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Ace
An AI study sidekick for working through a question, making notes, and practicing with flashcards.
The brief.
Reading the same passage again does not always make it click. Ace puts conversation and study tools alongside the material the student is working on.
What we built.
- Questions about material on screen.
- Reasoning support, notes, and flashcards from course material.
- Connections to the ChatGPT or Claude account the user chooses.
How it works.
- 01Open material you are allowed to use and ask a focused question.
- 02Work through the explanation and check it against the source.
- 03Turn the useful pieces into notes and practice prompts.
The result.
The product’s public study workflow and a recorded document-generation demonstration provide two concrete ways to show the work.
Where it stands.
Connected provider access is separate. A recording demonstrates that recorded run; current setup and feature availability are described on the product page.
Platform availability
Windows: Ace 0.3.1 for Windows 10 and 11 (x64) is unsigned early access. The notarized Mac release, for macOS 13 or later, remains available.
Earlier engineering notes · July–August 2026
Preserved from the original build record. Product status and offers may have changed; the current project summary appears above.
- Problem: Ace went completely deaf while reporting that speech recognition was available. Root cause: the system speech services were switched off at the OS level, and the recognizer answered 'available' anyway, then refused every request in a storm. Fix: the failure is now detected and stated plainly instead of being swallowed — a component that lies about its own availability gets treated as untrusted.
- Problem: launching the app by name started a stale duplicate carrying the same bundle identifier, so we tested a build that was not the build we had just installed and every voice command fired twice. Fix: launch by path, and prove the running process is the artifact we installed. This is the same rule the rest of the fleet already ran under, and Ace is the reason we now apply it to ourselves during development, not only at release.
- Problem: the spoken intro read like a product demo written by a product team. Fix: rewritten and re-voiced — it never announces its own name, the speech daemon is persistent rather than spawned per sentence, and the demo is a live one rather than a scripted playback.
- Rule we keep: what buyers download is verified against what we built. The released archive was notarized, stapled, and byte-matched through a real purchase session before the product went on sale.