Veritas reads your textbook, notes or any document to you in your own voice, every word highlighted. Then it checks what you understood and brings back what you missed, until you’ve mastered it.
For textbooks, lecture notes, papers, reports and the books you’ve meant to read.
Built on the research
Ebbinghaus 1885
Mayer multimedia learning
Roediger & Karpicke 2006
Dunlosky et al. 2013
The problem
You will forget much of what you read this week. Unless you learn it differently.
What we read fades fast when we never practice it. More effort isn’t the answer. A better method is.
Two groups of college students studied the same passage for the same total time. One group read it four times. The other read it once, then practiced recalling it three times.
A week later, which group remembered more?
Share of Americans reading for pleasure on a given day
−43%
drop in that share, from 28% in 2004 to 16% in 2023.
2004
28%
2023
16%
Source: Bone et al., iScience, 2025.
Recalled one week later · college students, same total time
+53%
more remembered by students who practiced recall than by students who reread.
Unpracticed material fades fast. Each review flattens the curve.
Short reviews, spaced over days, bring each topic back so it stays. Veritas schedules them for you.
No reviewWith spaced reviews
Illustration of the forgetting curve (Ebbinghaus, 1885; replicated by Murre & Dros, 2015).
It isn’t effort. It’s method.
The study habits that feel productive are the ones that work least.
A landmark 2013 review rated ten common study techniques by how much they helped across many studies. Rereading and highlighting came out near the bottom. Testing yourself and spacing your practice came out on top.
What most of us do
Rereading Low utility
Highlighting Low utility
Summarizing Low utility
What actually works
Practice testing High utility
Spaced practice High utility
Self-explanation Moderate utility
Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan & Willingham (2013), “Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques,” Psychological Science in the Public Interest. “Spaced practice” is the review’s “distributed practice”.
“The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already.”
Plato, Republic, Book VII
Meet Veritas.
One learning platform for everything you read.
Long-term memory has a recipe. Veritas runs all three steps on anything you read, in one place.
For anyone who reads to learn, starting with the exam ahead.
Students with an exam ahead
Listen to the chapter on the bus, take the check when you sit down, and review your weak points until the exam.
Textbooks, lecture notes, papers
Professionals learning on the job
Hear the report at the fastest speed you still understand, write what matters, and still know it next quarter.
Reports, course material, technical PDFs
Lifelong learners
Work through the books you always meant to, and come away able to explain them.
Meditations, The Art of War, Walden
Step 1
Encode
Bring anything you read. Hear it in your own voice while a picture of the idea builds beside the text, and write your own notes as you go.
“People learn better from words and pictures than from words alone.”
Richard Mayer, the multimedia principle
Step 2
Retrieve
Every chapter ends with a knowledge check that finds your weak points. Then you practice exactly those, in the formats where your own results are strongest.
Practice testing · Dunlosky et al., 2013
Drawing and teaching it back · Fiorella & Mayer, 2016
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II
Step 3
Space it out
One daily review across all your books, in a calm full-screen mode. What you miss comes back sooner. What you know comes back less often.
Spaced (distributed) practice · Dunlosky et al., 2013
Today lists what’s due, how many questions and about how long, before you start. A typical review: 25 questions, about 20 minutes, across three books.
Today · Plan · Mastered
Encode, retrieve, space it out.
Bring your next exam’s reading, or the book you keep meaning to finish.
Our story
The whole recipe in two and a half minutes.
Jump to a chapter, or watch it all.
From six apps to one platform
The tools you use today each do one step. None of them knows what you missed.
Veritas connects listening, notes, checks, practice and review on the same text, so what you get wrong in a check is what comes back in tomorrow’s review.
What each kind of tool covers, compared with Veritas
What you need to master a book or a course
VERITAS
Read-aloud & audiobook apps
Note & study tools on your files
Flashcard, quiz & game apps
Reads any document aloud, every word highlighted
Yes
Yes
No
No
In your own voice
Yes
Some, on paid plans
No
No
Your own notes, chapter by chapter
Yes
Partly
Partly
No
Questions made from what you read
Yes
Some products
Yes
Partly, you often build them
A knowledge check every chapter that finds weak points
Yes
No
Partly
No
What you miss in a check comes back in practice and review
Yes
No
No
No
Spaced review across everything you read
Yes
No
No
Yes, for the cards you have
A plan with a finish date for every book
Yes
No
No
No
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YesSome products, or partlyNo
Why now
Reading got easier to skip, and harder to keep.
Technology made it easy to consume, and harder to learn: endless feeds, passive scrolling, and shortcuts that do the thinking for you.
“…they excel at quickly finding information but have difficulty engaging with sustained reading and complex arguments.”
On students raised on digital technology. Report of the Committee on the Future of the American University, Cornell University, 2026, section 3.2
Veritas uses technology to make you think, not to think for you.
Why I built Veritas
“We forget much of what we read. I built Veritas to fix that.
The science on how people remember has held up for decades: practice recalling it, explain it in your own words, and come back to it over days. But the tools stop at the first step. Reading apps stop at listening, and study apps live somewhere else and never see what you read.
Veritas puts the whole recipe in one place, on the books and documents you already care about. It starts with your own voice, and it ends when you can explain the book to someone else.
Edward ProfioFounder, Veritas
Frequently asked questions
When can I use Veritas?
Veritas launches in Q1 2027.
What can I bring into it?
PDFs, EPUB books, Word documents, web pages, photos and scans, or text you paste in. Everything goes into one library with shelves and collections, and chapters are found for you.
Does it really read in my own voice?
Yes. You read six short passages aloud once, about two minutes, and Veritas builds your voice from them. You can also choose a natural preset voice, and change speed any time.
How much time does it take each day?
You decide. In your plan you set how many books to master a week or a month and which days you study, and it shows the minutes a day that takes. Today lists each task with its time before you start. A chapter’s knowledge check is about 12 questions, about 12 minutes.
Who writes my notes?
You do. Notes start as a blank bullet for each chapter and stay entirely yours. Veritas never writes or inserts notes for you, because writing them is part of how you learn.
How does Veritas decide what I review?
Every chapter ends with a knowledge check. What you miss becomes a weak point. Weak points come back in practice and in your daily review, sooner while you’re still getting them wrong and less often once you know them. Your plan shows what to do today and when each book will be mastered.
Is it just flashcards?
No. There are six ways to practice: written answers, multiple choice, drawing from memory, teaching it back out loud, flashcards and games. A short check of how well you do in each mode sets where you start, and Veritas recommends a method from your results.
I already use a read-aloud or flashcard app. Why switch?
Keep them if they work for you. Veritas is for when you want listening, notes, checks and review on the same text, so what you miss is what comes back.
How much will it cost?
Pricing will be announced before launch. People on the waitlist hear first.
