As a high schooler, I noticed how phones were hurting focus and wasting time. I’d start looking something up and end up on social media—scrolling through TikTok or snapping friends—and I saw everyone else doing the same thing. With so much reliance on phones for information, schools trying to ban them, and tools like ChatGPT providing quick answers, I thought: why not combine it with a pen students already use to reduce screen time? This way, students wouldn’t need to check their phones for information. And if phones were already banned, the pen could fill the information gap, offering the quick and accurate answers we’ve come to expect. That’s how WriteAway began—an AI pen designed to help students stay focused on their studies and, ultimately, their future.

— Harrison Tidy | Founder, WriteAway