Jon Tidd
Hi, I'm Jon

I build tools
for human
flourishing

I build AI tools to help people learn and live well. I'm hooked on exploring the intersection of technology, classical wisdom, and raising good humans.

Off the clock camping with the kiddos·synthwave & tundra rock concerts·a growing wall full of 90’s sci-fi animation cels

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Projects

What I'm building

Each project starts with a question worth answering.

Project #1
"What if bedtime stories could actually build character — not just entertain?"

Bedtime Virtues

Early Preview
Generosity

Character isn't born — it's built, one story at a time. Aristotle called it hexis. This app pairs AI-generated stories rooted in the cardinal virtues with parent discussion guides to make each lesson stick.

16 classical virtues organized under Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance. 57+ curated classics spanning 2,600 years from Aesop to C.S. Lewis. A Virtue Compass radar chart tracks your child's character growth across every trait. AI stories generated via Claude, each mapped to specific virtues with guided discussion prompts.
Try it free

Early preview — free for friends & family while in development.

Project #2
"What if you could map an entire mind — every podcast, every YouTube video, every written word — and then talk to it?"

The Rudyard Library

An explorable 3D atlas of Rudyard Lynch's intellectual universe. Built from his complete corpus — every episode diarized, transcribed, and structured into a living knowledge graph you can navigate and interrogate.

3.6 million words across 483 episodes — diarized with Whisper, chunked into 8,168 semantic passages, and embedded in a vector database. 469 books and 53 thinkers extracted and cross-referenced. 5,213 claims identified, categorized, and mapped into a 3D galaxy built with Three.js. RoboRudyard: a RAG-powered AI that answers in his voice with source citations to exact episodes.
Explore the Library

Independent fan project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Rudyard Lynch or Whatifalthist.

About

The builder

The Tidd family

I'm an AI developer and father exploring what happens when you point powerful new tools at problems that actually matter.

My work lives at the intersection of agentic AI and classical wisdom — building things that help families raise children of character in an age of algorithmic distraction.

I write prompts, read old books, and think about what it means to live well.

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Let's talk

I'm always interested in meaningful work and good conversations.

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Writing

Notes from the field

April 2026 I Built My Portfolio in One Sitting With Claude. Here's What I Learned.