Education software
AIMe
An AI math tutor that coaches students through problems instead of handing over the answers — built for research on AI literacy at James Madison University.
- Location
- James Madison University
- Client since
- 2026
- Status
- Ongoing
About the client
AIMe is a research project in the Department of Computer Science at James Madison University, looking at how students learn to work with AI.
What we delivered
- Google sign-in for students, and a separate teacher login
- Saved conversations, so students can pick up where they left off
- Students’ own free Gemini key, stored in their browser rather than on the server
- Privacy-friendly analytics and self-hosted monitoring
The story
The challenge
AI chatbots will happily solve a homework problem outright, which teaches nothing. The researchers wanted a tutor that behaves like a good teacher: asking questions, giving hints and leaving the thinking to the student.
What we did
AIMe is a web app built around one rule: coach, don’t answer. Students sign in with Google, add their own free Gemini key — stored in their browser and never saved on the server — and work through problems in a conversation that is saved for next time. Teachers have their own login.
Because real students use it, privacy was designed in from the start: page views are counted without cookies, and AI requests are monitored on the project’s own server rather than a third-party service.
The result
AIMe is running as a pilot at aime.cs.jmu.edu.
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