Units

Units is an online high school for self-directed teenagers who want to earn Ontario high school credits at their own pace, using interactive lessons instead of static videos or text walls. This launch introduces Gilbert, a Socratic AI tutor that sits inside every lesson and steps in the moment a student gets stuck, adapting the difficulty and identifying gaps rather than handing over answers. It arrives a day after the school welcomed its first enrolled student, so the teacher and the classroom are going live in the same week. Founder Daniel Martinez is building Units out of his own experience with the school system. He won the highest academic achievement award in 8th grade, then was kicked out of high school after spending a year building an AI feedback tool for teachers that none of the 78 educators he pitched took seriously. Units is his attempt to route around that experience by giving motivated students a faster, credit-bearing path without watering down rigor. The pedagogy leans into AI rather than fencing it off. Students are expected to use AI to produce work, then defend that work in writing or live, and critique mediocre AI output to prove they can tell the difference. Every unit ends in something shipped publicly, a YouTube video, a Medium article, a working product, or a pitched campaign , which matters for founders and operators watching how AI-native schools grade for judgment instead of recall.