The idea behind apprenti.dev

Most learning tools optimize for completion: finish the course, pass the quiz, collect the badge. apprenti.dev starts from a different belief — that mastery comes from doing real work and getting real feedback from someone who's done it before. That's the whole shape of the product: apprentices build evidence, mentors review it, and competency is something earned from approved work, not something self-reported.

Progress is evidence you produced, reviewed by a person you know.

Git-native, on purpose

We built it Git-native on purpose. Your curriculum, your reflections, your submissions, your mentor's reviews — all of it lives as ordinary files in a folder or repository you control, not rows in someone else's database. A Git remote is optional — there's no application backend to go down, get acquired, or change its mind about your data. If you don't like where the project is going, you fork it and keep going.

AI has a role — a bounded one

AI has a real but bounded role here. It can explain a concept, offer a hint, quiz you, or coach a reflection — every task defines exactly what it's allowed to do. It never has the final word: a human mentor reviews and approves the work. We built the Git-and-SQLite foundation first and added AI only once that loop was solid, on purpose.

One curriculum today, any subject tomorrow

The first curriculum we shipped is a Software Engineering apprenticeship, but the app itself doesn't know or care what subject it's teaching. Any mentor who can write JSON and Markdown — or use apprenti creator's visual studio — can build and maintain their own path.

apprenti.dev is for apprentices who'd rather build something real than pass a quiz, and for mentors who want a lightweight, durable way to guide someone without adopting an LMS. It's free forever — not a trial, not a tier — it's offline-capable, and it runs wherever you already work — Android, Windows, macOS, or Linux.