Hello AI Brains community,
After reading every Sam Altman blog ever published (yes… all of them), I noticed something interesting: his thinking evolves in clear eras from pure speed, to system design, to governance and safety.
So I built a small reflection tool called the Altman Era Index (AEI) to help AI founders understand:
👉 Which Altman Era is your startup actually operating in?
👉 How resilient is your AI system across the next few frontier model cycles?
How it works :
You answer a few questions about how your AI startup functions — compute, intelligence, feedback loops, alignment, governance. The notebook then generates a report showing:
your Altman Era classification
node strengths + weak spots
drowning risks
wrapper/API exposure
survival forecast across future model releases
It’s not a scorecard it’s a mirror.
A way to understand your system’s shape and where you might be exposed.
For AI Brains Community
You can try the tool here (runs locally, no data stored):
🔗 https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1MNixe1Zf4tT8VtyjeM3Y9__f367pOsiZ?usp=sharing
If you want help interpreting your output or want to discuss improvements, just ping me here or email [email protected].
A full write-up will be live soon on the AI Brains Newsletter.
Example of outputs :
It’s not a scorecard — it’s a reflection tool.
Something to help founders sense-check how they’re building and where their system balance lies. Let me know your thoughts.