1:1 Test Prep · Monthly program · Now enrolling
Your child practices daily with a study tool tuned to exactly the questions they get wrong — like a tutor available between sessions — plus monthly strategy time with Peter Lee himself. AI handles the boring daily drilling so the hour your child studies at home becomes a focused hour. It is NOT a replacement for teachers, and it will NOT write essays or do homework for your child. It IS the difference between a wandering study hour and one that actually moves the score.
Why a monthly program works better than apps or hourly tutors
A free AI app like ChatGPT gives your child a tool with no memory of them, no plan tied to anything specific, and no one accountable when the score does not move. An hourly SAT tutor at $150 an hour gives you 50 minutes of human attention that disappears the moment the session ends. The monthly program is the two combined: a study tool tuned to your child that they practice with daily, plus the engineer who built the tool checking in personally every month on what is working and what is not.
Jinwoong "Peter" Lee — UC Berkeley 2018, eight years building production software at companies that include Amazon and Ring, eleven years in private education, more than eighty placements at top-20 universities — personally builds your child's study tool, reviews monthly progress, and adjusts the plan. AI does the daily drilling. The engineer is who answers for whether the score actually moves.
vs. a free AI app — no one is accountable
In the first one or two setup calls, the tool is tuned to your child's diagnostic score, weak-spot patterns, the prep books already at home, and the way your child actually learns. It remembers what they got wrong on last Tuesday's mock test and brings that exact concept back six days later — when memory is starting to fade. A generic chatbot starts from zero every conversation.
vs. ChatGPT — does not remember your child, has no plan
Every month starts by naming the next concrete milestone — the next SAT date, an AP exam week, PSAT and National Merit, the earliest college application deadline. Practice volume, difficulty, and review cycles all flex to land your child on that date with the strongest possible result. No "ongoing enrichment" — every week has a target.
vs. open-ended tutoring that drifts when the test date moves
The same study tool — and the same engineer — carries your child from sophomore PSAT through senior-year AP exams and the Common App essay coaching window. Each milestone reuses the tool your family already built, so what you pay for now keeps working for two to four years instead of resetting every test.
vs. starting over with a new tutor every test
Honest about what the AI is — and what it is not
Parents who do not use AI themselves rightly worry their child will end up using ChatGPT to do their homework. Our system is built the opposite way — the AI handles the boring repetitive practice that should happen daily and rarely does, and it refuses to do the parts that would short-circuit your child's learning. Here is the line we draw, in plain English.
What it does
The daily, repetitive work
Drills the boring, repetitive parts
Practice problems, vocabulary, spaced-repetition review of past mistakes — the work that should happen daily and rarely sticks without structure.
Spots the exact concepts your child is stuck on
Tracks every wrong answer across every session and re-weights tomorrow's practice toward those gaps. No more "I studied for three hours and don't know what helped."
Explains the same idea three ways
When the first explanation does not land, the AI tries a narrative version, then a diagram, then an analogy. It does not give up after one try.
Is available at 6 AM or 11 PM
Whenever your child can actually focus — which is rarely the exact hour an hourly tutor is scheduled. The system meets them where their attention is.
What it does NOT do
And never will, in our system
Replace your child's school teachers
Teachers introduce concepts, run labs, and grade essays in the context of a real classroom. AI does the daily drilling at home. They are complements, not substitutes.
Write your child's essays or do their homework
The system refuses "write this for me" prompts. It asks questions and gives feedback. The thinking and the writing stay your child's — that is the entire point.
Make strategy decisions about colleges or tests
Which colleges to apply to, when to take the SAT, what to do about a low subject grade — those decisions happen on the monthly 1:1 call with Peter (the founder). AI does not get a vote.
Replace your child's actual thinking
AI gives feedback fast. Your child still has to read the passage, solve the problem, write the paragraph. The system is built so AI never short-circuits that.
What is included in the monthly program
Everything below is included in the monthly program. No surprise add-ons. The one-time custom build (1–2 setup calls with your student) is billed separately at the start so the personalization work happens before month one begins. After that, your child has the same study tool available every day of the month for the same flat monthly cost.
Daily practice sets sized to your child's actual ability, not generic prep-book pages. The tool brings back missed concepts on a schedule that beats forgetting, and re-weights tomorrow's work toward the exact gaps from yesterday — automatically.
One to two live calls between Peter and your student. Walk through the last full practice test together. Map weak spots. Inventory the prep books, mock tests, and class materials already at home so the tool can reference them by chapter. Lock the target test date. The week-by-week plan is ready before month one begins.
Roughly three hours of Peter's personal time per student per month — a strategy block at month start, a mid-month progress check, and reserved time for ad-hoc questions, mock-test debriefs, or score-report deep dives. Not a junior tutor. Not the AI. The engineer who built the tool, running strategy with your family.
A short monthly report you can read in 5 minutes: where your child started, where they are now, what is moving the score, what is not, and what changes in next month's plan. No tech jargon. Honest about what is working and what is not.
Your child practices when they actually have attention — early before school, late before a test — not on the schedule of an hourly tutor. The tool is available whenever, and remembers every prior session so each new one builds on the last.
When the SAT date passes, the tool does not reset. The same setup carries through AP exams, the SAT retake, PSAT/National Merit, and the senior-year college essay window — so what you pay for this fall keeps working for two to four years.
The $750 custom AI build — the most important week of the program
Most "AI tutors" hand your child a generic chatbot and call it personalized. The custom build is what makes this different. Across one to two live setup calls with your student, the founder personally configures the agent around exactly the way your child learns — and exactly the test date you are aiming for. Once it is built, month one starts with a plan already in motion.
Step 1
Walk through the last full practice test or score report together — not just the score, but where exactly the student got stuck. Probe learning style. Inventory the prep materials already at home so the agent can reference them by chapter.
Step 2
The founder configures the agent against the diagnostic — subject weights (e.g. SAT-Math 60% / Reading 40%), difficulty floor and ceiling, spaced-repetition cadence, daily-session length, parent-report variables. Target-milestone date is locked. Renewal review is scheduled three weeks before that date.
Step 3
Walk your student through the agent live. Run a sample practice session, show the feedback loop, agree on study cadence (daily 30-min sets, M/W/F deeper dives), and confirm the first four-week plan. By the end of the call your child has already done their first session.
How a month feels
The recurring program is not a study app that runs forever. Each cycle names the next concrete milestone, builds backward from it, and ends with a renewal conversation three weeks before — never after. If the milestone moves, the plan flexes. If your child hits the target early, we shift to the next milestone immediately.
Sophomore year
Build the agent around an early diagnostic. The October PSAT becomes the first real anchor — National Merit qualifying scores are a stretch target for many families and the program builds the run-up.
Junior fall
The highest-leverage stretch of high school for test prep. Junior PSAT in October, real SAT or ACT in December / March / May depending on your plan. Every weekly plan is anchored to one of those dates.
Junior spring → senior summer
AP exams in early May. SAT retake in June if needed. Common App pre-work over the summer. The agent already knows your child — no reset between subjects.
Senior fall
Last test cycle. If your family ladders up to senior-year essay support, the same engineer who built the AI agent owns that work too — so the voice in the essays sounds like your child, not the agent.
Beyond test prep — what else this system unlocks
Every family that signs up for our monthly program gets the test-prep system as the core deliverable — but the same configured tool extends into the broader work of being a high-school student. These use cases come included with the monthly program. Most families do not realize how much AI can help with the non-academic side of applying to college until we walk them through it on the monthly 1:1 call.
There are tens of thousands of scholarships in the US. Most families never apply because finding the right ones is overwhelming. The AI can scan scholarship databases against your child's specific profile — GPA, intended major, ethnicity, geo, activities, family income — and surface the ones actually worth applying to. Your child still writes the scholarship essays; the AI just finds the opportunities and tracks deadlines.
FAFSA and CSS Profile are intentionally confusing. The AI explains every field in plain language, flags common mistakes (especially around parent assets and dependent status), and walks your family through the differences between need-based aid, merit aid, work-study, and loans. Not legal advice — but enough to ask your school counselor the right questions.
US News rankings are not how families should pick a school. The AI builds a comparison across the specific factors that matter to YOUR family — major-specific outcomes, scholarship generosity, class sizes in your child's intended track, internship pipelines into specific industries, geographic fit. Side-by-side summary in 10 minutes, not 10 hours of reading.
The Common App activities list is brutally short (150 characters per activity). The AI helps your child tighten descriptions, flag weak phrasing, and reorder by impact. Same for the resume that goes into scholarship applications. Your child writes the substance; the AI sharpens the edit.
Alumni interviews. Scholarship interviews. Future job interviews. The AI can run mock interviews with realistic questions, give feedback on answers, and rehearse until your child sounds confident. The same conversational practice your child gets for foreign language — applied to interviews.
The same study tool helps with AP exams not on the formal plan, summer reading lists, science fair projects, history papers, foreign language conversation practice, math concepts your child is stuck on. Your child is set up with a tool, not a one-off test-prep package.
We wrote a separate page on why AI literacy matters as much as reading literacy or math literacy — for every major your child might choose, every career they might pursue. Same engineer, same philosophy, broader scope.
Who is building this
Jinwoong Lee — a 2018 UC Berkeley graduate — is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience building production software at companies that include Amazon and Ring. Across eleven years in private education he has placed more than eighty students at top-20 universities. The combination — a real engineer who ships AI used by millions, plus more than a decade of one-to-one tutoring and college counseling — is unusual in test prep, and it is what the recurring program is built around.
Senior software engineer. Companies that include Amazon and Ring. The engineer who configures your child's AI agent is the same person who ships production AI to millions of users at work.
More than a decade running one-to-one tutoring and college counseling. The track record is in the placements — not in marketing copy.
Roughly three hours of the founder's time per student per month. Not a junior tutor wearing a brand t-shirt. The engineer who builds the system is the one who runs the strategy calls.
The founder is on record about where AI fails — model hallucinations on multi-step math, brittle reading comprehension on subtle inferences, voice drift in essays. The program is built around those failure modes, not in denial of them.
What it costs — and what it would cost elsewhere
Most college-prep services hide the number until you have already booked a consult. We publish it upfront because the parent's first question on a monthly subscription is always "what is this going to cost?" — and you should see the answer before you spend twenty minutes on a discovery call. To put it in context, this program runs less than half of what hourly tutoring at $150/hr would cost for the same time, and the AI agent is included rather than a separate $20-a-month app.
Monthly program (recurring)
from $1,000 / month
Custom AI study agent · always-on access · monthly 1:1 strategy with the founder · monthly milestone-anchored parent report. Range is $1,000–$1,250 depending on subject scope (single SAT/ACT focus vs. SAT + multiple APs). That is less than $35 a day — and your child gets daily practice plus a real engineer's monthly time.
One-time custom AI build
$750
One to two live setup calls with your student. Diagnostic, weak-spot mapping, materials integration, learning-style tuning, target-milestone lock. Invoiced once, at the start of the relationship — and if you ever pause and resume, the agent picks up where it left off rather than rebuilding from scratch.
À-la-carte live time
$225 / hr (minimum)
Reference rate for any time outside the recurring program — extra mock-test debriefs, score-report deep dives, college list strategy sessions. Most families never need this; it is here for transparency.
How it compares
For context — here is what families typically pay for SAT/ACT/AP support that does not include a custom AI agent or monthly time with the founder:
Hourly SAT tutor at $150/hr (3 hrs/week)
$1,800–$2,400 / month
Same live-time as the monthly program but no AI agent, no daily practice between sessions, no relationship with the founder.
Saturday hagwon / prep class (weekly)
$1,200–$1,500 / month
Group setting, one shared instructor, no personalization to your child's diagnostic, no AI agent.
Free / $20 AI app (Khanmigo, etc.)
$0–$20 / month
A tool with no memory of your child, no plan tied to a test date, and no real person accountable for the score moving.
No multi-year contracts. Cancel any month. The custom AI build is yours either way — if you pause and resume, the agent picks up where it left off.
FAQ
Next step
A twenty-minute discovery call. The founder runs it personally. Honest answer at the end on whether the program is the right fit for your family or whether something else (the small-group bootcamp, the full-year admissions package, or simply waiting until junior fall) is.