Questions students, parents and partners ask.

No — it is closer to a personal university. Polyment structures each field the way a good degree program is structured (courses, chapters, lessons named after what you'll be able to do), writes its own lesson text from several free sources it has fetched and checked, with those sources listed, adds a matched video where a good free one exists, and builds the practice, exams and daily plan around it. The value is the personalization, sequencing and honest proof — not a catalog of courses.

Very, but honestly. The shape of a field is shared: Polyment mines it once from how real institutions sequence that subject, so everyone gets a proper curriculum rather than one improvised per learner. What is yours is what sits on top — your goal and background prune the courses clearly off your path, emphasise the ones that matter, and set the order. A CS student going deep into AI as a science and a medical student applying it end up with different maps of the same field. Nothing starts marked as mastered: the map opens at the honest frontier, and an optional check afterwards lets you clear ground you already know.

Because Polyment refuses to take your word for it. Practice follows every lesson and never tests ahead of your level. Practice, review, checkpoint, note and lesson tasks close themselves from real evidence rather than a tick — you can always skip, you just can't pretend. And practising alone never advances a course: five guild tiers run from Novice to Master, and only a passed checkpoint exam moves the rank and unlocks what depends on it. Your CV is built the same way: it lists a skill as proven only when a checkpoint exam is behind it, and prints "not assessed" everywhere else rather than inventing a number.

Polyment writes them. For each lesson, it gathers and verifies free resources (videos, articles, books), checks they are genuinely on-topic and at your level, then synthesizes its own written lesson from those sources — with the sources linked below the text, and runnable code cells where the subject calls for them. Where a source can be read inside Polyment, it is — and where it can't, you get the link plus the reason you were sent there.

No. Leo personalizes your path, writes and grades against real rubrics, and keeps you accountable. Teachers, mentors and peers do what AI cannot: answer you in context, push you and keep you human company. Polyment is built to combine both — not to pretend one replaces the other.

Yes. The whole app reads in Arabic, right to left — onboarding, your Codex, lessons, practice, notes and settings — and your course, chapter and lesson names are translated too, with the English kept underneath as the real identity. App language and study-material language are two separate settings, so an Arabic interface over English material is a normal choice. Study material is still mostly English today; when we search in your language and come up thin, the page says so rather than hiding it. English and Arabic are the only two languages for now.

Polyment degrades honestly where it matters most. Your plan, the day packing and the forecast use no AI at all, so they keep working regardless. Where AI is needed and can't be reached, the honest paths say so: practice refuses to run rather than serve filler, a written answer comes back marked ungraded instead of scored, Leo's chat labels a fallback reply as a fallback, and a placement check whose grader was down can't be applied to your map at all. Nothing you haven't proven is ever marked mastered.

They are built, but not switched on. The Commons (Q&A where a Master's "this helped" mark counts more than a beginner's) and Studios (small project teams that Leo assembles — no DMs, no cold applications) are written and tested, and turning them on is a decision we have not taken yet, because moderation has to be ready before people are. When Studios open, minors and adults will not be placed in the same private team workspace. Until then, Discord is the early lounge.

You share your email, field and goal, and we email you a link to confirm the address — you are only on the list once you click it, and if you never do, we never write again. We use what you tell us to decide which fields open first and to invite relevant early testers as early access expands. Your email is used for that and nothing else, and every message has an unsubscribe link. What we store, and what we don't.

Yes. Early access is invite-based from the waitlist and free while we test. Longer term, the Starter tier stays free and a paid Guided tier arrives later — the Pricing page shows what goes where. Early testers keep their progress.

That is the plan: a Schools tier for counselors, clubs and student programs, with program roadmaps, progress reporting you can trust, and opportunity boards. It is early — join the waitlist as a school or club and we will get in touch.

Yes, if you want to meet early learners and follow updates. Discord is the lounge; your actual learning — your Codex, practice, notes and progress — lives inside Polyment.

No. Without it the plan still works from the minutes you gave each weekday. Connect Google Calendar and Polyment reads only when you are busy — never what your events are — and places study blocks in the gaps. Before writing anything it tells you how much of the day actually fits, and refuses to book if the answer is "not much". Nothing reaches your calendar unless you tap the button, and you can disconnect at any time.

Nothing punishing. Unfinished work stays visible rather than quietly vanishing, today is kept clear for the backlog and new work moves to tomorrow. Skipping a task costs you nothing — no points lost, no streak broken — and the work comes back on the next replan. If you keep completing less than you committed to, the plan eases toward what you actually do and tells you it has. And when a deadline stops fitting, Polyment says how far short you are and offers the two honest levers: more minutes a day, or a later date. It proposes; it never moves your deadline for you.

Not from us guessing. The first time anyone studies a field, Polyment reads how real institutions sequence that subject — which courses come first, what each one assumes — and turns it into a prerequisite map. That map is then shared with everyone else in the field, so it is not reinvented per learner and the second person pays nothing for it. You can see the topic list and the institutions it was drawn from on your "Where you stand" page. It is a reading of published course sequences, not an accreditation — we show you where it came from so you can judge it yourself.

Yes — that is the whole design. A new map opens at the honest frontier rather than at chapter one, and an optional check lets you clear the courses you already know before you start. Resources are ranked for your background and level, and a video we can prove is spoken in another language never appears. Questions rise with your rank rather than jumping ahead of it — and if you find a lesson missed something, you can add it as your own learning goal and Polyment will build practice for it.