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Spot what aged.
Deprecated APIs, obsolete tools, and recommendations students shouldn't carry into a modern codebase.
CURRENCY AUDIT CURRICULUM INTELLIGENCE, POWERED BY CLAUDE
The world
moves.
Education lags.
Technology rewrites itself every day. Course material doesn't. Stale finds the distance between what we're teaching and what the world now demands.
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EVIDENCE SYSTEM / 001
STALE / AUDIT RECORDPUBLIC EXAMPLE
LECTURE 06DATABASE & CONTENT PROVIDERS
db.execSQL(
"INSERT INTO student VALUES('"
+ editRollno.getText() + ...
"INSERT INTO student VALUES('"
+ editRollno.getText() + ...
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VERIFIED ISSUEHIGH RISK
User input concatenated directly into SQL.
Untrusted input is added to a SQL query instead of using bound parameters.
✓
Checked beyond the modelSource: OWASP · SQL Injection Prevention
↗CLAUDE × DETERMINISTIC VERIFICATION01 / 55
SONNET → OPUS → VERIFIED
REAL FINDING · MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
THE PROBLEM IS NOT A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE.IT'S HOW LONG KNOWLEDGE TAKES TO REACH THE CLASSROOM.↓
REAL OUTPUT / NOT CUSTOMER CLAIMSWe started by
checking the evidence.
checking the evidence.
55verified findings
10distinct CS courses
11public audit runs
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01 / THE PROBLEMTECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE HAS A HALF-LIFE
Graduating with yesterday's knowledge is a problem we can actually solve.
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 ↗02
Catch what breaks.
Insecure examples, incorrect concepts, and code patterns that quietly teach the wrong habits.
QUALITY & SECURITY03
See what's missing.
Compare course coverage with real job-role expectations, without demanding every class teach everything.
ROLE ALIGNMENT02 / THE OUTPUTAN INSPECTABLE BODY OF WORK
Not another AI opinion.
Receipts.
From the original slide to the primary source, every delivered finding can be traced. These are examples from Stale's actual public audits.
01 / MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT↗
SECURITY FINDING
Teaching SQL injection without meaning to.
Unsafe string concatenation in an SQLite example. Stale flags the original teaching material and points to safer parameterized queries.
ACTUAL PUBLIC AUDITInspect the evidence ↗
02 / OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 1↗
COURSE MODERNIZATIONWhat belongs in the curriculum now?
Findings paired with contextual recommendations for a backend engineering role.
10 VERIFIED FINDINGSOpen report ↗
03 / OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 2↗
ROLE ALIGNMENTWhat the next role expects.
See course-level issues alongside the skills and concepts worth teaching next.
8 VERIFIED FINDINGSOpen report ↗
03 / THE INTELLIGENCEBUILT ON ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE
Claude ✳ at the core.Reason deeply.
Reason deeply.
Verify independently.
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.
INPUT01
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Course material
PDF and PPTX are parsed with slide and lecture context preserved.
CLAUDE02
S✳
Sonnet explores
Surfaces candidate issues and suspicious claims across the material.
CLAUDE03
O✳
Opus judges
Adjudicates findings and reasons about course depth and role expectations.
INDEPENDENT CHECK04
✓
Evidence survives
Python re-fetches citations and re-anchors claims. Unsupported findings are dropped.
Every flagged claim is then verified outside the model.That's not a marketing promise. It's an architectural decision.
04 / THE AMBITIONFROM ONE AUDIT TO AN ENTIRE DEGREE
TODAY, COURSE INTELLIGENCE. TOMORROW, CONTINUITY.What if learning
What if learning
remembered itself?
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.
CONCEPTUAL ROADMAP / NOT A LIVE PRODUCT
Course audits
Evidence-backed curriculum reviews, delivered through scoped engagements.
THE FIRST LAYER ●Degree context
Connect courses, prerequisites, gaps, and concepts across semesters.
ACADEMIC MEMORY ↗Compounding projects
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.
05 / WHO IT SERVESMADE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO SET THE STANDARD
Better material.
Better starting points.
Stale begins with the people responsible for teaching technical skills, from individual instructors to curriculum teams and training programs.
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Universities & departments
Understand where course content diverges from current technical practice.
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Bootcamps & training programs
Review teaching examples and role alignment before they reach a cohort.
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Instructors & learners
Make evidence-informed updates to what is taught and how it's applied.
↗ WORK WITH STALEKeep your next
Keep your next
course ahead.
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.
THE PROCESS
01Describe the course
02Receive a quote
03Approve & commission
04Get a verified report
No instant audit, no hidden checkout, and no processing without an agreed scope.