Launch · August 14, 2026
Introducingchud
The chud team · 4 min read
chud is a general-purpose AI assistant, and Pip is the one you talk to. Pip writes, plans, debugs, researches — and argues back when your reasoning has a hole in it. It is built for anyone. It is at its best for students, because under the school side sits something no model improvises: a floor of lessons written by hand.
You don't need an account to check any of this. Ask up to 4 questions free, no account. chud keeps your guest chat only in this browser. Ask it to explain the photoelectric effect like you're fifteen and judge the answer yourself.
Sign in and it starts to become yours: Pip remembers your courses, your goals, and how you like to be taught, and carries that between sessions. How memory works.
How chud is different
Three claims, each one checkable in the product rather than in a quote from someone we invented.
A floor of authored lessons
Every lesson in the study catalog was written by hand, and every count this site prints about them is computed from the shipped curriculum at render time — never typed. The ledger on the students page prints the same counts, least-finished course first, so you can see the edge of the floor before you trust it. See the coverage ledger.
It cites, or it says so
Research answers carry their sources, and when Pip can't verify a claim it flags it as unverified instead of smoothing it over. A wrong answer delivered confidently is the one failure a study tool can't afford. How research works.
It writes it, then it teaches it
Ask Pip for an essay and you get an essay — finished, not an outline standing in for one. What arrives with it is the reasoning: the thesis move, why the evidence is ordered that way, and the paragraph worth rewriting in your own voice. That is written into the chud Constitution and enforced by shipped controls in the study tools, not by a line in a marketing page. Read the Constitution.
What beta means
chud is in beta. Things ship most weeks, some of them break, and when they do we say so rather than quietly patching it.
What works today: chat, the study workspace, research, workspaces, image generation, and memory. What's rough: beta means exactly what it says — some weeks a feature moves or breaks before it comes back better, and the changelog below is where we say so.
The free tier is a real tier: $0 a month, no card, 120 tokens a month on Pip Lite. Guest mode answers four messages before it asks you to sign up. And when a message costs tokens, the number you see deducted is the real number — we don't round in our favor. What counts as a token?
Who built it
chud was built by a student who used it to score 5s on AP Seminar and AP World, a 4 in Calc, and a 3 in Physics. The 3 stays in the sentence because that is what happened.
No invented stats. No user counts. No "reviewed by educators." Just a tool its builder needed, that worked.
What's next
More authored courses. The coverage ledger orders courses least-finished first for a reason: the next course starts at zero, in public, and climbs where you can watch it.
And chud installs as an app straight from the browser — add it to your home screen and there is no app store between you and it. Everything that ships after this post lands in the changelog below.
