a concept — reinforces what the student is actually supposed to master this week.

Tutor script

"Why do all the boxes have to be the same size?"

Expected response

"Because the ratio stays equal."

Explanation scaffolds

Help tutors teach it, not just check it.

When a student gets stuck, Sidekick doesn't just hand the tutor an answer — it breaks the concept down into a step-by-step strategy and offers a tutor-ready script aligned to how the curriculum teaches it. Volunteers with no formal teaching background can explain why the math works, not just how to get to the answer.

Living profile

Personalized

Personalized to each student, every time.

Sidekick builds a living profile of each student over time: interests, confidence level, known misconceptions, mastered skills. That profile shapes the examples it surfaces and the scaffolding it recommends. A student who loves basketball gets fraction problems about free-throw percentages. A quieter student gets gentler, more patient prompts.

Student mastery hub · Fractions

Mastered Developing Not yet

Halves the numerator when simplifying — rooted in a missing GCF prereq.

Mastery tracking

Diagnostics in the lesson, not bolted on.

Sidekick reads the work, the reasoning, and the small misconceptions as they happen — then maps what's been mastered, what's developing, and what's still a gap, across every grade-level skill. Tutors, students, and families see the same picture. No extra testing. No extra data entry.

Tutors on teaching with Sidekick.

Early-access Step Up tutors piloting Sidekick with real students this semester.

It helped me recall the triangle properties and explain why certain types could also be others. The feedback it gives can be helpful for new incoming tutors — and continuing tutors too.

Sidekick has been the most helpful — it creates problems that reinforce specific topics, and most have a visual component, which really helps students.

Some of my students are more advanced and Eedi questions are too easy for them. Sidekick lets me generate harder problems, ranked by difficulty — substantially easier to address.

Human tutoring is one of the highest-leverage interventions in education. Sidekick makes it consistent.

300K+

Tutoring hours delivered by Step Up volunteers

10,000+

Students served across partner schools

2–4

Additional months of learning per student, per year

3×*

Tutors use research-backed teaching moves 3× more often with Sidekick

Independent evaluation data. *Internal measurement from Spring '26 beta; methodology available on request.

We measure our own pipeline, too.

Sidekick is only as good as the signals feeding it. So we benchmark every stage of the pipeline against human experts — and we publish what it costs to run.

01 Transcription

95.8%

Word accuracy across 1,200+ 1-on-1 remote tutoring sessions.

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02 Cost per analysis

$0.55/hour

End-to-end, per session hour: enriched transcription, talk-move analysis, feedback, mastery tracking, and recommendations.

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03 Talk-move detection

88%

Agreement with double-blind labels from our tutor coaches.

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04 Mastery classification

92%

Agreement with human expert labels across our benchmark set of scored tutoring sessions.

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Figures from Spring '26 beta; full methodology available on request.

A master teacher, in every tutoring session.

Most edtech AI tries to replace the teacher. We built the opposite.

We watch every session. You get a one-minute briefing.

Where the student is

How the tutor is growing

One action for today

Four capabilities, built for the session itself.

Aligned to what they're learning in class.

Help tutors teach it, not just check it.

Personalized to each student, every time.

Diagnostics in the lesson, not bolted on.

Tutors on teaching with Sidekick.

Human tutoring is one of the highest-leverage interventions in education. Sidekick makes it consistent.

We measure our own pipeline, too.

A real person who cares — with a master teacher at their side.