A learning companion for your Mac

Learn it on your screen. Then do it on your own.

Lampiria is a companion for your Mac that teaches you right where you’re working, and keeps you going until you can do it yourself.

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For people 18 and over. Mac with Apple Silicon. In development.

Small steps paint the big picture.

Why learning stalls

You don’t fail to learn because the explanation was bad.

You don’t start. You hit the confusing part and drift. A week later it’s gone.

Explanations are everywhere now. Follow-through isn’t.

  1. Start
  2. Stuck
  3. Drift
  4. Forget

In Harvard and MIT’s online courses, half the people who signed up never even opened them.⁠1

In one study, students who practised with unrestricted GPT-4 did better during practice, then scored 17% lower on the exam.⁠2

Sources

  1. Reich & Ruipérez-Valiente, Science, 2019: 52% of registrants never opened the courseware.
  2. Bastani et al., PNAS, 2025: practice scores rose 48%, then exam scores fell 17%.

Our promise

  1. 1

    It teaches on the thing you’re working on: your spreadsheet, not another tab.

  2. 2

    You make the move. It never clicks, types or submits for you.

  3. 3

    We measure what you can do on your own a week later, and we’ll share the results, whatever they are.

What we’re building

How it teaches

  1. 1It teaches on the thing itself.

    Stuck on a spreadsheet? Lampiria circles the column that matters, labels what it means, and points at the next step, right on your screen. You make the move.

  2. 2Explanations drawn for you.

    When a picture helps, Lampiria draws a short, narrated explanation with your own numbers beside your work. It stops to ask what you think, and how sure you are. Keep any of them as a recap to rewatch.

  3. 3You do the step.

    She does the step. Lampiria doesn’t do it for her.

  4. 4It remembers what you can do.

    Tomorrow, one quick question from today. Next week, a new problem that uses the same idea. What it knows about you, you can read, correct and delete.

Two ways to get help

Help me finish.
Today’s task, done, with someone beside you.
Help me learn.
It teaches you, so next time you won’t need it.

Lampiria grew out of a focus companion: it helps you start, gets you unstuck, and gently brings you back when you drift. Learning needs exactly that.

Try Lampiria first.

Leave your email, and we’ll invite people in small groups when the beta opens.

Mac only · US-only invite beta · Invites late November · Free to join

For Macs with Apple silicon, macOS 26 or later and Apple Intelligence turned on.

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Honest by design

  • We measure what you can do on your own a week later, not how long you spent in the app.

  • We’ll put it to an independent study, and share the results, whatever they are.

  • Your companion is an AI, not a person. It can be wrong.

  • Screenshots are taken only when you ask, and Lampiria never keeps them.
  • Your companion’s memory stays on your Mac.

Where it starts, where it goes

Our dream is a tutor that learns how you think, for years, and helps you master anything you set your mind to. We’re starting with one thing, done properly.

First

We’re starting with the numbers side of work: people who have to compare, summarise and judge data, and are expected to just know how. More subjects follow, one at a time, each tested before we offer it.

The long dream is Neal Stephenson’s Primer: a tutor that learns your mind over years and grows with you.

Who’s building it

We’ve struggled with focus for years. You sit down to do the important thing and can’t start. You get stuck on something confusing, and that’s exactly when you drift. So we started building Lampiria: a small companion on your Mac that sits with you while you work.

While designing it we noticed something. The moments people quit work are exactly the moments people quit learning. AI has made explanations free and instant, but people still don’t finish learning things, because explanation was never the bottleneck. Follow-through is.

So Lampiria is becoming a learning companion. When you want to get a task done, it helps you finish. When you want to actually learn the thing, it teaches you right on your screen. We measure success one way: what you can do on your own a week later.

Where we are

As of October 31, 2026

  • Building since September 29, 2026.
  • A signed, notarized Mac app pipeline is set up.

Plans, not promises

  1. Late November 2026

    The first testers try the focus companion.

  2. January 2027

    The first learn-mode lesson.

  3. February 2027

    A paid pilot.

  4. Spring 2027

    The independent study, then we publish what we found.

FAQ

Is it available?

Not yet. Join the waitlist and we’ll invite you.

Does it do the work for me?

No. It never clicks, types or submits for you. It explains, points, and asks you to try.

Is it a person?

No. It’s an AI, and it can be wrong.

What does it cost?

Pro will be $19 a month plus tax. There’s a free plan too.

What do I need?

A Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later. English only for now.

What happens if I join now?

The first testers, from late November, try the focus companion. Learning comes to testers early in 2027.