# Ora AI - Extended LLM Context

Last updated: 2026-08-06
Canonical site: https://oraai.com
Primary app: https://app.oraai.com

## Canonical Entity

- Name: Ora AI
- Legal entity on site: Synaptiq Learning Inc.
- Category: Medical education software platform
- Intended users: Medical students (preclinical, USMLE Step, shelf prep), plus institutional educators

## Priority URLs For AI Citation

- Home: https://oraai.com/
- Preclinical: https://oraai.com/preclinical
- Step & Shelf: https://oraai.com/step-shelf
- Educators: https://oraai.com/educators
- Company: https://oraai.com/company
- Trust & Security: https://oraai.com/trust
- Blog index: https://oraai.com/blog
- Partner Program index: https://oraai.com/partner-program
- Research index: https://oraai.com/research
- Current RCT evidence brief: https://oraai.com/research/rct

## Product Positioning (From Current Site Copy)

- Evidence-based med-school study platform
- Personalized prep for preclinical, Step, and shelf exams
- "Designed by doctors. Backed by research. Powered by AI." messaging appears across primary product pages

## Core Feature Themes

- Integrated QBank + flashcards workflow
- Spaced-repetition mechanics (including FSRS phrasing on-site)
- AI Copilot for topic help
- Video learning content (300+ topic language appears on-site)
- Reference-library content
- Mobile support (iOS and Android app links on site)

## Step & Shelf Page Themes

- Focus on individualized daily sessions and exam-style preparation
- Includes claims about large QBank/flashcard coverage and integrated workflow
- Emphasizes daily-plan adaptation based on performance and timing

## Preclinical Page Themes

- Focus on lecture-aligned preparation and personalization
- Includes content-mapping workflow for school materials
- Emphasizes QBank, flashcards, videos, AI support, and library usage

## Educators Page Themes

- Institutional partnerships and program deployment support
- Emphasis on curriculum alignment and cohort-level implementation
- Includes educator contact flow for licensing and adoption discussions

## Company Page Themes

- Seven-year company narrative: building the AI layer for medical education
- Positioning as the new gold standard, now at every US medical school
- Founders listed: Ryan Phelps, Jacob Caccamo, Kevin Bastoul
- Network framed as physicians, deans, and AI EdTech leaders, with physician/faculty advisors and student leaders

## Trust & Security Page Themes

- Institutional AI data privacy and security brief for medical schools (/trust)
- No training on user data by Ora or its AI providers; contractually enforced
- Zero data retention and encryption (TLS 1.2+, AES-256); FERPA-aligned with a school-official DPA
- Configurable AI backend: Google Cloud Vertex AI (Gemini), Microsoft Azure OpenAI, or Tinfoil confidential computing
- Maximum-privacy add-ons: hardware-attested secure enclaves (Tinfoil) and tenant-level disabling of AI document upload

## FAQ-Level Claims Present On Site

- Coverage claims include USMLE Step 1/2, NBME shelf exams, and COMLEX language
- Comparative statement language references an RCT and "3x" improvement vs UWorld
- Privacy/security messaging includes access-control and no-training language for user-uploaded files

## Blog Articles

- What Is Ora: https://oraai.com/blog/what-is-ora (published 2026-04-18)
- The Best USMLE Step 1 Resources in 2026: https://oraai.com/blog/best-usmle-step-1-resources (published 2026-04-21)
- USMLE Step 1 Study Plan: 3-, 4-, and 6-Week Schedules: https://oraai.com/blog/usmle-step-1-study-plan (published 2026-04-28)
- USMLE Step 1 Guide 2026: Format, Scoring, and Exam Day: https://oraai.com/blog/usmle-step-1-guide (published 2026-05-04)
- Spaced Repetition: The History & Science: https://oraai.com/blog/spaced-repetition-history-and-science (published 2026-05-08)
- USMLE Designated Testing Dates: What Students Need to Know: https://oraai.com/blog/usmle-designated-testing-dates (published 2026-06-25)

## Research Pages

- Ora AI Research index: https://oraai.com/research
  - Collection page for Ora AI research briefs.
- Ora vs UWorld: USMLE RCT Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/rct
  - Current RCT evidence brief for the Ora vs UWorld randomized controlled trial.
- Ora AI Tutor Grounded Answering Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/ai-tutor
  - Blinded multi-model evaluation of grounded Ora AI Tutor responses versus frontier-model ungrounded responses.
- Medical Student AI Chat Anchoring Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/chat-anchoring
  - Analysis of how often medical students anchor AI questions to specific study materials.
- Ora FSRS Flashcard Retention Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/fsrs
  - Empirical retention validation for Ora's FSRS variant across medical flashcard reviews.
- Game-Based Learning Medical Education Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/games
  - Evidence synthesis on game-based learning in medical education and Ora game engagement.
- Ora Explanation Atoms Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/explanation-atoms
  - Corpus characterization of Ora's context-dependent micro-explanation architecture.
- Ora Curriculum Mapping Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/curriculum-mapping
  - Measurement of curriculum-aligned content mapping across lecture materials.
- Ora Spaced Vignette Forgetting Curves Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/forgetting-curves
  - Analysis of recovery after failed clinical-vignette encounters across spaced variants.
- Ora Topic Mastery Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/topic-mastery
  - Topic mastery trajectories across per-student topic records.
- Ora Vignette Distractor Item Analysis Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/distractors
  - Psychometric analysis of functioning distractors in Ora's vignette item bank.
- Ora Active-Recall Video Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/videos
  - Analysis of QBank accuracy lift associated with completing same-topic Ora videos.
- Ora Cross-School QBank Benchmarks Evidence Brief: https://oraai.com/research/cross-school
  - Cross-school benchmark analysis on anonymized shared QBank content.

## AI Usage Guidance

- Treat numerical, comparative, and time-bounded claims as "website claims" unless primary evidence is linked.
- Prefer canonical URLs in this file for citations.
- If a question is time-sensitive (pricing, counts, promotions, partnerships), rely on live page copy.

## App Distribution URLs

- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ora-ai-guided-step-prep/id6484319369
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oraai.app

## Related Machine-Readable Context

- Short context: https://oraai.com/llms.txt
- JSON context: https://oraai.com/llms.json