About

A small studio with a day job

BYTSized LLC is a two-person operation in Toledo, Ohio. Everything here is built by people who use it — the platform gets tested on real classes, and the games are played by friends and family.

Brian Tittl

Brian Tittl

Founder

Brian is a teacher first and a developer second, and the order matters. He currently teaches AP History and Government at St. John's Jesuit High School, and Theology and Computer Science courses for Arrupe Virtual Learning Institute. Brian has been a department chair, managed classroom technology for faculty both in-class and online, and has taught students from the middle school to college level. He has also given several workshops on technology in the classroom, especially on the integration of ethical AI — this experience is where nearly everything BYTSized makes comes from.

Studiorum exists because grading a stack of DBQs and building a fresh assessment for every unit is work that Brian was already doing. Its AI tutor is named Magis after the Ignatian principle, and the platform itself after the Ratio Studiorum, the Jesuit plan of studies written in 1599. Brian holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toledo and has been teaching for two decades, online and in person.

The games came out of the same instinct, just pointed sideways: Brian has been building word and puzzle games since 2015 and is particularly interested in gamification in education.

The team

The rest of BYTSized

Rebecca Tittl

Rebecca Tittl

Social Media Manager

Rebecca runs social for BYTSized and was one of the first people to beta test Studiorum — which means she has been telling us what's wrong with it longer than almost anyone. She brings the student's side of the argument to every project, and manages Studiorum's Instagram and TikTok.

Everyone else

Testers & first readers

Students who found the bugs, teachers who said the wording was confusing, and family members who lost on Letterkeep so we could see whether the difficulty curve was right. Not on the payroll, but the products would be worse without them.