Category: Blog
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I Built a Portable Performance Consulting Practice. Here’s How It Worked on a Real Client.
I Built a Portable Performance Consulting Practice. Here’s How It Worked on a Real Client. | Jason Boursier BlueEdgewater ← Back to Blog Case Study + Build Journal I Built a Portable Performance Consulting Practice.Here’s How It Worked on a Real Client. JB Jason Boursier Instructional Designer & Founder, Blue Edgewater July 2026 Most AI…
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Your Team Completed the Training. Performance Got Worse. Here’s Why That Happens — and What to Do Instead.
On diagnosing performance problems before spending the budget to solve the wrong one. There’s a scenario that plays out in warehouses, hospitals, bank branches, and software companies with a regularity that should be unsettling. A new system goes live. Or a process changes. Or a compliance requirement lands. Leadership commissions training. The team completes it…
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What I Learned from Building CoLeader: From Brief to Google Play
What I Learned Building CoLeader — Jason Boursier | Blue Edgewater BlueEdgewater ← Back to Blog ◆ Case Study What I Learned Building CoLeader — From Brief to Google Play A solo developer’s honest account of shipping a full-stack AI app: the architecture decisions, the debugging marathons, and the product insights that only come from…
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Building CoSignal Agentic Capability Risk Detection System
Building CoSignal- An Agentic Capability Risk Detection System For a long time, I have been fascinated by agentic workflows. Like…too long. In outright wonderment like…I wonder if I will EVER learn to use these? They were mysterious. Almost magical. Scary even. Like little robot wizards. Like many people exploring AI, I spent years thinking about…
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The Knowledge That Walks Out the Door
May 21, 2026 — by jboursier in Blog How I built an agentic AI system to preserve institutional expertise — and why every industry needs one There is a moment every organization dreads, usually on a Friday afternoon. A senior employee sends an email. They’re going on medical leave, or they’ve accepted another offer, or they’ve…
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Less Building, More Showing: What I Learned from Building a Family of AI Apps
Over the last few weeks, I have been building a family of AI-powered apps. What started as a fun experiment has turned into something bigger than I expected. I began with CoFun, a comedy app designed to turn everyday moments, arguments, observations, and frustrations into funny bits, roasts, and punchlines. Then came other creative directions:…
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I Spent the Weekend Building AI Tools for L&D. Here’s What I Made — and What I Learned.
I’ve been an instructional designer long enough to know the difference between training that looks good in a deck and training that actually changes behavior on the job. That gap — between what gets designed and what actually transfers — has bothered me for most of my career. This weekend I did something about it.…
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From CoFun to CoBuild: What Building Five AI Apps Taught Me About the Future of Learning Design
Over the past few months, I have been building a family of AI-powered apps. It started with a simple question: Why does AI always have to be about productivity? So I built CoFun. CoFun began as a creative experiment: an app that helps people turn everyday frustrations, awkward moments, arguments, and random life nonsense into…
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My Grad School Brain Just Got a Turbo Button
Your Grad School Brain Just Got a Turbo Button | Blog Learning Design + AI Your Grad School Brain Just Got a Turbo Button How I turned years of HPT and instructional design coursework into Skills inside Claude CoWork that deliver real, polished, consultant-grade outputs on demand. 🎓 HPT & L&D • 🤖 Claude CoWork…
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From Course Reviewer to Learning Manager: What I Learned Redesigning an Online Teaching Course
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been living in the weeds of one course: Online Teaching Strategies. What started as a fairly straightforward evaluation task quietly turned into a crash course in thinking like a Learning Manager—someone who doesn’t just build content, but orchestrates alignment, facilitation, and continuous improvement at scale. This post captures what…