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In one sentence
Smallprof is a browser-based maths practice platform for children aged 5 to 14, with nothing to install, no advertising, and all data hosted in France.
In one paragraph
Smallprof offers sixteen maths "laboratories", from counting to algebra, which adjust their difficulty to the child's actual level through an internal adaptive engine called Tesseract Engine. An animated companion helps out with three adjustable levels of support, and a wrong answer never costs the child any points — a deliberate pedagogical choice, made in response to the anxiety that maths provokes in many children. Parents follow progress from their own dashboard. The service is available in six languages, contains no advertising, sends no child data to any third-party artificial intelligence, and is published by a French micro-enterprise based in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, close to the Swiss border.
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Sixteen maths laboratories for ages 5–14, in the browser, with no app to install. The level adapts to the child; a mistake never costs points. Free to start, €4.99 per month, hosted in France, no advertising.
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Smallprof is a browser-based maths practice platform for children aged 5 to 14, covering sixteen areas of mathematics from counting to algebra. Its adaptive engine adjusts difficulty to each child, never penalises mistakes, and runs without any large language model. Smallprof carries no advertising, uses no third-party trackers, and hosts its data in France. It is published by Caroline Daniel, a micro-enterprise registered in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France. More at smallprof.com.
The story
Smallprof started from an object: the Little Professor, the small orange calculator launched in 1976, which set the problem for the child instead of solving it for them. Fifty years on, the idea still holds — it is the object that aged.
Smallprof takes that principle and extends it: instead of one kind of arithmetic, sixteen areas of mathematics; instead of fixed difficulty, a level that follows the child; instead of a segment display, a companion that explains. The project was built for its creator's own children before being opened up to other families, and that origin explains two decisions a conventional commercial publisher would not have made: no advertising, and no penalty for getting something wrong.
Fast facts
| Service name | Smallprof |
|---|---|
| Website | smallprof.com |
| What it is | Browser-based maths practice platform |
| Audience | Children aged 5 to 14, on an account managed by a parent |
| Content | 16 laboratories, from counting to algebra, including a mode inspired by the Little Professor |
| Companions | 5 characters, with 3 adjustable levels of help |
| Languages | French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese |
| Mobile app | None. The service runs in the browser, on desktop, tablet and phone |
| Free plan | 10 questions per day, 1 child, discovery access to all 16 laboratories |
| Premium | €4.99 per month or €49.99 per year, 1 child |
| Family | €8.99 per month or €89.99 per year, up to 3 children |
| Trial | 30 days, no credit card, no commitment |
| Gift subscription | One year, single payment, no automatic renewal |
| Payments | Stripe. No card details pass through Smallprof |
| Hosting | OVH, France |
| Advertising | None |
| Third-party trackers | None. Traffic measurement is server-side, aggregated and anonymised |
| Artificial intelligence | The teaching engine is not a language model. No child data is sent to any third-party AI |
| Child identity | First name, family nickname and a 4-digit PIN. No child email address, no social features, no messaging |
| Public leaderboard | Off by default; only a parent can turn it on |
| Publisher | Caroline Daniel, micro-enterprise — 4 rue de l'Industrie, 74160 Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France |
| Company registration (SIRET) | 841 685 043 00025 |
| Publisher of record | Richard Daniel |
| Public launch | November 1, 2026 (planned) |
What we do not publish: no user numbers, no revenue figures, no measured learning outcomes to date — we would rather publish nothing than publish something unverifiable. These figures will appear here as soon as they are sound.
Three angles for a story
Getting it wrong costs nothing
On Smallprof, a wrong answer never removes points. The child sees the correct answer, gets an explanation, and moves on. This runs against the logic of most educational games, which are built on losing lives or points, and it addresses a well-documented problem: the fear of being wrong in maths.
An educational product with no AI, in 2026
The engine that selects each question is not a language model. It works from explicit rules and from the child's own history, and it classifies mistakes by nature — carrying, borrowing, sign and times-table errors. No child's answer ever leaves the infrastructure to be analysed by a third-party service. At a moment when conversational tutors are multiplying, that is a counter-choice worth examining.
A tribute to a 1976 object
Texas Instruments' Little Professor inverted the logic of the calculator: the machine asked, the child answered. Smallprof applies that inversion across an entire maths curriculum. The angle is both technical and about design heritage.
Media kit — downloads
| Smallprof logo | Available: PNG · WebP |
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| Laboratory screenshots, companion visuals, founder portrait | In preparation |
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