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Ollie is getting ready…
Ollie is getting ready…
For ages 4–8
Imagine your five-year-old walking into kindergarten already a reader. That's not a daydream — it's what 90 days with Ollie does. He's the patient, joyful companion who meets your child where they are and walks beside them, 15 minutes a day, until reading clicks. Every child has this in them.
Your child's session begins with…
Hi Emma! Ready to read with me today?
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Letter sounds
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Blend them
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Read stories
15 minutes a day. Voice-led. Ages 4–8.
Your child's companion
Most apps push kids through a curriculum. Ollie walks beside them. He greets your child by name, remembers what they worked on yesterday, and never makes them feel small for needing another try.
Ollie the Owl
Your child's daily guide
Wise but never preachy. Playful but never silly. The kind of steady presence that turns a 15-minute lesson into the moment your child looks forward to all day.
And the friends your child reads with.
Each one appears in stories at exactly the right reading level — so your child meets them as they're ready, never before. By month three, these feel like characters from a favorite book.
Luma
The curious fox your child meets in early stories.
Pip
Small but mighty — your child will cheer for Pip.
Brim
The gentle bear who shows up on hard days.
Final character illustrations being produced with a children's book illustrator.
How it works
Your job is tiny. Your child's transformation is not.
No long onboarding. No credit card friction. Tell us your child's name and age, and Ollie is ready for them.
Ollie greets them by name — out loud. Voice-led from the first second, so a 3-year-old who can't read yet can start immediately.
Letter sounds, sound games, mastery checks — built on synthetic phonics, the approach proven for 50+ years. By day 90, they're reading stories to you.
What changes
Most kids learn to read in 1st and 2nd grade. The ones who arrive already reading spend the next decade ahead — in confidence, in vocabulary, in how teachers see them.
The typical path
Your child in 90 days with Ollie
90 days. 15 minutes a day. A child who reads — years before they have to.
The Genius Reading Path
Your child climbs from letter sounds to confident reader — one small win at a time. The same proven synthetic-phonics path the best teachers use, voiced by a friend who never rushes them.
M1
Vowel Foundations
Your child will know all 5 short vowel sounds.
M2
Consonant Sounds
All 21 consonants + first heart words.
M3
Sound Blending
Your child reads their first real words.
M4
First Words
CVC words and first decodable stories.
M5
Vowel Teams
Long vowels and the magic-e rule.
M6
Advanced Sounds
~130 advanced phonics patterns.
Real families
What parents are saying after their first weeks with Ollie.
“My 4-year-old asks for 'Ollie time' every morning now. She read 'The cat sat on the mat' to her grandma on FaceTime last week — Grandma cried. We both did.”
“We tried four other apps before this. The difference is Ollie. He's patient when she stumbles, and she trusts him. After 6 weeks she's reading short books.”
“I bought Founding Family the day I saw the methodology. As a former kindergarten teacher, this is the most pedagogically sound reading app I've used.”
“My son lights up when Ollie remembers what they read yesterday. He told me, 'Mama, Ollie is my friend.' I wasn't expecting that.”
Beta families. Real names changed; quotes representative of feedback during private pilot.
How we compare
Hooked on Phonics shaped a generation. We're honoring that legacy with a modern, AI-powered, voice-led experience built for screens, not workbooks.
BrightGenius Reading $24.99/mo | Hooked on Phonics $179 kit | Generic phonics apps Varies | |
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| Named AI companion (Ollie) | ✓ | — | — |
| Voice-led — works for non-readers | ✓ | Print only | Often text-heavy |
| Adapts to your child's pace | ✓ | — | Limited |
| Proven 6-step phonics method | ✓ | Different method | Mixed |
| Every word is decodable | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Up to 4 children per family | ✓ | Per kit | Per seat |
| Faith-aligned content (optional) | ✓ | — | — |
| Parent dashboard with real progress | ✓ | — | Basic |
| Founding Family lifetime access | ✓ | — | — |
| No ads, ever | ✓ | ✓ | Some |
The Genius Learning Suite
BrightGenius for the foundation years. ElectiveGenius for high school. Built by the same team, on the same standards, with the same respect for your family.
A Genius Learning, Inc. product family.
Imagine the moment they pick up a book and read it to you — at five. That's not “kindergarten-ready.” That's lightyears ahead. And it starts 90 days from today.
Every day with Ollie compounds the advantage. 14 days free. Cancel anytime. Up to 4 children per family.
Limited to 500 families…
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