Category: Blog
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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…
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Applying Learning Frameworks as an AI Learning Manager
As an emerging AI Learning Manager, I see the intersection of technology, pedagogy, and human experience as the future of online learning. My goal is to integrate proven learning frameworks—such as the Community of Inquiry (CoI), Moore’s Theory of Transactional Distance, Sorensen & Baylen’s Seven Principles of Good Online Learning, and the Practical Inquiry Model…