FreeLoom
Turns real-world, play-based learning into structured transcripts and portfolios for homeschool, unschool, and wildschool families — GPA, credit totals, and a shareable PDF, without ever calling an external AI API.
What it is
Real learning, recorded the right way. Families teaching outside a conventional classroom — homeschooling, unschooling, "wildschooling" — still sometimes need a record that looks official: for a grant, a scholarship program, a college application, or an evaluator who wants something that reads like a real transcript. FreeLoom turns everyday games, projects, and family activities into proper class entries that add up to a real GPA and a shareable, downloadable transcript. It's pre-launch as a public product, but already live and working for the families using it today.
The thoughtful engineering behind it
No AI service is ever called to turn an activity into a class entry, on purpose. A parent describes what their kid did in plain language, and a simple, dependable process turns that into a proper class entry — with its reasoning shown right alongside it, so nothing feels like a black box. If it isn't confident about something, it hands that decision back to the parent rather than guessing.
That was a deliberate choice: a feature can feel smart without needing to call on a big AI service behind the scenes every time. It keeps this part of the app fast, dependable, private, and easy to test — a genuinely different (and more sustainable) tradeoff than the usual default of reaching for AI everywhere.
The privacy and security model is built for a genuinely sensitive use case — a family's education records for their kids. Every family's data stays strictly separated from every other family's by design. On the rare occasion the support team needs to help troubleshoot something, access has to be explicitly approved by the parent first, and it automatically expires a short time later — never open-ended, and never without the parent's say-so.
One small, careful detail worth mentioning: grades and credit totals are calculated in a way that avoids the tiny rounding errors that can quietly creep into other systems over time, so a transcript's numbers always add up exactly.
Why this shape
Education records for kids are the kind of information where "probably secure enough" isn't good enough, and where an AI feature that occasionally gets a subject or a grade wrong isn't just embarrassing — it's genuinely unacceptable. Both the way activities get recorded and the way access is controlled were built around that standard from the start, rather than moving fast and tightening things up later.