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steamHouse

What if the most important thing you could fund was how people think?

steamHouse teaches the operating system for human development. Not what to think โ€” how to think. Consciously, purposefully, reflectively.

You can experience the curriculum yourself before deciding anything. The tools below are real lessons from the framework. Try one. Then come back and see if the investment case makes sense.

One framework. Nine components. Everything connected.

Other programs pick one thing. We designed the whole system โ€” because that's what human development actually requires.

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Club
Local community implementation โ€” real families, real activities, real relationships
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Commons
Universal open-source curriculum and mentoring frameworks for anyone to use
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Chronicles
Story world that teaches curriculum concepts through characters and narrative
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Home Team
Family integration โ€” resources for parents as co-mentors in development
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Globe Team
Global awareness โ€” understanding your place in the human family
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Core Curriculum
The knowledge architecture โ€” 60+ topics across 6 domains, rigorously sourced
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Trek & Quest
Structured programming for middle school through college-age development
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Development Markers
58 markers across 12 categories โ€” concrete, observable signs of growth
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Interactive Tools
Web-based curriculum demonstrations โ€” the tools you just experienced
Personal Agency Mutual Respect Objective Reason Reflective Thinking

These aren't separate programs. They're one integrated framework โ€” designed so that strengthening any component strengthens all the others.

Seven reasons this compounds.

Most educational investments operate at the level of content. steamHouse operates at the level of capacities. Here's why that distinction matters for expected value.

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Meta-Intervention
Develops capacities that improve all other capacities. Reflective thinking improves every domain of thinking. This isn't one program among many โ€” it's the program that makes other programs work better.
2
Universality
The framework applies across cultures, contexts, and developmental stages. Not culture-bound, not era-limited, not context-specific. The same principles work everywhere humans think and act.
3
Timing
Adolescence is the developmental window when intervention has maximum compound effect. A framework installed at 14 has 60+ years to multiply. The same investment at 40 has half the runway.
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Cascade
Individual development โ†’ team improvement โ†’ community improvement โ†’ cultural shift. One person who thinks well influences their family, their workplace, their community. The return cascades outward.
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Transmissibility
Open-source, community-based, mentor-trainable. No institutional adoption required. Any community can use it. Any mentor can learn it. It spreads through relationships, not bureaucracies.
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Epistemic Defense
Creates people who resist manipulation permanently. Not a one-time inoculation โ€” a permanent upgrade to how they process information. In an age of algorithm-driven influence, this is civilizational infrastructure.
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Open-Source Infrastructure
Investment creates lasting public goods โ€” curriculum, tools, guides, frameworks โ€” that persist even if the organization doesn't survive. The worst case is comprehensive educational resources. The best case is a paradigm shift.

The honest caveat: We have design validity, not yet outcome validity. We're asking you to invest in potential โ€” with loss bounded and gain unbounded. If we're wrong, you've funded thoughtful curriculum and tools. If we're right, you've funded infrastructure for human development that compounds indefinitely.

What does your own calculus say?

You've experienced the tools. You've seen the system. You've considered the leverage. Every dollar is tax-deductible and directly funds the work below.

$0 raised Goal: $15,000
$5K
Tools hosted
$15K
Full suite built
$35K
Tier 1 funded
$65K
Full plan funded
$10
One hour of curriculum development
You receive: Digital Yummy Unit ebook (when published)
$25
Materials for one family event
You receive: Action Calculus ebook (digital)
$100
One month of website hosting + tools
You receive: Book package + community membership
$250
One seasonal community event
You receive: Workshop access + all books + quarterly updates
$500
One month of curriculum development
You receive: Founding Contributor โ€” input on curriculum + all above
$1,000
One Adams State course development
You receive: Advisory Circle โ€” quarterly updates, direct access + all above
$2,500+
Research partnership seed
You receive: Strategic Partner โ€” named acknowledgment in publications + all above

Not ready? That's a legitimate answer. The tools are yours to keep and use regardless. If you'd rather understand more before deciding, try another tool or read the full case.

Built by a community. Backed by research.

100+
Families in Golden, Colorado
8
Years of development
1,400+
Pages of curriculum
130+
Research sources synthesized
7
Interactive tools built
58
Development Markers
60+
Curriculum topics
4
Foundational principles