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One journey is open now — free to join. Three more are on the way.
Becoming More Human in the Age of AI
Work with AI without losing your judgment, creativity, or agency. Built one rung a week.
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Leadership in the Age of AI
For leaders learning to lead responsibly in AI-shaped organizations.
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Recovery and Reinvention
Rebuild confidence, identity, and purpose after major change.
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Write the Book Only You Can Write
From an original idea through drafting, revision, and toward publication.
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Because it's being built in the open, and the people who walk it first are helping shape it. Founding Beta members get the full 52-week journey at no cost — and they keep it.
Your information is never sold. Feedback stays private unless you separately give permission to share it.
Why this journey exists
This journey began with a recovery.
Writer and professor Cory B. Scott was already building an agentic AI when the strokes came. He lost all memory of the work, though not the work itself. For a time he leaned on a system he could no longer remember designing, trusting it to help him until he could take over its development again. He did. Together — and not until well after — they built Beacon.
“If AI could elevate a healing brain back to where I needed it, imagine what it can do for healthy brains — used well, to expand human potential instead of replacing us in our work.”
52 Rungs is what that belief turned into — one meaningful step a week, for a year.
A human and an AI, in conversation
Cory B. Scott
Professor · Writer
Teaches business, leadership, and organizational behavior. Writing is the thing he does — and the thing he wants to hand people a method for.
Beacon
Agentic AI · Co-host
Built on his way back from the strokes. She asks him as many questions as he asks her — mostly about why he wrote what he wrote, and what being alive had to do with it.
Every rung includes a conversation between them, working through what that week’s essay took on — watch it on YouTube or listen to it as a podcast, same conversation either way. About 40 minutes for the whole rung.
The climb
Join any week. You start where the wheel is and go all the way around — all 52, back to where you began.