Built for the
night before the night before.
RevisionBot started as one parent's notebook, became a script, and is now a small piece of software helping a small number of students prepare for their GCSEs without losing the rest of their lives.
Revision is a problem of activation, not information. Students know what they should study. They have textbooks, notes, past papers, twelve different YouTube channels and an entire internet. What they don't have is a plan that survives Wednesday, when football runs over and dinner is late and tomorrow is double maths.
The traditional answer is a paper timetable taped to the wall. It is, almost always, a one-time act of optimism. By week two it is wrong; by week three it is invisible.
RevisionBot is the opposite of a wall timetable. It is small, quiet, and patient. It sits in WhatsApp, where students already are. It asks for fifteen minutes at the start, and then it does the bookkeeping for the rest of the term — what's next, what got moved, what's left.
We don't promise an A. We promise a plan, a few warm reminders, and a way to start when starting is the hardest part. That is the entire pitch.
Four things we believe.
Calm beats motivational.
Anxiety is already in the room. We don't add to it. Sentences are short. We never use the word "crush" near the word "exam".
The plan must survive a real week.
Football, late dinners, dentist appointments, a friend in tears at 8pm. If the plan breaks the first time life happens, it wasn't a plan.
Be specific, not generic.
"Three flashcard rounds before bed" beats "keep studying!". Real nouns, real numbers, real minutes — every time.
Live where students live.
WhatsApp, then Calendar. We don't ask anyone to download an app, learn a UI, or charge a fourth thing each night.
A very small team. For now.
James
Started writing this because his daughter had eleven GCSEs and one paper timetable. Builds it on weekends.
Isla
The first and most demanding tester. If a feature doesn't work for her, it doesn't ship.
Bit
Lives in the antenna lamp. Writes the morning summaries. Has no opinions about your handwriting.
From notebook to night-before saviour.
A notebook on a kitchen table.
James draws Isla's revision timetable on the back of a Sainsbury's receipt. By Wednesday, three sessions are wrong.
The first script.
A weekend hack — Anthropic API, a Google Sheet, a single CSV of subjects. Generated a six-week plan in 40 seconds. Isla actually used it.
WhatsApp goes live.
Morning summary at 07:30. Pre-session ping at minus ten minutes. Replies parsed. The plan started living somewhere students actually open.
Closed beta.
Allowlist of one. About to be allowlist of six. You're here, which means you're early.