The social studies class students don't want to skip

Humy is a website where students hold in-depth conversations with AI recreations of more than 1,200 historical figures — asking Harriet Tubman or Marie Curie a question and getting an answer back, in writing or out loud. Each figure can be given an archive of primary sources — letters, speeches, scanned books, photographs — which it searches while answering and quotes with a reference back to the document. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Humy is purpose-built for historical work: students can open the cited source and read the passage in its original context. Nothing to install. Humy comes from the team behind the Hello History app; Hello History for schools became Humy in 2023 (humy.ai/hello-history-for-schools).

No. Social studies is where many teachers start, but the library holds 1,200+ figures across science, literature, art, philosophy, music, civics, and world religion — from Marie Curie and Isaac Newton to Shakespeare, Frida Kahlo, Socrates, and Beethoven. Because answers can include images, math formulas, and tables and work in 50+ languages, teachers use Humy in science, English, world languages, art, and ethics classes just as readily as in history.

General chatbots improvise a persona and offer no guardrails for the classroom. Every Humy figure is grounded in curated primary and secondary sources, and you stay in control: you build standards-aligned assignments, set a grading rubric, cap attempts, turn copy-paste off, and choose the reading level for each group. Students join from a link or QR code with no account. That same structure applies in any subject: a chemistry interview with Curie, a literature debate, or a philosophy simulation all run through the same teacher controls.

Each figure pairs a frontier AI model with curated historical documents and primary sources, so answers stay anchored to the record rather than invented. When a figure quotes a source, the quotation is resolved by Humy's backend against the original document rather than generated — the model never writes a quote, and students can open the cited document to read the passage in context. The more documents you add to a custom figure, the more precise it becomes, and you can give feedback to refine it over time.

For chat, Humy supports models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google: GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-OSS 120B, Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. Live voice calls run on Gemini 3.8 Live. You decide per figure version which of these students can use in chat and which one is the default, so a large class can run on a faster, cheaper model while an AP seminar gets a more capable one. Faster models use fewer credits, which keeps a class set of conversations affordable.

Five formats: interview, debate, historical simulation, open questions (open-ended or short-answer), and essay, including DBQ, LEQ, FRQ, and concept-application prompts. You set the grade level from K-12 through university and lifelong learners, the language, and the standards, whether federal, state, or international. The formats are subject-agnostic, so you can debate an ethical question in philosophy, interview a scientist for a lab unit, or assign a free-response essay in any AP-level course, not only history. Interviews, debates and simulations can run with one figure or with a panel of up to ten.

Yes, in a panel: two to ten figures in one group chat. You set one up when you build an interview, debate or simulation, or by adding guests to any figure's share link, and the AI can pick the figures for your topic. Students ask the whole panel or one figure by name and choose who answers next. In Discuss mode the figures argue the point among themselves, for as many lines as you allow (20 at most), while the student moderates. Grading looks only at what the student wrote. Each figure that answers uses one message from your pool.

Yes. Humy generates a rubric with criteria and performance-level descriptors, grades submissions against it automatically, and writes feedback for each student that you can review and adjust. You decide whether grading is on, how many attempts students get, whether they see the rubric in advance, and whether copy-paste is allowed. The same rubric grading works for a science explanation, an English essay, or a world-language task.

Students can type or start a real-time voice call, and any written answer can be played back as speech. Voice suits auditory learners and accessibility, and because Humy supports 50+ languages it also serves as conversation and pronunciation practice in world-language classes. Images and rich formatting appear in text mode rather than during voice calls.

You share each activity as a link, a QR code, or an embedded iframe, and you choose whether students join anonymously or enter their name. QR codes suit exhibitions and classroom stations, links suit assigned work, and the iframe drops Humy straight into your LMS or a public website. The same options support a museum exhibit, a science station, a poetry corner, or a language lab, with no student accounts required.

Yes. You can create your own AI figure from a name, a short biography, and your own documents and artefacts in text, image, and video, and educators have already built more than 20,000 of them. Make a cell-biology coach, a guide to a specific novel, a museum curator, or a subject expert, then add instructions such as 'use Socratic questioning' or 'focus on the experiments.' For larger projects, our team also builds tailor-made figures for schools, universities, and museums.

Yes. Teachers can share what they build with every teacher on Humy, and you'll find it under Community in your library. You can chat with a shared figure, make your own version of it, or put it on a panel. A shared source goes into your own sources with its transcript. Assignments copy over for you to edit before you assign them, and collections are one Activate button away. An AI checks the text and images of every shared item before other schools can see it. Nobody at Humy approves items first, so if something slips through, report it and we'll take it down.

You decide item by item: Only me, My school, or Everyone on Humy. Teachers at other schools can use a shared figure without seeing its instructions or sources. They can copy a shared assignment, but student submissions never leave your account. They do see your email, so they can contact you. Shared assignments and collections can also appear in the public library on humy.ai, without your name. Students never see who made what.

Each figure can have several versions. You set the reading level from primary school through university and lifelong learners, add instructions like 'speak in Spanish' or 'focus on the scientific method,' and share each version separately so different groups get the right fit at the same time. Teachers use this to level a science text, run one lesson in two languages, or differentiate across a mixed-ability English class.

It works well beyond the K-12 classroom. Grade levels include university and lifelong learners, and Humy is already used across higher education, including history departments and communication and product-management programs, as well as in museums and cultural institutions that embed figures in their exhibits. Wherever people learn from sources and personalities, the platform fits.

Yes. While Humy is designed with classrooms in mind, you can absolutely use it outside of school for personal learning and exploration. If you'd prefer a mobile experience, try the Hello History app (https://www.hellohistory.ai/), our consumer app for chatting with historical figures on the go. Classes, assignments and school privacy agreements stay on Humy.

No. You share a chat as a web link or QR code, and students open it and start talking — no sign-up and no password. You choose whether they join anonymously or enter their name.

Email us at hello@humy.ai with your school administrator's name and email address, and we will take it from there.

Yes, we are happy to submit vendor paperwork. Please reach out to hello@humy.ai.

Yes. You can add several teachers to one account; the price depends on how many teachers you invite.

Yes, please reach out to hello@humy.ai