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Community Seats

Every reader deserves a specialist. Some families cannot pay for one yet.

A Community Seat gives one child 12 months of LUCA. You pay $22 per month or $220 for the year. LUCA covers the rest. You get a certificate and a quarterly update. The family gets a reading specialist.

Sponsor a Seat, $22 per monthSponsor a Year, $220

Sponsor 1 to 10 seats. Quantity is set at checkout.

66% of U.S. students are not proficient in reading (NAEP 2024). There is one reading specialist for every 211 students. The math was never going to work. A Community Seat changes it for one child.

Two ways to give

DetailMonthly seatYearly seat
Price$22 per month per seat$220 once per seat
What it funds12 months of the full LUCA family plan for one child12 months of the full LUCA family plan for one child
Quantity1 to 101 to 10
CertificateYesYes
Quarterly updateYesYes
If you stop earlyThe child keeps the seat through month 12. LUCA covers the balance.Refundable until the seat is assigned to a family. After that it is final.

A sponsored seat is the full LUCA family plan for 12 months: the same plan every paying family gets. Sponsors pay $22 per month or $220 per year. LUCA covers the rest.

Who gets a seat

  • Families apply below. The application asks for a name, an email, the child’s grade and one sentence about their situation. No documents.
  • We review applications in the order received against the seats sponsors have funded, and tell every family either way within 7 days.
  • An approved family receives a code for 12 months at no charge and the same setup steps every family gets.
  • If there are more applications than funded seats, families join a waitlist and we tell them where they stand.
  • A seat covers 12 months. We tell the family 30 days before it ends. After that it needs a new sponsor or a paid plan.
  • If a seat code is not used within 30 days, we reissue it once. If it is still unused, the seat goes to the next family, so no funded seat sits empty.
  • LUCA funds one additional seat for every 10 new families who join by Jan 3, 2027. We report the count in the quarterly update.

The certificate

Within 24 hours you receive a certificate by email: “This Community Seat was sponsored by [your name]” or “in honor of [a name you choose]”. It is printable. It never carries a child’s name.

The update

Every quarter we send sponsors one email: how many seats are funded and how many are in use. Never an individual child’s name, school or town. The first update goes out by the end of March 2027.

The pledge

The seat pledge: for every 10 new families who join LUCA by Jan 3, 2027, LUCA funds one Community Seat. Counted and reported quarterly.

Apply for a sponsored seat

If paying for LUCA is out of reach right now, apply here. It takes two minutes. We do not ask for documents.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. LUCA AI, LLC is a company. A Community Seat is a purchase from LUCA that pays for one child's seat.

A family that applied and told us they need help paying, in the order received against funded seats. Families self-attest. We do not ask for documents.

No. Seats go to applicants in order. If you want to pay for a specific family you know, buy them a Year at luca.ai/gift instead.

Yes. Choose a quantity up to 10 at checkout. For more than 10, email [email protected].

The full LUCA family plan for 12 months: unlimited sessions, SoundScout, StoryGen stories and FamilyHub reports. The same thing every paying family gets.

A certificate within 24 hours and a quarterly update in aggregate.

The child keeps the seat through month 12. LUCA covers the balance.

Yes, until the seat is assigned to a family. Email [email protected]. Once a child is on the seat, the purchase is final.

The seat ends. The family can continue on a paid plan, or a new sponsor can fund another year. We tell the family 30 days ahead.

If the code is not used within 30 days we reissue it once. If it is still unused, the seat goes to the next family on the list.

Yes. The Year checkout at luca.ai/gift has a $220 seat as an optional add-on.