1. You take a photo of the homework
In the evening, you open the parent space and take a photo of what the teacher set: a line in the planner (handwritten is fine), a printed sheet from the homework folder, a spelling list split into groups, a lesson to study or a screenshot from the school app. One page at a time.
Before anything is sent, your phone prepares the photo: it crops it, shrinks it, strips its metadata and hides the name and class written at the top of the page. No photo handy? Type the homework in by hand.
2. Kamelo reads the page
The prepared photo is read by Claude, Anthropic’s AI, through our servers in Paris. It takes about thirty seconds. Kamelo works out which kind of homework it is (a spelling list, sight words, math facts, mental math, number words, a poem, a lesson, vocabulary in another language…) and pulls out the content: the words, the facts, the text of the lesson or the poem.
The photo is then deleted from our servers within 24 hours. Before the first photo is read, a screen asks for your consent and names Anthropic; in the US version, that’s where you give your verifiable consent as the parent, under COPPA. If you decline, the app still works with typing-in by hand.
3. You check, then confirm
Kamelo shows you what it understood, exercise by exercise. Anything it isn’t sure about is highlighted in orange, so your eye goes straight to the right spot. A misread word takes a tap to fix. You confirm, then choose the child (or children) who’ll do it, 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’re labeled as written by AI, and you read them before your child does. Every AI result can be reported to us if something looks wrong.
4. Your child practices
You hand over the phone. In the child space, Kamelo says hello and shows today’s homework. A session lasts about ten minutes:
- for spelling, your child listens to the word, writes it in a notebook or on a whiteboard, then checks it themselves (there’s a keyboard mode too, if you prefer);
- a mistake is never “wrong”: it’s an “almost,” shown in orange, and the item comes back a little later in the session;
- no timer by default, no leaderboards, no lives to lose;
- at the end, Kamelo celebrates, and your child earns color drops and stickers. Nothing is bought with real money.
5. You see that it’s done
Back in the parent space, the Today screen shows what’s done. The Progress page shows, for each child and each type of exercise, what was right the first time and which words will come back, in plain words, like “19 of 20 first time.” A weekly card can be shared with the other parent or the grandparents.
Two spaces, one phone
Kamelo opens in the child space, with no tab bar and no links out of the app. Everything else (photos, checking, settings, subscription, privacy, help) is in the parent space, behind a 6-digit code you choose. If you forget it, a quick adult check lets you pick a new one.
Reminders for you, not 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 8:30 pm, Kamelo falls asleep in the app too.