Tendril
Free access
Students, teachers, libraries, schools, adults, career professionals, parents, and curious beginners can learn without payment. Tendril grows through trust first; future revenue comes from grants, donors, sponsors, and optional implementation support.
What is free
A free account opens the full learning experience. Roles still matter for safety and admin controls, but learning access no longer depends on an individual payment.
Every lesson, quiz, model guide, and career path
Saved progress, bookmarks, notes, preferences, and dashboards
Certificates, printable lesson PDFs, guided projects, and capstones
Teacher, library, and school workflows with verified organization roles
How Tendril can be funded
Underwrite free AI literacy tracks, community challenges, career resources, or public reports with clear disclosure.
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Use Tendril as free AI-literacy infrastructure for workforce, library, school, or community-learning grants.
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Optional help with onboarding, workshops, branded portals, reporting, or community events without locking the curriculum.
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Sponsor ethics
Sponsors never control lesson conclusions, rankings, or recommendations
Sponsored support is labeled clearly wherever it appears
No targeted ads to minors or behavioral ad tracking
No selling student data or sponsor access to learner-level records
Sponsorship language is designed to follow FTC disclosure expectations and COPPA-aware privacy defaults. Sponsored tools or products can appear only when educationally justified and clearly labeled.
The honest version
Open the explainer below for the actual reasoning, in plain English.
AI literacy is becoming a basic skill, like reading a chart or evaluating a source. Putting it behind a per-seat fee means the kids who need it most are the ones who don’t get it. We’d rather not do that.
Tendril is funded by grants, sponsors, donors, and optional implementation services for organizations that want hands-on help. None of those funders control lesson content, rankings, or recommendations.
No ads to minors. No selling student data. No locked core curriculum. If those constraints ever stop being true, we’ll say so loudly — before changing anything.
What learners say
“Finally an AI literacy resource I trust with my middle schoolers.”
“My team completed the creators track in a week. Immediately applicable.”
“We recommend Tendril to every patron asking about AI tools.”
Representative feedback from beta users. Names and organizations withheld by request.
FAQ
If your organization wants to fund free learning for a community, workforce pathway, library system, school, or public-interest project, Tendril has a trust-safe partner path.