Academics
CauseQuest
Take on a real issue at your school or park (ages 9–14): frame it fairly at a fixable mechanism, check your sources, map who is affected and who decides, plan a real first step, and report honestly. Non-partisan civic action research for tweens, computed and stored on-device.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
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Meet the cast
Each character in CauseQuest shows one step of making a change in your community: naming a problem you can fix, checking where facts come from, asking who is affected and who decides, finding a real first step, listening to the other side, and reporting what happened. They model good process, never a political side.
Kwesi
the issue-framer — names a fixable mechanism to fix, never a person to blame
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Bijan
the evidence-checker — spots the spin and checks who is behind a source
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Wrenna
the stakeholder-mapper — asks who is affected AND who can decide
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Tavi
the feasibility-checker — turns a big wish into a real first step
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Miko
the fair listener — hears the other side and makes the plan better
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Ansel
the honest reporter — shares what happened, including what did not work
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What's inside
Learning goal
Take on a real issue at your school or park (ages 9–14): frame it fairly at a fixable mechanism, check your sources, map who is affected and who decides, plan a real first step, and report honestly. Non-partisan civic action research for tweens, computed and stored on-device.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned question kits, 400 questions in all, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
How CauseQuest handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
CauseQuest runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
CauseQuest is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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