The Threshold

By early 2025, I was living three lives.

By day I was an AI innovation coach at a robotics school in Boston, and the operations manager of a nonprofit called iSteam. On weekends I volunteered at a library in South Boston, teaching robotics and AI to whoever walked in.

Three rooms, one lesson.

Between them, I had logged over 1,500 hours of hands-on AI work and more than 200 hours teaching it. Enough time to stop being impressed by the technology and start noticing what it was doing to people.

Here is what I noticed.

For most of history, knowledge had a price. Not tuition — time. To truly know something, you paid in months: collecting materials, cross-referencing sources, hunting down the one person who could explain the hard part. That time cost was a threshold, and it decided who got to know things.

By March 2025, the threshold was gone. Not lowered. Gone. A kid in my Saturday library session could reach, in minutes, what used to cost a research trip — if he knew how to ask.

That last clause is the entire story. If he knew how to ask.

Because here is the uncomfortable part: the tools were everywhere, and the understanding was almost nowhere. I watched it in all three rooms. The robotics students who treated AI like a search engine got search-engine results. The ones who learned to direct it — to question it, push it, iterate with it — were operating years ahead of their transcripts. The gap between those two groups was widening every single month. And nothing in the education system was even measuring it.

Asking well had quietly become the most valuable skill in the world. Nobody was teaching it. Nobody was even calling it a skill.

I am not a natural founder. I am a teacher who ran out of patience with the size of the room. A coaching session reaches ten kids. A library Saturday reaches thirty. The shift I was watching would reach everyone.

So in March 2025, I incorporated G Edge in Delaware. The plan has not changed since: build AI for people. Teach the ones who want to learn. Build for the ones who want it built. Take the precision of expensive expertise and price it so anyone can reach it.

Everything we do today — the education programs, the consulting practice, the products we ship in days and document in these notes — traces back to that one observation, made across three rooms in Boston:

The threshold is gone. Most people just haven't been told.

This is note 001. The story continues from here, and I will write it the way we do everything at G Edge — real decisions, real numbers, mistakes included.