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History, English, philosophy, political science. Reading-heavy, writing-graded, and the exact place answer machines do the most quiet damage.
You upload the syllabus, the week's readings, and the essay prompt. Brainback writes practice questions from those — not a generic bank. When you draft, it asks which claim your evidence actually supports, where the counterargument lives, and what the source says versus what you wish it said. It will not hand you a thesis, a paragraph, or an outline. That's the point.
Upload the syllabus and this week's reading. Then draft one claim — even a bad one.
An honest before-and-after — the specific gaps Brainback closes for a student in this stage of the arc.
Same problem. Same student. Two different definitions of “productive.”
The actual daily shape of a Brainback week for this stage. Adjust for your own load — the rhythm compounds even if the volume varies.
Recall pass on last week's readings (10 min)
Practice question from this week's reading (15 min)
Explain-back: one argument from the week, in your words
Brain score check; upload next week's readings
None of these are automatic. Each is a signal that the product is working — or isn’t. If you don’t hit the week-4 milestone, revisit the plan.
First recall card that cites a page number
First thesis you wrote before the body
Mock midterm scored above your real one
Final paper drafted with zero generated sentences
Not a magic diet. A specific sequence of habits Brainback builds around you. The pace is designed for a student with a normal life outside coursework.
Upload the syllabus. Brainback parses the week-by-week readings and assessments into a timeline.
Add each week's readings as they come. Recall cards per reading — cause, consequence, who argued what.
First essay: draft your claim in the attempt well before you write a word of body text.
Midterm: a mock built from your own readings — identify, contextualize, argue.
Final paper: the hint ladder coaches structure and evidence. The sentences are yours.
All seven product surfaces are always on. But this stage of the arc weights them differently. Below are the ones a humanities & writing student ends up leaning on hardest.
Draft the claim first. The tutor argues with it; it never replaces it.
Rung 3 is structure, rung 5 is evidence. The sentence stays yours.
If you can't teach the argument back, you haven't read it.
Dates, thinkers, and claims — cited to the page — until they stick.
A thesis is treated exactly like a number: withheld, every time.
Add these as Learn subjects and Brainback treats every problem inside them as academic — everything else goes to Efficiency mode. Every subject below has its own dedicated page with topics, common mistakes, and hint examples.
Argument, evidence, causation.
Your voice, sharpened.
Argument mapping over vibe.
Read closely. Cite carefully.
Institutions, incentives, and history.
Recommended plan: Student. Essay-heavy terms burn through the free tier's daily messages by Wednesday. See all plans →
We say no to some prospects. Better to be honest here than to have you sign up and churn in week two.
It asked me which sentence in the reading actually proved my point. I'd quoted one that didn't. That question was the whole essay.
Not a sentence. It coaches claim, evidence, structure and counterargument. If you push for a paragraph 'as an example', the output guard treats that like asking for a numeric answer.
From what you upload: the readings, the lecture slides, the prompt. Every question shows the page or slide it was written from.
Yes. Upload the source (PDF or a photo of the page). Questions will ask what the text supports, what it assumes, and what a historian would contest.
It flags GRAMMAR and USAGE as error types in your attempt. It does not rewrite. For citations, it points at the rule; you apply it.
Argument reconstruction, objection, reply. That's the whole hint ladder for a philosophy prompt.
The lines between stages are messy. If more of the day-in-the-life above sounds like someone else, follow the link.
→for humanities & writing
Free tier works. Add your subjects in 30 seconds. Attempt-first from the first problem.