Founder FAQ for parents
Straight answers about Whizbee safety, how it differs from ChatGPT, screen time, and the $49 Founder Year for the first 200 families.
Frequently asked questions
Is Whizbee safe for a 7-year-old?
Yes, and provably so. Whizbee runs on a closed network: your child's AI has zero access to the open internet, zero access to external websites, and zero ability to generate unsafe content. Every response is filtered before it reaches your child. After each session you get structured proof of what they created, practiced, and achieved on your parent dashboard, not a raw surveillance feed. Whizbee is GDPR-compliant and built to follow children's privacy law (COPPA) by design. No data is sold, no ads, no tracking of your child.
My child is used to ChatGPT. Will they resent Whizbee?
Often the opposite. ChatGPT gives answers; Whizbee asks questions back, and kids find that surprisingly engaging once they are in it. The first few minutes can feel different, so give it two sessions. Founder Year includes a 14-day refund window for the first purchase on your account.
What exactly does my child do on Whizbee?
They complete finite missions, not endless chats. A mission has a strict beginning and end: the child works through Attempt, Check, Transfer, and Done. At the end the system stops and generates an auditable Proof Pack for your parent dashboard. No infinite scrolling and no empty dopamine loops.
How is Whizbee different from Khan Academy or Duolingo?
Those are excellent tools. Whizbee does something different: it is a conversational AI that adapts to your child in real time, not a fixed curriculum. Think of it as a private tutor that responds to how your child thinks. Khan and Duolingo are great for repetition; Whizbee is for curiosity and reasoning.
I'm worried about screen time. Isn't this just another screen?
Technically yes; fundamentally no, because it is not passive. The research distinction is between consumptive screen time (YouTube, TikTok, gaming) and productive screen time (creating, reasoning, communicating). Whizbee forces the second type, so 30 minutes on Whizbee is cognitively closer to reading or chess than scrolling. And it will not do your child's homework for them.
What happens after the Founder Year? Will prices go up?
Yes. When the Founder cohort closes at 200 families, the platform moves to public plans at a higher price. Your Founder Year terms, $49 for 12 months of full access, are locked for that one-time Founder period and do not renew. This is not manufactured urgency; it is the business model. We keep the cohort small to maintain high support quality.
Only 200 spots? Why so few?
Intentional. We are not trying to acquire 10,000 families who ignore the product; we want 200 who are genuinely invested, whose feedback shapes what we build, and who get direct support from our team. That is only possible at small scale. When the 200 fill, we open public plans with different terms.