Inquiry-based education is proven. We're making it accessible.
The research was always there. Now the urgency is too.
Inquiry-based education has been proven for decades. What was missing was infrastructure — a tool that makes it practical for any teacher, not just the ones who already know how. The AI crisis in classrooms is making the stakes clearer. And teachers are asking, more directly than ever, for something that brings back the joy and meaning of teaching.
That is what we built.
Three things we won't compromise on.
School isn't for producing answers. It's for developing judgment.
Students learn to think by doing things worth thinking about.
We use AI to build the scaffolding. Students do the thinking.
Mariana Rutigliano
Mariana grew up in Brazil with a deep love of school and a conviction that access to quality education is how you change people's lives. That conviction took her to study Business at UCLA and then through educational nonprofits and corporations, learning how change actually happens at scale — what it takes to move an idea from one classroom to thousands. She found in inquiry-based education a chance to deeply transform education, as it's still not within reach for most teachers.
Lev Moscow
Lev attended inquiry-based schools growing up in New York City — he knows what it feels like to be a student who defends his thinking instead of filling in bubbles. As a public school History teacher, he spent 20+ years at Beacon High School, one of New York City's Consortium schools, testing and implementing inquiry education: writing PBATs, facilitating Socratic seminars, and coaching teachers through their first inquiry units. The app is built from his experience, grounded in the most relevant learning science, and tested in real classrooms over two decades.
It all started on a neighborhood playground in Brooklyn.
Mariana and Lev met on a neighborhood playground in Brooklyn, where they began talking about their children's experiences in the public school system. They recognized something immediately: Lev had spent a career building inquiry units by hand, one at a time, for one classroom at a time. Mariana had spent a career figuring out how to take things that work and get them to everyone who needs them.
InquiryLab is what happens when those two things meet.