Not because we asked it nicely. Because it isn't allowed to.
Your child gets a question back, every single time — until they get there themselves.
A Grade 9 example. The wording is Branon's own — including the step counter and that prompt.
Ask most AI tools a homework question and you get the answer. Sometimes a tidy explanation underneath it. Your child copies the answer, the homework is done, and nothing has moved.
The parents we talk to already know this. The worry isn't that their child can't find help — it's that help this frictionless quietly replaces the thinking it was meant to support.
Try Together is built around that worry. Branon explains the concept first. Then it puts a real problem in front of your child and asks what they think the first step is. Whatever they say, it responds in a sentence or two and asks exactly one more question. It never volunteers the next step. It never says "correct" or "incorrect". It just keeps handing the problem back.
When they reach the end, they reached the end. Only then does the full worked solution appear, so they can check their reasoning against it.
This is the part worth being precise about, because "our AI encourages critical thinking" is something anyone can write on a website.
Inside Branon, every turn of a walkthrough must be one of three things: pose the problem and ask what the student thinks comes first, react to their answer and ask exactly one next-step question, or — only once the walkthrough is genuinely finished — show the worked solution. A response that doesn't stop and ask your child something is rejected before it ever reaches their screen.
So Branon isn't trying not to give the answer. It structurally can't skip to the end.
Most of the AI study tools your child's friends use are built on flashcards and spaced repetition. Those are genuinely good at what they do — helping a student retain something they already understand.
That isn't the problem most children have at 9pm. The problem is the chapter that never made sense in the first place. Testing recall on a concept a child never grasped just tells them, again, that they don't know it.
Branon starts one step earlier.
Try Together isn't the whole product — it's the hinge in the middle of it.
Explain → your child photographs the textbook page, pastes the text, uploads the PDF, or picks the topic, and Branon explains it at a difficulty level they choose.
Try Together → they work a problem through with Branon, one step at a time.
Applied Practice → they try it alone, at rising difficulty, until they can ace the hardest tier.
Understanding, then guided practice, then independent practice. In that order, on purpose.
Yes. Branon's Try Together poses a problem and then asks your child what they think the first step is. It reacts to whatever they say, then asks exactly one next-step question, and it keeps doing that until they reach the end themselves. The full worked solution is only shown once the walkthrough is finished. This isn't a setting or a promise in a prompt — the rule is enforced in Branon's own code, and any response that fails to stop and ask your child something is rejected before it reaches them.
Flashcards and spaced repetition are built for recall — they help a student retain something they already understand. That's a real job and those tools do it well. Try Together works one step earlier, on the child who doesn't understand the chapter yet. Testing a child on something they never grasped just tells them again that they don't know it.
They can't get an answer out of Try Together without working through the steps, because it structurally cannot skip to the end. A child looking for a shortcut will find Branon a slow way to get one. That's the intended outcome, not a side effect.
No. Branon never says correct or incorrect during a walkthrough. If your child heads down the wrong path, it acknowledges what they said in a sentence or two and asks a question that turns them around. Children stop asking questions when answering feels like a test, so the walkthrough is deliberately built to never feel like one.
More in the full FAQ.