Backward Builder
Curriculum design with AI as a thinking partner.
Most AI tools for teachers generate stuff — worksheets, lesson plans, quiz questions — and in doing so quietly take the teacher out of the thinking. The planning is the teaching. Automate it away and you've automated away the part that mattered.
Backward Builder goes the other direction. It's built on backward design — the framework where you start from what students should understand, work backward to what would count as evidence of that understanding, and only then plan the activities. The AI's job is to be a thinking partner through that process: asking the questions a good instructional coach would ask, pressure-testing the alignment between goals and evidence, and staying out of the way when the teacher already knows what they want.
It is amplification, not automation. The teacher leaves with a unit they understand end to end, because they designed it.
This is the first studio product — the thing Wayne needed, built the way the studio builds everything: intent up front, Hugh running the floor, Wayne reviewing before anything ships. Screenshots land here as the build does; none are staged.