How I Built MODELS With AI

The milestones, the human corrections, and the work behind a thinking system you can actually use.

The website you are reading has a course, an encyclopedia, thinking exercises, interactive articles, free registration, and a paid offer. It would be easy to tell its story as a list of things AI generated.

The build history tells a more useful story. It records decisions about what people should be able to do, examples that needed another revision, experiments that were reversed, and questions a working website still cannot answer.

That is the part I want to show you. If you have years of ideas, teaching material, or professional experience, this project offers a concrete example of turning some of that knowledge into something another person can use.

I created this site using skills taught in the Agentic Academy. You can explore the finished surfaces here, then use this case study to examine the decisions behind them.

MODELS is a developing system for noticing what gets in the way of thinking, choosing a useful move, and checking what changes. Its six areas cover how we represent a situation, the options we consider, the result we want, the evidence we need, recurring patterns, and how we arrange the work.

The archive’s early milestones predate this website. By August 22, the project chronology described a working book that included cards, a canvas, games, and an AI tutor. The first saved website source appears on August 26. A course and an encyclopedia followed in the source history on September 1.

Those dates matter. This was an evolving research and teaching project before it became the public website you see today. The September 5 expansion added a homepage, articles, newsletter signup, and an offer-interest page to learning tools that already existed.

The useful possibility is that knowledge can take more than one form. An explanation can become a lesson. A distinction can become a comparison someone edits. A procedure can become a small exercise with feedback. Each form gives the reader a different way to work with the material.