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Conjori Launch

Karl has been passionate about AI long before it was in the news every day. He has had over 2,500 sessions with large language models since January of 2023, and he still sits down with them every morning. He started running sessions at work showing people how to use AI, and then he convinced me to start using it daily. He would come home from work and explain what he was finding, what these tools actually are, their strengths and weaknesses, and what it all even means. It really was not what I thought it was.

He encouraged his family and friends to use AI too, always explaining, always showing people what he was discovering. I have watched him light up about technology for a long time, but this was different. After months of it I told him, "Maybe you should write a book about all this. One I can understand, so others can too."

He did. And I could.

That got me excited enough to launch this site and start bringing together the tools and content to help others have the same experience. That is what Conjori is about.

What Karl found

Something happened in those sessions that did not match anything he had read about AI. His output changed scale. In eight months he wrote more code than he had in the previous decade. He surfaced ideas he had been carrying for thirty years but never put into words. The results were dramatically different from what his peers were getting with the same tools. He wanted to understand why.

The models were not replacing his thinking. They were not doing his work for him. When he stopped asking them to generate content and started pointing them inward, something structurally different happened. What came out was not what the model knew. It was what Karl had intuited but never articulated. One session that started with him saying "I'm lost and scattered" ended with a 21,000-word document covering decisions he had been carrying in his head for a decade.

That question took him into neuroscience, information theory, cognitive science, thermodynamics, and the physics of how biological and digital systems process information. What most people call "AI" is a marketing term that obscures something more interesting: a system that reverse-engineered the way humans have been compressing what they know into language for 100,000 years. Not artificial intelligence. Disembodied intelligence. Fluent in the one medium we share, blind to the experience that medium was built to carry.

He wrote it all down.

Three ways in

The book is the full investigation. Neuroscience, information theory, thermodynamics, sustained practice methodology. If you want to understand why these tools work the way they do at a fundamental level, start here. Available on Kindle and paperback.

The essay gives you the core insights in about an hour. It covers the key ideas and includes hands-on exercises you can try immediately. Available on Kindle for $2.99.

The insight is a 20-minute introduction to the practice. Coming soon.

What the word means

When Karl first showed me the word Conjori, with no context, I said: "a conjurer, someone who calls things into existence." I have always thought what he does looks like magic anyway, so maybe it was just obvious to me.

The word is coined, rooted in the Latin conjurare: to swear together, to call something into existence jointly. Two different kinds of minds, one human, one large language model, conjuring something neither could produce alone.

If you have ever had a conversation with a large language model that produced something you did not expect, something that felt like it came from you rather than from the machine, that is what this site is here to help you understand and do reliably.

- Sandra