AI Academic Coaching · Grades 4–12

Guided Scholar helps students do their own work — better.

An AI academic coach that guides students through writing, standardized test prep, and structured assignments — without doing the work for them.

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Student Workflows

Teach Me Learn & get started

Coach Me Submit & improve

ACT Writing Practice Guided prep

ACT Practice Test Timed simulation

The Problem

Three gaps that hold every student back

Students don't struggle because they're unmotivated. They struggle because the support they need isn't there at the moment they need it.

They don't know how to begin

When students hit a blank page and no one is there to help, they find the path of least resistance — and today that path is an AI tool that produces the assignment for them.

No support in the moment

Students don't cheat because they want to. They do it because no one is available to coach them through the hard part at the moment it matters most.

Feedback arrives too late

Most students never learn what went wrong. Graded papers come back days later — or not at all. By then the assignment is over and the lesson is lost.

How It Works

Four modes. One purpose.

Each workflow is designed for a specific student need — with deliberate boundaries that protect the integrity of student work.

Teach Me

Learn how to approach it

Students enter their assignment, select the right template, and receive structured feedback on their response. Designed for learning how to approach a task and improve what they produce.

Includes writing, spreadsheets, and presentations

Coach Me

Submit your own work and improve it

Students submit completed work and receive detailed coaching feedback — strengths, improvements, revision guidance, and next steps. No pre-writing assistance. This mode evaluates independent work.

No AI assistance before submission — by design

ACT Writing Practice

Guided ACT essay preparation

Scaffolded planning, paragraph-by-paragraph drafting support, ACT-style scoring, and a full downloadable feedback package. Built for real improvement, not test simulation.

Prompt library with manual and random selection

ACT Practice Test

Authentic timed test conditions

A timed environment that mirrors real ACT writing conditions. No guided support during writing — the student works independently. Post-submission feedback once time expires.

Auto-submits at timeout · No guided launch support

Academic Integrity

The answer to the cheat question is in the architecture.

The first question most administrators ask: "Won't students just use it to cheat?" It's the right question — and the answer is built into how Guided Scholar works.

Each mode has a deliberate boundary. Coach Me — where students submit their own completed work — contains no pre-writing assistance by design. That boundary isn't an oversight. It's a principle. The goal is to protect the integrity of independent work while still giving students the feedback they need to grow.

Guided Scholar guides students through their own thinking. It does not generate assignments, write paragraphs, or remove the cognitive work that produces real learning.

◆ Coach Me has no pre-writing support — independent work stays independent

◆ ACT Practice Test preserves authentic timed conditions with no guided assistance

◆ Feedback guides revision — it does not produce finished work

◆ Template and framework support helps students think — not bypass thinking

Roadmap

Built for the classroom. Growing with it.

Guided Scholar is in active development. Here's what's live, what's coming, and where it's headed.

Live Now

Four student workflows

Teach Me, Coach Me, ACT Writing Practice, and ACT Practice Test — all live with structured feedback, revision support, and downloadable feedback packages.

Draft Launch Support

Guided getting-started assistance in Teach Me and ACT Writing Practice — helping students interpret assignments and begin with a stronger plan before they write.

Coming

Teacher tools

Assignment workflows, prompt assignment, student submission visibility, and classroom management controls. Teachers will have direct visibility into student use and progress.

Future

Analytics and institutional reporting

Trend reporting, revision tracking, writing improvement over time, and broader decision-support tools for teachers and administrators.

Privacy & Compliance

Designed with student safety in mind.

FERPA-conscious design No student PII collected Grades 4–12 Pilot program available

Guided Scholar collects only what's needed to function: a display name and grade level. No personal information, no student data sold or shared. Built by an educator who understands what schools can and cannot accept.

About the Founder

Peter Brau

High School Teacher · Retired Lieutenant Colonel · AI Consultant

Guided Scholar was created from years of classroom experience and firsthand observation of what actually stops students from doing their best work. It was built not to replace student thinking or teacher judgment — but to improve how students begin, structure, revise, and learn from their work.

Interested in bringing Guided Scholar to your school or district? Reach out directly.

Contact peter@guidedscholar.ai

A product of Brau Consulting LLC