About Augmind Studio

Who runs it

Augmind Studio was started by a few parents for their own children. Our kids compete in middle-school speech in Massachusetts, and we wanted two things we couldn’t find: every session putting them on their feet, and every recording coming back with a coach’s written note. We build the software the school teaches on ourselves, and we run the school day to day. It exists to answer one question honestly: how much of learning to speak well can software carry, and which parts still need a coach in the room.

Our coaches are experienced speech & debate coaches. They teach every live session and sign every report. We don't publish a coach's name or photo without their say-so, so the coach page will appear when each coach has approved their own profile.

What we teach

Future Voices is the speech & debate sequence for grades 4–12: Foundations (twelve small-group sessions for students who have never done this), competition prep (six sessions, scheduled backwards from a tournament date), camps during school breaks, and private one-on-one coaching at any point. Placement is a personal reply to the note a family sends us.

The Hot Seat is for adults: a free 60-second Pressure Test against executive-style questioning, then a one-time-price 7-Day Sprint. No coach, no signup.

What we are not

Not an AI tutor. The software transcribes, drafts a report against the coaching rubric, and quotes the student's own words as evidence. A coach reads it, edits it, and signs it — nothing reaches a student or family until then, and there is no setting that skips that step.

Not a software vendor. The platform is built for our own classrooms and isn't sold to other programs at present.

Not a competition mill. Skills first; tournaments are the outlet for the students who catch the bug, not the hook.

What happens to a child's recording

Recordings are seen by the coach and the family, and nobody else. They're deleted 90 days after a class's last session (90 days after a free speaking check), never used in marketing without a parent's written permission, and never used to train models.