What's in the Friday parent digest (and what we deliberately leave out).

Where this is in the shipping arc: at launch, parents can pull a per-child report (PDF + JSON) from the parent portal anytime — XP, problems attempted, skill gaps, recent sessions. The polished weekly digest below — minutes by state, mastery heatmap, win + stuck lists, next-week plan, auto-emailed Friday afternoon — is the v1.1 milestone. This post is its spec.

The 30-second version.

The Friday digest is one email per child per week. It tells you four things — what your child worked on, where things clicked, where they didn't, and what Koda plans to do next week. It's written in plain English. It does not score your child against other kids. It does not include a streak. It does not ask you to do anything. The whole thing fits on one screen.

The five things in every digest.

1. The minutes line.

Total active minutes that week, plus a breakdown by day. Minutes spent solving, stuck, reviewing, and on break— the four states the supervisor tracks. We don't count idle time. If your child sat down and stared at the worksheet for 10 minutes, those 10 minutes are in the “stuck” bucket, not the “solving” bucket.

The number you get is honest. Some weeks it'll be 90 minutes. Some weeks it'll be 12. We don't massage either one.

2. The mastery heatmap.

A small grid of the topics your child worked on. Green is solid. Yellow is forming. Red is the next thing to push on. The grid only shows topics actively in play; you don't see a sea of grey for everything your child hasn't reached yet. (We had a longer version with the full curriculum mapped; it overwhelmed parents in early testing. The smaller grid feels less like a report card and more like a dashboard.)

3. The stuck list.

Specific problems your child got wrong this week, paired with the small idea behind each one. Not “your child got 7/10 wrong on multi-digit addition.” Closer to: “your child carried a 1 into the wrong column twice — they read “47 + 28” as “47 + 8” once they saw the second column. Koda is showing place-value pictures alongside the algorithm next week.”

The stuck list is the most useful section, and the one that took longest to design. The rule we settled on: every miss has to be named with a specific small idea, never aggregated into a percent. Percents are the thing that makes parents anxious without giving them anything to do.

4. The win list.

What clicked this week. A topic that moved from yellow to green. A boss problem your child got on the second try. A focus chunk they finished that they walked away from last week. Same rule as the stuck list — specific, small, named.

5. The next-week plan.

One sentence on what Koda is teeing up for the coming week. Not a grand learning objective; a small, specific thing. “Next week: we're moving to two-digit addition with regrouping. Place-value blocks come back as the picture; the algorithm follows.” You can pause it. You can skip it. You don't have to.

Plus, sometimes, a Koda-quoted moment.

If your child wants — and only if they want — Koda includes one quote from the week. Something the tutor said in response to a stuck moment, or a small celebration the kid earned. It's a window into how the tutor talks to your child, in their voice, around your child. We didn't want to put the entire session transcript in your inbox; we did want to give you one specific texture.

What the digest does not include.

No streak counter.

The digest never says “your child has worked X days in a row” and never says “don't break your streak.” If your child took 2 days off, those 2 days don't earn a guilt-laced line in the email. The reasoning, in long form, is in the no-streaks note.

No comparison to other kids.

We don't tell you your child is in the 73rd percentile of 4th graders. We don't tell you the average minutes per week of other Koda families. We don't tell you what the “recommended” time is. The reference point in the digest is your child a week ago — not other people's children.

No call to action.

We don't ask you to upgrade, post on social, or share the digest. Not even a unsubscribe-bait footer. The email's job is to keep you informed once a week and otherwise leave you alone.

No hidden detail in your child's view.

Your child can read the digest too if they want — there's a kid-facing version at the same URL when they're signed in. Same content, slightly warmer phrasing. We don't hide the stuck list from them. The digest is honest in both directions.

How to read a week that looks rough.

A bad week looks like: low minutes, a lot of yellow on the heatmap, a long stuck list, a short win list. That's normal. Some weeks are spring break. Some weeks the kid has a cold. Some weeks the math actually got hard, and the kid is struggling like a kid struggles when they're building something new. The digest will tell you which kind of bad week it was, in the next-week plan: if Koda is moving on, the struggle was productive; if Koda is rerunning the same topic with a different angle, the struggle was structural and worth a closer look.

The thing parents do that makes a bad week worse is doubling the homework time the next week. The thing that helps is doing the same focus chunk the kid was already doing — calmer, with a smaller worksheet, and an eye for whether the “stuck” minutes outnumber the “solving” minutes. If stuck-time is winning over a stretch, that's a signal to talk to the kid (or the human tutor, if you have one), not to add 20 minutes.

If you want one.

The digest goes out Friday afternoon, once your child is enrolled and there's a real week to report on. There's a sample one in the parent portal walkthrough video on the homepage. The waitlist gets you launch details and early-bird pricing. Drop your email and we'll write when there's something to ship.