Fair question! Let me clarify both.

What I "used" for this particular experience:

The breakthrough wasn't about an app—it was about a process combined with context.

The process: neurofeedback training (so my nervous system could actually release tension instead of just recognize it), EMDR therapy (trauma processing), coaching with someone who understands neurocomplexity, daily journaling, deliberate THC use to lower defenses, and thousands of hours of AI partnership.

The context: My "Life Model" is a comprehensive document containing my psychometric profiles (Enneagram, Big Five, CliftonStrengths, attachment style), cognitive architecture (ADHD, autism traits), core wounds, communication preferences, and life history. When I talk to Claude (or Gemini or ChatGPT), it has access to all of this, so it can reflect me back accurately rather than generically.

That Life Model lives across multiple tools, not a single app. Some of it is in Claude Projects. Some of it is in jonmick.ai (my personal system that syncs 62k+ text messages, biometric data from Whoop, therapy session transcripts, and 52 structured tables about my personality and patterns). The point isn't the specific tool—it's that AI + deep personal context + somatic practices = breakthroughs that neither could produce alone.

What I'm building:

AIs & Shine is a company creating this kind of infrastructure for other people whose brains work like mine (people who maintain hundreds of browser tabs because their working memory can't hold context internally), who need external scaffolding to function.

My personal system (jonmick.ai) is the proof-of-concept. AIs & Shine is the productized version: helping people build their own Life Models, connecting them to AI that actually understands them, and providing the human facilitation (coaches, community) that makes the process safe.

The article was about WHY this matters. Sounds like I should write a follow-up about how it actually works under the hood.