Built for Students

Everyone else uses AI to
skip the work.

VERA captures what you're juggling, prioritizes what matters, proves what you've done, and builds proof of capability that gets you hired.

Your data stays on your device
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The Problem

Your life is chaos that looks organized.

Count the open loops in your head right now. Canvas announcements. That group project partner who went dark. Unreviewed lecture notes. A research paper due Friday. 4 internship applications sitting in drafts.

Your phone buzzes. You check it. You're not sure what you were doing before it buzzed. This is your baseline.

47 notifications across 6 apps

Every platform screams equally loudly. You can't tell what matters.

2h 26m actual productive time in a 10-hour day

3 weeks out from a paper you don't remember starting

It's February. Your April final project is somewhere in your Notes app. Maybe.

82% of students have no time management system

You learned a ton. Nobody knows.

You taught yourself Python. You managed a club budget. Your résumé has your major and a GPA.

53% of students can't articulate their own skills

ChatGPT did it. But did you?

You used AI to unblock the essay. Now you're wondering: did I actually learn this?

53% feel anxious about AI making them lazier

You're drowning in signals and starving for signal.

Let's Be Honest

Okay, let's talk about the guilt.

You've used AI to help with homework. Most of your classmates have. 70% of students use AI weekly. But 53% feel anxious about it. There's a reason for that.

Using AI to skip the work leaves you anxious.
Using VERA to do the work leaves you with proof.
ChatGPT writes the essay. You get the grade. You learned nothing.
VERA tracks the work. You build the skill. You own the evidence.
No one knows if you used AI to cheat or to think.
VERA verifies every skill. The difference is verifiable.

You're not lazy. You're conscious. VERA is built for people like you.

What VERA Does

Four things that solve the chaos.

Capture one-handed, prioritize ruthlessly, prove what's real, and build something that compounds over time.

Capture (⌘J)

Most used

Nothing falls through the cracks

Between classes. Walking to the library. 3am thought spiral. One keystroke captures everything — voice, text, screenshot, link. Your brain gets lighter.

Prioritize

Decision fatigue: solved

5 classes, 12 deadlines, a part-time job, and a club meeting. VERA picks the one that matters right now. Not the one screaming loudest.

Brain

Knowledge that compounds

Your freshman research becomes your senior thesis. Class notes link to project ideas. Everything you learn connects to everything else. Unlike Notion, it does this automatically.

Focus Blocks

Proof of real work

You'll actually know how productive you are — not how productive you feel. Verified focus time. The thing Forest, Toggl, and every Pomodoro app pretends to track.

Verification

While you work, you're being verified.

Every skill you build is invisible to employers. Your résumé says “Python” — so does everyone else's. VERA changes that.

JC

Jordan Chen

Computer Science + Economics · 2027

Verified Skills

Python DevelopmentData AnalysisProject LeadershipTechnical WritingProblem SolvingCollaboration

Power Score

7.4

/ 10

Verified by

ELITE

By the time you graduate, you don't apply with a résumé. You apply with verified proof.

Compound Effect

What compounds over 4 years? Everything.

Every semester you delay costs you a semester's worth of compounding. Start freshman year, and by graduation you have something no one else does.

Semester 1

The Chaos Layer

200+captures
3verified skills
3.2Power Score

Rough but there. You're capturing everything, building the habit.

Semester 4

Expertise Visible

1,200+captures
12verified skills
6.8Power Score

Patterns emerge. Internship-ready. Your Brain suggests connections you didn't see.

Semester 6

You Can See It

3,500+captures
19verified skills
7.6Power Score

47-page portfolio, auto-generated. Research from year 1 feeds year 3 projects.

Semester 8

The Credential

6,200+captures
27verified skills
8.2Power Score

You don't need to explain what you know. It's verified, searchable, and shareable.

Start now. Your future self will thank you.

Replaces Your Stack

Stop juggling six apps that don't talk to each other.

Notion for notes. Todoist for tasks. Forest for focus. Evernote for clipping. Obsidian for linking. A dozen random apps that each solve 10% of the problem. VERA does all of it.

Notes & Docs

Notion, Evernote, Apple Notes
Brain with auto-linking & wiki syntax

Task Management

Todoist, Trello, Google Tasks
Projects with Kanban & Table views

Focus Timer

Forest, Toggl, generic Pomodoro apps
Verified focus blocks with proof

Knowledge Base

Obsidian, Roam, bookmarks, tabs
Auto-linked captures with search

Quick Capture

Voice memos, random screenshots, sticky notes
⌘J — voice, text, screenshot, link

Skill Tracking

Nothing. Your résumé. Maybe LinkedIn.
Verified skills with Power Score

$65–200/monthacross all those apps

VERA: Free

Plus verification, compounding knowledge, and actual ownership of your data.

Privacy First

Your data is yours. Actually.

Every app you use collects data on you — what you read, what you write, how long you focus. VERA is different. Your captures stay on your device. We can't see them. We can't sell them. We can't train on them.

Local-First

SQLite, encrypted with AES-256. Everything stays on your device. Cloud sync is optional — you choose.

Owned, Not Rented

If you leave, your data leaves with you. Export as Markdown, PDF, or raw database. No lock-in.

Encrypted by Default

End-to-end encryption. Even we can't decrypt what's on our servers. You hold the keys.

That's not a feature we're proud of. That's the baseline.

See your captures or notes
Train AI models on your data
Sell insights to advertisers
Require cloud sync
Pricing

Built for students. Priced for students.

No credit card. No dark patterns. Core features are free forever.

Most students start here

FREE

Unlimited captures
Full Brain
3 focus sessions/week
Basic skill tracking
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$12/month
Lifetime student rate with .edu email
Unlimited focus sessions
Advanced Brain
Full verification
Advanced analytics
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FAQ

Questions students ask.

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You already know you're overthinking this.

By the time you graduate, something's going to be true: either you'll have a résumé like everyone else, or you'll have verified proof.

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