Artifact 01 · Layer 01 · 2026

Cognios

AI tutors built from real expert knowledge.

Role
CTO & Co-founder
Year
2026
Status
Live
Built with
Next.js · Node.js · MongoDB · LLM pipelines · Solana
Cognios home page: AI tutors built by real experts

01

The problem

Experts have knowledge people would pay to learn, but courses are passive and a general chatbot can't be trusted to teach someone else's material.

02

What I built

The engine that turns an expert's material into a full course. It freezes the evidence, maps the topics, plans lessons within strict limits, writes them in its own words and checks every claim against the sources.

03

The hard part

Trust. Every lesson must trace back to the creator's sources without ever exposing them. A verifier flags problems, a repair loop fixes them, and anything still unsupported is dropped.

04

Where it is now

Live at cognios.io with its first creators and learners, paid in Stripe or USDC over Solana. In 2026 it won a Superteam Balkan grant, pitched at the Solana Summit Serbia Demo Day, and took 3rd place in the Superteam Balkan track of Colosseum's Crypto World's Fair hackathon.

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Field notes

What I'm shipping, logged like a dig.

  1. Portfolio

    Rebuilt this site as a dig: raw Three.js strata, a trowel cursor and case studies you brush clean.

  2. Cognios

    Learners can now take a tutor in their own language. Lessons translate end to end, Serbian included.

  3. ZASAD

    Reworked how offline garden tasks sync when the phone reconnects.

  4. Cognios

    3rd place in the Superteam Balkan track of Colosseum's Crypto World's Fair hackathon.

  5. ZASAD

    Every crop page now lists the agronomic sources behind its advice.

  6. Cognios

    A new tutor-generation engine: freeze the evidence, plan, write, verify, repair.

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In Roman homes, the Lar guarded the family and its hearth. Here he guards the portfolio. Very few people dig this deep.