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Mercurius Ⅰ
An AI literacy tutor that guides your thinking with questions instead of handing you answers. Made by students, for students.
The next chapter
Mercurius is becoming an iPhone app.
Native iOS, photo understanding, quizzes, a report card, and a full AI literacy curriculum — now available free on the App Store.
What Makes It Different
Built for critical thinking
Four ways to think
Socratic, Discussion, Debate, and Direct modes — it asks before it answers, and you earn your way to direct explanations.
It can see your photos
Share an image — a diagram, a headline, your homework — and Mercurius discusses what it's actually looking at.
Quizzes & report card
Auto-generated checks on what you've covered, plus a session report card that shows what you actually learned.
AI literacy curriculum
Bite-sized lessons — how models work, bias, hallucinations, prompting — built into the app alongside the chat.
Guided, not given
The comprehension gate unlocks direct answers only after you've genuinely engaged with an idea. No outsourcing your thinking.
Private by design
No account, no sign-up — an anonymous session, no ads, no tracking. Start over any time with one tap.
Transparency
An AI teaching AI skepticism
Mercurius Ⅰ is powered by Claude, a large language model made by Anthropic. The irony of using an AI to teach AI skepticism is intentional — it's a design feature, not a bug.
Every interaction is an opportunity to observe how AI actually behaves: how it hedges, where it sounds more confident than it should be, and what it silently assumes. Mercurius is built to make those patterns visible rather than hide them.
It will not write your essays. It will not do your homework. It will not give you answers before you have done some thinking yourself.
"Here to help you think, not think for you."