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Updates to Magneto Mentor AI tool

Magneto Mentor v1.5

27 February 2026

  • First experiment in moving away from the three tools to a version where users can get a fast and easy AI learning experience with zero effort. At this point we are starting to build in more of our domain/advisory knowledge in the same way we would if a client wanted coaching.
  • First version of the ‘ready to go’ prompt library (Prompt Playground was our internal name for it).
  • Implemented Collections to allow us to group together prompts on the new homepage.
  • Updated our preview canvas to support unique snapshots for completed prompts which are now displayed in our prompt collections.
  • Improved error tracking and observability of the application to catch real issues faster.
  • Renamed the ‘PROBLEM SOLVER’ to the ‘CONTEXT BUILDER’ to align with the shift to context engineering and helping people explore AI in a variety of ways.
  • Always: Performance & responsiveness fixes.
  • Tweaks to messaging so this tool as intuitive as possible.

Magneto Mentor v1.0

16 January 2026

  • Mike stepped in early October 2025 and the toddler grew to adult stage quickly and efficiently in his capable hands through to the first release that we weren’t embarrassed about.
  • Mantra at this stage was ‘zero drama’ which is our version of a sustainable business. Getting that ‘built to last attitude’ in early was essential to us because we planned to be a small team with smart tech and big reach. That meant focusing on a robust system that could adapt to business needs and be something we could change easily (without downtime, fuss or spinning wheels).
  • Strong and fast iterative focus at this point. Our biz is quiet in December and January so we slid down the bobsled tunnel as quickly as we could and sacrificed a few ocean swims for build mode.
  • Ground-up rebuild from HTML prototype to a full-stack application (React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL).
  • Flexible tool engine that builds structured prompts, all driven by configuration rather than code.
  • Authentication, anonymous sessions, and multi-tenant architecture built for enterprise from day one (with white-label theming).
  • Automated testing and CI/CD pipeline to move fast without breaking things.

Magneto Mentor v0.5 (Beta)

26 September 2025

  • Design focus to bring the pre-Beta into a visual system.
  • This was the origin stage of the ‘organic, human-led’ visual language for the tools. We spent a lot of time thinking about how to empower people to be the domain expert to lead AI in the right direction and how to express that visually so it would be a fun and light learning experience. We also thought a lot about consistency in the user journey so that things were intuitive.

Magneto Mentor v0.0 (pre-Beta)

14 August 2025

  • Claude prototypes released after many weekends of learning to vibe code with some help from a few smart friends and some deep thinking about how people learn when the world is moving faster than their commitment to learning!
  • The three tools were all a continuous page that would generate a prompt automatically at the end. It all worked. Just didn’t look so great.
  • 100% vibe coded in Claude so we could experiment with the question style, functionality and order.
  • Lots of fundamental decisions and thinking at this stage about where we would sit in the AI workflow and how to play (or not to play) with the fast-moving AI landscape and a set of clients who were on a wildly varied adoption timeline.
  • The originals were 100% HTML. Easy to make and host.

MagnetoMentor.AI: The journey begins again (in a new context)

1 July 2025

  • Day one of knowing ‘we’ll find a way’ to create value for our enterprise clients in the new context of AI communication … without really knowing the best way yet!

Credosity: The journey begins

1 January 2024

This is where the journey started. With a goal to help people get ‘just in time’ learning on their business communication.

We did an accelerator, got a few grants, stayed up late on far too many nights, hooked into the Microsoft Innovation Centre and generally busted a ball creating a VSTO add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook that would coach you on the fly. The world’s shittiest tech. Yes. The pits. Sheer determination got us there.

Was this a bad idea? Kinda. Did people love it? Yes. Could we get it deployed and updated in enterprise? No. Game over.

By September 2017 we had made this a cloud tool which is where she still sits today in the (somewhat) digital graveyard.

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