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Human Agency in the AI Era
When answers are instant, what happens to how we decide? If AI is shaping your community, who's building the map? The interface feels human. The system is statistical. Do you know the difference?

UnAlgo builds frameworks, labs, and measurement tools that help people understand how AI systems work, and develop the judgment to navigate, shape, and build with them.

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Human curiosity in the AI age
Building human agency to navigate
an algorithmic, AI-mediated world

Research that moves to practice  ·  Frameworks that travel  ·  Institutions that preserve human judgment in AI-mediated environments

People are confiding in AI
more than they admit out loud.
Feeds are shaping beliefs
often before anyone notices.
Algorithms optimize for engagement
and it quietly fragments identity, judgment, and trust.
What if you understood how the system works, and what in you it can never replace?
unAlgo — The Investigator Framework

Investigators, not passengers.

Most AI education teaches people how to use tools. The Investigator Framework teaches something harder and more durable: how AI systems actually work, how they shape thinking and identity, and how to engage them with clarity and sovereignty.

Investigators examine the system. They know how it persuades, where it fails, and what it cannot see. They use AI as a superpower, and they know exactly when to put it down.

Social media gave us influencers. AI demands something different: curious, discerning, sovereign investigators.

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Learning
How knowledge forms when certainty gets cheap. What it means to think when thinking can be outsourced.
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Identity
Who we become in algorithmic mirrors. The difference between the feed-self and the real self.
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Power
Who shapes what we see, trust, and believe. How systems are designed, and who decides.
04
Connection
What feels real, and what only feels like it. Synthetic intimacy and what belonging actually requires.
05
Voice
Your thinking, your questions, your original contribution. The difference between output and authorship.
AI Ecosystem Fluency

Going beyond how to use AI, to understanding how it shapes everything around you.

Fluency means knowing the technology itself, the systems beneath the surface, and how to engage as a builder, not just a user.

How recommendation systems learn your behavior and optimize for engagement over truth.
What large language models are actually doing when they sound authoritative.
How bias and disinformation travel through systems, and why it feels like information.
Where AI is heading, who is shaping that direction, and how to participate in governance and policy.
How to build with AI as a collaborator, without surrendering the judgment that makes you irreplaceable.
UnAlgo Impact
What We Build
Algorithms optimize for patterns.
Humans optimize for meaning.
Designed friction is the space between.

UnAlgo builds the frameworks, labs, and measurement systems that live in that space, teaching the full picture of AI and algorithmic ecosystems, how they were designed, where they are headed, and what must remain human to accelerate the shifts we need most: in education, mental health, community resilience, and AI for society.

Organizations, Communities & Institutions
Institutional & Research Partnership
Strategy, not just literacy. We work alongside organizations to design AI solutions, write and structure AI grants including open source and federally funded programs, build governance and policy frameworks, and contribute to published research. Current work includes AI governance frameworks for K-12 districts, grant development for open source AI projects, and youth mental health technology research across rural and underserved communities. We help communities, organizations, and institutions go from AI consumers to AI architects.
Educators, Counselors, Schools, Nonprofits, Parents & Communities
AI Fluency Curriculum

Build a clear mental model of how AI actually works.

Understand the systems beneath the surface.

Leave with language, judgment, and tools you can use immediately, whether you are supporting students, writing AI policy, advocating for responsible use, or building solutions for society.

Students
SEL for the AI Age
Designed for the generation growing up inside algorithmic environments. Students develop algorithmic resilience, critical discernment, and a strong sense of identity and voice in AI-mediated spaces. Labs, capstone projects, and the Human Agency Index (Judgment Capacity) help students understand, navigate, and shape AI, as investigators, not passengers.
AI Studio
Build. Design. Lead.
Deeper engagement for practitioners and leaders ready to apply AI with human-first thinking. Solution design, AI strategy, capstone projects, and mentoring for those building tools, programs, or organizations at the intersection of AI and human development. Participants leave with a structured AI strategy, a working prototype or policy framework, and a pre/post measure of their judgment capacity.

Outputs are measured. The Human Agency Index (Judgment Capacity) tracks shifts in judgment, discernment, and agency before and after.

Cohort Voices

Hear from our UnAlgo cohorts.

Emily
"AI stopped being a tool I reach for. Now it's part of how I design my product, my roadmap, and my GTM strategy."
Emily  ·  Founder, Mental Health Tech & SLP
Stephanie
"We went from a good idea to a grant-ready solution. AI is part of the architecture, and human judgment is still at the center."
Stephanie ·  Founder, Not-For-Profit  |  Military Child Advocate
Sue L
"I knew something was shifting in my role. Now I understand what AI means for school counselors who are trying to foster human connection and develop student autonomy, whether it's post-secondary planning, policy, or navigating where this profession is headed."
Sue L  ·  Professional School Counselor  |  K-12 & Military Communities
About
Sue Gangwani
Sue Gangwani
Founder, UnAlgo

Sue Gangwani spent decades as the architect behind enterprise AI and predictive systems, designing infrastructure, leading cross-functional organizations, and advising on go-to-market strategy across youth mental health and education. These are sectors where algorithmic decisions shape the most vulnerable populations, and that inside view led to a different problem: how humans stay agents in systems designed to shape them.

She founded UnAlgo to work on that problem directly, developing the Investigator Framework, experiential labs, and the Human Agency Index. These are measurement tools for what matters most and is hardest to see: judgment, discernment, and the capacity to think for yourself in AI-mediated environments. Through the AI Studio, she also guides organizations and practitioners in AI strategy, solution design, and building with intention.

Researcher, speaker, and advisor to educators and institutions navigating responsible AI. Studied applied AI and ethics at MIT and the University of Helsinki

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Research Portfolio
Research in progress.

Measurement frameworks, field work, and curriculum research currently in development.

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