PiP
Early family testing · Fall 2026
Screen-free AI radio for curious kids

The little radio that grows up with them.

Turn the dial to a story. Hold the orange paddle to ask a question. Tap a card to tune in. No screen, no feed, no ads — just a small, serious machine that talks back.

Big things start small.

Hold to talk…let go, and it's off
VOLUME
8 screws
Reserve yours See the parent portal →
Turn the dial.Every click is a station — stories, music, quiet time, Pip's question channel. Parents choose what's on it. Kids explore it freely.
Hold to talk.The orange paddle is the only button that matters. Hold it down, talk, let go. Ask Pip anything — or reach an approved friend, walkie-talkie style. Over!
Tap a card.Cards tune the radio instantly — a bedtime story, a subject, a person. Blank cards cost pennies; a card can be a whole unit: ancient Egypt week, this month's composer.
One volume knob.Kids control the loudness. Parents control the maximum loudness. Everyone wins.

You choose how Pip teaches

One question — answered your way.

In the parent portal, you set Pip's approach: Socratic questions back, first-principles explanations, or Charlotte Mason narration — per subject, changeable any time as they grow.

"Why does the moon change shape?" — held on the paddle, answered three ways, because three families teach three ways.
Socratic mode
Pip asks before it tells.
EvieThe moon looked like a banana last night!
PipGreat noticing. Before I tell you — what do you think changed?
First Principles mode
Pip explains from the ground up.
PipThe moon is always a ball of rock. Sunlight lights up one side — let's see why we only see part of it from Earth...
EvieLike moving a flashlight around a ball!
Narration mode
Charlotte Mason style retell.
PipSo the moon doesn't change — our view does. Now tell me the whole story back, like you're teaching Papa.
EvieSun shines on the ball but Earth only sees one bit...
You program the tutor channel in your portal. Pip answers exactly the way you'd answer.

Grows with them

Same radio, same dial — from first stories to car keys.

Age 3–4

The story box

Tap-a-card stories and songs, parent-loaded. As simple as a music box.

Age 5–6

The question machine

The tutor channel opens. Hold the paddle, ask why the moon follows the car. Pip answers exactly the way you'd answer — asking back, or explaining from first principles.

Age 7–9

The family radio

Friend and family channels: grandparents, cousins, approved pals. Push-to-talk calls, every contact approved by you.

Age 10–15

The real tool

Lesson help, language practice, interview recordings through the mic jack — and a machine they can open themselves. Eight real screws, upgradeable brain, no glue anywhere.

Parents run the station

A deliberately boring portal. Five minutes to set up, glanceable forever.

What families see

It starts with the questions they ask.

Pip's portal leads with curiosity, not screen time: every question your child holds the paddle to ask, captured, tagged and yours.

127
questions asked this month
31
standards-tagged conversations
9
topics planted in the queue
100%
of recordings paddle-initiated

Built for homeschool rhythm

Teach your way. They'll just hear a friend.

Morning-time stories on tap. Narration practice Pip asks for by name. A tutor that follows your philosophy, not an app store's. And at term's end, the paperwork writes itself — every recorded conversation tagged to your state's standards, assembled into a portfolio for your evaluator.

You teach your wayPip's modes match how you already teach — Socratic, first-principles, narration, child-led.
Records write themselvesStandards-tagged transcripts of real conversations. Portfolio-ready exports in one click.
Private by constructionMic only lives while the paddle is held. PIP Private keeps every word inside the box.

Privacy

Privacy is physics, not policy.

The microphone works only while the paddle is held down. That's not a setting — it's a spring.

Unplug your router. Ask Pip a question.
It still answers. Nothing your child says ever leaves the radio — on PIP 01 Private, the entire brain runs inside the box. No subscription, ever.

Design

Built like a tool, loved like a toy.

Bone-white shell. Graphite grille. One safety-orange paddle. Eight honest screws. Molded-in color that can't chip, engraved labels a pre-reader learns by touch. If your kid opens it up with a screwdriver someday, we'll consider that a feature. (So will they.)

The models

Two radios. One philosophy.

Most families start here

PIP 01

$99* cloud-powered

The full experience: stories, tutor channels, friend radio, and the parent portal with transcript library and learning records. Small monthly subscription for the AI.

PIP 01 Private

$249* no subscription, ever

Everything runs inside the radio. No cloud, no data — ever. The only kids' AI that works with the internet unplugged. Homeschool records are generated on-device and exported directly.

*Draft pricing, subject to final build cost. Both models include standards tagging and exportable portfolios.

Reserve yours

Big things start small.

We're building PiP with a founding group of families this fall. Reservations are fully refundable and founders get lifetime pricing on the AI plan.

Takes about three minutes · name, email and your take on PiP