Riff doesn't have the answers. It has better questions, the kind that help you find yours.
* Riff is now free for everyone. No credit card — just an access code. Used by 1,000+ educators.
Reflection is a muscle. Riff is the partner that keeps gently turning the question back to you, where the learning actually happens.
You ask. It answers.
Riff asks. You reflect.
Tell us who you are and how you plan to use Riff — it takes about a minute. We'll email your access code as soon as it's granted.
Riff supports the part of learning that happens after class, the part you usually do alone.
Every question Riff asks is shaped by what you just said. No prompts to copy in. No template to fill.
Riff is built to be patient. Conversations go where you let them, and stop when you say so.
Export the transcript, anonymize it, share it with a coach, or keep it private. Your call, your data.
no code. Spin up a reflection bot tuned to your class, your prompt, your tone. Drop it into your LMS, a website, or a Friday email.
Describe the kind of reflection you want. Riff handles the question generation; you handle the framing.
Read individual transcripts or zoom out to themes across a cohort. Spot what's surfacing, without surveilling.
A snippet, a link, an iframe. Riff goes wherever your students already are.
Five minutes on a Friday with a bot that asks better questions than "how was your week?"
Close a sprint, a studio, or a group project with questions that dig past "it went fine."
Hand learners a Riff link instead of an exit ticket. Get reflection instead of compliance.
Coaches hand clients a Riff link between 1:1s, so the thinking keeps moving and the next session starts deeper.
Rifflection didn't fall out of the sky. It's a working hypothesis with a paper trail: an essay, a book, and a few decades of learning science underneath.
Leticia introduces Riff and the bet behind it: that an AI which asks instead of answers can deepen reflection more than any single static prompt. The article lays out the four moves Riff makes in a conversation, and the learning-science lineage it's built on.
Read the essay →A practical, illustrated guide to reflection as a tool not just for examining the past, but for imagining and shaping the future. Many of its exercises are the seeds Riff was built to deliver in conversational form. Free educator's guide available.
Visit experimentsinreflection.com →A scientist-turned-designer (PhD, Developmental Biology, Stanford). She has taught at the d.school since 2006, created Advanced Reflective Practice in the MS Design Impact program, and co-founded the University Innovation Fellows, a community of students and educators from 300+ universities.
ChatGPT is built to answer. Riff is built to do the opposite: it stays in the question-asking seat and keeps turning the conversation back to you, where the learning happens.
Riff is free for everyone — we just ask you to apply first. Share a few details (name, organization, how you plan to use Riff) in the chat on this page, and we'll email your code as soon as access is granted.
Yes. Educator access includes a no-code authoring tool. Describe the kind of reflection you want, the tone, the boundaries, and we shape the bot around that.
Conversations are stored so educators can read transcripts or see patterns longitudinally. Learners can stay anonymous; educators choose what's shared. As with any AI, we recommend clear guardrails, and we'll help you set them.
Riff is now free for everyone — you just need an access code. Applying takes about a minute.