SINGAPORE · 2026 · STUDENT INTELLIGENCE LAYER

Build
with VOSE API.

Student intelligence as infrastructure. VOSE is the data layer that educational AI should have been built on from the start — portable identity, open citation chunks, and four endpoints any team can build a tutor on top of.

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API · v0.4 public previewEndpoints · /teach · /guide · /practice · /assessIdentity · OAuth 2.0 + OIDC, "Sign in with VOSE"Status · intelligence flips on at pilot scale
§ 01 — Surfaces

Seven products,
one intelligence layer.

Most of these are imagined possibilities, things any small team could ship in a weekend on top of VOSE. One is real, live, and you can sign up for it today. The reference deployment is named Verdict.

01 / SURFACE

An intelligent flashcard app that adapts to your retention curve

Hypothetical · spaced-repetition + /practice
02 / SURFACE

An Obsidian plugin that tutors you on your own notes

Hypothetical · /teach over local markdown
03 / SURFACE

A CFA Level II prep tool with reverse-drill exams

Hypothetical · /assess + /guide
04 / SURFACE

An AI-powered textbook with embedded tutoring

Hypothetical · /teach as inline footnote
05 / SURFACE

A white-label tutoring centre dashboard

Hypothetical · Wedge-1 use case
06 / REFERENCE DEPLOYMENT

Verdict, a Singapore A-Level Economics tutor

Live · verdict.vose.sg
07 / SURFACE

An AWS certification trainer with citation-grade audit

Hypothetical · /assess + /practice
08…∞

A hundred more products you haven't thought of yet.

§ 02 — The thesis

Education should be open source.

Stripe didn't make payments. It made the layer underneath, so a thousand teams could.

Auth0 didn't make logins. It made the layer underneath, so a thousand teams could.

Twilio didn't make conversations. It made the layer underneath, so a thousand teams could.

Now apply the same pattern to student intelligence.

VOSE is the portable, queryable, citation-grade record of how a learner actually learns. One identity across every tutor they use, with the chunks visible and the policy theirs.

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PAYMENTS = STRIPE
Card numbers, fraud, compliance — done once, used by all.
AUTH = AUTH0
Passwords, sessions, social — done once, used by all.
STUDENT INTELLIGENCE = VOSE
Profiles, mastery, citations, policy — done once, used by all.
§ 03 — What VOSE does

Four endpoints.

Each is a contract, not a feature. VOSE isn't a UI, isn't a content library, isn't an LLM.It's the layer between the model and the learner that has been missing.

POST/teach
— deliver content with audit

Stream concept exposition with full citation chunks attached. The model can't pretend to know what it doesn't; every claim points back to source. Returns the chunks alongside the answer, not hidden behind a "powered by" footer.

POST/guide
— socratic teaching

Just-in-time teaching, not front-loaded content. The learner attempts before they're taught; the response delivers the concept at the moment of cognitive readiness. Verdict's Reverse Drill is built on this.

POST/practice
— generate items

Spawn calibrated practice items against a learner's current proficiency curve. Items are tagged by skill, by source chunk, by failure mode — so failure becomes signal, not noise.

POST/assess
— mastery + audit

Submit an attempt; receive a graded verdict, the rubric trace, and an updated mastery vector. Every grade is reproducible from the chunks — citation-grade auditability isn't a feature, it's the whole point.

Citation specimen

The chunks are visible.

Every answer carries the source it stood on. No interface clarity excuses for hiding what the model saw.

CHUNK · /teach response§ 4.2.1 · price-elasticity-of-demand.md
A good is said to be price-elasticwhen the percentage change in quantity demanded exceeds the percentage change in price (|PED| > 1). For example, demand for restaurant meals tends to be price-elastic; consumers can defer or substitute.
attribution: chong & tan, 2024 · h2 economics 9570 · ch. 4 · weight 0.72
REFERENCE DEPLOYMENT · LIVE

Verdict.
VOSE, deployed.

Singapore A-Level Economics, built by a 19-year-old sitting his own A-Levels in November 2026 as a private candidate. Reverse Drill. Source-tagged retrieval. Open citation chunks. Mode wheel. Tone presets. Built on VOSE so we know the platform's contracts hold under load.

Try Verdict See the product page →
Verdict.CHAMBERS · DRILL
QUESTION · DRILL 04
Explain why the PED for restaurant meals is likely greater than 1.
Restaurant meals are discretionary substitutes — consumers can cook at home, defer, or switch venues. Time horizons compress —
§4.2.1 · CHONG & TAN§4.2.4 · MAS·2023
§ 04 — Build on VOSE

Build your first VOSE-powered tutor in 30 minutes.

We do the student intelligence; you do the UX. No more rebuilding portable identity, citation infrastructure, or mastery vectors from scratch in every weekend project.

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POST · api.vose.sg/v1/teachcurl ↗
curl https://api.vose.sg/v1/teach \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VOSE_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "subject": "h2-economics-9570",
    "concept": "price elasticity of demand",
    "learner_id": "vid_a8c91...",
    "tone": "analytical",
    "with_chunks": true
  }'
200 OK · streaming14 chunks · 1 verdict

// chunks attached. policy enforced. profile updated. no scaffolding rebuilt.

Out of the box
§ Identity

Portable VOSE ID

OAuth 2.0 + OIDC. Sign in with VOSE across every tutor in the ecosystem.

§ Persistence

Mastery profiles

One learner record, queryable from any surface. Carries failure modes, not just scores.

§ Audit

Citation primitives

Every answer carries chunks. Every chunk carries provenance, weight, and a stable id.

§ Intelligence

Collective signal

Trapdoor mode now; intelligence flips on as the pilot cohort populates the corpus.

§ 05 — Pilot

Join the build.

VOSE's pilot program is built for the first hundred teams that take the platform thesis seriously. Subsidized credits, direct founder access, prioritized requests — in exchange for shaping how the layer evolves.

  • 01Subsidized free tier credits for early integration
  • 02Direct founder access for technical questions
  • 03Prioritized feature requests from the build queue
  • 04Discord access to the builder community
  • 05Early access to features before public release
  • 06Premium pilot bonuses (TBD, per pilot)
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§ 06 — Follow the build

Public posts.

X / @vose ↗LinkedIn ↗Discord ↗
X · @vose· 3 days ago
v0.4 ships: /assess now returns the rubric trace alongside the verdict. Reproducibility is the whole point.
142 · 18 · 4
LinkedIn · vose· 1 week ago
"VOSE is to EdTech what Stripe is to payments." A long thread on why the platform thesis is structurally different from yet-another-tutor.
312 reactions · 47 comments
Discord · #build· 2 weeks ago
First third-party VOSE integration is live in dev: an Obsidian plugin pulling /teach over local markdown. Builder ecosystem > product roadmap, every time.
26 messages · 9 builders