Mastery by relentless action
I built Kleus, an AI coach that turns the books, videos and podcasts you keep saving into 15-minute daily lessons. It checks in on WhatsApp, grades what you write, and keeps you going after the motivation runs out.
§ I The problem
Courses are passive and coaches are expensive, and both fail at the same point: the gap between knowing and doing, repeated every day. Meanwhile the video you saved stays saved, and the book stops at chapter three.
Accountability is the product. Everything else in Kleus, the plans, the lessons, the learning science, is there for one job: getting you to show up again tomorrow.
§ II How it works
Paste a YouTube or Apple Podcasts link, upload a book or a PDF, or just name a topic. Kleus reads the whole thing, splits it into core concepts and teaches them one short lesson a day.
Gets split into core concepts & topics
§ III The check-in
Nobody abandons WhatsApp. So Kleus doesn't ask you to build a new habit around a new app. It sends the lesson, takes “later” for an answer, and comes back when you said it should.
§ IV The check
Reading feels like learning. Writing proves it. Each lesson asks for a guess before it explains, then closes with a few questions answered in your own words. Kleus scores them out of 100, quotes your answer back, names what landed and what was missing, and writes tomorrow from the result.
In 1793 the Revolution executed Louis XVI to end monarchy forever. Eleven years later France crowned Napoleon, legally, step by step.
After taking power by force, how did Napoleon persuade ordinary French citizens to accept his new government?
Guess first. Every lesson asks before it tells.
Your 2 answers
How did Napoleon convince French citizens that crowning him as a hereditary emperor would protect the gains of the Revolution rather than destroy them?
He argued that if he died the old royal family would come back and take everyone's land, so a hereditary line was the only way to keep what the revolution had given them.
What landed: The land argument, and that the threat was framed as protection rather than power.
What was missing: The vote. Parliament and a national plebiscite gave the crown legal cover, which is why it held where a decree would not have.
Walk me through how Napoleon used his soldiers during the coup of 18 Brumaire to dismantle the existing government and put the Consulate in its place.
The plan moves on. Nothing is repeated for the sake of it.
It counts as done, and the weak ideas come back inside the rest of the chapter.
A focused redo, spaced a lesson away. No lecture.
§ V Decisions
Five calls that shaped Kleus. None of them were the AI's to make.
An app you have to remember to open is one more thing to quit. Nobody abandons WhatsApp. So the lesson, the reminders and the feedback all arrive in a chat you already live in, on WhatsApp or Telegram.
A plan that opens with your biggest commitment gets abandoned in week one. So every plan starts at fifteen minutes, and only ramps up to the time you picked over the first three lessons.
Picking an answer from a list tests whether you recognise it. Writing it tests whether you know it. So every lesson ends in your own words, scored out of 100, and the ideas you missed come back in later lessons.
No streak to lose and nothing to restart. A missed day is logged without comment and the plan bends around your week. Shame is what makes people quit, so I designed it out.
The AI never decides when to message you, how long a lesson runs or when an idea comes back. That's code and SQL, with tests. The AI writes the lessons, the questions and the feedback, and if it's ever down, the reminders still go out from lines I wrote myself.
§ VI Under the hood
I made the product calls: what the coach says, when it speaks, what counts as learned. AI did most of the typing, inside rules I wrote down and enforced with tests.
97of 120 days
Kleus's tagline is a promise about consistency, so I held the build to it. Since the first commit on 10 June, 97 of the 120 days to 7 October 2026 have at least one.
Most of them fail the build in CI, so they can't quietly drift.
AI can write a lesson in seconds. Deciding when to speak, when to stay quiet and how to grade someone honestly is the real work. That part was mine.
The book you haven't finished, the video you saved, or the topic you keep coming back to. Kleus is live, and you can try a sample lesson for free, with no account.
Visit kleus.ai