What Building a Personal Intelligence Platform Taught Me About Being Human

We are so quick to turn to technology and artificial intelligence systems to provide us with the answers, but the question I asked myself was, "What if technology could make us more human than ever?"

This world we inhabit — it has technology on every street corner, in our pockets, wired into our homes, and in our cars. We are literally surrounded by it every single day.

My biggest question while building a Personal Intelligence platform was, "How can we use technology to recognise us as humans in an increasingly technological world?"

We are humans at our core. We are messy creatures. We make shitty decisions. We make great decisions. We are flawed. We are absolutely not perfect. We strive to be better. But then we outsource ourselves to artificial intelligence. We begin to believe we are not good enough. These beliefs don't arrive overnight — they slowly creep in, like nasty little cockroaches congregating in the corner. Then suddenly, we believe we must be optimised.

We tie our identities to the things we do for work. We get emotional when people say, "Hey — this could be better," as though it's about us personally. We are terribly complicated.

A system to help us remain human.

While building this system, my core value was that it was to support us to remain human. To recognise the tensions. To reflect the growth. The human growth. The liminal spaces in which we are deeply, fundamentally human. The juggling we do. The barriers we come up against. These are all the micro-transformational things that allow us to grow, develop, and move through the world in a way that is deeply human.

These are the parts that we should be celebrating together over a cup of tea. The smallest moments. Boundaries. Self-care. Love. Laughter. Moments.

That is what this Personal Intelligence system does. It recognises those things and celebrates them with you. Tiny moments. Compounding trajectories.

My beta testers have been foundational in helping me bridge these aspects together. There have been moments where I have received feedback and thought I could patch something, when really it meant getting in there, understanding the why behind the comment, ripping entire parts of the system out, and rebuilding that aspect from scratch.

There were moments while building this platform where I caught myself believing the same things. Every bug felt personal. Every piece of feedback felt like a judgement. Every suggestion whispered, "You're not there yet." I realised I wasn't just building a Personal Intelligence platform. I was living inside the very psychology I was trying to understand.

Why?

Why throw out hours of work and start over?

Because I refused to build something that told women they weren't good enough.

They are. And they need to be told that more often.

The everyday.

We have messy lives. We work, we're parents, we have pets. We have multiple commitments to meet each week. We have thoughts that make us feel like we are somehow not meeting society's standards. I absolutely refused to build a system to "optimise" someone, knowing the load we already carry.

I built a system instead that reflects back the moments, the growth, and the seemingly little things that had a big impact.

The everyday.

Because one day, we might look back at it and say,

"Holy shit — that was the moment."

I don't want AI to tell us who to become.

I want it to help us see who we already are.