AI Quest

Parent-Funded AI Learning

PILOT

Most college students have been told AI will matter to their careers and given no reason to sit down and actually learn it. AI Quest turns that into a funded quest line: you set the goals and the budget, your student works through guided lessons and real projects, and money is released as work gets verified — by an AI reviewer that checks the evidence, and by you.

Built for the gap between “my kid uses ChatGPT for essays” and “my kid can build something with these tools.”

Open the app

Parents set up the program. Students join by invitation — they don’t sign up here.

How It Works

1. Pick what matters to you

Choose the goals worth paying for — getting comfortable with AI tools, a portfolio piece for interviews, career-ready artifacts, or a grounding in where AI use crosses into cheating.

2. Set a budget

You set the total. The app proposes a reward per task and you can override any of them. Nothing is ever assigned beyond the budget you set.

3. They do the work

Your student gets a quest line matched to their major, interests, and whichever AI subscription you already pay for — starting from what a terminal is and ending with something they can show an employer.

4. You approve, then you pay

They submit evidence. An AI reviewer checks it against the task's criteria and summarizes what it found. You make the call, and the app tracks earned, approved, and paid.

What They Actually Do

The ground floor

Short lessons covering what an LLM actually is (and why it makes things up), what a terminal is, files and paths, what installing a package means, and why an API key is money. Nothing assumed.

Real tools, running locally

Getting Claude Code or Codex installed and working on their own laptop, then using it to build and change real files — the step that separates using AI from watching someone else use it.

Things they can show

A deployed resume site, a cover-letter tool tuned to jobs they actually want, and a study tool built from one of their real courses.

Work in their major

Business-major projects to start: a defensible DCF model, a competitor teardown and landing page, a reorder-point calculator, a bank-CSV ledger with a variance report.

A feed worth having

Joining the communities where this is discussed, and following AI creators on whichever app they already open — so the learning continues without anyone assigning it.

Using it honestly

One task is reading their school's academic-integrity policy and writing their own — where they will and won't use AI. It's the task that makes the rest defensible.

How It’s Built

The AI reviews; the parent decides. Submitted work is checked against each task’s stated criteria and summarized for you — what was met, what wasn’t, and the evidence it keyed on. It never releases a reward on its own.

No money moves through us. The app keeps the ledger — earned, approved, paid — and hands you a prefilled payment link. You send it the way you already send your student money.

Nudges on both sides. Students hear about it when work stalls; parents hear about it when something is waiting on their approval or a payment is outstanding.

Matched, not generic. Tasks are selected from the student’s major, interests, laptop, and which AI subscription you already pay for — so the first instruction isn’t one they can’t follow.

Get Started

Create a parent account, invite your student, and set a budget. The curriculum starts from what an LLM actually is and ends with something they can put in front of an employer.

Create a parent account

Access requires administrator approval. Currently in pilot with business majors.

Rewards are agreed and settled directly between family members. AI Quest keeps the record and does not process, hold, or transfer funds. Everyone in a household must be 18 or older.