For families who learn in the world
AI curriculum built from your child’s real life.
A child notices something. Mynah helps them identify it, talk about it, remember it, and then learn from it later.
You have watched a child fall completely into a screen — during a lesson, after dinner, when the day was already full.
The speed.
The intensity.
How hard it is to call them back to the table.
The problem is not screens by themselves.
It is commercial software built for passive attention.
Mynah starts from what the child already noticed, then teaches from that moment later.
The loop is: see it, talk about it, remember it, and learn from it again.
No autoplay by design.
No infinite scroll competition.
No passive “watch one more” patterns.
Observe in the moment. Practice later with context.
Families and homeschool testers with early prototypes often report:
Children linger when there is less to chase.
Castalia early learning
The iNQ Leaf, the Atlas Field Guide, and the Atlas device family are public pieces of a learning philosophy in development: physical prompts, calm digital tools, and room for the world outside the lesson.
The same core loop across form factors: field discovery, conversation, memory, and later reinforcement.
Mynah core device
In developmentA replaceable Android field device and companion software stack for children to explore outdoors and come back to lessons later.
Dual-screen clamshell for long-form work and narrations. Primary IPS for activities; secondary e-ink for status — battery, time, quiet cues. Folds like a book.
Pocketable handheld for trails, camps, and co-ops. Game Boy–scale body, physical d-pad and buttons, front camera for iNQ Card scanning — the carry-everywhere field unit.
Realtime field inference for rocks, fungi, plants, animals, and clouds. Pulls region guides from ArkGIS when available and returns evidence-based candidates with confidence and provenance.
Shared-screen tablet for demos and read-alouds. 7" landscape, full kickstand, drop-tested housing — same firmware as the rest of the line in a single-screen body.
Clip-on lab for science at home. Adds a camera, 9-axis IMU, and three M5Stack sensor ports so a tablet becomes a field instrument.
Target: $500
The household hub for Castalia: serve books and activities to your Atlas devices, run local AI where you want it, host iNQ Card libraries, and act as the terrAIn base station — all on your LAN, no cloud required.
Built on $400 of hardware; the retail margin funds firmware and operations. No recurring fee required to use the appliance itself.
No app-store gatekeeper, no behavior design overlays — only the loop your child is currently building.
No app-store gatekeeper deciding what counts as educational. No surprise updates that change defaults. What your child has encountered shapes what they practice next.
We are building toward local-first operation where learning history, activities, and media can stay on-family and avoid unnecessary cloud dependence.
Designed for active hands and uneven places: kitchen, patio, road trips, and backyard routines, not pristine demo spaces.
iNQ Cards and encounter history let real objects, places, and questions appear again as tomorrow’s activity prompts.
First production cohort
Help us build the first run
If your child learns best when you connect ideas to real moments, join the founding cohort. No ad model, no engagement tricks, and a direct role in shaping what we ship.
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