Who or what is your inspiration in business?

Palmer Luckey built Oculus as a teenager in his parents’ garage and sold it for $2 billion before most people his age had their first job. What inspires me isn’t the outcome, it’s the refusal to let age be a ceiling. I’m 14, already in college, and I’ve built and launched a live AI study platform with hundreds of daily active users, all before asking anyone for a dollar. Palmer didn’t wait for permission to change an industry. Neither will I.

How do you stay motivated?

I built this platform because I lived the problem. As a 14-year-old college student, I needed to absorb information faster than traditional studying allowed. So I built it myself: upload notes, PDFs, or paste a link, and the platform instantly transforms your content into structured notes, flashcards, quizzes, exam prep materials, and spaced repetition study games, all tailored to what you need to learn. Every time I use my own app to study for a college exam, I’m reminded why it exists.

What would you do with the $25,000?

My platform already has hundreds of daily active users with zero marketing spend. This funding would pour gasoline on what’s already working: scaling cloud and AI infrastructure to handle rapid user growth, launching a targeted social media campaign aimed at college students, and building out SEO to capture organic search traffic. The product is proven. The demand is real. This $25,000 is the difference between slow growth and a hard launch that reaches hundreds of thousands of students.