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Your personal AI coding mentor that lives inside your IDE.

Get a little sharper every commit. Protege learns your blind spots and grows with you, from your first <h1> to your first system design review.

Works inside VS Code & Cursor

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Protege, inside the editor

One mentor · Six hands

Watches everything.
Teaches every level.

Six hands so yours stay on the keyboard.

Acts in real time

Watches every keystroke silently. The feedback is already waiting the moment you slip. Zero context switching, ever.

Identifies bugs and errors

Spots null derefs, race conditions, and injection risks before you hit save. Always explains the why, never just the what.

Proactive

Quietly surfaces cleaner patterns, the built in you reinvented, and the tech that actually fits your use case.

Protege, your mentor with six hands

Tracks your Code IQ

Continuously grades every skill from the real code you write. Exposure, Familiar, Competent, Proficient, Expert. No quizzes.

Acts like a companion

Adapts to your level, remembers your blind spots, rewards your streaks. The longer you use it, the better it knows you.

Never stops teaching

From your first line of HTML to senior architecture reviews. Weekly drills on your weak spots so you never plateau.

Code IQ

Your skills, finally visible.

A constellation of every skill you’ve touched, every level you’ve reached, and every dark corner of the craft you haven’t explored, yet.

0IQ

Intermediate

Tier 3

0 pts to Advanced · 0 / 0

Speed0.0×
Repeat bugs0%
8 wk trend
Days0
Weeks0
Sessions0
Skill Map · 49 skills
181219
Focus · State Mgmt0%

Mistakes dropping

7 sessions
Bugs
00%
Edge cases
00%
Blind spots
00%
FormsUIAsyncErrorsState
Learn
Mode 01

Learn

Early days
12%
of time
Build
Mode 02

Build

Current flow
68%
of time
Master
Mode 03

Master

Rising
20%
of time

Percentile vs peers

Top quartile · 4 of 6
Form handlingTop 0%
ValidationTop 0%
UI logicTop 0%
Error handlingTop 0%
AsyncTop 0%
State mgmtTop 0%

The problem

The faster they build, the more it costs to fix.

Nine out of ten beginners quit before they understand the basics. So they let AI write it for them, and nobody knows what ships.

One honest question

Have you ever shipped code you didn’t fully understand?

70%

more bugs in human-written code

Source · CodeRabbit · 2025

59%

of developers ship code they don't understand

Source · Clutch · 2025

41%

increase in technical debt across teams

Source · CMU · 2026

higher maintenance costs by year two

Source · Codebridge · 2026

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Where knowledge begins

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