What does my kid do in Biographer?

What it is

Biographer is the Kubrio app where your kid is the show's biographer — the correspondent who chose this legend and brought their own curiosity to the story. Two AI co-hosts, Krea and Brio, run "The Legends Show" itself: they tell the figure's struggle story and dig up the answers. Your kid's job is the journalist's job — pick who's worth covering, say why it matters to them, and ask the questions worth answering. They start by cracking a mystery-figure card or naming a hero they already love, choose the lens the episode takes, then record their two segments. Their own voice — their reasons and their questions — is spliced right into the finished episode.

On the sprint calendar this is the Biographer week — here the role and the app share a name.

What your kid actually does, step by step

1. Meet a mystery figure. A card appears with hints about a notable person from history. Your kid reads the clues and guesses who it is — a small mystery that pulls them in before the reveal.
2. Or bring their own hero. Instead of the mystery card, your kid can pick "Bring Your Own Hero" and name any figure they love. The app checks the figure is a real, kid-appropriate person before building anything (see safety, below).
3. Pick an interview lens. Your kid chooses the angle the episode takes — their subject's toughest battle, how they actually worked, their weird habits and secrets, and more. The lens shapes what the hosts dig into.
4. Record why this figure. Your kid speaks, in their own words, what's "the you" in this person's story — why they picked them.
5. Record their questions. Your kid asks 2-3 questions out loud, anything they're curious about, like they're talking straight to the show.
6. Generate the episode. Krea and Brio take it from there — they narrate the figure's origin and struggle, answer each of your kid's questions using only verified facts, and thank the biographer by name. The app produces a finished podcast episode with cover art.
7. Keep it. The episode lands on your kid's shelf and in their portfolio, building into a collection of the figures they've covered.

What they finish with

The artifact is a real podcast episode — audio, with your kid's actual voice recorded twice inside it: once explaining why this figure matters to them, once asking the questions the hosts go on to answer. It lives on their Biographer shelf and in their portfolio, and shows up in your Learning Kit timeline. Episodes stack up over time into an audible record of who your kid is curious about and why. Nothing is shared beyond Kubrio without your kid's choice.

The AI's role

Krea and Brio host and narrate; your kid is the biographer who supplies the curiosity the episode runs on. The Crew prepares a fact pack on the figure, writes and performs the story — the origin, the struggle, the turning point — answers each of your kid's recorded questions directly using only verified facts, and generates the cover art, all built to be COPPA-safe and carrying no personal information about your kid by design. What the AI never does is choose the figure or write the questions — the guessing, the choosing, why-it-matters, and every question in the episode come from your kid, in their own recorded voice. Calling the kid the biographer, not the host or the guest, is deliberate: the episode only exists because your kid decided this person was worth covering. You can read more about how the AI Crew works across every Kubrio app.

What parents see

You see the episodes your kid makes through Claire, your family's coach, and in your Learning Kit timeline — a figure your kid chose to cover, in their own voice. It's an easy way to know who they're curious about without asking "what did you learn?" For how Biographer fits a typical Kubrio week, see sprints vs. studio time.