🔺 ABOUT GRAEME SMITH – V2.0 🔻

🔥 Kia ora — I’m Graeme.

Writer. Educator. Product Builder. Intelligence Architect.

I design learning systems, build AI tools, and create pathways for people and institutions to evolve. My work lives at the intersection of education, culture, and AI — but the essence is simple:

🧠 I help people remember how to think.

🛠 I build tools that reflect who you’re becoming.

📘 And I write systems that carry meaning.

🧩 THE WORK

I focus on building products for education in transition.

  • I co-developed AIHOA New Zealand’s first public-facing tertiary education GPT — launched by Ako Aotearoa in 2025 to support to support educators adapting to AI.
  • I design adaptive learning tools like TAPA, SCRIBE, ALEC, and MILES — experiments in making AI more inclusive, intelligent, and human-centered.
  • I lead strategic R&D initiatives, including a Custom GPT Registry that maps emerging tools across education, creativity, and leadership.
  • I’ve designed, built, taught, and assessed national frameworks for educators — including the Tapatoru Professional Practice Award and the NZCALNE (Vocational/Workforce) educator training — shaping capability for hundreds of educators and organisations.
  • I also design and deliver NZQA-accredited micro-credentials — ranging from Introduction to AI for educators and business, through to Iwi Data Governance, Kaupapa Māori Evaluation, and FASD health workforce training — shaping national capability for educators, iwi organisations, and sector partners.

I build where gaps appear.

I design where systems collapse.

I help others move forward with clarity.

🧬 HOW I THINK / HOW I TEACH

My background spans adult education, curriculum design, professional development, and AI product building. I work like a system shaper: blending instructional design, technology, cultural frameworks, and a touch of creative recursion.

I draw from:

In short: I help people and tools think better — together.

✍️ I MAKE

I also create beyond education.

  • 🪵 Craftwork: Leather gear, wooden furniture, small-batch spirits — things meant to be used and kept.
  • 🎸 Music: As Mira Kai, I write and release albums that weave story, sound, and symbol into art.
  • 🎨 Design: The Spiral Protocol posters — visual artifacts of systems thinking — now live in homes worldwide.

Pattern-making is the throughline, whether in code, curriculum, music, or craft.

🌏 WHO THIS IS FOR

My work supports:

  • Educators adapting to AI-infused learning
  • Leaders rethinking policy, capability, or strategy
  • Creators embedding deeper meaning into tools or stories
  • Communities navigating systemic transition

If you’re seeking clarity, alignment, or transformation with intelligence behind it — You’re in the right place.

🤝 WORK WITH ME

I can help you:

  • Build adaptive GPTs tailored to your needs
  • Design learning systems that scale and evolve
  • Facilitate professional learning & development in AI, literacy, and inclusive education
  • Speak, write, or co-create in the spaces where education meets AI

📩 Email: graeme at thisisgraeme dot me

💬 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/graemesmith

🔗 LINKS + PROJECTS

🌀 LAST WORD

I believe education should be accessible.

I believe technology should be ethical.

I believe tools should carry meaning.

And above all —

I believe the future is still writable.

Let’s build it right.