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PDC Dev Studio · Distil API

The AI workspace that actually teaches.

Have a live voice conversation and point your camera or share your screen — the AI watches in real time and responds in context to what it sees while you talk. Plus live code, all wired into one tab.

Start a workspace See course atlases

✓ Free forever · No credit card

Create your free workspace in one click

The Public plan includes 3,000 credits every month — chat, live code, and voice, on us.

Every panel, one tab

Chat, voice, code, and Create share the same thread — no copy-paste between panels. Local Zooids run standalone on your own machine, even after you close the tab.

Converse voice session with a live voice sphere and running caption — **Converse**Live voice conversation, watching your camera or screen and answering in context.

Coaching Wizard template picker with study, tutoring, and onboarding options — **Coaching Wizard**Pick a template — tutoring, study groups, interviews, onboarding — and go.

Public research library of course guide threads — **Public research**Browse public workspaces from other students and import them into your own.

Converse companion with screen sharing active, following a shared screen in real time — **Screen share**Share your screen and talk through what's on it, live.

Create panel building a project with a live build graph — **Create**Turn a brief into a polished, production-ready deliverable.

Institution-wide access · Colleges & universities

Ask about institutional packages.

Campus-wide or department-wide access for students, faculty, and staff — one workspace across your institution instead of seat-by-seat signups. Tell us what you need and we'll follow up with pricing and a pilot plan.

Talk to us about group rates →

Four short fields — institution, your name,
email, and what you need.

Power · Runs on your machine

Zooid Colony

/ˈzoʊ.ɔɪd/ · ZOH-oyd · noun — one specialized member of a colony; it only works as part of the whole.

A Zooid is a small, specialized worker that runs on your own computer — drafting, researching, or keeping watch on a task, on your own local models, with nothing metered per run. Zooids live in a Colony: a shared sandbox on your machine where each one keeps its own specialty and picks up where another left off. Keep your Colony Local, share a Zooid with the people you choose, and — soon — connect to the Public Colony.

Start a Zooid → See the Power plan

Under the microscope: Zooids activating one another inside a Colony. Local and Shared today; the Public Colony is in development.

Enterprise · For institutions

Run AI across every campus from one dashboard.

One allocation for your whole institution. Group classes and teams into cohorts, launch Colonies and builds for entire classes, and see usage by campus, cohort and person. Counts only, never content. Included for pilot institutions.

See the institution dashboard → Start a pilot

Institution dashboard map view: sites around the world shown by weekly activity, with one site selected and lines to the sites it shares work with, next to a panel of members, active members, shared threads, builds and allocation used. — Dashboard preview with illustrative data.

PDC Dev Studio

The workspace

A full AI environment — chat, live code, voice, live camera, and screen sharing in one place. Attach images, audio, video, PDF, and ZIP files directly in chat; the studio understands all of them.

AI chat with inline image generation and file context (images, audio, video, PDF, ZIP)
Live code editor — Python and JavaScript run in the browser, no install required
Create: PDF reports, slides (PPTX), spreadsheets, websites, and working apps
Converse — voice AI with a real-time camera and screen feed; it sees what you show it while you talk

Start a workspace

Distil API · Tokens are energy, not intelligence.

The domain reference

A prepared knowledge layer for nine regulated industries — built from current authoritative sources, maintained as standards evolve. Compresses text, documents, images, audio, and video frames into a reusable hosted Crystal.

Nine regulated verticals — or compress your own sources
Benchmark-verified quality
Multimodal: text, images, audio, and video frames
Delivered as a Context Crystal — a hosted knowledge handle

What's a Context Crystal? API docs

Context Crystal

A private knowledge handle — yours to build or subscribe to.

Subscribe to a vertical — PDC maintains the regulated-industry library, benchmarked against current standards. Query immediately, no setup required.

Compress your own sources — text, documents, images, audio recordings, or video frames. Any source material you own or are authorized to process. Your Crystal is encrypted at rest and in transit, accessible only to the API key that created it, and the compressed state is never returned or downloadable. Delete at any time, at no charge.

You can also use your ChatGPT or Claude conversation archive — export the ZIP, upload it, and your own research and decisions become a private, queryable Crystal. Step-by-step guide →

What is a Context Crystal? →

Theory

Why we built it this way

Long-form pieces on what PDC Dev Studio is for — and what it deliberately refuses to do for you.

Hypothesis Education is a pipeline. AI belongs in the harness. Lecture, seminar, group project, essay, test — five stages, each teaching something the other four cannot. What happened the last time the pipeline went digital without a harness, and why the answer is a supplement, not a replacement. Read the theory → Hypothesis If AI writes all the code, someone still has to read it. Coding literacy stopped being a typing skill and became a comprehension skill. Why the studio ships a real editor and a console instead of handing you a picture of your software. Read the theory → Hypothesis The 10 sides of learning (RWLSOSICAP) Reading and writing are the two skills every school grades. They sit on top of eight more — listening, speaking, observing, showing, interacting, creating, auditing, presenting — and the other eight are where most learning actually happens. Read the theory →

Course Atlas

Mapped coursework from colleges and universities nationwide

Every course is a public research thread you can open, read, and question — the catalog entry, its description, and a tutor pinned to that course. Free to read, no account needed to look.

206Schools mapped

260,551Courses

63Community & technical

Browse the course atlases → For students & educators

Don’t see your school? Request it on the education page.

For developers

Better answers from sources too large to prompt.

Distil API is available as a standalone API. Compress a source, run queries against a hosted context handle, and bring domain-accurate answers into any application — no context window required.

Get an API key → Read the docs

POST /v1/compress

POST /v1/context/run

DELETE /v1/context/{handle}

Simple pricing

Start free, then scale as your team's usage grows. Vertical subscriptions for Distil API are separate — see each vertical page for monthly pricing.

Public3,000 credits / month

$0/mo

A lightweight way to try the studio on a real project — chat, code editor, and voice interface included. Read and write access to public threads, including public research and coursework.

Get started

Starter10,000 credits / month

$9/mo

For individual practitioners running regular sessions — legal, compliance, advisory, or technical work.

Higher-quality AI model responses
Camera & screen share in chat & voice
Save Context Crystals beyond a single thread
Unlimited threads
Favorite & share companion renders
Build from multiple pinned threads at once
Coaching Wizard: study buddy & project-kickoff templates

Choose Starter

Pro25,000 credits / month

$19/mo

For heavier daily use — longer sessions, more document context, and more deliverable generation.

Everything in Starter, plus:
Live multi-person calls in shared threads
Coaching Wizard: tutoring & lesson-guidance templates

Choose Pro

Premium45,000 credits / month

$39/mo

For teams that need the most headroom — multiple practitioners, shared threads, and high-volume deliverable work.

Everything in Pro, plus:
Our most capable AI models
Richer, source-grounded answers from your saved Context Crystals
Coaching Wizard: interview & onboarding templates

Choose Premium

Power120,000 credits / month

$99/mo

For power users running the highest volumes — maximum throughput and the best value per credit.

Everything in Premium — sized for volume
Local Zooid device sync
Zooid Colony: launch a purpose-driven colony on your own computer
Coaching Wizard: batch coaching sessions

Choose Power