About satcrush
Built by students. Shaped by people who do this for a living.
You’re about to hand us the months before your test. So here’s exactly who made this, what they knew that we didn’t, and how it keeps changing.
Co-designed
We didn’t figure this out on our own.
Taking the test recently gave us the problem. It didn’t give us the answers. Every part of satcrush — the skill map, the explanations, the shape of a session — was built alongside people who have spent careers on this.
Curriculum experts
They decide what’s actually on the digital SAT and what order it’s worth learning in. That skill map is what every session pulls from — so the next thing you see is the next thing worth doing, not the next thing in a list.
SAT tutors
People who have sat across a table from hundreds of students and watched the exact moment something clicks. They wrote the explanations — and cut every one that only made sense if you already understood it.
UX and design experts
They keep the product calm. Every screen is tested against one question before it ships: does this make an already-stressed student feel worse? If the answer is yes, it doesn’t ship.
We’ll add names and photos as our advisors are ready to share them. In the meantime, what they contributed is the part worth reading, and it’s above.
Where it started
SAT prep felt contrived and overwhelming.
Countless hours. Courses you had to navigate before you could study. Never enough practice questions, and never a straight answer to the only two things we wanted to know: where do I actually stand, and how far do I really have to go?
So three of us built the thing we wanted for our own friends. Not a course. A coach that opens, tells you the next thing, and lets you close it.
“SAT preparation should not be this hard.”
It’s simple now. This is the result.
Aidan
Computer Science · UVA Engineering
Builds the adaptive engine — the part that decides what you see next.
Cera
Student
Writes and checks questions, and makes sure every explanation actually explains.
Mira
Student · Designer
Designs every screen, and cuts anything that makes studying feel heavier.
What we go on
Three things decide what we build.
The test itself
Every skill in the map traces back to something the digital SAT actually tests. If it isn’t on the test, it isn’t in your session — however interesting it is.
What tutors know works
Not a theory of learning we read about. Years of watching, one student at a time, which explanation lands and which one gets a polite nod and no change.
What you actually do
If a screen gets skipped, that’s information. If an explanation gets read twice, that’s information too. The product tells on itself, and we listen.
We’re early, so we’re not pointing at a study yet. As students work through satcrush and real score data comes in, we’ll share what it shows.
Still being built
It changes because students tell us to.
This isn’t a course that got printed once. Two things keep it moving, and both of them are students.
In-product feedback
Every question and every explanation has a flag on it. One tap, from the screen you’re already on — no form, no email, no support ticket. Confusing wording, a bad distractor, an explanation that skips a step: flag it and keep going.
Invited beta feedback
Invited users can try the current product and report confusing questions or product issues while the beta is still small.
What happens to a flag
From your screen to everyone’s.
You flag it
One tap, mid-question. You don’t lose your place and you don’t write an essay about it.
A human reads it
Flags go to the tutors who wrote the item, not to a queue nobody owns.
It’s rewritten or it’s cut
If a question can’t be fixed, it leaves. We’d rather have fewer questions than defend a bad one.
Everyone gets the better version
Including you, in your next session. No update to install, no new edition to buy.
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