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Tutoring & test prep · Saratoga · Live online for California families

80+ placements at top-20 universities · 11 yrs in private education · 8 yrs of production software at Amazon · UC Berkeley 2018

SAT, ACT, AP, and SubjectTutoring in Saratoga, CaliforniaTaught by an Engineer

Year-round tutoring and college readiness coaching for Saratoga families — SAT and ACT preparation, AP math, science and computer science, core subject work, and the application arc. Students at Saratoga High School and Los Gatos High School work directly with a UC Berkeley engineer who spent eight years building production software at Amazon and has placed 80+ students at top-20 universities.

Saratoga's two-school union district pairs a famously homogeneous-profile campus with a distinctly different sibling — so the local challenge is standing out inside a cohort that already does everything well.

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Schools served
Saratoga High School · Los Gatos High School
District
Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Best starting point
Sophomore spring to junior fall

What Saratoga families can work with us on

One practice across the whole arc, rather than a different vendor for each problem. The study-system layer — how to direct AI tools honestly and check their output — is taught inside each subject rather than sold as a separate course.

  • SAT and ACT preparation

    Direct instruction

    Small-group cohorts and 1:1 preparation for the Digital SAT and the current ACT, built backward from a specific official test date.

    Content instruction in math and verbal, full-length official-format practice tests with per-question review, a test-day plan, and the study system the student keeps for retakes. No score guarantee — variability between students is large and anyone promising a number is guessing.

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  • AP math, science, and computer science

    Direct instruction

    Direct instruction in the AP courses the founder actually teaches — Calculus AB and BC, Statistics, Physics 1 and C, and Computer Science A and Principles.

    Weekly problem sessions tied to your school's own pacing, free-response practice under exam conditions, and May exam preparation. We name the courses we teach rather than claiming every AP subject.

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  • Other AP and honors coursework

    Study-method coaching

    For AP courses outside the STEM list — history, languages, English, economics — we teach the study system rather than the subject.

    The student builds their own error log, revision schedule, and verification routine for that course, and we review the work weekly. This is study-method coaching, not subject instruction, and we say so plainly: for content help in those courses your teacher or a subject specialist is the right call.

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  • Core subject tutoring

    Direct instruction

    Year-round support in middle- and high-school math through calculus, physics, and computer science.

    Aimed at the course your student is actually enrolled in, using their own syllabus and assessments. Sessions are weekly and continue through the term rather than being sold as a fixed package.

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  • The study system, taught inside every subject

    Study-method coaching

    The layer that runs through everything above: how to direct AI tools honestly, check their output, and keep a record of your own thinking.

    Students build an error log, write the instruction that turns it into practice, and run the verification step that catches a wrong answer. The files belong to the student and travel with them. No model knows or remembers your child — the student re-supplies their own record each time, which is exactly why it keeps working across courses and years. This is study-method coaching woven into the subject work, not a separate class.

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  • College readiness coaching

    Direct instruction

    The application arc for sophomores and juniors — college list, timeline, activities, essays, and the testing plan inside it.

    Milestone-based and founder-led, with a written plan and dates against each item. Seats are deliberately limited; we will say when we are full rather than stretch.

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  • Parent AI workshops

    Direct instruction

    A working session for parents — not about your child's AI use, but about your own: the research, deadline, aid-comparison, and planning work parents actually do.

    Ninety minutes, laptop optional, English or Korean. You leave having built something you will use that week. Offered in-person to community hosts across the North Shore and live online.

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What is actually true in Saratoga

The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District operates two campuses — Saratoga High and Los Gatos High — with distinct communities and cohort characters.

Saratoga's cohort is dense with strong, similar records; Los Gatos reads differently. Advice travels between the two towns faster than the calibration does.

At Saratoga in particular, the marginal activity or AP adds little separation. What separates is a record that resolves into a specific argument — and the discipline to let go of what does not serve it.

Standing out in a cohort that already does everything

Nobody inside a household is well placed to tell a capable student to drop something they are good at; in a cohort this uniform, that is often exactly what the record needs. We write the reasoning down, expect pushback, and hold the plan weekly.

What "AI-centered" actually means here

Watch the study system work — mistake, instruction, check.

This is the loop your student runs in every subject. The part most programs hide — the instruction — is the part we teach.

Study_System_Loop.md

Three files, one habit — the loop every subject here runs on

The loop, once around
1 · The mistake gets kept
error-log.md

## Reading & Writing — Oct 3

- Q14: comma splice vs. period+capital.

Picked B. Right answer D.

Why: I treat "however" like "and."

2 · The student writes the instruction

Written by the student — readable by you

Using my error log, quiz me on comma splices and "however" sentences. One at a time — don’t show the answer until I commit, then make me explain WHY in one line.

3 · The student checks the tool
Q: "She studied all night, however she still felt unprepared." Correct as written?
No — comma splice. Needs a semicolon before "however."
Correct! A comma is also acceptable here.
✗ Student check: it is not — the official guide agrees: semicolon or period. Logged.
A scripted demonstration with sample data — no student information, and no model that knows or remembers anyone. What persists is the student’s own file.
See it live in a consultationIs this cheating? The honest answer →

How sessions run for Saratoga families

Every California session is live online — small groups and 1:1, joined from home, with no freeway involved. Our first in-person rooms are opening in Illinois; we do not run a California location, and we would rather say that plainly than imply one.

  1. August 2026 – January 2027

    Live online coaching and evening parent workshops

    Fall 1:1 test-prep and subject coaching timed to the autumn SAT and ACT dates, plus parent AI workshops at Pacific-friendly evening times. This is the window where California families meet the program before committing to a cohort.

    Inquiries open

  2. January – February 2027

    Winter live-online cohort · February 27 ACT and March 2027 SAT

    The first small-group cohort timed to a specific test date, run live online for sophomores and juniors sitting the February ACT or March SAT. Enrollment opens in the autumn; a cohort runs only when it meets a written minimum enrollment.

    Enrollment opens autumn 2026

  3. Summer 2027

    Summer live-online bootcamp and AP intensives

    The eight-week summer program and AP subject intensives, live online for California families. In-person rooms open in Illinois first; a California room is a decision we would make openly, not imply.

    Waitlist open

How AI is used here — and where the line is

Students build a study system they own and can read: a log of their own mistakes, the instructions they wrote for how they want to be helped, and a checklist for verifying an answer before trusting it. The system is a set of files the student keeps. It does not know your child and it does not remember them between sessions — what persists is what the student wrote down, which is exactly why it still works a year later and in a different course.

The limit belongs beside the benefit: a model can be confident and wrong, which is why verification is taught as part of the method rather than mentioned at the end of it.

Owned by the student — files, not accounts

error-log.mdEvery miss, in the student’s own words
instructions.mdHow I want to be coached — readable by parents
checklist.mdHow an answer gets verified before it is trusted

Any AI tool

Starts from zero, every session. It does not know your child and it does not remember them — the student’s files are the continuity, which is why the system survives a tool change, a school year, and graduation.

Is using AI to study cheating? →The parent AI workshop →Our AI safety and ethics position →

Questions Saratoga families ask

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We will look at where your student actually is, what the next twelve months should hold, and whether this is the right fit. If a local tutor or your school’s own counseling is the better answer, we will say so.

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