WILD×AI · College Edition

Your kid will command AI, or it will command them.

Maker, not made.

Your kid already reaches for AI before they reach for their own head, and you feel the unease without quite having words for it: is this making them sharper, or just quietly thinking for them? Nobody is teaching them the difference. It comes down to a handful of habits forming right now, and your kid still gets to choose them on purpose, before the machine sets them by default.

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the moment

In May, Steve Wozniak walked onto the stage at Grand Valley State University and told graduating seniors: “You all have AI. Actual intelligence.” They applauded.

The same season, graduates at other ceremonies booed a string of commencement speakers who stood up to praise artificial intelligence from the podium. The Class of 2026 is entering the bleakest graduate job market since 2013. Nearly nine in ten of them believe AI is coming for entry-level work. Barely a third say college is preparing them to use it.

Wozniak named the right capacity. He didn’t tell anyone how to develop it.

WILD×AI: College Edition is the six-week summer program that closes the gap. For graduating high-school seniors heading to college this fall, returning students who missed the foundation work, and freshmen who are already feeling it.

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what your student walks away with

Six things, by August 14

A WILD Compass

A clear, written, defended sense of who they are: identity, strengths, values, joy, the wisdom their own family carries. Built through weeks of their own reflective writing, never handed to them. It becomes the document they reread when the dorm gets loud at 3 AM and they have forgotten which way is up. They keep it for life.

AI capability most adults don’t have

Your kid learns to build the systems themselves, not just chat with a bot: breaking real work into tasks an agent can run, directing those agents, and connecting them to their own files, tools, and calendar. They learn the moves behind the headlines, and how to work fluently across models as the field shifts month to month, on portable files that stay theirs. And the half that matters most: judgment, taste, asking the right question, and knowing when to refuse the machine entirely.

A configured Personal WILD×AI Navigator

The actual system they walk away owning, built on the same agentic architecture Chris installs for companies and configured with their values, history, and voice. A real workspace where they connect their own documents and tools, give it memory, and direct several agents at once. It ships with pieces that earn their keep day one: a navigator for every fall class, an internship hunter, a daily start that already knows their semester. Built on Claude Code today, portable to whatever model wins next. Theirs to keep.

A first venture and a public footprint

A real project your kid prototypes, shapes into a business model, and puts into the world before fall semester, including at least one piece published under their own name. AI is about to make it normal for one person to run the whole operation of a real business, the work that used to take a department. The students who already see themselves that way will lead it. They leave having made something people can use and been seen for it, knowing they can create value without waiting four years for anyone’s permission.

A daily navigation practice

A human ritual they run on their own, no screen required: a short morning bearing-check and a weekly review that keep the foundation alive under the pressure freshman year actually brings. The discipline of pausing before they decide. Foundation work that dissolves the first time things get hard was never foundation work. This is the part that holds.

A First 90 Days plan

Specific protocols for the freshman moments that quietly decide how college goes: the loneliness inside all that new freedom, the AI-temptation moment at 1 AM, the value-pressure moment in a roomful of strangers. Written in your kid’s own hand before they ever set foot on campus, so the decision is already half made when it arrives.

why this work, why now

The dominant response to AI right now is anxiety. More than four in ten Americans aged 14 to 29 say AI makes them anxious, per a Gallup poll released in spring 2026, and the booing at commencement is the visible symptom. Anxiety is honest. It is not a bearing.

The thing they are anxious about is not a passing app. The CEO of Google calls AI “more profound than fire or electricity,” the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. The same kind of system just mapped every protein known to science and won a Nobel Prize doing it, and is now designing medicines no human had found. This is the most consequential tool most of us will ever touch, and it lands in your kid’s hands the month they leave home, if it hasn’t already.

Here is the part most parents have not heard. Ask one of these systems a question with no context and it does not leave the blank empty. It fills it with the average answer, the most statistically likely one, and hands it back as if it were yours. Accept enough of those and your kid’s own taste quietly becomes the machine’s. Lean on it long enough and their writing, their choices, their thinking get sanded toward the mean the model is built to produce, until they are fluent, competent, and indistinguishable from everyone else who leaned on the same machine. The real risk is quieter than cheating: a confident average slowly editing who they are. The fix is to walk in already knowing what they value and what they are aiming at, so they direct the tool rather than dissolve into it.

That is what foundation work is for. It changes what your kid carries into the second Tuesday of fall semester, when the roommate is gone, the dorm is loud, the assignment is due in six hours, and a chatbot is one click away. Doing it before they leave, not during the first crisis, is what makes it stick.

the framework

Six pillars, six weeks

WeekFocusWhat happens
1See yourself clearlyIdentity, joy, strengths, the wisdom your family carries; your WILD Compass takes shape. And from day one, your AI starts learning who you are instead of flattening you into everyone else.
2Build your NavigatorYou stand up your own Personal WILD×AI Navigator, configured on your values, history, and voice, then run your first prompt audit and catch where generic AI quietly averages you out.
3See your world, then moveAwe, perspective, your deeper why, and the direction-setting engine. You wire a real class into your system, syllabus and notes and lectures, and build your first working agent.
4Drive AI, don’t ride itThe traps and the discipline of refusal, and the agents that earn their keep: a navigator for every class, an internship hunter, a daily start that already knows your semester.
5Make a dentOpportunity, design thinking, a business model, and a first venture launched and published, built with your Navigator as your partner.
6Land itYour First 90 Days plan and WILD Compass v1.0, plus the campus handoff that loads your real fall semester, classes, professors, and materials, into the system.

The program is built on the WILD Intelligence framework (Wisdom, Intention, Leadership, Discovery) that Chris and Andrea Greene have spent twenty-five years developing, and it draws on the disciplines Chris has built a career in: entrepreneurship and innovation, leadership and change management, design thinking, and the human psychology of how people grow under pressure. The flourishing material draws on positive psychology, character strengths, and the awe and purpose research from UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. The build work runs on design thinking from Stanford’s d.school. And the AI work is built on Anthropic’s Claude platform, with a curriculum grounded in Anthropic’s own Academy training that Chris has completed.

the navigator

A configured system your student builds and keeps.

Most students arrive at college having taught themselves AI the wrong way around: getting answers out of a chatbot and getting caught less. That is not AI skill. That is paying for college and training yourself out of the benefit. The Navigator is the opposite, and it is the most concrete thing your kid takes from this program.

During the program, each student builds a personal navigation system on the same architecture Chris uses to run his own company and installs for the leaders and businesses he advises: a persistent, structured workspace that holds who they are, values, goals, how they actually think, and everything on their plate, their classes, their projects, the business or personal brand we help them launch. A system with memory, context, and a point of view: theirs.

Then it goes to work. A navigator for every class, connected to the syllabus, the professor’s materials, the lecture transcripts, the calendar, even their handwritten notes. Study guides built for how they actually learn. Agents they create themselves: one that hunts internships, one that runs the daily start, one that does whatever the semester turns out to need. By Thanksgiving the system knows their semester better than anyone except them. That is the foundation of a career.

A note on what this is not, because parents always ask. Your kid already has every shortcut machine on the internet, and policing is not a curriculum. Once a student has a system that actually knows them, the generic shortcut stops being tempting. We are not trying to make them unable to misuse AI. We are making them not want to.

There is a difference in kind between chatting with an AI and running one. A chatbot shapes your kid into a question-asker: type, receive, accept, move on. A configured system shapes them into a director: they decide what it knows, what it values, what it is allowed to do, and what it must refuse. One habit trains dependence, the other trains judgment, and four years of either compounds into a genuinely different trajectory.

The Navigator runs on the student’s own Claude subscription (not included in tuition; currently about $20 a month for the plan that includes Claude Code, the agentic tool the system is built with). Students need a laptop; we send a simple setup checklist before Week 1. Students keep everything: the system, the files, the practice. It is theirs, not ours.

a day in the life

What it actually looks like, one Tuesday in October

Forget the feature list for a minute. Here is an ordinary weekday in your kid’s freshman fall, with the Navigator they built running underneath it. Watch who is in charge.

overnight

It worked while they slept

While your kid slept, the Navigator filed yesterday’s lectures, pulled fresh outside research to shore up the thin spots in their notes, and drafted today’s plan. It opens the morning by telling them exactly what it did, so they approve the work instead of trusting it blindly. They are the director. The machine reports to them.

7:10 AM · coffee

A bearing-check, not a notification dump

The day in one clean view: what is due, what changed, what matters most, and a single line to set the direction before the feed gets to them first. Calm and oriented, on purpose.

9 AM to 2 PM · three classes

Every lecture, captured and put to work

Each class gets recorded, filed where it belongs, and tied back to the projects they are already working on. The Navigator pulls current outside research to deepen the thin parts, turns the material into audio they listen to at the gym, and spins up a flashcard game they built themselves to drill the hard terms. Then the part the professor never handed out: three sharp questions to ask next time, exactly what was assigned, and a few threads worth chasing further.

between classes

Knowing the professor as a person

Before office hours, the Navigator surfaces what it found on the professor: their publications, their talks, the work they actually care about. Not to flatter anyone, but to let your kid build a real relationship with a real human who knows things, which is still how most doors open.

4 PM · group project

The logistics handle themselves

The team needs to meet. Your kid tells the Navigator to set it up, and that is the end of their involvement. It emails the four of them, finds the common time, books a room at the student center, and sends the confirmations. No thread to babysit. This is the line between chatting with an AI and running one.

6 PM · the meeting · no app open

The best thing it does is get out of the way

At the meeting, your kid notices that a teammate’s mentor is in the room, a person with real experience who has clearly reflected on it. So they stay longer than they planned. They put the laptop away, listen for the highs and the lows, ask the questions that matter, and let the conversation run. That night they write what they heard in their own journal, by hand. No AI in the loop. Wisdom is building, the slow human way. That is the entire point of the thing.

10 PM · close the day

A real close, then ready for tomorrow

The day summarized. What went well, what didn’t. A line from a writer they love to sit with. A nudge to text their parents. Tomorrow laid out, so they wake up already pointed in a direction. And lately, a small tool or two they have started building on their own, because now they can.

Notice the shape of it. The system takes more and more of the busywork, and your kid does more and more of the living. It is built to grow someone who needs it less. That is the design, and it is the opposite of everything else competing for their attention.

why now, not later

Two students, four years from now

The real decision is not about a summer program. It is about which of two trajectories your student compounds for four years. Both start this fall. They look identical in September. They are not the same person at graduation.

The student who waits

  • Learns AI the way most do: type a question, take the answer, get caught less. Calls it a skill.
  • Outsources the first draft, then the thinking, then the judgment. The struggle that builds a mind gets skipped.
  • Their taste and their decisions slowly average toward the machine’s defaults, and they never notice it happening.
  • Graduates fluent in a tool everyone has, with no foundation underneath it. Easy to replace.

The student who built the foundation

  • Learns to direct AI, not beg from it: decides what it knows, what it values, what it must refuse.
  • Keeps the hard reps that build judgment, and uses the machine to go further instead of to skip the work.
  • Knows who they are well enough that the defaults do not stick. The tool amplifies them instead of editing them.
  • Graduates running the paradigm the most advanced companies are built on, having lived it for four years. The person in the room who understands the new system.

The gap is small in September and enormous by senior year. The only time the foundation is cheap to build is before the habits harden, and that window is this summer.

if you want the whole of it

A letter to the parents of the Class of 2030

Everything above is the what and the how. The letter is the why, the version parents tend to forward to other parents. It is about the single thing AI cannot hand your kid, and why the work to build it is cheapest this summer.

Read the letter →
who is teaching this
Chris Greene teaching the business-model canvas to students

Christopher Greene, J.D.

Teaching the business-model canvas, the same Build work your kid does in Week 5.

Founder of WILD×AI, and for over fifteen years a professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at four-year universities. He was a tenured, award-winning professor at Western Colorado University, where he built a student-led innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship movement, and he directed the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of North Georgia from 2023 to 2025. He holds a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law and a Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate, and has trained more than 1,500 people in entrepreneurship and AI integration. He and his wife Andrea built and sold two businesses in rural Colorado: The Ruby of Crested Butte (sold 2019) and RubyResorts (sold 2024).

That is what the credentials say.

What the credentials don’t say: he didn’t speak until he was five. He was kicked out of college after three semesters. He later graduated with honors. He scored in the 50th percentile on his first LSAT and the 96th on his second. He failed the bar exam. Then he came back and crushed it. He has been through every gate the Class of 2030 is about to walk through. The WILD framework was built by someone who has walked every stretch of that road.

And he has never stayed in one world.

A bed and breakfast in the mountains. A governor’s office. A law practice. Companies built and sold. A university classroom. He was the change-maker in each of them, the off-the-beaten-path leader who left every place a little remade. He gave up a tenured chair, the security and the title and the benefits, because institutions cannot move at the speed this moment asks, and the work he is called to now could not be done from inside one. The breadth is the point. The framework comes from a life spent making a way through new worlds from scratch, more than once, which is exactly what your kid is about to do.

format

How the six weeks run

Six focused weeks, and then a relationship that carries through the first semester: continued access, fall check-ins, and monthly updates are all included, not an upsell. The detail is below.

When

The summer cohort ran July 6 through August 14, 2026, six focused weeks. Enrollment is now closed. Join the waitlist to hear when the next cohort opens, and a self-guided version is on the way.

The end flexes to each student. Because college start dates differ, the final week adapts to your kid’s move-in, so they start the semester on the right foot rather than scrambling.

Live sessions

Two 90-minute sessions a week, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 6:00 to 7:30 PM Mountain, Weeks 1 through 5, plus three to five hours of your kid’s own work between them. Every session is recorded, so a missed evening is never a missed week.

The build session

One 90-minute 1:1 where Chris configures the Personal WILD×AI Navigator with your kid, on the values and history they have spent the weeks writing.

The cohort

Small by design, fully virtual. This is facilitated work, not a lecture, and every student gets real airtime.

Week 6 is a landing week

This week bends around move-in. As each student arrives on campus, Chris works with them 1:1 to load their real semester into the Navigator: their actual syllabi, professors, and course materials.

Chris stays in reach

The relationship does not end in August. Through fall semester, Chris is a real person your kid can reach for the questions that come up: course selection, a hard week, a decision that matters. Plus October and December cohort check-ins and a private channel.

pricing

Pricing

Enrollment is closed for now, so pricing is paused. Tuition for the next cohort and for the self-guided version will be shared when enrollment reopens. Join the waitlist and you’ll be the first to know.

A sliding scale will be available for families who need it.

What’s included

  • All six weeks of live cohort sessions and curriculum
  • The WILD Compass, a defended sense of who they are, theirs to keep and reread for life
  • A configured Personal WILD×AI Navigator, built with your kid 1:1 and theirs to keep
  • The Build pillar: design thinking, a business model, a launched and published venture
  • Weekly office hours with Chris through fall semester
  • October and December check-ins and a private cohort channel
  • A completion credential recognizing what your kid built

Not included

  • A Claude subscription, about $20 a month; we point you to the right plan and any student discounts at onboarding
  • A laptop, plus a few optional tools we recommend, most with free or student tiers

who this is for

who this is not for

find out where you stand

How AI-ready is your student?

Take the WILDiQ: College Edition. Ten minutes, free, no right answers. It reads how ready your student really is for the AI-saturated college years and emails you a personal Family Launch Report you can bring to the conversation with Chris.

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questions families ask

The honest answers

Won’t they just learn this in college?

No, and this is the part most people have backwards. The university is the slowest institution to teach the thing that threatens how it runs. That is the innovator’s dilemma working exactly as written: faculty optimized for the old system are the last to build the new one, not despite their expertise but because of it. Your kid will live in the AI-native world either way. The only question is whether they walk in with a foundation or get shaped by whatever they bump into.

What is WILD Intelligence?

The human side of finding your way through uncertainty, the capacities AI cannot do for you: seeing clearly (Wisdom), choosing what matters (Intention), creating the conditions to move (Leadership), and learning as the ground shifts (Discovery). Chris and Andrea Greene have spent twenty-five years building it. It is the framework underneath everything in this program, and the thing that makes a person worth amplifying when the machine arrives.

And what is WILD×AI?

WILD×AI is where the human framework meets the machine: the practice, the tools, and the configured systems that keep a person sovereign while AI reshapes everyone around them. The College Edition is that work built for the college years. The broader version is what Chris builds for leaders and companies; we work with students because that is where the foundation is still being poured.

Is there anything in this for me, the parent?

Yes. Start with the free Family Launch Report above, for an honest read on where your family stands. During the program you get weekly office hours with Chris for the questions that come up: course selection, faculty, campus life. And most parents find they learn the paradigm alongside their kid, because the conversations at home start to change. A dedicated Family edition is coming; ask to be told when.

What if my kid is on the fence about it?

Good. That usually means they are taking it seriously. This only works if the student chooses it, so we never sell past a kid. The 30-minute call is built for exactly this: a few minutes with you, ten minutes with your student alone so they can be honest without performing for a parent, then everyone back together. Most hesitation is really one of two questions: is this just schoolwork dropped into my summer, and is this actually mine? We answer both straight. If your kid still isn’t in, we say so, and no one has lost anything.

Why only six weeks?

Six weeks of focused, twice-weekly work plus real practice is more than most college courses cover in a semester, and the compression matches the one window that matters: the summer before. Continuing access through fall semester is included precisely because the work gets tested then.

My kid moves into college in the middle of this.

So do most of them, and Week 6 is built for exactly that. It flexes around move-in: as your kid lands on campus, Chris works with them 1:1 to load their real semester into the Navigator, their actual syllabi, professors, and course materials. We hand your kid off the week they arrive, which is when the work starts mattering.

My kid’s summer is already full.

Most weeks run five to six hours total, Week 5 a little more. The cadence is built to coexist with a job, training, or family travel. The live sessions are two evenings a week; the rest is your kid’s own work on their own time.

What does my kid need, and what does it cost beyond tuition?

A laptop and a Claude subscription, currently about $20 a month for the plan that includes the agentic tool the Navigator is built on. We send a simple setup checklist before Week 1 and point you to student discounts where they exist. Everything your kid builds is theirs to keep.

Is my kid’s information safe?

The Navigator runs on your kid’s own account, on their own laptop. They decide what it knows and what it is allowed to do, and it is configured to refuse what crosses the boundaries they set. We do not hold their data. Before the cohort, every family gets our plain-language note on privacy and safeguarding.

Is the credential real?

It is signed by Chris and recognizes the specific work your kid completed: their Compass, their launched venture, their First 90 Days plan. It is evidence of real work, not a credential-mill sticker. Use it in scholarship essays, mentor conversations, or a resume. Or don’t. The work itself is the point.

What’s your refund policy?

When enrollment is open, you reserve a seat and we set up a short welcome call to make sure it is the right fit. If it isn’t, full refund any time before the cohort begins. Once the work starts in Week 1, the cohort has committed to each other, so refunds close then.

What does “AI sovereignty” actually mean?

Using AI well, including the discipline of knowing when not to use it. The Navigator we build with your kid is configured to push them toward independence, not dependence: it refuses requests that violate the boundaries they set, and it is built to make them harder to flatten, not easier.

if you’re the student reading this

This was probably sent to your parents. Read it anyway, because it only works if you actually want it.

You are about to walk into four years that decide a lot about who you become, holding a tool more powerful than anything your professors grew up with. Most people on your floor will use it to get answers and get caught less. You can be the one who actually knows how to drive it, with a system you built that knows you and that no one else has. This is yours to choose, not anyone’s to choose for you.

There’s a whole page written for you, in your words, not your parents’. Start there. Then a quick, honest self-check shows you where you actually stand with AI right now, no grade, no right answers, and your answers stay yours. If it lands, tell your parents you want in.

The page written for you → See where you stand →

Maker, not made.Be wild when the amplifier arrives.

The Class of 2030 is about to walk into the most consequential identity-formation period of their lives. Most will arrive without a foundation. Yours doesn’t have to.

Join the waitlist

The summer cohort is closed. Join the waitlist for the next one, and ask about the self-guided version coming soon.

what’s next

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Enrollment for the summer cohort is closed. Join the waitlist below for the next cohort, and we’ll also let you know when the self-guided version opens. Want to see where your student stands first? The free WILDiQ takes about five minutes.

Tell us who you are and what you’d like next. We’ll be in touch as the next cohort and the self-guided version take shape.

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