What is Solvly?
A complete guide for parents
Everything you need to know about Solvly — what it is, what your child will do in it, how our AI mentor Sage works, and how it builds the thinking and emotional skills schools don't teach. Reading time: ~6 minutes.
What is Solvly?
Solvly is an AI-mentored learning app for children ages 6–14 that builds five thinking and emotional skills schools rarely teach: decision-making, leadership, analytical thinking, system design, and emotional intelligence.
Your child plays interactive story missions where they take on roles — a mayor facing a flood, an expedition leader lost in the wilderness, a junior analyst facing a market crisis. Every choice has consequences. After each choice, our AI mentor Sage asks one reflective question — never to judge, only to help your child understand why the choice mattered.
The result: kids learn how to think, not just what to know.
What does my child actually do in Solvly?
Every mission follows the same simple loop — choose, act, reflect, and grow. Here is what that looks like for your child.
Choose a mission
Your child picks from missions matched to their age band — Explorers (6-8), Thinkers (9-11), or Strategists (12-14). Each mission is an interactive story about 8-15 minutes long. New missions are added monthly.
Make choices, see consequences
The story unfolds based on your child's decisions. They face three choices at each decision point. Some are obvious; some are ethical dilemmas; some have no right answer — only trade-offs.
Reflect with Sage
After every choice, Sage — our AI mentor — asks one reflective question. “How did that make you feel?” “What might the other characters be thinking?” Sage never says “wrong.” It only asks questions that build awareness.
Track growth over time
You and your child see skill levels growing across all five pillars after every mission. Real, visible progress.
How will Solvly help my child?
Decision Making
What it builds: weighing consequences, thinking under pressure, choosing wisely.
Why it matters: research from Yale and CASEL shows decision-making predicts academic and life outcomes more reliably than IQ.
Leadership
What it builds: motivating others, resolving conflict, leading with empathy, communicating clearly.
Why it matters: the skill behind every effective teacher, manager, and community leader.
Analytical Thinking
What it builds: spotting patterns, interpreting evidence, solving multi-step problems.
Why it matters: the thinking behind every scientist, analyst, engineer, and entrepreneur.
System Design
What it builds: planning systems, managing resources, understanding what depends on what.
Why it matters: foundational thinking for careers that don't even exist yet.
Emotional Intelligence
What it builds: self-awareness, empathy, resilience, self-confidence.
Why it matters: CASEL's meta-analysis of 270,000 students found social-emotional learning improves academic results by 11%. Columbia research found an $11 return for every $1 invested in SEL.
How does my child get started?
Solvly is parent-controlled by design. Children cannot create their own accounts — this is one of our core COPPA safeguards.
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You create a parent account at getsolvly.com/signup
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You add a child profile — display name (you choose), age band, and an avatar. No real names or dates of birth.
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Your child plays missions inside your parent-controlled space.
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You review their progress in your dashboard anytime.
You can review every choice your child has made, export all their data at any time (within 24 hours), and delete their profile permanently. We never collect children's real names, dates of birth, photographs, voice recordings, or device identifiers.
Who is Sage, your child's AI mentor?
Sage is an AI character — a wise, warm owl — who appears after every choice your child makes in a mission. Sage's only job is to ask one reflective question that helps your child understand why the choice mattered.
“How did that choice make you feel?”
What Sage will never do
- Tell your child their choice was “wrong” or “right”
- Initiate conversation outside of missions
- Remember sessions across visits — every session starts fresh
- Replace your judgment as a parent
- Provide therapy, diagnosis, or mental-health advice
- Discuss anything outside the mission context
What Sage will do
- Ask one reflective question after each choice
- Encourage perspective-taking (“how might they feel?”)
- Build your child's reflective habit — the foundation of EI
- Adapt question complexity to your child's age band
Sage's questions are generated by AI (specifically, large language model technology similar to what powers ChatGPT and Claude), not by a human. Every Sage interaction is logged and reviewable from your parent dashboard.
Is Solvly safe for my child?
Yes. Solvly is built privacy-first for children. Here's how:
COPPA-aware design for users under 13 in the United States, and conservatively under 18 in India and the UAE.
No ads, ever. We are subscription-funded. We do not sell or share data with advertisers, data brokers, or social media platforms.
Minimal data collection. From you (the parent), we collect email and payment info. From your child, we collect a display name (you choose), an age band, and an avatar — nothing else.
Children's data is never used to train AI models.
End-to-end protection. TLS 1.3 in transit, encrypted at rest, row-level security on every database table, sessions expire automatically.
Fully parent-controlled. Review, export, correct, or delete your child's data anytime from your dashboard.
For complete details, see our Privacy Policy or Terms of Service.
How much screen time does Solvly use?
We designed Solvly to be high-quality screen time, not endless screen time.
Each mission is 8–15 minutes long. We recommend 1–3 missions per session, 2–4 sessions per week — about 30–90 minutes of focused, reflective play per week.
Solvly is intentionally not designed to be played for hours. Missions don't auto-advance. There's no infinite scroll, no gachapon-style rewards, no streak pressure beyond a gentle nudge. Your child's screen time is your decision — we just make sure the time they spend with Solvly is time well spent.
Frequently asked questions
What age is Solvly for?
Children ages 6 to 14. Content is age-tiered: Explorers (6-8) get simple language and familiar situations, Thinkers (9-11) get team dynamics and incomplete information, Strategists (12-14) get multi-stakeholder ethical dilemmas.
Does Solvly replace school?
No. Solvly teaches what schools usually don't — thinking and emotional skills. It's complementary to academic learning, not a replacement.
Can my child use Solvly without me?
Children play missions on their own — it's designed for independent play. But every child profile sits inside a parent-controlled account, and you can review every choice they've made from your dashboard.
Is the AI safe for kids?
Sage uses large language model technology similar to ChatGPT, but heavily constrained for child safety: no open chat, no judgments, no memory across sessions, no ability to initiate contact, and every interaction is logged and reviewable.
What if my child gets bored?
We add new missions monthly. At launch we have 10 missions across all five skills. We prioritise depth over breadth — each mission has multiple branches, so kids can replay and reach different endings based on their choices.
Can I get a refund if Solvly isn't right for us?
Yes — we offer a 7-day money-back guarantee on every paid plan. You can also start free (3 missions, no credit card) to see if Solvly is right for your child before subscribing.
How is Solvly different from Khan Academy or BYJU'S?
Those teach academic content — math, science, language. Solvly teaches thinking and emotional skills — decision-making, leadership, EI. We're complementary, not competitive.
What about schools?
Solvly partners with schools through our school program — free 3-month pilots available. See our school partnerships page.
Have a school? See our school partnerships page.
Ready to try Solvly?
Start free. 3 missions, 1 child. No credit card required. Cancel anytime.
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