MANUAL STUDYING IS NOW OPTIONAL
3 hours of studying —
or 1 hour
with Blast. You
choose.
Blast is a Personal Learning Assistant that goes to class with your student, figures out exactly what the teacher wants mastered, and builds a personalized plan to earn the grade your student chooses — in a fraction of the study time. Cut the hours and keep the grades, or keep the hours and raise the grades. Either way: grades go up, stress goes down, or every dollar back.
+ 60-day no-questions-asked money-back guarantee
■ 500+ published learning-science studies
■ Founder who built cutting-edge learning technology for IBM and McGraw Hill
■ 25 years of learning science ■ Hundreds of thousands of students
Tonight's chapter test · target grade: A
Same grade. Two hours back. Every school night.
THE FUN TRUTH
Even straight-A students
waste 50 to 80 percent of their
study time.
More than 500 published studies keep reaching the same uncomfortable conclusion: the study methods almost everyone uses — rereading, highlighting, cramming, flipping flashcards — are among the least effective ways to move knowledge into long-term memory. They create the feeling of learning without the mastery tests require. Psychologists call it the fluency illusion: the second time through the notes, the words flow easily, and that ease feels like knowing. Then the test comes back lower than the effort deserved, and everyone blames the wrong suspect — motivation, the teacher, nerves, “bad test-taker.”
It was the method the whole time. It isn’t your child. It’s their study methods.
And that is genuinely good news — because a method can be replaced this week.
THE EFFORT-WASTER CHART
How many of these is your
student doing?
We scored the most common study activities by their net learning return — how much durable, test-ready mastery an hour of the activity actually produces. A negative score means the activity leaves a student knowing less than if they had skipped it entirely. Yes, that’s possible — and three of the most popular activities do exactly that.
The pattern is hard to unsee: the activities students spend the most time on return the least — and three of the most common leave students worse off than doing nothing at all. Three hours the old way, or one hour with Blast. You choose.
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DEFINITION
Learning Insanity
Continuing to use study methods and study tools that never get better at helping you — because they don’t learn or remember a single thing about you from one session to the next. Every flashcard app on earth treats your 500th session exactly like your first. Nothing accumulates. Nothing adapts. That isn’t a study system. That’s a treadmill.
The cure is a system that knows you — and gets smarter about you every single time you use it.
WHAT BLAST IS
Imagine a
world-class tutor who went to class with your child.
A tutor who figured out exactly what needs to be studied for this teacher’s next test. Who built study materials personally for your child — more time on what they haven’t mastered yet, less on what they already know. Who used accelerated-mastery strategies to reach the same mastery in about a third of the time. And who came back tomorrow a little better at the job, because every session teaches the tutor more about how your child learns.
That’s Blast — from day one.
The longer game
Blast knows what your student will need for high-stakes exams like the SAT and ACT — and it quietly builds that knowledge and those skills all year long. So the big exams arrive without panic, and without a $1,000 prep course.
For every test, in every class, Blast asks one question:
What grade do you want?
Then it builds the study material and the day-by-day plan to earn that grade with the least study time.
SEE BLAST IN ACTION
Watch the whole system work
— start to finish.
No abstractions. Here is exactly what your student sees and does, step by step. Each step is a 20–40 second clip.
CLIP 01
STEP 1
Log in and meet your Personal Learning Assistant
One home screen. Your assistant already knows your classes, your tests, and what to do next.
CLIP 02
STEP 2
Tell Blast the grade you want
For every test in every class, you set the target. Blast builds the plan to hit it. Your call, not ours.
CLIP 03
STEP 3
Capture the class
Blast sits in class like a world-class tutor: it listens through the app, takes notes on what matters, and frees your student to actually listen — so they learn more from the class itself. Then it extracts what the teacher wants mastered, builds your student’s personalized study material, and deletes the recording. No one ever hears the class — not even your student. There’s no tape, no transcript, nothing to replay or share. Just the finished study system.
Prefer to record another way? A laptop, phone, or small recorder works too — upload the audio after class, and Blast builds the same study system, extracting what matters and then deleting the recording.
STILLS 04
STEP 4
Can't record a class? No problem.
Blast Note-Taking. The Learning Assistant teaches your student to take short summary notes the expert way — which doubles as active-listening training — and turns those notes into the full study system.
The teacher’s learning objectives. Ask the teacher for the objectives covered in the lecture, upload them, and Blast builds complete lessons and study materials from the objectives alone.
CLIP 05
STEP 5
Use your study materials
A personalized summary written just for you. An interactive StudyCast that pauses to ask you questions — perfect for workouts, rides, or travel. Patented Blast Study Questions tuned to your personal challenge zone — hard enough to build memory fast, never so hard they discourage.
CLIP 06
STEP 6
Follow your personalized study schedule
Blast builds the ideal day-by-day schedule backward from test day to hit your target grade with the least total study time — and adjusts it automatically if you miss a session. Open Blast, do the next thing. No guessing, no cramming.
CLIP 07
STEP 7
Catch up (and get ahead) on Math
Genius Maker Math quietly finds the gaps from past years, builds a personal course to fill exactly those gaps, then moves your student ahead into next year’s material.
CLIP 08
STEP 8
Become an expert test-taker
It starts with one liberating fact: testing is a learnable skill, and there is no such thing as a naturally bad test-taker. Blast teaches the skill step by step.
CLIP 09
STEP 9
Become an Expert Learning Mechanic
The Mind Coach shows your student how their brain decides what to remember and what to forget — and how to work with it instead of against it.
CLIP 10
STEP 10
Become a Mental Control Master
Focus, emotional control, motivation, and follow-through — built as skills, one step at a time.
CLIP 10
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STEP 10
Become a Mental Control Master
Focus, emotional control, motivation, and follow-through — built as skills, one step at a time.
THE BLAST GRADE GUARANTEE — IN WRITING
Grades go up. Stress
goes down. Or every dollar back.
Here’s exactly how it works. Your first 14 days are free — your card isn’t charged at all. Billing starts on day 15, and if you cancel anytime during your first two paid months, we refund both payments in full. (Annual plans are covered too: cancel within 60 days of your annual payment for a full refund.)
And who decides whether grades went up and stress went down? You do. You’re the judge. No forms, no proof, no “did you follow the plan.” If you don’t see the difference, cancel, let us know, and we’ll issue the full refund — every dollar, no questions asked.
Now add it up: two free weeks plus two guaranteed months is ten full weeks — an entire grading period. Real quizzes. Real tests. A real report card. All of it comes back before you’ve risked a single dollar.
Why would we do this? Because a grade doesn’t change in a five-day trial, and we’re happy to wait for the report card. After 25 years of watching what these methods do to test scores, betting on the outcome doesn’t feel like a risk to us.
And either way, your family keeps the 7MTF results and everything your student learned. We take all of the risk — on purpose.
THE 60-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE: cancel anytime before your third monthly payment and your first two payments are refunded in full. Annual plans: cancel within 60 days of payment for a full refund.
INCLUDED FREE — THE PARENT LOGIN
You'll see it working.
Your free Parent Login shows how much your student is using Blast, what they’re studying right now, and which skills they’re building — focus, test-taking, learning power. No hovering, no nagging: a 30-second check-in, and conversations that start with progress instead of “did you study?”
Parent view · this week
FAMILIES ON BLAST
What comes back with the report card.
Students and families have been writing to us for years. Here’s what they say.
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She studied harder than anyone and kept getting C’s. Two weeks with Blast and her biology quiz came back a 91. She cried — the good kind this time.
PARENT OF A 9TH GRADER · 2026
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My son had the grades, but he was staying up late to study almost every night, wound so tight. He still gets the A’s with Blast — he’s just done way earlier now, and honestly he’s back to being himself.
Parent of an 11th grader · 2026
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He’s a gamer, so of course he treats Blast like a cheat code — figure out what’s most likely to be on the test, spend less time studying, done. His words: ‘I outsmarted the system.’ Can’t argue with the report card.
Parent of a 10th grader · 2026
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She’d kind of given up — kept telling me ‘I’m just not a school person and I’m bad at taking tests.’ (The nightly homework fights weren’t helping.) Then the first B+ after we started Blast, something in her face just changed. Now she’s the one reminding herself to study, which I still can’t believe.
Parent of an 8th grader · 2026
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I am a nurse today because of Blast Learning. I was on academic probation in my nursing program. Blast helped me turn my grades around and pass the NCLEX.
Registered Nurse · 2026
The pattern interrupt
Why does Blast cost so little?
That’s not a typo. Blast does what you’d otherwise buy from humans: a world-class tutor who goes to class with your child and personally tutors them in every subject — while also training focus and expert test-taking. Bought from humans, that costs thousands of dollars a month. Executive-function coaches charge $475 to $675 a month. Tutoring centers start around $300 — for one subject. We know exactly what world-class tutoring is worth, because our founder built the tutor-training system for one of the most prestigious tutor-certification associations.
Now the honest part: yes, Blast costs more than a quizzing app. But the quizzing app charges a hidden price — it just never shows up on the bill. If your student builds the study materials themselves, that’s hours of their time spent doing a trained tutor’s job — badly. And if they grab ready-made flashcards instead, those cards were written by another student or generated for a generic topic — not built from what your student’s teacher actually taught, emphasized, and is most likely to put on the test. The studying happens, but too much of it lands on the wrong material. Either way, every hour runs through methods the research rates at 10 to 20 cents of learning per hour of effort — especially in math and science. The cheap app isn’t cheap. It just bills you in your student’s time instead of your money.
So it comes down to one question: 3 hours of normal studying, or 1 hour with Blast? You choose. We think your student’s time — and future — are worth too much to spend even one hour inside a tool that doesn’t optimize every minute.
The ten-week experiment
Why do we give you ten weeks when most sites
give you five days?
Because a grade doesn’t change in five days. Measurable results take a grading period — several quizzes, a few real tests, a report card. So that’s exactly what we cover: two free weeks, then a 60-day money-back guarantee.
Here’s a secret about trial lengths: they’re a confession. A company gives you exactly as much time as it’s comfortable being measured for. Five-day trials are designed to bill you before your first quiz comes back — and the sites that demand a full year up front don’t want to be measured at all. Our best salesman is your student’s next report card, so we’re happy to wait for it.
1
Start free
Begin the trial at the start of a normal school week.
2
Let Blast run the plan
Every quiz and test for the grading period — your student just follows it.
3
Compare report cards
Put this one next to the last one. If the difference isn’t obvious, every dollar comes back.
✉ TRUTH IN RENEWAL — we email you before any charge, cancellation is one click, and your account page always shows the exact date your money-back window ends. We’d rather earn next month than trap you into it.
Pricing
Less than one hour of private tutoring. Per month.
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For comparison: executive-function coaches charge $475–675 a month. Tutoring centers charge $300+. A month of Blast costs less than 25 minutes with an executive-function coach.
One for one
Your subscription supports a foster care child.
Through no fault of their own, kids in foster care have very low high school graduation rates, and fewer than 5 percent earn college degrees. When your family joins Blast, a student in foster care gets Blast free.
Who Blast is for
Built for the student you have — and the edge
they deserve.
Blast is the advantage high-performing students use to stay ahead — and it adapts to what makes each student unique: attention span, motivation style, and how their memory prefers to work. Struggling, stressed, coasting, or already at the top of the class — the system tunes itself to your student. (One quiet truth from the research: the biggest gains of all go to the students the old methods failed the most.)
Misses class sometimes?
Athletes, performers, and students who travel: have the teacher or a friend record the lecture and send the file — Blast builds the complete study system from it. Or upload the teacher’s learning objectives for the classes you miss. Missing the class no longer means missing the material.
Homeschool families
Enter the learning objectives or standards behind any curriculum you’ve chosen, and Blast creates the complete lessons, study materials, and study plan aligned to them — plus the same parent dashboard and free parent license every Blast family receives.
Every kind of learner
Blast tunes to attention span, motivation style, and memory — a competitive advantage for the student at the top, and a fair fight at last for the student the old methods failed.
For teachers
Blast loves teachers. (Really.)
We are 100 percent aligned with the goal of every teacher: that every student masters the material you want them to master. Blast studies what you actually taught and emphasizes what you emphasized — it makes your class the center of a student’s studying, not a workaround to it.
A tool built just for you
When you meet with a student one-on-one, have them open the “Create Study Material from Learning Objectives” tool and give them the list of topics you think they should work on. Blast instantly builds world-class personal study material for exactly those topics — so your ten minutes with that student turns into a week of perfectly aimed practice.
For school administrators
Why we sell Blast to
families.
We sell Blast to parents and students on purpose: a personal learning assistant that travels with a student from grade to grade and school to school has to belong to the family. But we fully support your goals too. The more students at your school using Blast, the higher your school’s scores on state tests climb — and the happier your teachers are with the progress they see. If you’d like to bring Blast to your families, we’d love to talk.
The bottom line
Ten weeks. A full grading period. Zero risk.
The first two weeks are free. The next sixty days are covered by the money-back guarantee. Run Blast through real quizzes, real tests, and a real report card. If you don’t see the difference, cancel in one click, every dollar comes back, and we’ll part friends. If you do see it — and you will — you’ll wish you’d found this long before now. Either way, you’ll know.
Not ready to start? Take this with you: “7 Things Every Parent Must Know About Preparing Their Child to Thrive in the Age of AI” — a short, genuinely useful guide from the learning scientist behind Blast.