How it works
One page, your name on it, and a link your students can open on a bus
Your own page
A page at an address of your own, with your name, your logo and your colour on it. Your students land there, not in our catalogue, and it is the thing you send to four hundred people rather than a link that looks like ours.
Your teachers write it
A teacher describes the situation their group has to survive — the complaint, the interview, the neighbour — and the character who runs it is written from that description. It is the conversation they would have set as homework if homework could talk back.
Nothing to install
A student opens the link and speaks. No account, no password, no app, no form for a parent to sign. They type whatever label their teacher asked for — a first name, a seat number — and that is the whole of what we know about them.
Nobody marks your students
A teacher can mark a room as one for students under 18, and then nothing in it is scored: no band, no level, no written verdict about the student. They get back what they said, to read over, and the teacher sees who spoke and for how long. Judging is your teachers' job and we are not in it. For students aged 13 and over.
What it pays you
Count what a month of this pays your school
How many students you have
100
From a handful of regulars to a whole language school. Nobody has to install anything or make an account.
Conversations a week, each
10
A conversation runs about 8 minutes — short enough to do on a bus, which is why it happens more than once a week. The situation you write decides the length, not you and not us.
What a week like this pays you
$5,408a month
100 students × 10 conversations a week at 8 minutes, over 4 weeks, with the smallest discount you may give, net of card fees (in the EU, VAT comes off first). Give a deeper one and this figure comes down while your students pay less. First sessions are free and nobody is paid for them, so they are not counted here.
50%
$1,689
40%
$1,352
10%
$338
Grey is ours: the voice, the marking and the servers. Dark green is yours, paid once a month. Pale green is what your students never pay.
The last two slices are both yours: 10% to your students is the least you may give them, the whole 50% is the most, and you move the line in your own dashboard.
- A week
- $1,352
- A term, 16 weeks
- $21,632
The money
Half of every minute your students speak, and you decide how much of it they get back
Students buy minutes on your page. 50% of what they pay — net of VAT and of the payment provider's or app store's fee — goes to your side and 50% stays with ours, which pays for the voice, the marking, the servers and the person who answers when something looks wrong. Your half is paid once a month against the seconds your students actually spoke — not against what they bought and did not use.
Out of your half you set what your students pay: 10% off our price is the least, the whole half is the most. At the top they pay half price and you earn nothing from the minutes — which some schools will want, because a discount nobody else can match is a reason to enrol and to stay. It is a lever, not a number we hand you. A bigger school is the same arrangement with a bigger number; if yours needs a different one, write to us and we will talk about it rather than point you at a page.