MakeSense is an AI-powered learning platform that generates personalized courses from a simple description of what a user wants to learn. The platform builds a custom curriculum with video lessons, exercises, and an adaptive AI tutor that tracks each learner's strengths, pace, and curiosity to tailor future content. It adapts in real time based on every interaction, bringing one-on-one tutoring to any subject at scale.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional online learning platforms rely on fixed, one-size-fits-all courses that ignore individual learning styles, prior knowledge, and pace. Learners often struggle to find content that matches their level and preferred format, leading to disengagement and poor outcomes. Personalized tutoring has been proven effective but has never been scalable to the general public.
Solution
MakeSense provides an AI-driven learning platform that generates a custom course from a simple natural-language description of what the user wants to learn. The AI builds a structured curriculum from scratch—selecting the right topics, ordering them appropriately, and matching the user's skill level. An integrated AI tutor, MakeSense, adapts in real time by building a profile from every interaction, tracking strengths, pace, and curiosity. The platform delivers video lessons, interactive exercises, and ongoing support that evolves with the learner's progress, making personalized one-on-one attention accessible to anyone.
Target Audience
Primary users are self-directed lifelong learners, students supplementing formal education, and professionals acquiring new skills who need flexible, personalized instruction without a human tutor's cost or scheduling constraints.
Features
- Natural-language course generation: users describe their learning goal in plain language, and AI creates a tailored curriculum without forms or dropdowns
- Adaptive learning profile: the system tracks visual/pattern/analogy preferences, preferred depth, and curiosity signals after every lesson and question
- Real-time tutor adaptation: MakeSense adjusts content delivery based on the learner's pace and preferred formats (video, exercises, analogies)
- Structured curriculum built from scratch: courses are not pulled from a library but generated topic-by-topic in optimal order
- 24/7 availability: the AI tutor is accessible at any time for questions, explanations, and guidance
- Broad subject coverage: supports topics ranging from machine learning and neuroscience to negotiation and creative writing