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AI education for normal people. Short, hands-on, and built so anyone can get good at these tools fast.

  • Branding
  • Product Design
  • Prototyping
  • Web

Superintelligent

The goal

Most AI education is built for people who already get AI: long courses, dense theory, hours you don't have. Superintelligent bet the opposite, short hands-on lessons that get a normal person good at modern AI tools. We built the brand, the product and the marketing site, with one job: make AI feel learnable instead of intimidating.

The challenge

The category is loud and confusing, every week a new tool and a new reason to feel behind. The hard part was tone: approachable without dumbing it down, pulling people into the next lesson instead of front-loading technical detail. And not another infinite scroll like YouTube. A structured way to learn, and to finish.

My role

I defined the direction for the product design and prototyping. My job was to hand the design team the requirements, the features and the rationale behind them, drawn from the client's goals and the market analysis. I carried the voice of the user too: someone who wants to learn AI but finds the pace overwhelming, so every lesson had to break down into something small, hands-on and finishable. That thinking carried into the brand and marketing too.

How I approached it

Long courses fail because they ask for a commitment people cannot make. So we designed around the opposite unit: small, hands-on, done in one sitting. You learn by doing the thing, not watching someone explain it.

The brand had to carry that, friendly but not dumbed down, confident but not smug. And brand, product and site were built together, because the feeling on the marketing page has to match the feeling inside the first lesson or the promise breaks. We used AI to read the market fast and built the foundations to be AI-ready, so the team could keep generating on-brand lessons and assets as they scaled.

AI tools already make people feel small. The point was to make them feel capable instead.

The result

A brand and product that make AI feel like something you can pick up today, not study for a year. Practical over theoretical. Doing over watching.

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Superintelligent logotype in white on a black background
Glassy plus-shaped brand mark on a green gradient
Set of teal line icons including chat and community symbols
Be Super, AI learning for everyone, wordmark lockup on white
Brand color palette swatches and type samples
App store screen reading change the way you learn on teal
Desktop website page mockups
Hand holding a phone showing the mobile app
App onboarding screen listing learning basics
Dark dashboard interface screen

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