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Trusted by schools and backed by leading research institutions

National Science Foundation SBIRCarnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States Patent and Trademark OfficeESSA Tier IV Building Evidence Badge by Leanlab EducationNewSchools Venture FundProvident Charter SchoolCodesign Product Certification by Leanlab EducationNew Kensington-Arnold School DistrictSXSW EDUNational Science Foundation SBIRCarnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States Patent and Trademark OfficeESSA Tier IV Building Evidence Badge by Leanlab EducationNewSchools Venture FundProvident Charter SchoolCodesign Product Certification by Leanlab EducationNew Kensington-Arnold School DistrictSXSW EDU
How the trial works

Three days from now, you will know.

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Sign up today

Two minutes through Stripe checkout. We hold your card. We do not charge it until day 8.

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Build with LUCA all week

Personalized stories, phoneme-level practice, parent dashboard. Your child uses LUCA the same way they will after the trial.

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Decide on day 7

Stay and we bill on day 8. Cancel from your dashboard in two clicks and you pay nothing. No phone calls, no email chains.

LUCALabs

The Intelligence Behind Every Reading Session

Most programs treat every reader the same. LUCA listens to every sound your child makes, finds the exact gaps, and builds a reading journey as unique as your child.

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Listens

Sound-by-sound speech recognition

LUCA captures every sound as students read aloud, identifying exactly where difficulty occurs. Not just right or wrong, but precisely which sounds need attention.

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Analyzes

Pinpoints specific skill gaps

Patterns across 763,000+ sound-to-spelling connections reveal each reader's unique strengths and gaps. No separate testing required.

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Builds

Personalized reading intervention

Personalized stories and targeted lessons adapt in real time to each student's needs and interests. No two readers experience the same content.

Proven Results

Real Impact on Reading Achievement

Validated by research. Measured in real classrooms. See our live results.

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Average fluency improvement across all grade levels

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Students reached high-confidence reading thresholds in our Spring 2026 pilot

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477,000+

Words read across the pilot cohort during the intervention window

See full methodology and sample size at luca.ai/our-technology/evidence.

The science

Why phoneme-level matters

Most reading programs listen at the word level. A child who reads "ship" as "sip" and another who reads it as "fish" both get marked wrong, with no diagnostic information about which sound was missing.

LUCA listens at the phoneme level. The /sh/, /i/, and /p/ in "ship" are each scored separately. LUCA can see exactly which sound your child needs targeted practice on.

That sub-word resolution is what makes individualized reading intervention possible at scale.

Read the Technical Deep Dive →
Phoneme-level listening

Validated by

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    U.S. Patent No. 12,394,332 B2
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    NSF SBIR Grant Recipient
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    Carnegie Mellon University partnership
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    NewSchools Venture Fund selection
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    763,000+ grapheme-phoneme mappings
FAQ

Trial questions, answered

Frequently Asked Questions

Full access to LUCA: unlimited personalized decodable stories via StoryGen, phoneme-level reading assessment via SoundScout, dependency-aware skill diagnosis via Assessment Intelligence, and parent dashboards in FamilyHub. Every feature your child will use after the trial is available during the trial.

Yes, a card is required to start the 7-day trial through our secure Stripe checkout. We do not charge until day 8. You can cancel any time during the first 7 days at no cost.

Cancel directly from the Stripe customer portal linked in your welcome email, or contact LUCA support. Cancellation during the first 7 days incurs no charge.

LUCA is age-agnostic. It serves readers from kindergarten through middle school and beyond, including students with dyslexia, ELL learners, and adults building foundational reading skills. Scope is determined by demonstrated phonics skill, not by grade level.

Yes. LUCA was built with dyslexic learners in mind. Phoneme-level listening catches the specific error patterns common in dyslexia that word-level programs miss. The instructional design follows Structured Literacy and Orton-Gillingham principles.

Any web-connected device with a microphone: Chromebook, tablet, laptop, or phone. No downloads, no special hardware. Standard device microphones are sufficient for SoundScout phoneme-level assessment.

Yes. Each child gets their own profile with personalized story generation, individualized skill tracking, and a dedicated dashboard view for the parent.

If you do nothing, your trial converts to the standard subscription. If you cancel before day 8, you are not charged. Stripe handles billing and you can manage everything through the customer portal.

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Try LUCA free for seven days. Decide on day 7.

We do not charge until day 8. Cancel before then from your dashboard and you pay nothing.

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