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Institutionally licensed.
The institution buys seats. Students never see a paywall, never enter a credit card, never argue with a chatbot's usage cap. You set a per-seat token budget, and costs are predictable by cohort.
◉ Now in development · Pilots opening fall 2026
Every student
deserves a Tute.
Tute is a desktop AI tutor your institution licenses, not your students. FERPA-aligned, academically focused, privacy-first. It lives on your laptop and answers to you — not to an ad network.
01 · The product
A desktop tutor that remembers your courses, your deadlines, and the way you write.
Tute is a real Mac and Windows app — not a chat window in another tab. Students install it, name their sidekick, and use it as a persistent academic companion across every course they take.
tute · athena
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Can you help me tighten paragraph 3? The transition feels off.
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Your thesis in ¶2 is about economic causes, but ¶3 opens with a cultural example. Want me to suggest a bridge sentence, or would you rather rework the thesis?
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Bridge sentence please. MLA.
ask Athena…⌘ K
Made for academic work
- Citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian — formatted correctly the first time.
- Library catalog search through your institution's EZproxy, not the public web.
- Paper iteration, paragraph by paragraph, with the student in the driver's seat.
- Class schedules, office hours finder, and homework tracking built in.
- An academic-integrity nudge the moment a prompt crosses the line.
02 · What’s different
The inverse of a general chatbot.
Bounded, on-campus, accountable.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot are general tools. They're off-campus in every sense. Tute is the opposite: institutionally bounded, academically focused, privacy-first, and student-owned.
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Private by default.
FERPA-aligned from day one. Administrators see aggregate usage only — seat utilization, cost per cohort, top skills — with a k-anonymity floor of 10. No chat content, no prompts, no ad trackers, ever.
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Built for academic work.
MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian citation. Library catalog search. Office hours, study plans, homework tracking. An academic-integrity nudge when a student asks for a shortcut they don't really want.
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Yours, on your laptop.
A Mac and Windows desktop app, not a website. Students name their sidekick, pick an emoji avatar, and carry that same companion across every course. It even works offline with a local model.
03 · How it works
Four steps from purchase order to paper draft.
We designed the whole path — institutional rollout, student onboarding, daily use — to be boring in all the right places.
Institution provisions seats.
Your IT team licenses Tute and sets a per-seat token budget. Eligibility and cost caps are fully under institutional control.
Student installs the app.
A clean Mac or Windows download. Sign in with your school account. No credit card, no personal model provider, no shadow IT.
Student names their sidekick.
Athena, Jules, Mochi — it's their choice. Pick an emoji avatar, pick a personality. The sidekick is personal to the student.
The work begins.
Draft a paper. Iterate paragraph by paragraph. Find a source. Plan the week. Pass the class. Tute remembers where you left off, across every course.
04 · The privacy contract
Privacy is not a feature.
It is the load-bearing wall.
Administrators need to know how AI enters student life on their campus. Here is the short version of the answer, in writing, in advance of any pilot conversation.
Terms of the privacy contract
- Aggregate-only analytics
- Admin dashboards show seat utilization, cost per cohort, and top skills — never chat content, prompts, or identified individuals.
- k-anonymity floor, k ≥ 10
- Every aggregate metric is computed server-side with a minimum group size of 10. Cohorts below that threshold are suppressed, not rounded.
- FERPA-aligned from day one
- Student education records stay with the institution. Tute is designed as a school official under the school-official exception, with written agreements and limited-use terms.
- No third-party ad tracking
- No pixels, no behavioral profiling, no data brokers. The marketing site uses Vercel Web Analytics, which is aggregate-only. The product uses none of it.
- No resale, no training
- Student chats are never sold, shared, or used to train general-purpose models. The institution's contract makes this enforceable.
- Export and deletion on request
- Students can export or delete their own data. Institutions can do the same for any seat under their license.
A full data-processing addendum and model card are available under NDA during pilot conversations.
Request the DPA05 · Two doors in
Who are you, really?
Tute is pre-launch. We're scoping pilots with a small number of institutions for fall 2026, and quietly building a student waitlist for launch.
Talk to us about a pilot.
CIOs, instructional designers, department chairs, library leads. We'll walk you through the privacy contract, the licensing model, and what a fall 2026 pilot would look like on your campus.
Join the waitlist.
Your school isn't on Tute yet? Get on the student waitlist. We'll let you know the minute your institution signs, and you'll be among the first to name your sidekick.
06 · Get in touch
Let’s talk.
Fill out this form. A human will read it, and a human will reply. We won’t add you to a drip campaign.
07 · Questions worth asking
Frequently asked questions.
What is Tute, exactly?
Tute is a desktop AI tutor licensed by universities for their students. It's a real Mac and Windows app, not a browser tab or a plugin. Students install it, name their own sidekick, and use it for academic work across every course they take.
Who pays?
The institution. Tute is sold on per-seat licenses with a token budget set by the school. Students never see a paywall and never enter a credit card. The cost is predictable for the institution and free at the point of use for the student.
How is privacy enforced?
Administrators see aggregate usage only — seat utilization, cost per cohort, and top skill areas — with a server-side k-anonymity floor of 10. They never see chat content, prompts, or individual student activity. No third-party trackers, no ad networks, no resale.
What about academic integrity?
Tute has an integrity nudge built in. When a student asks Tute to do the whole assignment for them, Tute responds with a soft reminder of the institution's integrity policy and offers iterative help instead. Adult students can override the nudge — the framing is 'help you do your best work,' not a lockout.
Which operating systems?
macOS and Windows at launch. Tute is a native desktop app because the academic workflow lives on the student's laptop: notes, drafts, library PDFs, assignments. A local-model mode means it keeps working offline.
When can my institution get it?
Tute is in development and opening a small number of pilots for fall 2026. If you're at a university and want to be in the first pilot cohort, use the form above — we'd love to talk.
How does Tute compare to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot?
Those are excellent general chatbots. They're ad-driven or subscription-driven, personal, and off-campus. Tute is the opposite: institutionally licensed, academically scoped, privacy-first, and accountable to the school. The two can coexist — but only one of them can be the institution's answer to 'what about AI in our classrooms?'
Is Tute appropriate for K-12 students?
Tute v1 is built for higher ed. A K-12 sibling product is in development with stricter defaults, age-appropriate content handling, and district-aligned privacy controls. If you're at a district and interested, tell us in the form.