01Title

Ari Bader-Natal

I design and build venues for learning
that make new forms of learning together possible.

Term of art: learning engineering

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02Work

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Ari Bader-NatalWork

Work

Three organizations, 2012–present

Sparkwise

2021–present

Co-founder and CTO. Sparkwise automates live group learning — scaling up the active engagement people need to build skills in business, AI, and more.

Calbright College

2019–2021

Founding CTO of a fully-online, competency-based college in the California Community Colleges system, designed for working adults.

Employee #1, then Chief Learning Scientist. Seven years creating new tools for learning and teaching, including Minerva's signature Forum, tools for formative assessment, and a connected suite of authoring tools.

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03Projects

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Ari Bader-NatalProjects

Selected Projects

Five of 19 · view the full index

Sparkwise Architect

Agent-native authoring for Sparkwise · 2025–now

Architect is an agent-native learning design and authoring tool for building Sparkwise modules.

Cairnfield

Change together, decide for yourself · 2026

A side project exploring how many teams' AI agents might review and fix the same AI tools in parallel, with nobody merging anyone's changes.

Sideways

Shift perspective. Unlock creativity. · 2025–2026

Unexpected questions and lateral thinking prompts for AI tools.

Studio Sketchpad

Collaborative coding for visual thinkers · 2010–2026

Sketchpad is a website that allows people to collaboratively code and share interactive visualizations written with Processing and P5.js.

Favelog

A central collection of web favorites · 2015–now

Favelog is a self-generating website that archives and catalogs my personal collections of favorites, saves, stars, and likes across the many services that I use online.

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04Patents & Writings

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Ari Bader-NatalPatents & Writings