Tutoring practice, engine-assisted
Tutoring has always been a good business: recurring, referral-driven, priced by the hour. Its ceiling has always been prep time, because a good session needs materials matched to this student, this week.
With an engine generating study guides, quizzes, mock exams, and misconception diagnoses on demand, a solo tutor runs the material factory of a company, and every hour you sell is a delivery hour.
The job
You teach, the engine preps. Before each session you generate a study guide and practice set for exactly where the student is; after a wrong answer, the misconception endpoint pinpoints the actual gap behind it, which is the skill parents think they’re paying a great tutor for. For exam students, you run rubric-matched practice questions and full timed mocks with score reports.
The same machinery gives you two premium add-ons: exam-prep packages (structured mock-plus-review cycles priced above hourly tutoring) and monthly progress reports that keep parents renewing.
Who it suits
Anyone who can genuinely teach: current and former teachers, grad students, retired professionals, homeschool parents whose kids aged out. Subject knowledge plus patience; the engine handles the materials.
Startup cost and tools
| What | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Engine calls per student per week | ~$0.25–$1.50 | Study guide and quiz ($0.10 each); mock exams and grading ($1.00 each) for exam students |
| Payment + scheduling | $0–$45/mo | Standard stack plus a booking tool |
Engine prices are the live public catalog prices, the same sheet agents pay. No subscription is required to use them.
The licensing question
Tutoring is unlicensed nearly everywhere. Two practical notes: background-check expectations are real when you work with minors (get one proactively; parents notice), and if you advertise special-education expertise, know your jurisdiction’s rules about what only credentialed specialists may claim.
How the engine does the heavy lifting
Study guides, adaptive quizzes, spaced-repetition flashcards, 200+ exam formats with rubric-matched questions, timed mocks with scoring, and misconception diagnosis per wrong answer.
/api/study/guide$0.10Study guide generation — any subject, any grade, any country/api/study/quiz$0.10Practice quiz with adaptive difficulty and answer explanations/api/study/misconception$0.10Misconception diagnosis — pinpoints the exact knowledge gap behind a wrong answer/api/exam/prep$1.00Exam-style practice questions — 200+ exams, rubric-matched difficulty/api/exam/mock$1.00Full mock exam simulation — timed, scored, with performance report/api/exam/flashcards$0.50Spaced-repetition flashcard set — import into Anki or QuizletYour first customer in 30 days
- Pick one subject and one exam you already know cold. Depth beats breadth for referrals.
- Take two students at a founding rate and run the full engine-assisted loop: pre-session materials, misconception diagnosis, weekly parent note.
- Raise your rate for student three. Your prep quality is now visibly better than the hourly-tutor norm.
- Ask both founding families for one referral each at week four, with a specific sentence they can forward.
Hand this to your assistant
This blueprint has a machine-readable page with the current endpoints, prices, and setup steps. Paste this into Claude, ChatGPT, or any assistant that can fetch a URL:
Machine page: https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/tutoring-practice.json
Start this one
The engines are pay-per-call, no subscription. Agents pay per call over x402 (USDC on Base or Solana). If you're a human, get a starter key: it takes about a minute, includes a $0.25 trial balance, and tops up by card (Stripe) or USDC. No crypto wallet required. Prefer email? Write to info@theaslangroupllc.com with the subject "Starter key: tutoring-practice" and we'll provision one by hand, usually the same day.
The Field Guide book, with all 75 blueprints expanded, is in progress. The hub is free either way.