Family Beta · Coming Soon

Real-time AI learning for neurodivergent children.

Discover. Learn. Explore. Grow.

Koda Compass is the first end-to-end AI learning companion built specifically for dyslexic, ADHD, and neurodivergent learners — and the parents and teachers who support them. Clinically grounded. Always with the child.

The problem

Neurodivergent children are failing in plain sight.

Every day they wait for support, they fall further behind.

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1 in 5
Americans with dyslexia

42M people, mostly undiagnosed

1 in 9
Children diagnosed ADHD

11.4% of US children · CDC 2024

$3,500+
Private neuropsych eval

with 6–18 month waitlists

18–24mo
School eval waitlist

kids fall years behind during the wait

The gap nobody has solved

Today's neurodivergent learners are abandoned in the gap between systems.

Schools can't intervene fast enough

Teachers manage 25–30 kids. By the time an IEP is in place, a child has lost a full school year.

Private specialists are unaffordable

Orton-Gillingham tutors $80–$200/hr. EF coaches $100–$150/hr. Math tutors. Out of reach for 80% of families.

Generic apps don't work for these kids

Khan, Lexia, IXL are built for the typical learner. They miss working memory deficits, processing speed, and EF challenges.

Parents have no real-time visibility

Parents only learn their child is struggling at parent-teacher conferences — every three months — when it's already too late to course-correct.

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The vision

One AI companion. Every learning profile.

Real-time intervention from kindergarten through middle school — clinically grounded, always with the child.

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Assess

Continuous AI evaluation

Replace the $3,500 / 18-month wait with adaptive AI screening modeled on neuropsychological methodology. Long-term: virtual neuropsych panel with licensed clinicians.

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Teach

Personalized AI tutor

Koda the time-traveling explorer guides every child through reading, writing, math, history, science, and culture — adapting in real time to how they learn.

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Support

Real-time village

AI Chief of Staff for the child. Real-time dashboards for teachers and parents. Closing the gap that currently makes neurodivergent kids fall behind every day.

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The MVP

Four modules. One integrated platform.

Discipline at the seed stage — ship four modules deeply rather than seven thinly. Modules 5–7 follow on the post-seed roadmap.

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01
The hook · Free

AI Neuropsychological Evaluation

Adaptive AI screening, 30–45 minutes, age-calibrated K–8 across six cognitive domains. CTOPP-2, WISC-V, Brown EF, and DIBELS-aligned. Generates IEP/504-formatted reports families can take to school meetings.

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The engine

Individualized Learning Profile + AI Guide

Synthesizes evaluation results into a living, adapting curriculum journey. Routes each child to the right Orton-Gillingham level, pace, and modality. Re-renders weekly based on real performance — not annual review cycles.

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The retention driver

OG Tutoring + Game Module

Twelve-level structured literacy with Whisper voice scoring — what private tutors charge $200/hr to deliver. Embedded in Koda the time-traveling explorer's quest world: 40+ destinations, passport stamps, boss battles.

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The stickiness

Executive Functioning Coach

The student's chief of staff. Class listening, end-of-day summaries, Koda Calendar with auto-population, project decomposition for ADHD learners, parent escalation alerts. Externalized EF for kids whose brains can't yet do it internally.

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Clinical foundation

Modeled on peer-reviewed research.

Every module is anchored in established frameworks. Independent validation studies planned for Phase 2 with university research partners.

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Assessment Science

CTOPP-2 WISC-V Brown EF Scales DIBELS 8 BRIEF-2

Structured Literacy

Orton-Gillingham Galuschka 2014 Wagner & Torgesen Mesmer 2008 National Reading Panel

Executive Function

Barkley Model Brown 6-Cluster Smart but Scattered Vygotsky ZPD Cognitive Load Theory

Engagement & Motivation

Self-Determination Flow Theory Variable Reinforcement Hidi & Renninger Henderson & Mapp
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Our founder's story

What should have existed when my son was 7.

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We knew our son was falling behind in school, but we didn't know why or how to get him the support he needed.

We were told the first step was a neuropsychological evaluation. It took nearly six months to get an appointment and cost over $3,500. Then came another two months waiting for the report, another month to schedule meetings with the school, and more time to develop an individualized learning plan.

While the system moved slowly, my child kept falling further behind.

Once support finally began, we entered a fragmented world of Orton-Gillingham tutoring, executive functioning coaching, math tutoring, reading apps, accommodations, and school interventions. Every provider worked independently. Nothing was connected. There was no real-time visibility into progress, no daily reinforcement, and no unified system helping him improve consistently.

Tutors cost hundreds of dollars each week. Schools did what they could, but support was limited and often delayed. Then months later, during a parent-teacher conference near the end of the semester, we would hear the same thing again:

"He's still behind."

By then, another school year was nearly gone.

The cycle repeated itself — updated evaluations, revised accommodations, new interventions, more waiting, more cost, and more lost time.

As a father, it was heartbreaking.

As someone who has spent more than 20 years building enterprise technology solutions through Mash Technology Group, I saw the problem differently. The issue wasn't a lack of caring teachers or dedicated specialists. The issue was that the system was reactive, disconnected, and incapable of supporting children in real time, every single day.

My son needed progressive support across multiple areas continuously — not weeks or months later.

That realization became the foundation for Koda Compass.

We built Koda Compass to become the platform we wished existed when our son was 7 years old: an AI-powered, connected learning support system designed to help children daily across reading, writing, executive functioning, confidence building, organization, and personalized learning reinforcement.

Every module inside Koda Compass solves a real problem our family personally experienced.

This is more than software. It's the system we needed — and the one millions of families still do.

Nick Masciarelli
Founder & CEO · Koda Compass LLC
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Why now

Three shifts make this possible today.

And impossible just twenty-four months ago.

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1

AI has crossed the tutoring threshold

  • GPT-4 and Claude reached human-level reading comprehension in 2023; voice (Whisper) reached parity 2024
  • Cost of an AI tutoring session dropped 100× in 24 months — from $0.50 to $0.005
  • First time AI can deliver Orton-Gillingham–quality phonics feedback without a human in the loop
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Neurodivergent awareness is mainstream

  • ADHD diagnoses up 53% in adolescents 2017–2024 (CDC); dyslexia awareness on the same trajectory
  • 20+ states passed dyslexia screening laws since 2020 — mandatory early identification expanding nationally
  • Special needs receives less than 2% of edtech VC funding despite 15–20% of students. The supply gap is structural.
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Post-COVID learning loss created urgency

  • Reading scores at 30-year lows post-pandemic (NAEP 2024). Schools cannot solve this with the status quo.
  • Parent willingness-to-pay for outside-of-school support at all-time high — current spend $100–300/mo
  • Title I and IDEA Part B funding flowing to evidence-based digital interventions
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Family beta · Joining soon

Be among the first 100 families.

We're recruiting families through advocacy partners — Decoding Dyslexia, IDA, CHADD — for our closed beta. If you parent a child with dyslexia, ADHD, or another neurodivergent profile, we'd love to have you.

No spam. We'll only reach out about the beta program.

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