Han Kay has spent 30+ years chasing systems — from Silicon Valley startups to World Bank policy labs, from code to consciousness, from biotech to blockchain. All the while, the same pattern kept emerging: systems shape everything. And yet, few people truly understand how they work.

The Academic Polymath

MISM from Carnegie Mellon University — the anchor of a triple Master's spanning information systems, business, and biosystems engineering. This cross-domain formation is what the SIM itself reflects: it spans the technological, the financial and economic, the social and relational, the human and organizational, the adaptive and evolutionary, the institutional, and — at the deepest level — the philosophical. Each dimension maps to a layer of the SIM. Specialists working inside a single domain never see the full architecture.

The Battle-Tested Practitioner

9 startups in Silicon Valley — including 7 instructive failures. Han transforms hard-won experience into the frameworks you'll learn in this course. He understands both the exhilaration of breakthrough and the systemic failures that destroy promising ventures.

The Global Architect

Senior Investment Officer at the World Bank Group, managing mega-projects and shaping national technology strategies. Former Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon and others, teaching and mentoring 1000+ builders.

The Researcher

Author of the academic paper ConsciOS: A Viable Systems Architecture for Human and AI Alignment — a formal systems architecture connecting consciousness science, control theory, and AI alignment, published as a preprint with simulation and empirical protocols. 473 downloads, 88% view-to-download rate. Zero marketing.

The Builder

Founder of Sysdom — the builder ecosystem pairing rigorous systems thinking with practical paths to ship. Creator of the Systems Intelligence Model (SIM). Author of Spaghetti Startup, nominated for Best Entrepreneurship Book. Author of Conscious Systems playbook (available as a free resource on this profile page).

The SIM has been tested in MBA courses, accelerators, and workshops for over 11 years — with hundreds of founders, operators, and executives across startups, corporates, and governments.