Thinking Buddy is a working AI tutor built on one rule: the student thinks first. It asks questions, holds the bar at three levels, and never hands over the answer. When a student tries to extract the solution in pieces, it catches the pattern. When they echo the tutor's own words back, it knows the difference between reading and understanding. The reasoning record shows a teacher exactly where real thinking happened and where it did not.
It was built by the founder of Thinking Labs and submitted to OpenAI Build Week 2026, a global event with over 41,000 participants.
This is the Thinking Labs philosophy running as software. The tool is earned, not given. The thinking stays with the student.
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