Spot what aged.
Deprecated APIs, obsolete tools, and recommendations students shouldn't carry into a modern codebase.
CURRENCY AUDITTechnology rewrites itself every day. Course material doesn't. Stale finds the distance between what we're teaching and what the world now demands.
Untrusted input is added to a SQL query instead of using bound parameters.
Libraries update. Frameworks deprecate. Security guidance changes. Yet slides and example code can keep circulating long after the assumptions behind them have broken.
Stale is building a continuous feedback loop between technical education and the changing world outside it. Our first product is a source-verified course audit.
Why we're building Stale ↗Deprecated APIs, obsolete tools, and recommendations students shouldn't carry into a modern codebase.
CURRENCY AUDITInsecure examples, incorrect concepts, and code patterns that quietly teach the wrong habits.
QUALITY & SECURITYCompare course coverage with real job-role expectations, without demanding every class teach everything.
ROLE ALIGNMENTFrom the original slide to the primary source, every delivered finding can be traced. These are examples from Stale's actual public audits.
Unsafe string concatenation in an SQLite example. Stale flags the original teaching material and points to safer parameterized queries.
Findings paired with contextual recommendations for a backend engineering role.
See course-level issues alongside the skills and concepts worth teaching next.
Stale doesn't ask one model for an answer and call it a day. Claude helps investigate and judge. Deterministic software checks the evidence before a finding can appear in the report.
PDF and PPTX are parsed with slide and lecture context preserved.
Surfaces candidate issues and suspicious claims across the material.
Adjudicates findings and reasons about course depth and role expectations.
Python re-fetches citations and re-anchors claims. Unsupported findings are dropped.
A degree shouldn't be disconnected folders and abandoned projects. Our north star is a persistent academic intelligence layer that understands the student, the curriculum, and how every semester connects to the next.
Evidence-backed curriculum reviews, delivered through scoped engagements.
THE FIRST LAYER ●Connect courses, prerequisites, gaps, and concepts across semesters.
ACADEMIC MEMORY ↗Keep evolving the systems students build as their skills mature.
LEARNING THAT ACCUMULATES ↗Future academic companion features, including CLI and MCP integrations, are a product direction, not available services today.
Stale begins with the people responsible for teaching technical skills, from individual instructors to curriculum teams and training programs.
Understand where course content diverges from current technical practice.
↗Review teaching examples and role alignment before they reach a cohort.
↗Make evidence-informed updates to what is taught and how it's applied.
↗Share your course material and intended outcomes. We'll review the scope and reply with pricing and estimated turnaround. An audit only begins after you accept the quote.