Behind our lessons

Every official lesson is locked to one exam board and one specification, whether that is AQA, Edexcel or OCR. We do not write from general knowledge and hope it lines up. Each lesson is checked against the board's official specification document itself and mapped to exactly what that board assesses, in the order the specification sets out.

Where something falls just outside the specification but genuinely helps understanding, we include it and label it clearly as extra context, so it is never mistaken for assessed material. The result is a lesson that matches what a student will actually be examined on, for the exact board they are sitting.

We are open about how a lesson begins. The first draft is produced using one of the most capable AI models available today. We think that is the right tool for the job, and pretending otherwise would serve no one.

But a first draft is only a draft. Nothing reaches a student on the strength of how it was written. Every lesson then goes through a structured, multi-stage review, and it is that review, not the drafting, that decides whether a lesson is good enough to publish.

Each lesson passes through several stages, and it is published only once it has cleared all of them.

• Automated checks run first, across structure, formatting and terminology, and validate every diagram against a defined format. This catches mechanical issues early, so the human review can concentrate on what matters: whether the lesson is accurate and complete.
• An editorial review tests the lesson for accuracy. Worked examples and calculations are re-worked by hand rather than taken on trust, claims are checked against how the board actually marks, and the lesson is read against the specification again to confirm full coverage.
• Every diagram and image is reviewed separately, on its own dedicated review screen, because a wrong diagram can mislead more quietly than a wrong sentence.
• Nothing is published until it has passed every stage and received a final sign-off from our team, including our founder. For each approved lesson we keep a written review record, so approval is documented, not assumed.

We do not treat a published lesson as finished. Specifications change, explanations can be sharpened, and our own standards rise as we learn. Lessons are revisited and refined, and many carry an Updated date to show the work has continued since publication.

We will not tell you the process is perfect, because no honest process is. What we can say is that it is careful, that it keeps improving, and that it is applied to every lesson before it goes live. If you ever find something wrong or out of date, we genuinely want to know.

Every published lesson is free to read in full, with no account and no sign-up. The review we have described sits behind content we give away. That is the clearest signal we can give about why we do this: we want the material trusted and used, not gated.

You can create a free account to generate your own lessons, quizzes and flashcards on any topic, but the revision content itself is open to everyone.

Aicademy starts from a simple view: AI, used carefully and held to a proper standard, can produce genuinely good learning material. The official library is where we set that standard.

It is also where that care pays off twice, because the rigour behind these lessons is what shapes and steadily improves the wider system students use to generate their own lessons, quizzes and flashcards. The official content is the benchmark everything else is measured against.