01 — What is Pintagrow?
Early childhood development supported through structured graphic experiences
Pintagrow is an EdTech child-support system designed mainly for children ages 1 to 5, a stage in which exploration, repetition, movement and brief experiences are a natural part of learning.
It combines printable digital books, structured graphic activities, computer vision and Artificial Intelligence.
Each book is designed around the exploratory capacity of early childhood. The activity sheets do not seek a perfect result. They create simple, progressive experiences through which the child can explore space, movement, gesture, repetition and their growing ability to remain engaged with an activity.
Its purpose is to support the progressive development of cognitive, executive and graphomotor abilities through brief, repeatable and pedagogically organized experiences.
Among the abilities Pintagrow seeks to support are sustained attention, persistence with a task, spatial planning, flexibility, self-regulation, inhibitory control, hand-eye coordination, gesture control and graphic intentionality.
02 — How does it work?
From the digital book to the next experience
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Choose a Pintagrow book
Each book is designed for a particular stage and objective. Its activity sheets form a progressive pedagogical sequence in which each activity has a specific role.
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Download and print the book
Pintagrow books are digital. The family downloads the PDF and prints the book so the child can work physically on paper, starting with the first activity sheet defined by the sequence.
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The child completes the activity
The adult presents the activity following the Grow Method, creating a calm, brief experience without over-directing the result. Sessions are normally designed to last around 2 to 5 minutes.
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Photograph the activity sheet with the Pintagrow app
After the activity, the adult uses the Pintagrow app to photograph the sheet. No scanner or specialized equipment is required.
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Pintagrow analyzes the activity
Computer vision obtains the relevant mark metrics. Artificial Intelligence interprets those metrics within the specific pedagogical context of the activity and transforms them into understandable information.
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The family receives a report
The report, written in understandable language, is sent to the responsible adult’s email and associated with the child’s history for longitudinal follow-up.
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Pintagrow indicates how to continue
The report explains what was observed, what changed relative to previous experiences and which next step is appropriate within that book.
Every second mattersPintagrow does not seek to make a child remain seated for a predetermined amount of time. It observes how the child begins, remains engaged, interrupts, returns and how that participation changes over successive experiences. A two-minute session may be as informative as a five-minute one.
The same activity sheet may be repeated many times. Repetition does not mean failure or regression: in early childhood it is part of the exploratory process and creates new comparable experiences.
03 — What does Pintagrow observe?
Each child is compared with their own history
Pintagrow does not compare a child with an ideal template or use other children as the main reference for determining progress.
Each new activity sheet adds information to an individual longitudinal reference built from that child’s own previous experiences.
The analysis is personalized at two levels: by child, because the history belongs to that individual child; and by book, because each book has its own objectives, sequence, MPG Contracts and observation criteria.
The central questionNot “How is this child doing compared with others?” but “What changed in this child compared with their own previous experiences within this process?”
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Sustained attention
How the child remains engaged with the experience, interrupts it, returns to it and how that participation changes over time.
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Motor skills and gesture control
How hand movement, gesture continuity and use of space become organized.
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Mark pressure
Observable changes in the relative intensity and density of the mark within comparable experiences.
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Graphic intentionality
How movements progressively relate to the purpose, references and organization of the activity.
04 — MPG Contracts
How does Pintagrow know what to observe?
Each Pintagrow book has its own pedagogical structure, and every activity sheet has a previously defined observational purpose and role within the sequence.
The MPG Contract is the technical-pedagogical specification that establishes for each activity which function or ability is being observed, which elements of the sheet are relevant, which mark characteristics can be measured, which metrics apply, what evidence is required and which decisions may follow.
This means that Artificial Intelligence does not receive a drawing and freely decide what it means.
In simple termsMethodology defines what to observe → the MPG Contract establishes the criteria → computer vision obtains the metrics → the child’s individual longitudinal history provides context → Artificial Intelligence interprets the metrics and transforms them into understandable information.
05 — How does the process continue?
There is no “good” or “bad” result
According to what was observed, the child’s longitudinal history and the pedagogical rules of that book, Pintagrow may indicate different ways to continue.
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Advance
Continue to the next experience in the sequence.
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Repeat
Carry out the activity again to generate a new comparable experience. It may be repeated several times and remains part of the normal exploratory process.
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Simplify
Temporarily reduce the demand before returning to a more complex experience.
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Maintain
Keep a similar level of demand to continue generating comparable experiences.
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Observe
Gather more information before changing the sequence.
ImportantRepeating, simplifying, maintaining or observing does not mean that the child has failed. These are support decisions designed to respect the child’s rhythm, create new exploratory opportunities and increase complexity only when appropriate.
06 — Grow Method
The report becomes the next experience
The Grow Method connects the analysis result with what the adult does next.
It guides the adult on how to present the activity, prepare the environment, observe without over-directing, understand the report and implement the next recommendation: advance, repeat, simplify, maintain or continue observing.
The key ideaThe report does not end the process. The Grow Method transforms that information into a concrete orientation for the child’s next experience.
07 — What is the purpose?
The book is the tool, not the final goal
The goal of Pintagrow is not for the child to complete a book.
The purpose is to generate progressive graphic experiences that help support the development of cognitive, executive and graphomotor abilities while observing how the same child changes over time and adapting subsequent experiences to that individual process.
Each session adds a new piece to the child’s history. Each repetition creates another comparable experience. Each book builds its own path.
The Pintagrow cycleBook → Print → Brief experience → Photograph → Analyze → Report → Compare with the child’s own history → Advance / Repeat / Simplify / Maintain / Observe → Grow Method → New experience.
Pintagrow does not diagnose or replace professional assessment. It observes, guides and accompanies the process.
Each child builds their own longitudinal reference, within each book, from their own experiences.
