Enrolling now for Fall 2026 · TK to 8th · All of California
You teach.
An AI copilot does the paperwork.
Basecamp Online is a California private school (PSP) that enrols your homeschooled child as our student, and gives you, the parent-teacher, an AI copilot that drafts weekly plans, writes module content, reads student submissions, and pre-fills grades. Every draft is yours to approve, edit, or throw out. Your child gets an in-context AI tutor with locked guardrails; you keep the pen on their curriculum, their feedback, and their grades. Family Plan: $95/mo for your first student, $50/mo per additional. One household, one subscription, up to 5.
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A private school operating under California’s private-school affidavit (Education Code § 33190).
If any of this sounds familiar…
- You love the idea of homeschooling, but the affidavit, attendance logs, course-of-study files, and transcript-building feel like a second job.
- Your charter's rules and audits are wearing you down, or your funds just got cut.
- Your child needs out of their current school now, and you need it to be legal, immediate, and good.
- You want a professional school of record behind you, without giving up teaching your way.
There’s a name for the solution: a Private School Satellite Program. Basecamp built the modern, online version of it.
The name is the philosophy
A base camp isn’t the summit. It’s where expeditions launch from and return to. In our model, your home is the base camp for learning, which happens where it actually lives; at home, out in the world, at your family’s pace, with you leading it. Basecamp is the place it comes back to, where it’s planned, made sense of, and recorded.
We don’t think a child’s education is a race, and we won’t sell you one. A decade of international education research points the same direction: students who learn to thrive (manage their time, ask precise questions, work with others, recover from setbacks) outperform students who are merely pushed to perform. Not instead of achievement. As the engine of it.
Basecamp exists so that students learn how to climb any mountain, for the rest of their lives.
We build calm, capable, self-directed learners. Grades and transcripts always follow. They are the view from the ridge, not the reason for the climb.
1. Who your child becomes
Calm, organized, and self-advocating. Mastery pacing means your child competes with the material, not with other kids. Productive struggle is part of the climb, not a verdict.
2. What you notice at home
Fewer meltdowns over schoolwork. A workspace set up without being asked. A dinner-table sentence that starts with “I figured out what I was confused about.”
3. What shows up in the records
Mastery progress by subject, semester transcripts, spring growth results, kept by a real school office. The view from the ridge, not the reason for the climb.
In that order, on purpose. The third is the promise every school makes. The first two are what make it happen, and what you’ll notice first.
What the Family Plan actually buys
An AI copilot for the parent-teacher
Chat with an assistant that can plan a course, draft a module (instructions + rubric + starter files), read a student submission, and pre-fill the grade. Every action runs under your permissions and shows up in an action log. The AI drafts. You decide.
AI-drafted, parent-approved curriculum
The platform drafts your weekly plans and a family-facing syllabus from your Course of Study. You approve, edit, or throw them out. Course of Study itself is reviewed and countersigned by our registrar every fall. No rubber stamps.
Legal cover in 48 hours
From application to enrollment verification letter in two business days. That is the document that answers any district inquiry. Leaving another school? We hand you the exact withdrawal letter to send.
AI drafts. You decide.
An agentic copilot for the parent-teacher. Not a chatbot for your kid.
Homeschool platforms usually put AI in front of the child and hope the parent notices. Basecamp flips it: the parent-teacher gets an agentic assistant that handles the paperwork. The child gets a Socratic tutor that is guarded, guided, and programmed to ask the next question instead of handing over the answer. Every AI output that touches the record passes through you first.
Teacher Assistant (agentic)
Chat with a copilot that does things: create courses, add modules, read student work, draft grades. All via tool calls that run under your session. It cannot exceed your permissions, and every action is logged in the chat.
Module generator
Give a topic; the AI drafts a full module: student-facing instructions in markdown, a points-summing rubric, and a starter file bundle. Nothing publishes until you press save.
Syllabus writer
From your course + modules, the AI drafts a parent-facing syllabus in your voice. You edit, publish, or discard. Our registrar countersigns the underlying Course of Study every fall.
Instant, ungraded feedback
The moment a student submits, the platform returns coach-like, formative feedback that is ungraded by design. It never names a score. Your child gets a fast next step; the grade waits for you.
Teacher-owned draft grades
A second AI pass drafts a rubric-aligned score + feedback, but it lands on a teacher-only column and pre-fills your grading form. The student never sees a number until you approve it. Every grade on the transcript is a grade you signed.
Student tutor with guardrails
Your child’s in-module tutor is scoped to that module’s content. It cannot grade, cannot see other students, cannot recommend outside content, and cannot answer “just give me the answer.” It teaches, like a good tutor should.
Three steps to enrolled
Enroll
One online application, one agreement. We issue your enrollment verification letter within two business days. If your child is leaving another school, we provide the exact withdrawal letter to send.
Set your course
You pick the curriculum. Bring your own, or use our AI + Curriculum Library. The platform structures it into the subject areas California requires, and our Director reviews and countersigns your course of study.
Teach. We handle the rest.
Weekly plans, one-tap attendance confirmation, submissions with instant feedback, spring growth testing (online-proctored), semester transcript entries. You teach your way. The paperwork writes itself.
One family, one plan, everything included.
- School of record: affidavit, enrollment verification, withdrawal handling
- Attendance register with one-tap weekly confirmation
- Course-of-study review and countersign, every fall
- Full learning platform: weekly plans, submissions, AI tutor, mastery view
- Annual growth testing, online-proctored, included
- Semester transcript entries and records self-service
- Monthly teaching-parent webinars and registrar support
+ $50/mo per additional student. Up to 5 students in one household.
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Try na8ve, the AI learning studio that powers Basecamp.
Same AI copilot, same expedition courses, same guarded student tutor — as a standalone teaching studio you can use with one learner. Author a course with AI, invite your student, watch the work come back with instant formative feedback. na8ve is a teaching platform, not a school; use it on its own, or alongside your Basecamp enrollment.
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Common questions
- Is this legal?
- What happens when we withdraw from our current school?
- Do parents need a teaching credential?
- What about immunizations?
Enrollment is open year-round.
Apply today; your enrollment verification letter arrives within two business days of a completed application and agreement.
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