Extended Engagement
Shape · World Models
Staying with the material until the work is truly earned.
Agentic Creative Intelligence
What kinds of creative expression and experience can reclaim human agency in the agentic era?
The ACI Institute cultivates creative expression and experience with AI, keeping human agency at the center of the work.
Four creative capabilities
A practitioner cultivates four capabilities. Held apart, they are four. Brought together around the work, they are one.
Aesthetic Awareness
Style · Large Language Models
Sensing before naming, and holding a distinct voice.
Adaptive Coherence
Story · Causal Models
Holding a through-line while keeping the real question open.
Expressive Influence
Statement · Diffusion Models
Reaching people with something genuinely your own.
Measure your creative field
The ACI Gauge reflects your four capabilities as a single field in about five minutes. See where to grow, then reach an expert.