About
LetsHarkness LLC builds educational software for classrooms where students do the talking.
We make tools for discussion-based teaching: mapping who speaks to whom as it happens, giving students feedback they can act on, and taking repetitive work off teachers' desks. The company was founded in 2026 by a high-school English teacher and is based in New Jersey.
How we build
- Classroom first.
- Every product runs in the founder's own classes before anyone else sees it. What breaks on a Tuesday is fixed that week.
- Quiet by design.
- No accounts where none are needed, nothing to configure, no points or badges for their own sake. The discussion is the product; the software stays out of its way.
- Candid about AI.
- Where a product uses generated content or a language model, the page says so, and the teacher keeps the last word.
Products
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Let's Harkness
Live discussion mapping for seminar classrooms.
Teachers tap the speaker, then whoever answers. The map builds on the board as the discussion runs, and a report with the timeline and participation detail is emailed when it ends.
live
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Frame Judge
Visual judgment practice for photography and yearbook courses.
Students pick which of two images shows a compositional element better, then read why. The images are AI-generated and labeled as such.
in pilot
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Course Pop
Short illustrated courses from a single topic.
Drafts a mini-course with a check for understanding after each lesson, for the topics that need more than a worksheet.
limited release
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Apps Script guides for teachers
Automation guides for teachers on Google Workspace.
A plain-language guide and a detailed one for writing and installing small Gmail, Docs and Sheets scripts, in districts that block the usual tools.
live
Company
- Legal name
- LetsHarkness LLC
- Formed
- March 2026, New Jersey
- Registered with
- New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services
- Based in
- Rockaway, New Jersey
- Focus
- Educational software for secondary and higher education