Frequently asked questions

LessonSmith is a planning tool for teachers. You give it a subject, a level, a topic and your term dates, and it drafts a full lesson plan or a week-by-week scheme of work. What comes back is a draft. You edit it, save it to your library, and export it for printing or sharing.

It is built and operated by VoussoirAI in Nairobi, Kenya.

Practising teachers who write their own lesson plans and schemes of work. You need to be 18 or older to hold an account. LessonSmith is a tool for teachers, not for use by children.

You pick a region and a curriculum, and generations are drafted to align with it. The supported list covers CBC/CBE and KICD (Kenya), NERDC (Nigeria), CAPS (South Africa), NaCCA (Ghana), the National Curriculum for England, Common Core and NGSS (United States), CBSE and NCERT (India), the Australian Curriculum (ACARA), FGOS/FOP (Russia), the International Baccalaureate, and Cambridge International.

Region and curriculum are a localisation setting only. They do not change your plan, your usage limits, or which features you can reach.

No. LessonSmith is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or certified by any government, ministry, examination board or curriculum authority. Those names are used only to describe the curriculum a generation is intended to align with, and they belong to their respective owners.

A generated plan is an AI-drafted aid, not an official curriculum document. Check it against the official curriculum before classroom or examination use.

The subject list comes from the curriculum and level you choose, so it differs between them. On Kenya's CBC at Junior School it is Mathematics, English, Kiswahili, Integrated Science, Social Studies, CRE, Agriculture, Creative Arts, and Pre-Technical. Whatever your curriculum lists, every subject assistant on it is available on every plan, including the free one.

Yes. A generation is a starting point, not a finished document. You can rewrite any part of it, save it to your library, adapt a saved plan for a different class or level, and export it for printing or sharing.

Yes, every time. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete or unsuitable for your class, and it can state something confidently that is simply wrong. You are the teacher and you are responsible for what you take into the classroom. Read the whole plan and correct it before you use it.

OpenAI GPT-4o-mini is the primary model, with Google Gemini Flash Lite as the fallback if the primary is unavailable. The API keys are held on our servers and are never sent to your browser.

The text you submit for a generation goes to the AI provider so it can produce the output, and we store it in your account alongside the result so your library works. We use the providers' API tiers, which are not used to train their models by default.

Treat anything you type as potentially shared with those providers. Do not enter students' personal data, such as names, admission numbers, photos or health details, into a prompt.

We share the minimum necessary with the vendors that run the service: Clerk for sign-in, Convex for the database, Polar for payments, OpenAI and Google for generation, PostHog for product analytics, Vercel for hosting, and Sentry for error monitoring. We do not sell personal data.

Analytics only start once you have accepted the policies, and they record which pages you open, never what you type. Your lesson content, your pupils' names and your TSC number are not sent to PostHog or Sentry.

The Privacy Policy lists what each one receives and why.

Yes. You can export your account and content, and you can delete your account, which removes your personal data apart from records we are legally required to keep, such as payment records. You can also make the request by email, and we will respond within the period the law allows.

Free gives you 10 lesson plans a month with the Scheme-of-Work Designer and the Support Plan tool locked, and one light and one dark theme. Pro gives you 40 lesson plans a month, one scheme of work every 3 months, five support plans a month, and all themes. Max gives you 80 lesson plans a month, three schemes of work every 3 months, ten support plans a month, all themes, and early access to new features and subjects. School is bought by a school for its teachers and gives each covered teacher 80 lesson plans a month, four schemes of work every 3 months, and ten support plans a month. All subject assistants are on every plan.

Lesson plans reset on the monthly anniversary of your billing start date, or of the day you signed up on a free account, and the whole allowance returns at once. Schemes of work run on a rolling 91-day window instead, so roughly every 3 months, counted from when you made each one rather than from a fixed date. That window is the same on every curriculum and is not tied to your own school terms, which is why we no longer describe it as one per term. Counting happens on our servers, against your account, and is shared across every region and curriculum you use.

Every plan has a hard numeric ceiling. There is no unlimited tier, and there will not be one: an uncapped account is what lets a bot run up an AI bill.

You are only ever on one plan at a time. If your school covers you and you also pay for a plan of your own, we apply whichever gives you the higher limits — the two are never added together.

Yes. Write to us with your school's name and how many teachers you want covered, and we agree a price for that number and send a payment link. Once it is paid, your account gets a section for the plan where you invite teachers, remove anyone who leaves, and cancel whenever you choose.

Each covered teacher gets 80 lesson plans a month, four schemes of work every 3 months, and ten support plans a month, per teacher rather than shared, and never sees a checkout. Those limits are the same for every school — the price is what is negotiated, not the limits.

Teachers keep everything they make. Lesson plans and schemes of work belong to the account that created them, so a teacher who leaves the plan keeps their own work and simply returns to the Free plan.

Free is $0. Pro is $8 a month or $80 a year. Max is $40 a month or $380 a year. Each plan also has a price set in Kenyan Shillings: 1,000 a month or 10,000 a year for Pro, and 5,000 a month or 50,000 a year for Max. Those are real prices, not conversions — you are charged in whichever of the two currencies matches you, and checkout shows the exact amount before you pay.

A School plan has no published price: it is agreed with the school for the number of teachers it wants covered.

Every plan carries two set prices, one in US Dollars and one in Kenyan Shillings. Payments go through Polar, our merchant of record, which uses Stripe as the underlying card processor. Polar charges the price that matches you and shows you the exact figure before you pay, in that currency or another supported one. Polar also handles any VAT or sales tax that applies where you live.

Every paid plan is an auto-renewing subscription: Polar stores your card and charges it each billing period until you stop it. You can turn renewal off, or cancel outright, at any time from the Subscription window in the app.

Open Subscription in the app's menu, where you can switch off Renew automatically or cancel outright. You can also do either in the Polar customer portal, using the link in your Polar receipt email. Your access continues to the end of the period you have already paid for and then stops.

On a School plan the school is the customer, so only a school administrator can cancel, from the plan section of their account. Every covered teacher keeps their access to the end of the paid period and then moves to the Free plan.

Email the support address on the support page, or write to privacy@lessonsmith.ai for anything about your personal data. Include the email address on your account and what you were doing when it went wrong.