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53 features
Week of October 26
14 features6 features3 features3 features2 featuresTry a spreadsheet formula right on the page
A live sheet inside the lesson: paste the formula your AI chat gave you and watch what it does to real cells.
Lessons
Every new lesson is built from the skills it teaches
Each new course page starts from the skills it must teach, what comes before it and what you'll do with it.
How courses are made
An address in your language for every course and term
Courses, lessons, glossary terms and guides each live at their own address in English and in Spanish, the moment they're published.
Open to everyone
Install Maestro on your phone's home screen
Add Maestro to your home screen and it opens like an app: full screen, fitted around the notch, with buttons that answer your thumb.
Studying
Your own public learner page
Share the skills you've shown in your courses, with your Maestro there to answer a visitor's questions about them.
Studying
Moments: a line from your Maestro when you show a skill
When you show a skill clearly, your Maestro writes one line about it, asks before it keeps it, and lets you reword it.
Studying
Practice the custom charts you build in Power BI
The chart editor on course pages has a Deneb mode, so you write a chart exactly as you would inside Power BI.
Lessons
Faster pages, on phones most of all
Lessons arrive already drawn, public pages come from a server near you, and your Maestro starts answering sooner.
Studying
Your skills on your home page
Your home shows the skills you've shown across your courses and how deep each one goes.
Studying
Send your Maestro a screenshot
Paste or drop a picture of an error, a chart or your notes, and ask about it.
Studying
A glossary you can browse by topic
Every term in the glossary sits under a topic, so you can read the words that belong together.
Open to everyone
Glossary terms with a script you run
Some terms come with a small script on their page that you run and change, so the word means something you've seen work.
Open to everyone
Skill maps that grow and keep your progress
When a course's skill map is split, renamed or connected to another, the evidence of what you've shown moves with it.
How courses are made
Prompt cards with blanks to fill in
Lessons hand you ready prompts with [brackets] for your own details; fill them in and copy the finished prompt.
Lessons
Week of October 19
10 features3 features2 features1 feature4 featuresLinks that arrive as a moving postcard in Messages
Send a course, a term or a group link by text and it arrives as a tall postcard that plays.
Buying and sharing
Code that fits your phone
Code in lessons wraps to the width of your screen, so you read a whole line without scrolling sideways.
Lessons
Apps your Maestro builds for you
Ask for flashcards, a study planner or a tracker, and your Maestro builds one that keeps what you save on any device.
Studying
"I don't know yet" on the check before a module
Before a module, you can say you don't know an answer yet instead of guessing, so where you start is measured honestly.
Lessons
Your answers are marked the way the teacher set them
When your Maestro marks an answer right or wrong, the mark matches the answer the page itself holds.
Studying
Glossary figures you can move
Terms like "box plot" come with a figure you drag and change, plus examples and the cases where the idea misleads.
Open to everyone
Course suggestions that fit what you're buying
When you buy a course, Maestro suggests the one that pairs with it and says why.
Buying and sharing
Each course you add costs less
Your second course is 15% off, your third 30%, your fourth 35% and every one after that 40%, counting the courses you already own.
Buying and sharing
A selfie drawn as your profile picture
Take a selfie and Maestro draws it as a linocut print for your profile, one that glances toward your pointer.
Studying
Buy a course with friends and each seat costs less
Start a group, share its link, and everyone pays less: 15% off for two people, up to 40% off for five.
Buying and sharing
Week of October 12
16 features5 features6 features4 features1 featureYour name, language and emails on one page
Your account brings together the name your Maestro uses, the language you read in and the emails each course sends you.
Studying
Ask a Maestro from the glossary, guides and Help
Public pages carry a free course's Maestro, so a visitor can ask a question before signing up for anything.
Open to everyone
Labs that let you break a rule before you trust it
Boundary, State and Stress-Test labs have you predict, run and compare a rule on small cases, right in the lesson.
Lessons
Free courses you can read before signing up
Free courses have every page public, and signing in adds your Maestro, a place to run code and your saved exercises.
Open to everyone
Talk it through with your Maestro, out loud
Start a spoken conversation about the page you're on and work through an idea by talking instead of typing.
Studying
See the rows behind any number in a SQL result
Select a cell in a query's result and Maestro shows the dataset rows that produced it.
Lessons
Every chart has a table of its values
Open any chart's values to read the exact numbers, and copy them in one click.
Lessons
Your exercises, saved to your account
Code you write and run in a lesson is kept on your account, so you pick it up on any device.
Studying
Speak your question instead of typing it
Dictate into the ask line, a prediction or a reflection, and your words appear as text you can edit before sending.
Studying
Pick each course up where you left off
Your home opens each course at the page you were on, with your Maestro one step away.
Studying
Diagrams that lay themselves out
Lessons draw boxes-and-arrows diagrams and flowcharts that stay readable on any screen, in light or dark.
Lessons
Reflections and predictions that save themselves
Write a reflection or a prediction in a lesson and it grows with your writing and saves as you go. Only you read it.
Lessons
Guides for the setup steps around a course
Short public guides cover the steps that come before or around a lesson, like installing a tool or opening a terminal.
Open to everyone
Short answers about buying, studying and your Maestro
Help answers the questions people actually ask, each on its own page, with the real controls shown where they help.
Open to everyone
Give a course as a gift
Buy a course for someone's email and get a page to send them; it opens on their account when they sign in.
Buying and sharing
Python projects with an editor and a terminal
Some lessons give you a small multi-file project to edit and run in a real terminal, right on the page.
Lessons
Week of October 5
9 features4 features4 features1 featureRun SQL right on the lesson page
Write a query against the lesson's data and see the result table without installing anything.
Lessons
Your Maestro answers with a chart, a slider or a quick check
When a picture or a question helps more than a paragraph, your Maestro puts one right under its reply.
Studying
Check questions that mark your answer on the page
Lessons ask you a question as you read, mark your answer the moment you send it, and keep the verdict on the page.
Lessons
Tell the course what you think through your Maestro
Say you have feedback for the course and your Maestro passes your words on, from the page you're on.
Studying
Run Python right on the lesson page
Edit and run Python exercises right on the page, charts included, without installing anything.
Lessons
A glossary of the words courses use
Terms like terminal, package or virtual environment are defined once, and every lesson that uses them links to the definition.
Open to everyone
Your Maestro beside the page on wide screens
On a computer, your Maestro sits next to the lesson, and you resize or tuck away each panel to read the way you like.
Studying
Read a course in your own language
A course written in Spanish can be read in English, and the other way around, as the same course with the same progress.
Studying
Highlighted code you can copy
Code in lessons and in your Maestro's replies is colored by language and copies in one click.
Lessons
Week of September 28
4 features2 features1 feature1 featureSign in with a code sent to your email
Enter your email and Maestro sends you a code; that's the whole sign-in, in English or in Spanish.
Studying
Buy a course before every module opens
Presale courses open module by module, and buying early gets you the presale price.
Buying and sharing
Live charts and chart walkthroughs
Charts in lessons are drawn from real data, walk you through one idea at a time, and some you edit yourself.
Lessons
Self-paced courses with your own Maestro
Every course comes with your Maestro, an AI guide that knows the course's skill map and answers from whichever page you're on.
Studying