Now opening to founding families

Your children.Your rules.Your system.

The first learning operating system built on the conviction that the family, not the institution, is the rightful educational authority. A full year of curriculum, drafted for your philosophy. Every AI recommendation routed through you before it touches your child.

Pending Approvals3 new
A
Avery, age 12
Geometry intro proposed
J
Jude, age 9
Writing prompt drafted
M
Mira, age 7
Phonics review
Family Mastery
74/100
Audit Trail
2:14pPlan approved
1:48pRule applied
1:22pAI proposed
How It Works

Three steps to sovereign education.

The mechanics, plain. You set the rules. METHEAN proposes. You approve. The system records. Mastery builds.

/ 01 · Set the rules

Encode your authority once.

Choose your educational philosophy. Define content boundaries. Set how much the AI may suggest. METHEAN converts your decisions into constitutional rules that govern every recommendation forever after.

/ 02 · AI proposes

Recommendations enter your queue.

The AI drafts weekly plans, lessons, and activities tailored to each child. Nothing reaches your children until you approve it. Adjust any item in one click. Reject anything in one click.

/ 03 · Mastery accumulates

The record builds itself.

Every completed activity feeds mastery tracking, retention scheduling, and the records your state requires. Years from now you will still have a complete audit trail of every decision made.

methean.io/dashboard
Governance Rules
Active · 12 rules in effect
Educational philosophy
CHARLOTTE_MASON
Daily approval required
ALL_AI_OUTPUTS
Screen time cap
2H_PER_CHILD_PER_DAY
Content boundaries
FAITH_BASED_FILTER
Pending Approvals
3 recommendations awaiting your review
A
Avery, age 12
Geometry intro: angles and parallel lines
Aligned with rules
J
Jude, age 9
Narration exercise on Wind in the Willows
Aligned with rules
M
Mira, age 7
Phonics review: digraphs and blends
Aligned with rules
Mastery, Avery
Q1 2026 · tracked across 4 subjects
Mathematics82%
Language Arts68%
History74%
Science91%
The Three Principles

Written before a single line of code.

Three commitments encoded into the architecture itself. Not features, not settings. Load-bearing structure that cannot be overridden.

I.

Parents govern. AI serves.

Every AI recommendation routes through household authority before reaching the child. The system cannot write to learner state on its own. Your authority is the foundation, not a setting.

II.

Every decision is auditable.

Every rule, every recommendation, every override is logged immutably. Years from now, you will still be able to answer the question, why did my child learn this and not that.

III.

Your data stays in your household.

We never sell data. We never use child data for advertising. Your family's information is yours alone, exportable at any moment, deletable on demand. Infrastructure, not surveillance.

A Letter from the Founders

Why we built METHEAN.

To the family considering this work,

We have been homeschooling our six children for over six years. We have walked the road you are walking. We have stayed up late planning the week. We have grieved over the curriculum that worked for one child and failed another. We have rebuilt our entire approach more than once.

What we kept noticing was this: every tool we tried treated us as users of a system. METHEAN is the first one that treats the parent as the system. The AI works inside our authority, not beside it. The curriculum honors our philosophy, not theirs. The records belong to us, not to a server in California we will never see.

Every architectural decision in METHEAN started with one question we asked ourselves: would we use this with our own children? If the answer was no, the feature was rebuilt or removed. The platform exists because the tools we wanted did not.

If you are still here at the end of this letter, you are probably the family we built this for. We hope you join us.

With sincere conviction,

Zack & Angela Fava

Founders · Homeschoolers of six

The Curriculum Builder

Your year, drafted in minutes. Refined over years.

Thirty-six weeks of complete, philosophy-aware curriculum, generated for each subject and each child, then routed through your approval before it ever reaches their day. The library is extensively pre-authored across every core subject and spans multiple mastery tiers, from foundational through advanced, written to a masterclass standard rather than thin, auto-generated filler.

Mathematics, Year 5 · Avery · Classical
Week 12 of 36 · Long Division
3 pending your approval
Monday
Lesson
Introduction to long division
25 minapproved
Practice
3-digit / 1-digit, manipulatives
20 minapproved
Tuesday
Practice
Multi-step problems, written
25 minapproved
Review
Multiplication tables, sixes
10 minpending
Wednesday
Lesson
Long division with remainders
30 minapproved
Practice
Word problems, classical
15 minapproved
Thursday
Practice
Mixed practice set
25 minpending
Project
Build a division story
20 minpending
Friday
Assessment
Week 12 mastery check
30 minapproved
Review
Concept consolidation
15 minapproved
Next: Week 13 · Review Week
Approve All PendingAdjust Plan
I.

A full year, drafted at once.

Thirty-six weeks per subject. Daily activities Monday through Friday. Lesson, practice, review, and assessment cycles built in. Every sixth week, a review week. Generated to your family's philosophy and your child's current mastery, routed to you for approval.

II.

Bring the books you already own.

Sonlight, Saxon, Story of the World, My Father's World, Abeka, BJU, any of it. METHEAN ingests the table of contents and maps it into the mastery graph. You keep the curriculum you love. You add the tracking, governance, and compliance you never had.

III.

Your philosophy, in every lesson.

Pre-built scope and sequence for math, reading, writing, science, and history, with classical, Charlotte Mason, Montessori, traditional, and unschooling/trade alignment baked into every topic. Generate long division for a classical family, get classical long division. Not generic content with a label.

All
Core subjects authored,
foundational to advanced
36
Weeks of scope
per subject
6
Philosophies
honored natively
100%
Parent-approved
before child sees
The Substance Beneath

Built like infrastructure. Because it is.

0/51
States & DC supported
0
Governed endpoints
0/70
Tables isolated by tenant
0
AI roles, all governed
A Different Category

What sets METHEAN apart.

The Question
Everyone Else
METHEAN
Who decides what your child learns?
The platform's algorithm
The parent, every time
Who builds the year of curriculum?
You, after work and on weekends
METHEAN drafts it, you approve
What is being tracked?
Completion of activities
Actual mastery, with retention
Whose values shape the content?
The platform's defaults
Your educational philosophy
Who handles state compliance?
You, with a spreadsheet
All 51 jurisdictions, automatic
Where does your data live?
Their data warehouse
Tenant-isolated, exportable
Can you see why a decision was made?
No, the model is a black box
Yes, every decision logged
For Whom We Built It

Whatever your approach, METHEAN learns it.

One subscription. Many traditions. The system adapts to your conviction, not the other way around.

i.

The Classical Family

Trivium-anchored progression. Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric stages honored. Latin, Logic, and the Great Books folded into the weekly plan as first-class subjects.

ii.

The Charlotte Mason Family

Living books, short lessons, narration, nature study. The system respects pace, depth, and atmosphere, refusing to industrialize what is meant to be lived.

iii.

The Montessori Family

Self-directed work cycles. Materials-first sequencing. Three-year age windows. The platform tracks readiness, not grade.

iv.

The Traditional Family

Structured, textbook-driven, grade-anchored. Daily scope honored. METHEAN keeps the rigor and removes the planning burden.

v.

The Unschooling & Trade-Bound Family

Child-led inquiry alongside apprenticeship work. Welding, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, carpentry, automotive, culinary, and agriculture. Certification milestones tracked alongside whatever the child is pursuing.

vi.

The Eclectic Family

Mix-and-match by conviction. Pull classical from one subject, Charlotte Mason from another, unschooling where it fits. The system blends the traditions you choose rather than forcing your whole household into one.

What Is Inside

Designed to be useful for a decade, not a quarter.

Parent Sovereignty

You set the boundaries the AI cannot cross. The system enforces them on every recommendation, every call, every output. Every decision is logged. Every override is recorded. Your authority is not a UI preference. It is encoded into the foundation of the platform, where it can never be removed without rewriting the system itself.

Your Philosophy

Classical, Charlotte Mason, Montessori, traditional, unschooling/trade, and eclectic. Every lesson respects your approach.

The Curriculum Builder

Thirty-six weeks of scope and sequence drafted for any subject, any child, any philosophy. Daily activities Mon to Fri. Review weeks built in. Your approval required before it ships.

All 51 Jurisdictions

Hour tracking, mastery records, and required documents, generated automatically.

Multi-Child Family

Unlimited children. Each tracked separately, all visible on one screen.

Mastery Over Memory

The system tracks what each child has learned and brings back what they're forgetting.

Trades & Apprenticeships

Welding, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, carpentry, automotive, culinary, and agriculture. Certification milestones tracked.

Optional Child Tutor

An AI tutor your child can talk to, only if you turn it on. Always inside your rules.

Frequently Asked

Honest answers to honest questions.

Does METHEAN work in my state?
Yes. All fifty states and Washington DC are supported with automatic hour tracking, mastery records, and document generation matched to each state's homeschool requirements.
Can I keep using my current curriculum?
Yes. If you already use Sonlight, Saxon, My Father's World, Abeka, BJU, or any other curriculum, METHEAN tracks mastery from any source you log and complements rather than replaces your current materials.
How does the curriculum builder actually work?
You pick a subject and a child. METHEAN drafts a full thirty-six week scope and sequence, with three to five activities Monday through Friday, every sixth week designated a review week. The plan is tailored to your educational philosophy and to your child's current mastery profile. Nothing reaches your child until you approve the week. You can adjust any activity, swap any week, or override the entire plan at any time.
What ages does METHEAN support?
Kindergarten through twelfth grade today. Pre-K and adult learner modes are on the near-term roadmap.
Will METHEAN work for my neurodivergent child?
METHEAN does not replace specialist evaluation, but the mastery-based progression removes the grade-level pressure that many families with dyslexic, ADHD, or gifted children find unhelpful. Your child moves at their own pace, in their own depth, on their own time.
How much screen time does METHEAN require?
As little as you want. Many families use METHEAN entirely as a parent-side planning and tracking tool, and their children never look at the screen. Other families enable the optional AI tutor for older kids. The choice is yours, every day, for every child.
Is my family's data private?
Yes. We never sell data. We never use child data for advertising. Your family's information stays in your household. Full export and deletion are available at any time.
Do I need to be technical to use it?
No. If you can send email and use a web browser, you can use METHEAN. Onboarding is guided. Support is available.
How many children does one subscription cover?
Unlimited. One household, one subscription, every child included.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Cancel anytime from your account settings. No questions, no fees, no retention pressure.
What about high school transcripts?
METHEAN generates high school transcripts on demand, tracks credit hours per subject, and exports records in standard formats accepted by colleges and universities.
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Your children.Your rules.Your system.