Cogitation.ai

The AI stack for work too important to hand off and too complex for chat.

The problem

Great novels, smart legal arguments, ambitious curricula — these take years of skill and enormous investment to produce well. AI should help more people reach that level, and help the best be more ambitious than ever. But today's tools top out at chat, and chat breaks down when the work is long, interconnected, and full of decisions that matter.

The missing piece is structure. AI needs to understand a domain the way a compiler understands code — not just read the text and hope.

What we build

creAItive

A programming framework that gives AI the structure it needs to be genuinely useful on hard domains. Define schemas, manage context, orchestrate reasoning — so the AI handles structure and consistency while humans handle taste and vision.

AuthorCraft

An AI developmental editor built on creAItive. It reads your entire manuscript, extracts the structure — themes, character arcs, story beats, pacing — and lets authors work at that level, not sentence by sentence. Changes map back to the manuscript.

authorcraft.ai

From the founder

About

Geoff Hulten — Founder. PhD in Machine Learning, author of Building Intelligent Systems, SIGKDD Test of Time award. Former engineering leader at Google and Microsoft. Taught ML at the University of Washington. Now building full-time with AI as a solo founder. LinkedIn