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Aaron, founder of Peabody

Aaron is a dad in Colorado who built Peabody, a free adaptive learning app, for his own kids. Who he is, how the posts are written and checked, and all of them.

Who I am

Hi, I’m Aaron. I’m a dad in Colorado.

Like a lot of parents, I’ve walked out of a teacher conference and tried to fix everything in one weekend. Long sessions. It didn’t work. Kids can’t do long sessions. What they can do is a little, every day, and that turns out to be the hard part for a busy family.

So I built Peabody for my own kids. They tell it what the story should be about: a dragon, an ice monster, zombies, always zombies.

I learned some things the hard way. My kids asked me to tell the app they were in a higher grade, and once I did. The stories came out years too hard, and nothing caught it. My son told me so. He was right.

It’s free for the rest of 2026 while I find out whether other kids love it the way mine do. I pay for the stories. If something’s broken, confusing or wonderful, I want to hear about it.

How these posts are written

Every post and guide is written with help from AI, then checked against how Peabody's code actually works on the date it shows.

Peabody is a reading and learning app, not a reading assessment or a diagnosis. If you're worried about your child's reading, talk to their teacher. How Peabody uses AI, rule by rule, is on how Peabody uses AI, and the research behind its practice rules is on the science page.

Everything I've written