The Desk by MindCraft

Interact with the world.

Hands-on simulations that build the instincts 2028's workforce will actually need. Everything on this page is the real product: type an idea, search the library, walk the map.

Built with students from
University of Oxford UNC Chapel Hill Macalester College United World Colleges Kenyon College
01 The human

A real tutor who actually notices.

Not software that guesses. A real person who checks in and notices when you are stuck.

One-on-one time. Live events. A tutor who notices when you are stuck, and says so.

4118
Concepts mapped
13
Subjects
3746
Written chapters
722
Live simulations

Or step through a door that is already open.

SimCraft
Live sim

Design a creature

Give prey a defense, give predators an answer, and watch an arms race evolve.

Natural selection · Biology

Live sim

Make music move

Stack harmonics until a plain wave turns into a sound with real character.

Harmonics · Circuits

Live sim

Solve a mystery

Play detective against your own brain and catch the biases planting false clues.

Cognitive biases · Psychology

02 The frontier graph

How does the technology work?

You are here

Loading the graph

Reading real prerequisite edges out of the concept library.

03 The whole map

Try it yourself.

Try

04 Why it is not instant

Our remarkably slow AI.

Every generated chapter and sim is checked against a real quality rubric before it ever ships, gated behind Dan McCreary's published methodology for AI-built intelligent textbooks. Not fired off and hoped for.

Meet our advisors
Dan McCreary

Dan McCreary

40+ years building enterprise knowledge graphs in healthcare and NoSQL, co-author of Making Sense of NoSQL, and the researcher behind the MicroSims methodology our quality bar is built on.

Ingrid Erickson

Ingrid Erickson

Associate Professor at Syracuse University's iSchool, PhD from Stanford, studying how AI reshapes how we work and learn together.

05 Early access

Claim your desk.

Free right now, a few seats each round. Tell us who you are and we will get back to you personally.

01

The whole library, 4118 concepts across 13 subjects, with 3746 written chapters and 722 built simulations.

02

Search that knows where a concept sits, so you get the ramp into it, not just the page.

03

Jesse, the voice tutor, and a desk that tracks what actually stuck instead of assigning homework.

Get your seat

A minute of typing. No card, no trial timer.

Parent or guardian
The student

Goes straight to the founders. No list, no reselling.

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