strategyMervine GowryJune 15, 2026
Computed Commitment Pricing: A Research-Derived Pricing Model for Outcome-Oriented Language Training
The dominant pricing model in language-learning technology — tiered subscription menus — decouples cost from outcome. A learner pays the same monthly rate whether they are six months from B1 or three years away; whether they study Swahili or Spanish; whether they commit one hour …
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pedagogyMervine GowryJune 4, 2026
Beyond XP: A Performance-Gated Progress Architecture for Language Acquisition
Most gamified language applications reward engagement rather than acquisition, using experience-point (XP) systems that award identical points for correct and incorrect responses. This paper presents Fluency Points (FP) — a multi-dimensional, performance-gated progress metric cal…
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philosophyMervine GowryJune 4, 2026
The Voicely Founding Story — Book Structure v1.0
A narrative memoir tracing the founding of Voicely Language from a YouTube channel in Montreal in 2018 to an AI product company in 2026. Structured around verified founding moments — a Mark Cuban tweet, a philosophical inversion in June 2025, 17 stages of debug hell — this is the…
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ResearchMervine GowryJune 4, 2026
The Multidimensional Progress Hypothesis: Why Single-Score Systems Fail Learners and What Honest Measurement Looks Like
Every major educational technology product today collapses multidimensional competence into a single score. That score is not a measure of learning — it is a measure of attendance. It rewards consistency over capability, optimises for engagement over mastery, and systematically m…
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