Little Known pilot: terms

What the pilot is

Little Known turns a photo of your child's homework into short practice activities. It is made by Brave Beginnings. The pilot is a free test with up to ten invited families, running from November 2026 to January 2027. We are testing whether it helps, and what needs fixing.

What we ask of you

• Add your child's homework each week by taking a photo of the sheet.
• Keep your child's name out of the photo, or crop it out, before you send it.
• Let your child use the activities when it suits your family. There is no minimum.
• If you are happy to, tell us what worked and what did not, in a short conversation at about week 2 and week 6.

What we keep

Your email address, your child's first name and year group, the character they pick, how they like the app set up, the words and numbers from the homework sheet with no names, how they get on, and how they said they felt if the feelings check-in is on. We never ask for a date of birth, surname, address, school, diagnosis or any special educational needs information. The privacy notice says why we keep each thing and for how long.

How the homework photo is read

An AI service, Anthropic's Claude, reads the photo to find the words and numbers on the sheet. Anthropic does this in the United States. It keeps the photo and what it read for up to 30 days and then deletes them, and it does not use them to train its AI. We delete our copy of the photo once the activities are built, or within 7 days if a person needs to check it first. Your child never talks to the AI or types anything to it.

Who can see it

• You, and a second grown-up if you invite one.
• The person running the pilot can see your email address, your child's first name and year group. They also review homework photos that the automatic checks could not settle. They cannot see your child's progress or feelings. If you tell us an activity looked wrong, they can also see the questions your child was given in it, not their answers.
• A content reviewer sees a homework photo only when the automatic checks could not settle something, or when the week is picked for a 1 in 10 quality check. They see the photo and the year group, not your name. If your child's name is on the photo, they ignore it and never copy it.
• The services we use to run it: Supabase (stores the data, in London), Vercel (runs the app, in London), Anthropic (reads the homework photo, in the United States) and Brevo (sends the emails, from France, Germany and Belgium).

Nothing is sold, shared for advertising, or used to train any AI model.

Your child

Please talk to your child about taking part, and only go ahead if they are happy to. Your child can stop at any time too.

Stopping

You can stop at any time without giving a reason. Ask us, or use "Delete my account" in the grown-up area, and everything is deleted within 30 days. You can also take back any of the agreements below, one at a time, in the grown-up area under Account. If you take back the one about photos, no more homework can be added, but Practice any time still works. Taking back either of the first two closes your account, because we cannot run it without them; we tell you this and ask you to confirm before anything happens.

Questions and complaints

Contact Katia Grobecker at support@littleknown.co.uk. If you are unhappy with how we have used your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. The full details are in the Little Known privacy notice for parents.

What you agree to

When you set up your account you see these boxes. None is ticked to start with. The first three are needed to take part; the last is up to you. We record each box you tick, when you ticked it, and which version of this page and the privacy notice you were shown. Only the grown-up who sets up the account ticks them; a second grown-up you invite does not. If your account is closed, we keep that record for two years, with your email address kept only in a scrambled form, so we can show what was agreed if we are ever asked. Nothing else is kept.

Version 1, 25 October 2026