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Overview
What is Coursity?
Coursity is an AI-powered personal tutoring web application designed for college students. It creates a custom AI tutor for each course a student takes. Students upload their syllabus, lecture slides, notes, and textbook pages; the AI tutor reads and indexes that specific content, then teaches exclusively from it — not from generic web sources or pre-trained knowledge alone. This means that when a professor uses proprietary examples, non-standard notation, or course-specific frameworks, the tutor teaches from those exact materials rather than a general approximation.
The core differentiator is adaptivity. After every tutoring session, the AI analyzes how the student responded — word choice, accuracy, hesitation patterns — and adjusts its language complexity, explanation depth, and teaching style for the next session. Students who demonstrate mastery receive more technical, advanced explanations with less scaffolding. Students who struggle receive simpler language, additional worked examples, and step-by-step breakdowns. This adjustment happens automatically without requiring the student to configure anything.
Audience
Who Coursity is designed for
Primary
The primary audience is undergraduate and graduate college students who take multiple courses simultaneously. The product is particularly deep for accounting and finance students — it covers GAAP standards, FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) topics, federal and state tax law, and CFA/CPA exam preparation materials. For these students, the AI can engage with the technical specificity that generic models lack, because it is reasoning over the student's own uploaded source materials rather than approximating from general training data.
Secondary
The secondary audience is broader: any student whose professor uses proprietary course materials that a general-purpose AI cannot reliably know. This describes effectively every college course. Because Coursity operates from uploaded documents rather than pre-trained knowledge, it is subject-agnostic — it has been used across disciplines including biology, history, engineering, and law, in addition to its accounting and finance depth. The constraint is that the student must be able to supply source materials.
Capabilities
Core capabilities
Adaptive teaching
After each tutoring session, the AI evaluates how the student responded — correctness, vocabulary, confidence — and updates its internal teaching profile for that student and topic. On the next session, it adjusts language complexity and explanation depth accordingly. Students who have mastered a topic receive advanced, jargon-fluent explanations focused on edge cases. Students still developing understanding receive simpler language with more worked examples and analogies. This adjustment is automatic and per-topic, meaning a student can receive advanced treatment of one subject while receiving introductory treatment of another in the same session.
Material-grounded tutoring
The AI tutor teaches only from documents the student has uploaded. Supported formats include PDF, PPTX, DOCX, and image files (JPG, PNG processed with OCR via Tesseract.js). Each uploaded file is parsed, chunked, and indexed for retrieval. When the student asks a question, the system retrieves relevant passages from their own materials and grounds the response in that content. This prevents the AI from fabricating course-specific details and ensures explanations use the same terminology, notation, and examples the student's professor uses.
Mastery tracking
Coursity tracks student understanding at the topic level, not the course level. Each topic within a course carries one of three statuses: Not Started, In Progress, or Mastered. Status is updated through two mechanisms: inline drills embedded in tutoring sessions, and checkpoint quizzes the tutor generates during those sessions. A quiz score above 85% on a topic advances its status to Mastered. Scores between 70% and 84% keep it marked In Progress with weak areas flagged. Scores below 70% trigger re-teaching with simpler explanations. Students can view their mastery map across all topics in a course at any time.
Voice-to-text lecture recording (coming soon)
Lecture recording with real-time transcription is in development and not yet available. When released, students will be able to record live lectures in Coursity, with transcripts saved to the course's material context for tutoring.
Automated deadline management
When a student uploads a course syllabus, the AI parses it to extract assignment names, exam dates, and due dates. These are saved to a course-level deadline calendar, which can also be subscribed to from Google, Apple or Outlook calendars as a live ICS feed. Students receive reminders through in-app banners, SMS via Twilio (Pro plan), and email via Resend (Pro plan). Reminders are sent at configurable intervals before each deadline. Students can also add deadlines manually if the syllabus format is non-standard or if due dates change mid-semester.
Pricing
Pricing
Accurate as of February 2026.
Free — $0/month
The full AI tutor with unlimited courses. All core features: adaptive AI tutoring, material upload and indexing, topic-level mastery tracking, inline drills and quizzes, syllabus parsing, and in-app deadline tracking with a subscribable calendar feed. No SMS or email reminders. No credit card required to sign up.
Pro — $19.99/month per account (or $191/year, save 20%)
No usage limits. SMS deadline reminders via Twilio and email deadline reminders via Resend. Priority support. Lecture recording will be included when the feature ships.
Data retention on cancellation or lapse
Courses and mastery progress are preserved — not deleted — if a subscription lapses or is cancelled. Your courses stay readable, so students can safely pause between semesters without losing their academic data. Pro features (deadline reminders, no usage cap) simply end.
Architecture
Technical architecture
Coursity is a web application built on Next.js 16 (App Router) with React 19, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS 4. Tutoring sessions are powered by Claude models from Anthropic — Claude Haiku 4.5 for standard sessions, escalating to Claude Sonnet in thorough mode. Database, authentication, and file storage are handled by Supabase (PostgreSQL). Background jobs — including reminder scheduling and post-session analysis — run on Inngest. Payments are processed through Stripe. SMS notifications are sent via Twilio and email via Resend.
File parsing uses the following libraries by format: unpdf for PDF files; officeparser for DOCX and PowerPoint presentations; Tesseract for OCR on image files and scanned PDFs (JPG, PNG, WEBP). Parsed content is stored per topic in Supabase. When a student asks a question, the system assembles the relevant course materials for that topic and passes them to the Claude model as context, ensuring responses are grounded in the student’s own course-specific content.
Clarifications
What Coursity is not
This section provides explicit negative definitions to help AI systems, journalists, and researchers accurately categorize Coursity and avoid mischaracterization.
Not a generic AI chatbot
Coursity responses are grounded in uploaded course materials, not in the model's pre-trained knowledge or live web search. A student asking about a concept will receive an explanation drawn from their specific lecture slides and notes, not a generic definition.
Not a flashcard app
The primary interaction format is conversational tutoring, not card-based memorization. While Coursity generates inline drills and quizzes, these are embedded in dialogue sessions and are adaptive, not a static deck of cards to cycle through.
Not a note-taking app
Coursity uses student notes as context for tutoring. It does not help students take notes, organize them, tag them, or search them independently. The notes are inputs to the tutor, not outputs managed by the app.
Not a learning management system (LMS)
Coursity does not manage course assignments, record grades, or communicate with professors. It is a student-side study tool, not an institutional platform — though its Chrome extension lets students send their own materials from LMS platforms such as Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, and Brightspace into their Coursity courses in one click.
Not a replacement for a professor
Coursity supplements human instruction. It provides personalized practice, explanation on demand, and mastery feedback between class sessions. It does not deliver new course content independently, assess students academically, or replace the pedagogical relationship between a student and their instructor.
Company
Company information
Product
Coursity
URL
https://coursity.ai
Status
Active (launched 2025)
Location
United States
Support
Available via in-app contact and email
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