The questions you're actually asking

Fifteen minutes at the child's exact edge feels like play, because it is play: crackers, towers, sound games. There are no tests and no flashcard marathons. A failed mastery check triggers an easier drill, never pressure. Engagement is a first-class metric. If a child is grinding, the syllabus is wrong, and it adapts.

Under-fives learn through hands and conversation, and every national guideline says minimise their screen time. Wedgetail's software is an instrument panel for you: the engine, the plan, the log. The child gets the physical world and your attention. That is the actual learning technology.

An hour a day by default, split into four 15-minute sprints that fit around real life. Add a stretch block when the day is going well. Tap a short day when it isn't. Your phone time is about five minutes. The engine does all lesson planning.

No. Reggio Emilia and IB PYP schools are superb at exploration, expression and social development. They assume a foundation is being built somewhere. Wedgetail builds it: phonemic awareness, number sense, spatial reasoning. Your child arrives able to engage with the inquiry instead of decoding beneath it.

Every skill maps to the Victorian Curriculum ladder, Towards Foundation through Level 2. The platform shows the operating band per domain, derived only from logged, demonstrated mastery. A teacher could audit the claim.

Streaks pause rather than reset. You come back to a deliberately light re-entry day. The system is built for real families. The metric it guards hardest is that you are still here in week eight.

Because "when it's needed" means "after the gap is visible", and Australia's own NAPLAN data says that gap then widens every year rather than closes. Tutoring also runs at the group's pace and stops re-testing what was learned last term. Wedgetail is the opposite shape: personalised to one child, progressing only on demonstrated mastery, remediating the same week a skill wobbles, and re-checking everything on a schedule so the standard, once reached, is kept. Keeping up is an hour a day. Catching up is years.

We have not set the public price yet. Founding families get a rate locked below whatever we land on, for as long as they stay. For comparison, tutoring in Melbourne runs about $150 to $200 a month per subject, and usually starts once a child is already behind. Request a place and we will talk numbers before you commit to anything.

We store the session logs and the mastery record, plus your child's first name and date of birth. Nothing else. No photos, no audio, no location. It stays in Australia, it is never sold, and it is never used to train anything outside your child's own plan. Ask us to delete it and we delete it. The full detail is in our privacy policy.

No. Wedgetail is not a diagnostic tool and it does not screen for developmental delay. It records what your child has shown you they can do, against the public Victorian Curriculum ladder. If you have a concern about your child's development, talk to your GP or maternal and child health nurse rather than waiting on anything here.