> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tessera.edstratumlabs.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Project Tessera

> A research-grounded prototype of an AI-native learning management system that keeps instructors in charge.

Tessera is a prototype of a learning management system (LMS) for higher education and industry. It hosts courses and includes a simplified authoring tool that drafts modular content from natural language, files, and existing material, customizable for many kinds of learners.

The design borrows Canvas's predictable, module-first structure and adds an AI layer that drafts for authors, tutors learners with hints, and never publishes anything a person hasn't reviewed.

<Note>
  "Tessera" is a working codename. It refers to the tiles of a mosaic: modular blocks that compose into a course. All people, institutions, courses, and numbers in the prototype are fictional.
</Note>

## See it

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  <Card title="Live site" icon="globe" href="https://tessera.edstratumlabs.ai/">
    Eight prototype screens across learner, author, instructor, and admin roles.
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  <Card title="Clickable prototype" icon="hand-pointer" href="https://tessera.edstratumlabs.ai/prototype/">
    Today → lesson → hint-first tutor → module check → result → updated Today.
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  <Card title="Component app" icon="cubes" href="https://tessera.edstratumlabs.ai/app/">
    The Phase 2 React app, built from shared components and design tokens.
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## Where it stands

| Phase                            | Status                   | What it produced                                                                                                                     |
| -------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Phase 1:** research and design | Complete, September 2026 | A research report (72 sources), a design system, 8 screens, a clickable learner prototype, and a clean automated accessibility audit |
| **Phase 2:** design and build    | In progress              | A Vite + React component app, shared design tokens, more screens and flows. See the [roadmap](/roadmap).                             |
| **Later:** full-stack app        | Planned                  | Accounts, a database, and real AI calls, added to the same Cloudflare deployment. See [architecture](/build/architecture).           |

## Start with

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  <Card title="Design principles" icon="compass" href="/principles">
    The evidence-based rules every screen follows.
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  <Card title="Design system" icon="palette" href="/design-system/tokens">
    Tokens, type, density, and how AI content is marked.
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  <Card title="Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/build/architecture">
    How the app is built and deployed, and how it grows into a full-stack product.
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  <Card title="Decisions" icon="scale-balanced" href="/build/decisions">
    The settled decisions that act as constraints.
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