Visible progress, not private working data
Build & Evidence
A concise public record of website milestones, corrections, evidence boundaries and preserved versions. Unverified outcomes and private project records are intentionally excluded.
Latest Visible Stage
A coded educational site with guided learning paths, four local practice activities, an action-based Young Thinkers prototype, an optional adult account interface and preserved earlier versions.
Timeline
Visible Milestones
18 July 2026
Think Smarter AI Was Founded
Jacob W. founded the project around the principle that AI should improve human thinking, not replace it.
29 July 2026
The Website Moved from Carrd to Coded Source
The homepage source was stored in a private GitHub repository and deployed through Cloudflare Pages to the live custom domain after review. Carrd was retained temporarily as a rollback option.
29 July 2026
About, Start Here and Build Log Were Added to the Site
The first multi-page navigation, mobile menu and practical learning page were released through reviewed website changes.
30 July 2026
The Current Visual System and Founder Page Were Introduced
The public site moved beyond its Carrd-era styling, added a dedicated Founder page and explained how human direction and AI assistance are separated.
30 July 2026
The Site Added Its First Interactive Practice Activity
Website v0.4 added the Thinking Check, a transparent account of how AI helped build the website and an exploratory public Case Study 001 page.
30 July 2026
The Three Audience Priorities Were Added to the Site
The website added a plain-language beginner guide and an honest Young Thinkers roadmap. The roadmap states that no child-ready activity has been validated or released.
30 July 2026
Website v0.5.1 Expanded the Thinking Check
The practice activity added more realistic choices, response-specific explanations and a percentage result. The New to AI guide also added a neutral list of official AI services for first-time testing.
31 July 2026
Website v0.6 Added Tailored Paths and Optional Result Sharing
The Thinking Check expanded into a thirty-question bank with separate Beginner, Everyday and Advanced ten-question pathways. After seeing a result, an adult visitor can choose whether to share one completed response set for aggregate learning. The release added explicit consent, a privacy notice, server-checked pathway scoring, a deletion receipt and a short-retention database boundary. The quiz still works without sharing.
2 August 2026
Website v0.7 Added an Advanced AI Project Guide
The site added a human-led project-management guide for advanced AI users, a local three-round Project Triage activity, a reusable project brief and clearer access from the homepage.
2 August 2026
Website v0.8 Added Learning Paths and Claim Checking
The site grouped its guidance into a Learning Hub, simplified the primary navigation and added a local ten-decision Claim Check Lab using fictional source material. The lab does not submit or store responses and is not a validated assessment.
2 August 2026
Website v0.9 Released the Young Thinkers Lab for Adult Review
The release turns the Young Thinkers roadmap into an adult-review prototype with three story-driven missions, fourteen closed-choice decisions and a static strongest-path guide. Gameplay choices stay in the page and are not submitted or scored. Intended age, safeguarding ownership, learner release, child testing and learning outcomes remain unverified.
2 August 2026
Website v0.10 Released Signal Launch for Adult Review
The release adds an original action-based signal sorter beside the retained question missions. Its controls are designed for adults to aim six fictional claims at evidence rings using touch, mouse or keyboard. It has no score, timer, leaderboard, drag requirement, submitted action or saved state. The release does not establish child readiness or learning outcomes.
3 August 2026
Website v0.11 Deployed the Optional Adult Account Interface
The reviewed source was merged and deployed with a sitewide My Account disclosure, account creation date and private-result controls. The static account page and anonymous session-availability response were verified on the custom domain. A real staging Google sign-in and one deliberate staging save were verified before release, but real production sign-in, save, history, export and sign-out smoke evidence remains pending. Two-real-account isolation, physical mobile and screen-reader acceptance remain unverified.
10 August 2026
Website v0.12 Improved Entry, Feedback and Adult-Review Interactions
The release made the ten-scenario Thinking Check easier to reach, added pathway-aware next-page guidance, introduced an animated adult-review feedback guide and optional local sounds, and improved Signal Launch with measured hoop targeting. It also added public business identification after explicit approval. No new activity-answer collection was introduced, and child readiness, physical-device acceptance and learning outcomes remain unverified.
10 August 2026
Website v0.12.1 Polished Feedback, Motion and Homepage Flow
The patch added clearer animated strong and reconsider states to the prepared feedback guides, refined Signal Launch with an AI basketball and more recognisable hoops, reordered the homepage and boxed its four thinking principles. A slow signal-field background moves on larger screens while staying static on mobile and for reduced-motion users. Sounds remain optional, gameplay remains local, and real-device animation and audio acceptance remains open.
10 August 2026
Website v0.12.2 Added Measured Flight and a Supervised Young Thinkers Preview
The patch replaced the remaining Signal Launch teleport with a measured arc through the selected hoop and a wrong-answer rim rebound that returns the ball home. Young Thinkers moved from adult-review-only wording to supervised use with a trusted adult, without claiming independent child readiness or learning outcomes. A subtle code-native signal-network and DNA background was added with static mobile and reduced-motion fallbacks. Gameplay remains local and ephemeral, sounds remain optional, and no new activity-answer collection was introduced.
10 August 2026
Website v0.12.3 Refined Motion, Feedback and Support Clarity
The patch added a gently moving glow to the desktop signal background, strengthened only the four homepage principle cards and gave the Thinking Check guide a persistent toothy smile with a short repeating laugh cycle for strong answers plus a sad face with one repeating tear for reconsider answers. It also corrected Signal Launch so completed shots clear the busy cursor, while wrong shots enable Try Again only after the return finishes. The About page now explains the existing optional one-time support link without introducing paid access, membership, payment code or new data collection. Mobile keeps a contained static background, and reduced-motion users keep the toothy and sad expressions without animation.
10 August 2026
Website v0.12.4 Made the Ambient Signal Field Visible
Jacob reported that the intended glow was not visible in Opera or Edge. The correction moved the field above the page base but below the content, added luminous doubles around the network lines and nodes, and gave mobile a contained moving constellation field and DNA strand. Motion remains slow and transform-only. The Learning Hub's four route rows now open the matching next step, and visible copy uses more natural wording. Local interaction sound is on by default after the browser receives a user gesture, with a sitewide device-only mute preference at the end of the navigation. The Thinking Check and Young Thinkers guides keep repeating their strong or reconsider reactions while feedback remains visible, and disabled Signal Launch aim controls no longer show a busy cursor after a completed shot. Reduced-motion users retain static feedback expressions and a static glow, forced-colour mode removes the decoration, and the release changes no account schema, quiz result payload, analytics or collected activity data.
11 August 2026
Website v0.12.5 Stabilised Mobile Scrolling and Made Motion Controllable
Jacob's physical-iPhone recording showed intermittent scroll resistance and no perceptible background movement. Review found that the mobile field had expanded beyond the footer and promoted a document-height animated layer, while the tested browsers were also following a reduced-motion device setting. This correction removes the extra page height, restores one document scroll owner and uses only small viewport-contained mobile decorations. Desktop and mobile movement is shorter and more visible, and a sitewide Motion control lets a visitor explicitly start or pause it while the default still follows the device preference. The control stores only that preference in the browser. No account schema, quiz or gameplay payload, analytics or collected activity data changes in this patch. Physical-iPhone acceptance of the repaired build remains pending.
11 August 2026
Website v0.12.6 Put Each New Thinking Check Scenario in View
Jacob reported that the iPhone could leave the next Thinking Check scenario above or below the visible area. The previous handoff combined a collapsing fieldset, smooth page movement and immediate focus, which could race on mobile Safari. The correction waits for the new layout, moves focus without allowing it to reposition the page, and aligns the scenario directly below the sticky header with a second-frame and short delayed check. The questions, answers, scoring, optional sharing and private saved-result data remain unchanged. Physical-iPhone acceptance of all ten transitions remains pending.
11 August 2026
Website v0.12.7 Made Background Motion the Default
Jacob asked for the ambient background to move without first enabling it. This patch makes decorative background motion on by default for new visitors while preserving an explicit Motion Off choice in that browser. Other reduced-motion safeguards remain unchanged. The homepage time-value quote now sits in a translucent bordered panel that keeps the moving field visible behind it. Account, quiz, gameplay, analytics and collected-data behaviour are unchanged.
11 August 2026
Website v0.12.8 Made Light-Mode Motion Visible
Jacob reported that the signal lines still appeared motionless in light mode on both phone and desktop. The animation was running, but the pale trace, node and DNA colours were being reduced further by the decorative layer opacity and mask. This patch strengthens only the light-theme field and mask so movement is visible while keeping the same transform-only animation, fixed mobile geometry, Motion control and dark presentation. Account, quiz, gameplay, analytics and collected-data behaviour are unchanged.
11 August 2026
Website v0.12.9 Balanced the Header and Added Four-Bounce Miss Feedback
Jacob identified uneven wrapping in the full desktop header and asked for clearer basketball feedback. This patch keeps wide-screen navigation controls on one line at equal height, switches to the existing menu at 85rem and below, and extends the compact handset treatment through 24rem. Signal Launch now plays a procedural net swish at a correct rim entry. A missed shot produces a procedural rim clunk, then makes exactly four progressively lower and smaller ground bounces before returning to centre. The Sound control still mutes every cue, text feedback remains complete without audio, and reduced-motion mode keeps only the essential rim-and-return state. Every current footer also provides an accessible Discord community invite with a visible label and safe new-tab behaviour. The invite is not treated as an organisation profile in structured metadata. Gameplay remains local and ephemeral, and account, quiz, analytics and collected-data behaviour are unchanged.
11 August 2026
Website v0.12.10 Clarified Search Identity and Account Crawl Control
This focused correction removes the robots.txt crawl block from the private account route so search crawlers can read its existing noindex, nofollow instructions. The route remains excluded from the sitemap and continues to send matching noindex, nofollow instructions in both page metadata and response headers. Homepage structured data now separates one approved Organisation identity from the Website identity and links them through the publisher relationship. It uses only the approved public name, compact brand name, canonical URL, company logo, founding date, profile URLs and ABN. Account, authentication, database, analytics and interactive-product behaviour are unchanged.
11 August 2026
Website v0.12.11 Made the Motion Control Quieter
Background motion remains on for visitors without a saved preference, while a browser-local Motion Off choice continues to be respected. On wide screens, the large motion label is replaced by a compact titled icon beside the unchanged Sound control. Inside the existing menu, the same keyboard-focusable pressed-state button keeps its full Motion On or Motion Off label. Its screen-reader name stays “Background motion” while the pressed state communicates On or Off. Motion starts only after the control script applies the On state, so a blocked module leaves a static background. The default-on choice still overrides an operating-system reduced-motion preference when no browser choice exists. The explicit opt-out remains, and human accessibility acceptance is still open. Account, authentication, database, quiz, gameplay, analytics and collected-data behaviour are unchanged.
11 August 2026
Discord Footer Invite No Longer Has a Scheduled Expiry
The original time-limited community invite was replaced across every current footer with an owner-configured invite that has no scheduled expiry and no use limit. Its accessible label, safe new-tab behaviour and exclusion from organisation profile metadata are unchanged. The server owner or Discord can still revoke an invite, so this is a configuration record rather than a guarantee of permanent availability. No account, authentication, database, analytics or interactive-product behaviour changed.
Preserved versions
See How the Website Changed
Earlier working versions remain available for comparison. They are historical snapshots, not the current website.
Website v0.1
The Carrd Beginning
The preserved first exported website, including the original layout and content.
Open v0.1Website v0.2
The First Coded Multi-Page Site
The production version captured immediately before the current visual redesign.
Open v0.2Website v0.3
The Human Signal Redesign
The six-page coded release that introduced the visual system and dedicated Founder page.
Open v0.3Website v0.4
The Learning and Evidence Release
The release that added the Thinking Check, public Case Study 001 and a transparent account of the human–AI build process.
Open v0.4Website v0.5
The Audience Pathways Release
The release that added the three audience priorities, beginner guide and Young Thinkers roadmap.
Open v0.5Website v0.6
The Adaptive Thinking Check
The release that added three tailored quiz pathways and optional adult result sharing.
Open v0.6Website v0.7
The AI Project Management Guide
The release that added the human-led project loop, local Project Triage activity and reusable project brief.
Open v0.7Website v0.8
The Learning Paths and Claim Check Release
The release that added the Learning Hub, six-destination navigation and local Claim Check Lab.
Open v0.8Website v0.9
The Young Thinkers Adult-Review Release
The release that added three local question missions and kept the learner-facing safety gates explicit.
Open v0.9Website v0.10
The Signal Launch Adult-Review Release
The exact approved release that retained the question missions and added the local six-signal evidence-sorting activity.
Open v0.10Website v0.11
The Optional Adult Account Interface
The deployed source that added Google-only adult sign-in, private Thinking Check summaries and sitewide account controls. The signed-in production journey remains under smoke verification.
Open v0.11Website v0.12
The Guided Experience and Interaction Release
The approved release that improved Thinking Check entry and recommendations, added adult-review feedback animation and refined Signal Launch while preserving the local gameplay boundary.
Open v0.12Next
What Is Being Tested Next
Planned: complete the real-production Google sign-in, save, history, export and sign-out smoke checks, then complete two-real-account, physical mobile and screen-reader acceptance. Review the v0.12.1 interaction animation, optional audio and Signal Launch behaviour on real devices, then ask suitable adults or educators to review the full Young Thinkers prototype. Intended age, content ownership, safeguarding and learner-facing release remain open. Search usefulness and learning outcomes remain unverified.