Adaptive Reader

We’re excited to share that our founder, Ethan Pierce, was featured on the Made For Us podcast.

Ethan spoke about his own experience struggling to read as a child, the path that eventually led him to found Adaptive Reader, and the mission that drives our work today: helping make reading more accessible for every learner.

At Adaptive Reader, we believe students deserve access to texts that meet them where they are — across languages, reading levels, and formats — without sacrificing dignity, inclusion, or connection to shared classroom content.

We’re grateful to Made For Us for creating space for this conversation.

Listen here:

Made For Us: Rewriting the story: the AI startup reimagining how the world learns to read | Ethan Pierce Ethan Pierce couldn't read when he finished third grade, but years later went on to win a full scholarship to Harvard. Recognising that not all students have the support he had, he founded Adaptive...

Big news — Adaptive ReaderAdaptive Reader has been named one of the 2025 BostInno Fire Awards honorees by the Boston Business Journalrnal’s BostInno team! 🔥

This recognition celebrates 50 companies shaping Boston’s innovation ecosystem — and it’s especially meaningful because our mission has always been about more than technology.

While many worry about how AI might hurt reading, we’re using it to help every student access books that truly fit their needs — across 192 languages, multiple reading levels, and even with tools like Decode Mode for students with dyslexia.

From our first prototype to now working with teachers in over 250 school districts, this journey has been fueled by incredible educators, supporters, and friends who believed in what we’re building.

Thank you for helping us make reading more inclusive, dignified, and human.

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/inno/stories/news/2025/10/02/meet-the-bostinno-2025-fire-awards-honorees.html

We’re thrilled to share that Adaptive Reader has been selected as a 2025 Solver Team through ’s Global Learning Challenge! 🌍
Chosen from more than 2,900 applications across 130 countries, we’re honored to join this year’s Solver Class and continue our mission of making adaptive books available to every student—at the right language, level, and format.
Huge thanks to MIT Solve, E Ink, and everyone who has supported us so far.
Onward to inclusive literacy for all! 📚💡

Want your students to connect deeply with characters and story structure?

Turn your next novel study into a performance! ✨🎭

In this spotlight, we show how
Anne of Green Gables + Adaptive Reader + Reader’s Theater =

✅ Deeper comprehension
✅ Student-led exploration
✅ Fun, confidence-building literacy

Perfect for IB/PYP classrooms and beyond! Continue reading our blog: Bringing Anne of Green Gables to Life in PYP Classrooms with Reader's Theater at adaptivereader.com