Adaptive Reader

We’re honored to be featured by the Harvard Innovation Labs in a new article on ventures reimagining reading for a new generation.

At Adaptive Reader, we believe every child deserves access to the books, stories, and ideas their classmates are reading — even if they need a different path into the text.

That might mean a book adapted to a student’s reading level, translated into their home language, supported with audio, or printed in a format that works better for them.

Because giving every student the same book is not always the same as giving every student equal access.

Thank you to the Harvard Innovation Labs for highlighting our work alongside other ventures expanding access to literacy.

You can read the full article here:

Beyond the Page: 6 Harvard Ventures Reimagining Reading for a New… Meet the Harvard Innovation Labs ventures using technology, storytelling, and new educational models to help students develop a lifelong love of books.

We’re excited to share that our founder, Ethan Pierce, was featured on the Made For Us podcast.

Ethan spoke about his own experience struggling to read as a child, the path that eventually led him to found Adaptive Reader, and the mission that drives our work today: helping make reading more accessible for every learner.

At Adaptive Reader, we believe students deserve access to texts that meet them where they are — across languages, reading levels, and formats — without sacrificing dignity, inclusion, or connection to shared classroom content.

We’re grateful to Made For Us for creating space for this conversation.

Listen here:

Made For Us: Rewriting the story: the AI startup reimagining how the world learns to read | Ethan Pierce Ethan Pierce couldn't read when he finished third grade, but years later went on to win a full scholarship to Harvard. Recognising that not all students have the support he had, he founded Adaptive...