Stage 1 · AI Venture Velocity Challenge · Mays / Texas A&M
CampusCore turns your syllabi, portals, and inboxes into one calendar — and a tutor that knows your specific course. Built for the reality that one school is five different systems.
Free during launch. No university login required. Your materials stay private to you.
The answer-engine era is ending
Chegg lost more than a million subscribers last year. Revenue is down 14%. Their own SEC filing names ChatGPT as the cause. The $700M homework-help business that defined a decade is disappearing — and the students who used it are not better off. They are juggling ChatGPT, NotebookLM, three publisher portals, and a 15-page syllabus.
Meanwhile, 76% of college students report moderate-to-high stress. 44% rank "overwhelmed by academic workload" as their #1 challenge. 97% want clear policy on AI in coursework — only 30% feel they have it. Knowledge workers lose roughly 9% of their year toggling between apps. Students do worse: a single semester routes through Canvas, Outlook, Teams, a campus app, and one or two publisher portals per course.
The wedge isn't inside any one of those systems. It's between them. That's where CampusCore lives.
What it does
A calendar that builds itself. A tutor that knows your course. A vault that stays yours.
Drop in your syllabus PDFs. CampusCore extracts every exam, paper, and project deadline — including the ones buried in mid-semester revisions and the ones spread across multiple documents — and builds a single master calendar. Add a portal page or a forwarded course email and it reconciles those too.
Stage 4 of our roadmap is a 50-syllabus accuracy gauntlet. We will publish the error rate.
Canvas, D2L, Blackboard, Outlook, Teams, your campus app, your publisher portals — even within a single school, your courses live in five places. CampusCore is the layer between them. Your view is unified by default.
Ask a question about your homework and the tutor answers Socratically by default — guiding questions before answers, citations before claims, refusing to write your graded work. The Stanford Tutor CoPilot RCT and Bastani et al. (PNAS 2025) are clear: AI tutors with hint-only guardrails help; un-guarded AI hurts long-term learning. We picked the side that helps.
Every uploaded syllabus, slide deck, and note lives in a vault that belongs to you alone. We do not aggregate, we do not redistribute, we do not train shared models on your professors' content. Designed for FERPA alignment. Built around the post-Course-Hero precedent.
How it's different
A short, honest comparison. Each of the products below is good at what it does. We are doing a different thing.
| Capability | Notion | Khanmigo | NotebookLM | CampusCore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calendar built from your syllabi | ||||
| Aggregates across Canvas + Outlook + Teams + portals | ||||
| Grounded on your specific course materials | ||||
| Socratic-by-default integrity boundaries |
NotebookLM is excellent at source-grounded chat. It does not extract dates, does not aggregate across portals, and has no integrity-tuned tutor mode. Those three gaps are why CampusCore exists.
Trust by design
Not in a privacy policy nobody reads. In the architecture itself.
Your uploaded materials are visible only to you. We do not aggregate them, redistribute them, or train shared models on them.
Every tutor response cites the exact passage in your own materials. If the tutor is wrong, you can verify in one click.
Socratic mode by default. Explanation mode unlocks only after you've attempted a problem. The tutor will not write your graded work.
We are a direct-to-student tool today. The architecture is DPA-ready for institutional adoption — without depending on it.
No university login. No account required to upload a syllabus. We will email you once with your generated schedule and never resell your address.
The team
University of Alabama, Class of 2026. MIS majors. Operating the same multi-agent AI workflow that Anthropic uses internally and Stripe deployed across 1,370 engineers.
Owns the venture roadmap, customer discovery, and the Stage 1 interview script. Submission contact for the AI Venture Velocity Challenge.
Owns competitive intelligence, citation rigor, and the evidentiary backbone that makes the snapshot defensible to a TAMU-affiliated judge.
Owns the parsing stack, the RAG pipeline, and the experimentation infrastructure. Operates the bmad-swarm orchestrator that authored this page's underlying spec.
Owns campus-channel distribution, the waitlist funnel, and the Notion-Campus-Leaders-style ambassador program for Stage 2.
The waitlist gets the launch invite. The free schedule arrives in your inbox in under five minutes.
We collect your email when you join the waitlist or request a schedule. We will email you once. We will never sell your address. Questions: hello@campuscore.best.