Curriculate
An AI workspace that helped UK teachers plan lessons and produce resources tied to the National Curriculum.
- Role
- Product & engineering
- When
- 2024
- Stack
- Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Drizzle, OpenAI, Stripe, Lexical
The idea
Teachers lose their evenings to planning. Curriculate drafted the documents they need for the right key stage, year group and curriculum objectives, and left the teacher in charge of the result. Those documents included:
- Lesson plans and lesson series
- Slides
- Comprehension texts
- Letters home
What I built
Documents that build on each other. Earlier outputs feed later ones. A series plan becomes individual lesson plans, and each lesson becomes a set of slides, without the teacher re-entering anything.
Highlight and rework. Teachers select a passage in the editor and ask for a rewrite or for ideas. The surrounding document goes along as context, and the result streams back into the editor.
Grounded in the curriculum. The National Curriculum objectives are stored as structured data and drive what the teacher can pick. Generated content starts from what the class actually has to cover.
A free tier that sells the paid one. Free accounts get a monthly allowance. Hitting it opens an upgrade prompt rather than an error.
School accounts. Schools register once, approve their staff’s email domains and pay for everyone in one place.
The unglamorous parts. School email filters often block sign-in links, so there’s a troubleshooting page that walks teachers through getting them delivered. There are also drag-and-drop folders, an onboarding checklist and a product tour.
Where it ended up
Curriculate has since been retired.