Chalkwork Labs

Four things a Chalkwork Labs course does better than a video or a static PDF.

For you and for your learners. Try the example lessons.

01The course

Interactive lessons. A chart to drag, a case to decide, a check to answer.

Figures. A chart with a slider for each input. This one fits a curve through two years of real data. Change any of the three inputs and the curve and both errors update as you drag.

Cases. A real situation, told in steps. At each step the learner picks what to do next from three options. The lesson then shows what happens, and why the other two options were weaker.

Quick checks. One question, three answers, a reason under each. A wrong answer explains the mistake, not just the right answer.

"I'm lost here." One button on every section. Press it and the section is explained again, a different way. Every press is counted on your dashboard.

For youA course from the slides you already have.For learnersShort lessons they can do on a phone.
Live figure from the machine learning example lesson. Daily electricity demand in Great Britain (GW) against temperature, 2023 to 2024.
02The AI tutor

LLM responses, sourced from your pages. Whilst keeping you in the loop.

Knows where they are. The learner adds a question on a specific piece of text or a chart that they don't understand.

Your pages only. Every answer names the lesson and figure it came from. If your pages don't cover it, it's built to say so.

Your tone, your dashboard. You set the tutor's tone of voice. You see every exchange, and learners can flag any answer.

You, in the same thread. If you want to jump in, you can reply to the learner directly in their comment thread.

Yours to switch off. A course works without the tutor. Disable it if you don't want to use it.

Bundled, and improving. 3% of each sale pays for a learner's questions: about 240 on an £80 course. It runs on Anthropic's Claude models. Questions do not train them.

For youYour tone, every exchange on your dashboard.For learnersHelp at eleven at night, included in the price.
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Why does the duration line sit below the price curve on both sides?

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AI tutor

Because the curve bends upward. A straight tangent cannot follow a bend, so it undershoots whether yields rise or fall. Try maturity 30 years and the gap grows.

From lesson 4, figure 1 · flag this answer
03Built with you

We draft. You correct. It stays current.

From your material. Slides, notes, worked examples, a dataset, a notebook. We turn them into lessons, figure by figure.

Reviewed like a document. Comment, change, approve. Nothing is published until you have.

Edits reach everyone. Change a number or a figure and every learner sees it, with a note.

For youA few hours for a simple course, more for a complex one.For learnersRight, and updated when the syllabus moves.
Lesson 7 · draft 2 · for your review2 changes
The weighted average cost of capital falls as debt risesfalls at first, because debt is cheaper than equity and interest is tax-deductible, then rises once shareholders and lenders start pricing in the risk. On the traditional view, that turning point is the optimal gearing the exam asks you to discuss.
You: Say "lenders price in the risk" rather than "default risk". That is how I teach it.
Change note to learners: "Lesson 7, WACC: clearer wording on the turning point."Approve
04Learn from your learners

Where they get stuck, and what to do about it.

By lesson. Completion, quick-check scores, and where "I'm lost here" was pressed.

Blind spots. AI tutor questions grouped into themes, each with a suggested edit.

Approve once. The edit goes to every learner, with a change note.

For youThis week's most-needed edit, already drafted.For learnersBetter the week after they asked.

Completion · this cohort"Lost" presses

4 Duration3
5 Yield curves5
6 Convexity19
7 WACC4

Blind spots · this week

"Why is convexity always positive?"
14 learners asked a version of this in lesson 6
Draft edit
Coupon slider confuses with yield
6 learners, lesson 4
Draft edit
05And the parts that have to work

All included. With no upfront cost to you.

Your domain, your brand

No website? We give you an address. Own a domain? Use it. Either way, the course displays your logo and colours, not ours.

Checkout and the paperwork

Learners pay us and we pay you. We handle all of the admin around payments, receipts, VAT, and refunds.

Learner accounts

Sign-up, sign-in and lost passwords - we handle the admin. Your learner list, names and emails are yours to export when you need to.

Access you choose

Permanent access, a monthly subscription, or timed to an exam date. You choose how your audience accesses each course.

Learner support

The "where is my receipt" and "I can't sign in" emails come to us, not you. Refund requests come to us too.

Keeping it current

When the syllabus changes, we work with you to re-draft the lessons that changed. For as long as the course sells.

Apply to create a courseExample lessonsNo upfront fees. 15% of each sale. We reply within a week.