Our Vision: that every adult will understand information they need to know in-the-moment and, over time, become literate to advance in a dynamic world.

The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a worldwide study of cognitive and workplace skills in 24 countries. The results of this study are used by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and is the primary method the U.S. government uses to track adult literacy rates.

 

38,000,000 U.S. Adults

are unable to read the documents required to train properly at work, to support their children in school, to engage with the financial system, or to manage their health care.

 
 

 GogyUp: assistive-reading technology designed to address:

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    Constricted System Capacity

    Only 5-10% of adults have access to instruction they need.

  • An animated women attempts to operate a machine but is confused. There is a thought bubble with question marks in it.

    Changing Workforce

    Employers are facing a chronic employee shortage while work continues to become increasingly more technical.

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    Economic Costs

    Limited literacy affects quality of life and workplace safety and productivity, costing the U.S. $2.2 trillion in annual income and U.S. taxpayers between $106 billion and $238 billion each year.

How GogyUp Works

GogyUp converts existing documents into interactive information resources for adults with limited literacy skills, impaired vision, dyslexia, or beginning English proficiency.

What’s more, GogyUp’s approach to literacy skill development means that adults can improve their ability to read over time as they use GogyUp in their workplace and throughout daily life.

Yet GogyUp is simple to use:

1

Quick Conversion

Set up is as simple as sending your existing print or digital documents to your GogyUp account.

2

Instantly Accessible

GogyUp’s assistive-reading technology converts your content into interactive information and makes it instantly and securely available to mobile devices and the Web.

3

Deeper Understanding

Learners have an “in-pocket” tutor for immediate help understanding materials and building their literacy skills. GogyUp then provides progress data to validate comprehension.

 

How GogyUp Helps Businesses and Organizations

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    Multiple Levels of Assistance

    Employees and adult learners can access different levels of reading assistance that matches their individual needs.

  • Verify Understanding

    No-fail comprehension questions provide instant checks for the adult reader and long-term progress data for the business or organization.

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    Efficient and Scalable Management

    Compatible with mobile devices and the Web, GogyUp requires little to no technical infrastructure and takes just minutes to implement across an organization.

  • Learning Manager

    The Learning Manager provides supervisors, trainers, and educators with a new window into what and how well employees, adult learners, and patients understand.

    The Learning Manager enhances any existing content by instantly adding GogyUp’s assistive-reading technology to training documents, human resource materials, etc.

    Its content management allows for revisions to be sent out in seconds across the company or organization.

    The Learning Manager’s reports provide deeper measurements of how well employees, adult learners or patients understand key information - information that will have an impact on safety, compliance, and organizational success. Realtime and historical data make tracking progress for training checks, audits, remediation, etc. a snap.

  • GogyUp Reader

    The GogyUp Reader presents text-based training and other content as interactive learning aids, accessible on mobile devices and the Web.

    GogyUp’s assistive-reading features provide employees, adult learners, and patients, with personalized, in-the-moment help so users gain a deeper understanding of the content that is critical to work safely and efficiently, to achieve their educational goals, or to manage their medical conditions.

    What’s more, users build reading skills over time with GogyUp Reader’s built-in literacy program. This sequenced instruction in phonics and English phonemic awareness is provided in short, optional mini-lessons lessons that adjust to an adult’s reading level and progress.

    In short, GogyUp Reader provides adults with the assistance they need to understand critical information while they advance their skills in a judgment-free learning environment.

For the Public

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    GogyUp Reader

    GogyUp Reader is available at no cost for the general public to improve their literacy skills while gaining important knowledge on topics ranging from citizenship, health, and daily life.

  • A smartphone displaying the Snap Reader app in which a paper about Rosie the Riveter has been scanned and reformatted so the words are staggered and can be more easily read. It also shows the option to have the text be read aloud.

    Snap Reader

    Snap Reader adds assistive-reading technology to daily life: take a picture of a sign, document, book, or even a menu.

    Snap Reader makes the information accessible in-the-moment for auditory learners, adults with low vision or dyslexia, and anyone who wants quick access to information in the physical world.

    Oh, and it works with websites too!

Feature Specifics

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    Text-to-Speech

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    Word-by-Word Translation

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    Contextualized Defintions

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    Reader-Friendly Formatting

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