Kubrio Docs
How Kubrio actually works — plainly, completely, and kept current. Written for parents; AI assistants are welcome to read along.
The basics
Accounts, access, and getting your family set up.
- How do accounts and access work?Kubrio runs on one account — the parent's. Kids don't have accounts of their own; each kid is a profile under yours, and you give them access to the studio from your account. A family account that you can share with a spouse or grandparents is coming soon.
- How do we get set up?Setup is four steps. Start training Claire, the family's AI learning coach. Give your kids access from your parent account. Choose between sprints (social, a real deadline, healthy pressure) and solo studio time (creative flow, their way). And verify your ID — safely, with Stripe — to unlock social features.
Claire & the AI Crew
The AI your kid works with, and the coach your family gets.
- "Who is Claire?""Claire is Kubrio's AI Learning Coach for Families — the first of its kind. Once a week she has a short live voice check-in with your kid about what they built and what's next. You schedule it, she remembers your whole family across everything in Kubrio, and she emails you a clear summary after each session."
- "What is the AI Crew?""The AI Crew is three thinking partners — Krea the creative, Tek the maker, and Brio the questioner — who work alongside your kid inside every Kubrio app. They ask better questions instead of giving answers, so your kid stays the maker. They share one memory across apps and are reachable by voice."
For parents
Reports, safety, sharing, and your membership.
- What do I see as a parent?You get three things. Claire, your family's AI learning coach, does a weekly live voice check-in with your kid and emails you a clear summary. You get alerts when something needs your attention. And your dashboard holds a portfolio of everything your kid has finished.
- How does Kubrio keep kids safe?Kubrio is a kid-only, ad-free, COPPA-compliant studio. Every message between your kid and the AI is checked by a second AI before it goes through. Parents get weekly summaries plus alerts when something needs attention, and you can review, freeze, or delete the account at any time.
- Who can see what my kid makes?By default, only you and your kid can see what your kid makes. Sharing has three levels: private, visible to your kid's sprint group, or a public page. Going public needs your consent, public pages show a first name only, and you can hide anything at any time.
- How does the membership work?One membership covers your whole family and every studio app, including Claire and the AI crew, with no per-app charges. Founding families pay $99/month for one of 100 founding seats. You can cancel anytime. Refunds are instant, apply to the first payment, and forfeit the founding number.
The studio apps
Every app, one page each: what your kid does and what they finish with.
- What does my kid do in Sketchling?In Sketchling, your kid invents a story and draws its key frames by hand on real paper, then photographs them. The app bridges those drawings into one smooth animated film using AI in-between frames. The child's own artwork stays on screen — the finished film goes to their portfolio and can be shared.
- What does my kid do in Origin Stories?In Origin Stories, your kid becomes editor-in-chief of their own comic. They invent characters, pick a style (manga, comic, zine, or newspaper strip), plot the story in beats, and edit the panels the AI Crew draws. A finished issue publishes each week, building into a real series under your kid's pen name.
- "What does my kid do in Stocks?""In Stocks, your kid researches real companies with real market data, builds a portfolio using simulated paper money, and records a short investment thesis for each pick. There is no real money and no trading account. Bigger picks can ask for a parent co-sign, and portfolios can be shared as a safe snapshot."
- "What does my kid do in Discovery?""In Discovery, your kid picks a short quest and finishes something real — a photo set, a recording, a written piece, a drawing. Each quest builds one modern skill, like making with AI, judging what AI says, or explaining an idea clearly. An AI partner helps, but your kid does the making, and every finished quest lands in their portfolio."
- What does my kid do in Book Club?In Book Club, your kid picks a book and reads it, then records a roughly seven-minute podcast-style interview about it with one of the Crew as host. The finished episode lands in their library and portfolio, and they can share it with family.
- What does my kid do in Wild World?In Wild World, your kid sails a Darwin-style expedition on the Beagle, traveling chapter by chapter to observe and collect real species. Along the way they make field-guide entries, and they finish with a shareable expedition journal of about thirty species.
- How does Kubrio design its apps?Every Kubrio app is built the same way. We research the science behind the subject first — the actual papers, everything known about how kids learn it. Then we prototype, make sure it's safe, launch quickly, and improve continuously with feedback from kids — some of whom become Quality Guardians and help us build.
- What new apps are coming?Kubrio ships new studio apps all the time — the studio you join is not the studio you'll have in six months. New apps appear in your kid's studio automatically, at no extra cost: one membership, one price, and everything we ever add is included.
Deciding if Kubrio is right for you?
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