1. You photograph the homework
In the evening, you open the parent space and photograph what the teacher set: a line in the homework diary (even in joined-up handwriting), a printed slip, a spelling list split into groups, a lesson to learn or a screenshot from the school app. One page at a time.
Before anything is sent, your phone prepares the photo: it crops it, makes it smaller, removes its metadata and hides the name and class written at the top of the page. No photo to hand? You type the homework in by hand.
2. Kamelo reads the page
The prepared photo is read by Claude, Anthropic’s artificial intelligence, through our servers hosted in Paris. It takes about thirty seconds. Kamelo works out which kind of homework it is (weekly spellings, common exception words, times tables, number bonds and mental maths, a poem, a lesson…) and pulls out the content: the words, the table, the text of the lesson or the poem.
The photo is then deleted from our servers within 24 hours. The first time, a screen asks for your consent and names Anthropic; if you say no, the app still works with typing-in.
3. You check, then confirm
Kamelo shows you what he understood, exercise by exercise. Anything he isn’t sure about is highlighted in orange, so your eye goes to the right place. A misread word is corrected with a tap. You confirm, then choose which child (or children) will do the exercise, tonight or another day. Until you confirm, nothing reaches your child.
For a lesson, Kamelo suggests three to five questions, each with the sentence from the lesson it comes from. They are labelled as written by AI, and you read them before your child does. Every AI result has a ‘Report a problem’ button.
4. Your child practises
You hand over the phone. In the child space, Kamelo says hello and shows today’s homework. A session lasts about ten minutes:
- for spellings, your child listens to the word, writes it on paper or a whiteboard, then checks it themselves (there is a keyboard mode too, if you prefer);
- a mistake is never ‘wrong’: it’s an ‘almost’, shown in amber, and the item comes back a little later in the session;
- no timer by default, no leaderboard, no lives to lose (the multiplication tables check practice mode, with its 6-second timer, only runs if you switch it on);
- at the end, Kamelo celebrates, and your child earns colour drops and stickers. Nothing is bought with real money.
5. You see that it’s done
Back in the parent space, today’s screen shows what is done. The Progress page shows, for each child and each kind of exercise, what was right first time and which words will come back, in plain words: '12 of 15 first time’. A weekly card can be shared with the other parent or with grandparents.
Two spaces, one phone
Kamelo opens in the child space, with no tab bar and no link out of the app. Everything else (photo, checking, settings, subscription, privacy, help) is in the parent space, protected by a 6-digit code you choose. If you forget it, a check for grown-ups lets you set a new one.
Reminders for you, not for your child
If you like, Kamelo sends you a reminder at the time you choose, on school nights only, and stays quiet when today’s homework is already set up or done. The reminder is for you, never for your child. After 8.30pm, Kamelo gets sleepy in the app too.