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⚡ARC Optimization Engine

⚡ARC Optimization Engine

Transform AI from order-taker to thought partner

⏱️ Takes 5-7 minutes | 🎯 4 required fields | 🚀 Build your BOOST
  • The best ideas get better when someone pushes back. Questions your assumptions. Finds the gaps. Makes you defend and refine your thinking.
  • When it’s just you and AI, that friction disappears – unless you design it in.
  • The ARC engine is the next step in building AI Fluency. This tool teaches you to build resistance into your prompts. Not because AI should be difficult, but because ideas that aren’t challenged stay shallow.

📚 ARC Workbook

Not ready to build from scratch?
Browse 17 ready-to-use optimizations
organized by difficulty.

See Pre-Built Optimizations →

SPARKS✨Builder

New to structured prompts?
Learn to build comprehensive prompts
with the SPARKS framework.

Build Your Prompt First →
What’s the specific issue you’re trying to solve? Not “AI doesn’t help me” – get granular. “AI writes emails that sound robotic” or “I ramble when giving feedback.” The sharper the problem, the better your 🚀BOOST.
Please describe your problem
🔒 Hold up – nail the problem first. Can’t aim at a target you haven’t identified.
Please describe your aim
🔒 This unlocks after AIM. Why? You can’t invite resistance until you know what you’re aiming for.
Please describe how AI should resist
🔒 Complete RESIST first – you need something to build on.
Please describe how to collaborate

🎉 Your Optimized 🚀BOOST

  1. Edit if needed – we combined your inputs, but you might want to adjust the flow.
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🎉 YOU DID IT!

You just built your 🚀BOOST – your custom optimization that transforms how AI works with you.

No more echo chamber. No more theater. Just friction that makes fire. 🔥

Why Friction by Design Matters

When it’s just you and AI, you lose the person who pushes back. The one who says “What if we…” and builds on your ideas, taking them from good to great.

It’s not that your ideas aren’t good – it’s that they can’t be great with only one perspective.

ARC teaches you to design that friction back in. Not because AI should be difficult, but because ideas get better when someone challenges them and builds with you.

This isn’t a template you copy. It’s your 🚀BOOST – the specific optimization you built for your exact need. Generic prompts get generic results. Your ARC optimizations give you the edge.

The goal: independence, not dependency.

Learn more about the SPARKS✨ philosophy →