Train Your Kids
Like Spies.
Real-world tactical missions for homeschool families. Dead drops, bona fides, navigation, surveillance detection — educational adventures your kids won't want to stop.
Free Training Library
You don't need a mission to start training. Our Field Classes teach real tradecraft skills — and they're free for every agent.
Operation Trust: How To Verify Your Asset's Bona Fides
Master the art of verifying identities and intentions with this guide on bona fides. Learn how Field Craft Academy trains recruits to distinguish between genuine allies and deceptive double agents.
Counter-Surveillance: Active Measures
Distinct from detection — active measures to shake a surveillance team. Dry cleaning, the trap street, breaking the floating box, and using terrain and timing to your advantage.
Route Planning & Evasion
Chokepoint avoidance and primary/alternate/emergency route planning, plus evasion basics — the dry-clean, breaking contact, and never leading a tail home. The operational upgrade to basic urban navigation.
Escape & Evasion Basics
What to do if you're made — the abort signal, primary and secondary rally points, the evasion sequence, what 'made' looks like, and why safety always comes first.
Conducting a Surveillance Stand
Offensive surveillance — how to watch a target without being made. Covers the stationary foot post, the floating box, target handoffs, and how SDR discipline cuts both ways.
Interrogation Resistance
Age-appropriate 'don't give up the code word' games. Stay in character, never confirm the secret exists, and practice resisting casual, persistent, and bribe-based pressure through your cover story.
Tradecraft Glossary
Dead drops, bona fides, SDRs, brush passes — master the language of the trade. Our glossary is open to everyone, no account required.
The broader, long-term identity and life context that supports your cover. It answers: 'Who are you in this town?' — your job, your family, your daily routine, your reason for living where you live. A cover for status might be 'visiting my cousin for the summer' or 'a college student home on break.' It is the backstory that makes your cover for action believable over time. Cover for action is the moment; cover for status is the lifestyle.
A concealed, pre-positioned store of equipment, supplies, or intelligence placed for later retrieval. Caches allow an operative to access materials without carrying them and without a live exchange. Classic cache types include buried containers (sealed PVC tubes), magnetic attachments under surfaces, and hidden compartments in everyday objects. A cache must be recoverable only by the person who placed it (or their intended recipient), weather-resistant, and located where servicing it won't draw attention. Missions use caches to store intel packages, signaling gear, or extraction items the agent retrieves mid-operation.
A plausible, observable reason for being in a specific place doing a specific activity at the moment you are conducting your operation. If you are conducting surveillance at a park, your cover for action is 'playing on the swings.' If questioned, your behavior should immediately make sense to any observer. Without cover for action, your presence looks suspicious and invites scrutiny. Cover for action answers: 'Why are you doing THIS, HERE, NOW?'
A person unofficially employed by an intelligence service, often as a source of information.
A government employee who is influenced to cooperate with a foreign government instead of defecting; now working for two employers instead of one.
A person who works within the government or media of a target country to influence national policy.
How It Works
Create Agent Profiles
Register your young operatives with callsigns, cover identities, and skill levels. Each agent tracks their own progression.
Choose or Build a Mission
Pick from our library of pre-made mission bundles, or use the AI builder to generate a custom mission tailored to your location and family.
Debrief & Level Up
After each mission, complete an After-Action Review. The AI analyzes performance and your agents earn XP toward new skill levels.
Mission Bundles
One-time purchases. Buy once, run forever.
OPERATION: PIRATE PLANK ESCAPE
You have been captured by high-seas Somali Pirates and are locked in the brig. They must use critical thinking, code-breaking, and speed to unlock the room before the pirates return to demand the ransom.
CACHE AND CONCEAL OPERATION
Transform your backyard or local park into a thrilling urban espionage zone! This mission will enhance your agent's disguise skills and urban navigation, while unlocking hidden treasures through secret drops.
THE GREAT SPY SHOWDOWN
Gear up for an exciting competitive adventure where agents team up for a series of challenging spy missions! Watch as your young recruits build covert skills while competing against each other in a thrilling race to be the ultimate spy team.
ULTIMATE SPY SURVIVAL
Prepare your teen for real-world challenges in 'Ultimate Spy Survival: The Teen Agent Challenge!' This immersive field class merges advanced survival techniques with spy tradecraft, offering an unforgettable espionage adventure. Agents will develop teamwork, strategy, and essential skills for navigating both wilderness and urban scenarios.
ROMAN EMPIRE SPY MISSION
Embark on an exciting adventure through time as your child becomes a covert operative in the era of the Roman Empire! They’ll decode ancient secrets, discover historical facts, and complete challenges that bring history to life. Perfect for curious minds eager to learn while having fun!
Operation FIRST LIGHT
The introductory mission for new recruits. Establishes basic operational awareness, introduces cover story fundamentals, and runs a simple dead drop exercise in a familiar environment.
AI Mission Builder
Tell the AI where you're going and who's coming. It builds a complete tactical mission — with cover story, bona fides challenge, dead drop location, surveillance task, and extraction plan — tailored perfectly to your environment.
- Any location: park, mall, museum, camping trip
- Any age: missions scale to your child's level
- Instant PDF assets: mission briefs, ID cards, control sheets
- Unlimited generation with subscription
Choose Your Plan
Mission bundles available à la carte. Subscription includes AI builder + monthly drops.
Create a free account to unlock the full Field Class training library, the complete Tradecraft Glossary, agent dossier tracking, and skill progression — no credit card required.
- AI Mission Builder (unlimited)
- Mission Customizer tool
- 1 new mission drop every month
- PDF asset exports (briefs, ID cards)
- Agent profiles & skill tracking
- After-Action Review system
- Everything in Field Operative
- Save 35% vs monthly billing
- Priority mission drops (2/month)
- Advanced skill progression system
- Full glossary & resource center
- Early access to new features
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Field Reports
From families in the field
"My kids BEG to do school now. The missions are educational, creative, and totally gripping. We've completed 6 missions this semester."
"The AI Mission Builder is incredible. I described our upcoming camping trip and got a complete spy mission in 30 seconds. My son is obsessed."
"We use Field Craft Academy for our whole co-op group. The skill progression and after-action reviews teach real critical thinking."
Your Mission,
If You Choose It
Join homeschool families turning ordinary outings into extraordinary training operations. Your kids will develop real-world skills — and they won't even realize it's school.