Guides
A Guide is not a lecturer. A Guide is a gardener of attention: they decide what matters, when it matters, and how a child’s learning becomes a person. The Forge is built so a Guide can scale their care without turning into a spreadsheet operator.
What Guides do inside the Forge
Intervene at the right moment
When a student is stuck, the system surfaces a concise hypothesis and the smallest effective intervention.
Shape projects
Projects are where knowledge becomes taste and competence becomes identity. Rubrics keep it real; feedback keeps it human.
Keep the system honest
The AI tutor helps, but a Guide sets boundaries: no cheating, no shallow completion, no drift away from meaning.
Measure what matters
Mastery maps, time-on-task, stuck points, and intervention effectiveness—so you can improve the system, not just survive it.