THE PRE-AGENT LAYER EVERY AI BUILDER IS MISSING
Systems Intelligence
Most builders deploy AI before designing the system it runs inside. The Systems Intelligence Model (SIM) — the agentic engineering foundation for AI-era ventures — fixes that. In 5 weeks, live, with a cohort of peers running the SIM alongside you.
THE FRAMEWORK BEHIND THE COURSE
The Mental Model Most Builders Are Missing
Most frameworks teach you to optimize one part of your venture at a time — better marketing, sharper product, cleaner ops. The Systems Intelligence Model teaches you to see the whole. And that is even more crucial today with the advent of AI and its applications in business.
It's a universal building language: four interdependent engines that accumulate value, four drivers that coordinate them, and nine laws that govern how they behave under pressure. Built on systems theory, cybernetics, and 11 years of real-world teaching across startups, corporates, and government programs.
In five weeks, you'll map your own venture against this model — and leave with a complete Systems Architecture document you can actually use.
Han Kay
· Creator, SI Model
· Instructor, Systems Intelligence Course
· MISM (Carnegie Mellon U.)
· MBA
· MS in Biosystems Engineering
· 9 Ventures
WHAT YOU GAIN IN 5 WEEKS
From Builder to
Systems Architect
Your Four
Course Outcomes
Your Venture
as a System
Map your venture using the 4 Jump Engines × 4 Jump Drivers framework. See exactly where value is accumulating — and where it's leaking — in your own context.
The Apple
Masterclass
Week 5 is a full systems deconstruction of Apple — from garage to $3.5T — using the SIM lens. The same model explains every era of Apple's history and its current AI crisis.
AI Integration
Design
Design exactly where AI amplifies your system — not where it replaces judgment. Walk away with a practical AI layer mapped to your specific venture architecture.
Alumni Practice
Network
Top performers join an ongoing practitioner community — peer reviews, advanced case studies, and free live sessions with Han Kay long after the cohort ends.
OUTCOMES
WEF Top Skills
Built-In
The Skills
You'll Develop
Systems + AI
Integration
Master two of the WEF's most critical future skills: Systems Thinking (#6) and AI & Big Data (#7). Our curriculum teaches you how to integrate aligned technology within a coherent system, seeing both the forest and the trees.
Creative
Problem Solving
Develop the WEF's #1 skill for the future: Creative Thinking. Our hands-on process moves beyond brainstorming, teaching you systematic approaches to innovation within complex systems.
Technical
Leadership
Built for leaders, not just coders. You'll learn to design AI-enhanced systems with confidence — giving you the technological literacy (#3) that translates directly to better decisions at every level.
Resilience &
Agility
Forge true Resilience, Flexibility and Agility (#5). Each week you build a component of your Systems Architecture Map — developing the structural decision-making required to navigate uncertainty with confidence.
THE SYSTEMS INTELLIGENCE MODEL
Systems Thinking
Meets AI
The Framework
You'll Master
Systematic
Integration
Build your venture as a coherent system, block by block. The Systems Intelligence Model is a blueprint for architecting each part of your business, using AI as the connective tissue to create a resilient, intelligent, and unified whole.
Flexible
Implementation
Designed for conscious builders, from solo founders to growing teams. The SI Model provides a clear, adaptable framework for implementing AI solutions strategically, ensuring you maintain control as you scale.
Proven
Methodology
This isn't just theory. The SI Model merges timeless systems principles with modern AI integration, refined through years of real-world implementation. It’s a battle-tested approach to building intelligent ventures that last.
Growth
Architecture
Architect your venture for intelligent growth from day one. The model provides clear paths for leveraging AI to build scalable operations, allowing your system to adapt and evolve without losing its core coherence.
LEARNING PATH
Your Journey to
Conscious Building
Your 5-Week
Curriculum
The SI
Model
Learn the universal building language: 4 Jump Engines, 4 Jump Drivers, and how they interact to create — or destroy — value in any system.
The Physics
of Ventures
Apply the 9 Universal Systems Laws and diagnose the 6 recurring failure archetypes. Find the real leverage points before problems compound.
AI Integration
Design
Design AI into your system architecture as a precision layer — not a shortcut. Map exactly where it amplifies your venture and where it creates risk.
Apple Masterclass+
Your Architecture
Week 5: deconstruct Apple across 5 decades using SIM. Then apply the same lens to your own venture and leave with a complete Systems Architecture Map.
WHO IS TEACHING
Meet Your Instructor
Han Kay
Creating with the
SI Model
Systems
Architect
30 years across Silicon Valley startups, the World Bank, and global strategy. Han transforms field-tested experience into rigorous methodology —not theory, not frameworks borrowed from others.
SI Model
Creator
Creator of the Systems Intelligence Model (SIM)— the agentic engineering foundation built over 11 years and formally published as a peer- reviewed preprint. Author of Spaghetti Startup (nominated Best Entrepreneurship Book) and Conscious Systems.
AI-Enhanced
Leadership
Han practices what he preaches, using the principles of systems thinking and AI-enhanced leadership to build his ventures. Learn how this combination can transform not just your venture, but the future of human organization.
Are you a Systems Intelligence builder?
This course is for founders, operators, and strategic professionals who want a rigorous mental model for how complex systems actually work. No prior systems theory required. All you need is something you're building, leading, or planning.
Curriculum: A comprehensive journey through the SI Model. Full syllabus shared on Maven.
Start Date: Upcoming Cohort is planned for June 28th.
Format: Cohort-based learning via live sessions, asynch lessons and community.
Duration: 5 weeks, 3 hours live/week · 5 projects · Apple Masterclass · SI Practitioner Certificate
Cohort Size: Small cohort, 20 seats, open enrollment.
Price: $797 founding cohort. Price rises to $1,297 for Cohort 2.
Coherent:
Tech
Systems
Minds
The best way to predict the future is to build it.
That's the premise. Systems Intelligence gives you the architecture — not the forecast — and the tools to build the future on purpose.
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