Earn the answer.

SocsAI is a Socratic AI tutor for technical skills — coding, data science, AI systems. It won't write the answer; it makes sure you could. Bring your work; leave with judgment.

Early cohort invites go out in small batches. No newsletter spam.

Live session · scripted
My retrieval returns garbage. Just tell me the right chunk size.
SocsAII could. But first — what happens to a coherent idea when it's split across two chunks?
Hint 1 of 4 · Nudge

The full answer is always available — revealing it is just always a choice.

You shipped it. Could you defend it?

Copilot wrote the function. ChatGPT fixed the bug. The pipeline works — and somewhere in there, your understanding stopped compounding.

It works until it doesn't. Then the debugging is archaeology, the interview question lands on exactly the thing you pasted, and the judgment you meant to build never showed up.

How it works

01

Bring real material

Your code, your notebook, your half-understood model. SocsAI teaches on your work, not toy examples.

02

Get interrogated

The tutor probes why you chose what you chose, finds the actual gap, and asks the question that exposes it.

03

Earn the answer

Graduated hints: nudge → targeted hint → worked sub-step → full answer. Revealing it is always possible — and always a choice.

Not another chatbot

ChatGPT

gives you code you'll paste and forget.

Courses

teach everyone the same thing in the same order.

SocsAI

teaches you, on your project, until you can explain it back.

Built in public, measured honestly.

We track whether learners need shallower hints over time — not how long we kept you scrolling. The architecture, the eval numbers, and the misses get published as we go; the first writeup ships with the beta: the eight-agent design that makes fabrication structurally impossible.

“I'm building SocsAI in public because I kept meeting engineers — myself included — who could ship anything and explain half of it.”

The first cohort shapes the roadmap: what SocsAI teaches next, how hard it pushes, and where the ladder needs another rung. I read and answer every reply.

— John Owens

Fair questions

Won't it just refuse to help me?

No — the ladder always ends in the full answer. SocsAI just makes revealing it a deliberate step instead of the default, because the choice is where the learning happens.

What topics can it teach?

Anything technical you're trying to actually understand — coding, data science, ML, AI systems. The first cohort goes deep on AI engineering: RAG, context management, orchestration, human-in-the-loop.

What does it cost?

Free during the beta. The early cohort locks founder pricing when paid plans arrive.

Why “Socs”?

Socrates. Also, socks. We know.

The answer is a question away.

Early cohort invites go out in small batches. No newsletter spam.