Pre-pilot · for independent guitar teachers in India
You teach for an hour a week. They practise for six days you never see.
Teyks turns those six days into one short, factual record — so you walk into the lesson already knowing what happened.
No score. No grade. No stars.
Free during the pilot. Nothing for sale yet.
What a brief looks like
An example week.
A real screen from the app — the same one a teacher opens before a lesson. 16 bars, one section. The numbers are made up for this page.
The real problem
It's rarely bad practice. It's no practice — or no word of it.
Ask any teacher what gets in the way: a student who didn't pick up the instrument this week, or one who did — and you won't know which until they're in front of you, guessing along with them. Both come from the same gap: six days nobody watches. Teyks closes it daily, for the student and parent as much as you — not a streak to keep alive, just an honest record of what happened. A practice diary is a page filled in from memory, usually on the way to the lesson. Teyks isn't asking anyone to remember.
What you get
One short brief per student — one screen, before the lesson.
One screen per student, read on your phone. Nothing to check daily, nothing to keep alive.
- Whether they practised, and on which days
- How long, and how many takes
- That each take is checked against the piece you set — and if one can't be measured, you're told that plainly, not left guessing
- What tempo they settled at, and whether it held
- Which parts of the piece the time went into
How it works
You assign. They practise. You read the brief.
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You assign.
Piece, section, target tempo, one note if you want — done at the end of a lesson.
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They practise, and record it.
You send a link. They open it on whatever phone is in the house — no app, no login, no password. Tap once to start, once to stop. It saves and sends on its own, over any connection. A ten-minute practice is under a minute of their time on top.
Nothing records until a parent has agreed, on their own phone.
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You read the brief.
On your phone, before the lesson. If there is something worth saying back, you release it — in your words, under your name.
What Teyks will not do
Teyks reports what happened. It does not judge your student.
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It will not judge your student. How well they played is your call, not a machine's.
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Nothing evaluative reaches a student unless you send it. Plain facts go straight to them; anything that reads like judgment waits for you.
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No streaks, points or badges. A child should practise because it's worth doing, not to keep a number alive.
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It does not listen in live. Only the takes a student records and submits — never a continuous stream, never in the background.
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We do not train AI models on your students' recordings — not now, and not during the pilot.
Who it is for
Independent guitar teachers in India.
Any number of students, teaching towards grade exams or not. Guitar first.
Works on any phone from the last five years. Nothing to install.
Questions
A few things teachers ask.
Is Teyks free right now?
Yes. Free now, and free through the pilot. Nothing is for sale yet.
Which instrument does it support?
Guitar first. Other instruments may come later, but that isn't decided yet.
Does it record my students without asking?
No. No child is recorded until a parent has read what we do and agreed, on their own phone — and they can withdraw at any time.
Will it grade or score my students?
No. Teyks reports what happened in practice — how much, how long, what tempo. What it means is your call, not a machine's.
Are the recordings used to train AI models?
No — not now, and not during the pilot. We do not train AI models on your students' recordings.
What will this cost when it stops being free?
Nothing is for sale yet. We haven't set a price — you'll hear it from me during the pilot, and nobody is charged without agreeing first.
What happens to my students' recordings if I stop using Teyks, or if you shut down?
A parent can ask us to delete their child's recordings at any time, whether you're still using Teyks or not — that door is theirs, and it doesn't go through you. Your own records leave with you, or are kept read-only — no longer added to, but still there — whichever you choose. We delete them whenever you ask. There is no lock-in clause anywhere in this, deliberately.
Where we are
We're inviting a small number of teachers in early.
Teyks is pre-pilot — not finished, nothing for sale yet. We've been building this with a handful of guitar teachers already. We're now inviting 10 more who want to help build it, not just use it later. Leave your name and number; we'll reach out ourselves — no mailing list, no automated reply.
I'm Manuj Garg. I'm building Teyks on my own. I spent this year sitting with teachers, students, and parents asking what actually gets in the way — it was always the same six days between lessons. When you leave your number, it's me who calls.
Rather talk first?