MeritKeep
7 subjects · 22 graded briefs

Learn anything. Then prove you actually learned it.

Type any subject. If nobody has written it yet, we write it — the skills, the questions that find your level, and the checklist your work gets marked against.

Free to start. The ten-minute check needs no account.
  1. Say what you want to learn
  2. Take a ten-minute check
  3. Get a plan that skips what you know
  4. Do a real piece of work
  5. Get it marked, with the evidence
01 · What marking looks like

A real task, and the standard it is held to

The taskTell them the deadline is slipping

A commitment you made will slip by two weeks. You have known for three days. Write the message to the person who is depending on it.

What counts as done
  • The slip is in the first sentence.
  • The new date is specific.
  • The cause is stated once, without a paragraph of justification.
  • It says what you are doing about it.
  • Under 200 words.
Business Writing & Communication40 minHand in: a write-up
How it is marked
The news comes first35% of the grade

The difficult part is in the opening, not buried after context.

  1. AbsentThe reader must reach the third paragraph to learn what happened.
  2. DevelopingPresent in the first paragraph but softened into ambiguity.
  3. Competent— this is the pass markThe first sentence states the news plainly.
  4. StrongStates it plainly and immediately follows with what happens next.
The other things it is marked on
  • It cannot be misread as good news30%
  • Ownership is clear20%
  • Respectful without padding15%
You see all of this before you start. Read the full checklist
02 · Subjects

7 subjects, and anything else you ask for

Software & data

Business & money

Creative

Craft & making

Anything else

Ask for a subject nobody has written and it gets written to order in a few minutes: 8 to 14 skills in the order they depend on each other, at least 3 questions per skill and 24 in all, and a real task with the checklist it will be marked against.
Experimental — help us improve itThat is what it is called until a person has read it — and if it comes out thin we stop and tell you rather than hand it over. It also can’t claim the strongest kind of marking, which needs a marker somebody wrote by hand.
Have one built
Some of these were written and checked by hand; the rest are written when someone asks. Every subject says which it is. See all 7.
03 · What it costs

Free to start, $3.49 to try everything

Free$0forever
  • 1 graded project a month
  • 1 learning session a month
Start freeLearner$14.99a month
  • 3 graded projects a month
  • As many learning sessions as you want
See LearnerProEverything$27.99a month
  • 10 graded projects a month
  • As many learning sessions as you want
See Pro
Try Pro for $3.49Four days of everything. It then renews automatically at $27.99 a month until you cancel — stop it before day four and pay nothing more.
See the full price list
Prices in USD, switchable on the price list. Pay for a year instead and Pro is 34% cheaper.
04 · Questions

The things people ask first

Is this just a chatbot with a syllabus on top?

The material is written by a model, and every subject says so. What is different is what happens to your work: you hand in something you actually made, it is marked against a checklist that was published before you started, and every judgement quotes the part of your work it came from. You can read a complete checklist on this site right now, without an account.

Can I trust the marking?

You can check it, which is worth more than trusting it. Every score names the criterion, the band it landed in, and the words of yours it came from — so a verdict you disagree with is one you can argue with. Each subject also states up front what its marking can honestly settle: for some kinds of work we can only check the technical side, and whether the result is any good is your call. That is on the page before you start, not after you are disappointed.

What do I actually hand in?

Something you made — a piece of writing, a query and the plan it produced, a photograph, a spreadsheet. Every brief names which of those it wants, roughly how long it should take, and the checklist it will be marked against, all before you start. The ten-minute check that finds your level asks you questions; the work that counts as proof never does.

How much time does this take?

The check that finds your level takes about ten minutes and needs no account. A subject here runs between 25 and 47 hours end to end, and your plan skips whatever the check proved you can already do — so what you work through is shorter than what is on the page, and it tells you what it skipped.

Do I have to pay to find out whether it works?

No. The ten-minute check on any subject we already cover is free and anonymous. The free plan then includes 1 graded project a month, which is enough to hand in a real piece of work and see exactly how it gets marked. Paying buys more marked work — not a different product.

Billing questions — cancelling, switching plan, what happens when the trial ends — are answered on the price list. Anything else, [email protected].

Pick one thing you want to be able to do

Not a subject — a thing. Write a launch email that gets replies. Work out why a query is slow. We build the path that gets you there, and mark the work that proves you arrived.

Start freeHave a subject built
The ten-minute check needs no account. Nothing counts as proof until your work has been marked.

One cookie, so we can see which subjects people finish and where the site loses them — plus a replay of where you click. Nothing you type is recorded, and once you’re signed in the words on screen are blanked out too. No advertising, nothing sold. The detail.