Pensar is an applied-AI and cognitive-science startup co-founded by 📝Charles Seely, focused on building learning- and content-understanding tools that draw on decades of cognitive-science research into how people read, comprehend, and retain information.
The team behind Pensar is drawn from cognitive-science and AI research, including researchers credited with formulating and testing foundational theories of learning and cognition over the prior four decades and conducting some of the most extensive applied-education research published. The product roadmap has included writing-assistance tools that surface real-time feedback on reading level, readability, memorability, the prior knowledge required of the reader, and the major concepts present in a draft — positioning the platform between a writing tool and a learning-design assistant.