Our story
Built by a teacher,
for teachers.
Prep-Less is the per-student teaching companion for independent online ESL tutors. It diagnoses each student, builds a living plan, and tells you what to teach next — so the hours you'd lose to planning go back into teaching.
Why this exists
Prep-Less was built by a former ESL teacher who spent five years teaching every level from beginner to advanced. The teaching was the part worth doing. The endless prep around it — planning each lesson, marking each essay, making each worksheet from scratch — was the part that ate the evenings and weekends.
“Generic AI tools can write a lesson — but they write the same lesson for everyone, and they don't sound like a real teacher.”
You've probably already tried that. Prep-Less is different on purpose: it's built around the student in front of you, and the output reads like a handout a teacher would actually give out.
What makes the lessons different
Lessons that match how each student learns
Every student has a learning style on file — visual, auditory, kinesthetic, or reading-writing. Prep-Less threads it into every lesson, worksheet, and exam set it generates. The same topic comes out differently for a visual learner than for a kinesthetic one.
It knows where your students struggle
Thai speakers wrestle with English articles, plurals, and verb tenses. Mandarin speakers with prepositions. Prep-Less builds that first-language knowledge into the lesson before the mistake happens, instead of correcting it afterward.
Your student’s world, not generic textbook English
Examples draw on each student’s own food, festivals, and local places — not a stock American coffee shop. Lessons feel like they were written for that student, because they were.
Vocabulary that comes back on schedule
Prep-Less remembers every word a student has been taught and quietly resurfaces older vocabulary at spaced intervals, so words are reviewed before they are forgotten.
Teaching with a team? There's a school plan — we'll get your teachers set up.