Markov.ink is a whiteboard native tutor for math, science, and writing. Write a problem by hand, talk through it, and the AI reads every stroke, checks each step, and asks the next Socratic question. It refuses to hand you the answer. Students keep the thinking. Parents keep the receipts.
Every AI tutor today is either a calculator, a chat sidebar, or a back office tool for teachers. None of them sits next to the student watching them work. The result is faster answers and no better thinking.
No accounts, no setup, no shopping for the right plan. Open the canvas, write a problem, and the tutor starts watching.
Write by hand on the whiteboard, type, snap a photo of your textbook, or paste a screenshot. Markov reads ink, print, and pictures with equal fluency.
The tutor watches every stroke. After each pause it reads what you have, checks your steps, and asks one guiding question. Never the final answer.
Markov ends every session with the why, not the result. Parents see a digest of what was learned. Teachers see where each student got stuck.
A real whiteboard with multimodal AI tutoring takes four engineering disciplines done well at once. We do all four.
Pen, eraser, shapes, smart drawing, multi page tabs, pan and zoom. A real whiteboard for working out math, balancing equations, and outlining essays. Not a chat sidebar.
CANVASAfter each pause, Claude vision reads the canvas, returns a clean typeset version, and judges every step. Mistakes get flagged. Correct steps get celebrated. All Socratic.
LIVE READPress to talk, the tutor talks back. An animated avatar speaks while you write. The conversation loop closes without a keyboard, the way real tutoring actually feels.
VOICEOne toggle. Markov refuses to reveal the final answer until you have shown a step. Pedagogical discipline, plus your defence against the "AI is for cheating" argument.
SOCRATICThe whiteboard, the live read panel, the Socratic guardrail, the camera capture, the voice avatar, all working today. Bring your own Anthropic key for live AI, or play with the six scripted demos.
Launch the whiteboardEvery session generates a digest. What was practiced, where the student got stuck, what to revisit. Parents see a paragraph the tutor wrote, not a percentage.
Caught one sign error, self corrected after a hint.
Got hydrogen first, asked Markov about coefficients.
Markov pushed for one counter argument. Maya added it.
Misread slope sign once, then solid the rest of the session.
The student tier stays free forever. That is how we keep the product students love. Parents and schools pay for the dashboard, history, and integrations.
Full whiteboard, all subjects, 10 tutor questions per day, watermarked exports.
Unlimited tutor, parent dashboard, weekly digest, session replays. Up to 4 kids.
District licensing with the teacher live dashboard, LMS integrations, and reporting.
Markov.ink lives on a whiteboard and reads what you write by hand. Chat tutors cannot see the page. We can.
No. The Strict Socratic mode refuses to reveal the final answer until you have shown a step. Pedagogy first.
Math from algebra through calculus, chemistry, physics, English essay outlining, and more. Anything you can write on a board.
The prototype runs with your own key for live AI. Six scripted demos work without a key for first time exploration.
Your API key stays in your browser. Canvas content is sent only to Anthropic's API for the live read. No third party trackers.
The web app works on iPad and Android tablets today. Native apps with stylus palm rejection ship within six months.
Three month design partner pilots first, then per student annual licensing. Email us, we will set up a call.
Founded by Mahbub Ahmed, a mathematician and serial founder. The Founder section has the full story.
Markov.ink is led by Mahbub Ahmed. Mathematics first class honours, prior founder of an AI venture serving 16,000 users, and the only team out of 24 global finalists to win the DEI Award at Rice University.
Mathematician trained at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, 3.76 / 4.0 honours in mathematics. Research in financial mathematics, presented at iSTEME 2025 in Austin, Texas. Previously founded an AI health venture, secured over BDT 2M in non dilutive grants, and won the DEI Award at Rice University's Global Health Technologies Competition.
I trained as a mathematician, taught myself programming during the pandemic, and watched a generation of students learn to ask ChatGPT for the answer instead of thinking through the problem. The shortcut to a wrong understanding is faster than ever, and the cost is a generation that knows how to type but not how to reason.
Markov.ink exists because the tutor I wanted at 17 did not exist. It watches you work. It asks the next question. It refuses to do the math for you. The pedagogy comes from Plato through Pólya, and the math behind the AI is Markov, the man who proved that the next state depends on the current one. The current state is your handwriting. The next step is the question you should ask yourself.
No signup. No credit card. Live AI works the moment you paste your Anthropic key. Otherwise the six scripted demos run without one.