board meeting
Learn To Be
Q1 2026
welcome
Annie.
Head of Growth
500K
hours of free tutoring this year.
campaign
stop the summer slide.
$30K in 30 days.
financials
where we stand.
$800K
cash in bank
11 mo
runway
$1.25M
remaining from the Connor Group
LTB 2.0
the pivot
40% of 9 year olds can't read or do math.
LTB 1.0
2008 – 2025
any kid. any subject. any grade.
we paired tutors with students and hoped for the best.
430K
hours of free tutoring delivered
but we had no idea if it
actually worked.
no curriculum. no measurement. no accountability.
every tutor-student pair was a black box.
brain rot tutoring.
lots of edutainment, not enough education.
can this kid
read?
can this kid do
basic math?
if not, that's the only thing that matters.
LTB 2.0
2025 →
math. reading. writing.
K–9. that's it. go deep, not wide.
structured programming.
kids sign up for a subject. we guide them as far as they can go.
IXL pilot: we think it worked.
255K
questions answered
5,501
skills mastered*
2,379
hours of structured practice
*IXL didn't report on grade level improvements — while our activity was good, it wasn't enough for them to report broadly.
so why not just use IXL?
~$500K
cost to cover all our students
no API
enrolling a few hundred kids was a pain.
no more brain rot tutoring.
every hour backed by learning science. calm, structured, and focused on reading and math.
learntobe.org