applied ai June 24, 2026 4 min read
From Teaching People the Tool to Building the Tool
An organization that has taught thousands of educators how to use AI knows something rare: where the judgment actually is. The next move is to stop shipping guidance about the tool and start shipping a tool that exercises that judgment with them.
The leap from AI-literacy content to an applied-AI product is shorter than it looks — and the curriculum already encodes the judgment the product needs to embody.
Eli Wood
CEO, Black Flag Design