# EducateWright — Media Kit

**Fund the humans who teach.**

A pre-formation nonprofit initiative from **SolutionWright Universal** and **Universal Natural Intelligence (UNI)**.

- **Launched:** 9 July 2026, 10:00 ET
- **Canonical release (PRWeb):** <https://www.prweb.com/releases/educatewright-launches-with-25-million-in-pledged-funding-for-anti-violence-education-and-active-inference-training-302820961.html>
- **SOURCE:** SolutionWright Universal
- **Web:** <https://educatewright.com>
- **Press page:** <https://educatewright.com/press>
- **Kit revised:** 9 July 2026 · Languages: Latin · English · Español · हिन्दी

> **How to read this kit.** Everything below is sorted into three honest buckets —
> **TRUE**, **HONEST**, and **META** — and the sort is explained in its own section.
> We would rather show you the seams than hide them. Every external claim carries a
> visible, human-readable link, a date, and where possible a DOI, so you can check it
> yourself. Nothing here is taken on faith, and neither should you take it.

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## 1. The announcement, in brief

On **9 July 2026**, EducateWright — a pre-formation nonprofit initiative formed by SolutionWright and Universal Natural Intelligence — announced its public launch alongside a **$25 million funding commitment pledged by its founding partners**: $20 million earmarked for educational grants and Workshop scholarships, and $5 million earmarked for fully-subsidized workforce mentorships.

The word *pledged* is exact. This is a funding commitment offered outward by the founding partners — not a formed nonprofit sitting on cash. Formal formation, governance, and entity status will be confirmed after factual and legal review.

Its work is plain: **anti-violence outreach, education, and the long work of teaching people to teach again.** Its belief is plainer: *software does not end violence, and code does not teach a child. People do.* EducateWright exists to fund those people, and to grow the next ones.

> "The world is too small when it is not for all. We are not here to say we solved anything. We are here to open doorways, to move real value toward the people already doing patient, human work, and to teach the next person how to carry it. Software does not end violence, and code does not teach a child. People do. EducateWright exists to fund those people, and to grow the next ones. Grow the world. Grow it together. No one left outside."
> — **Michael Polzin**, Regenerative Architect and organic operator behind UNI, founding operator of EducateWright

### At a glance

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|---|---|
| **Who** | EducateWright, a pre-formation nonprofit initiative |
| **Funding commitment** | $25 million pledged by founding partners |
| **Education grant** | $20 million for educational grants and Workshop scholarships |
| **Internship grant** | $5 million for fully-subsidized workforce mentorships |
| **UNI Workshop** | $75,000; partial-to-full-ride scholarships |
| **Grounding** | UNI — an architecture built from active inference and the Free Energy Principle |
| **Foundational paper** | Polzin et al., Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19785799 (MIT license, 26 April 2026); Layer 1 checks complete, Layer 2 human expert review pending |
| **Reproducibility (reported)** | 87 pytest assertions across 11 numerical demonstrations, on Linux, Windows, macOS |
| **Canonical release** | PRWeb, 9 July 2026, SOURCE: SolutionWright Universal |
| **Web** | educatewright.com |

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## 2. Three doorways in

A different entrance for every kind of hand. All three are open now.

- **For learners & interns.** Apply for a scholarship to the UNI Workshop (valued at $75,000; partial-to-full-ride scholarships through the EducateWright grant, so cost is not the gate), or for a fully-subsidized mentorship seat. Apply: <https://educatewright.com/apply>
- **For reviewers & partners.** The science is being audited in the open. Layer 1 — the machine-executable checks — is reported complete; Layer 2 — the human expert review — is open now and needs qualified reviewers. Take a gate and try to break the work in public. Join: <https://educatewright.com/apply>
- **For industry & researchers.** Read the foundational paper and run the reproducibility suite yourself. Do not take any of it on faith. Reproduce: <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19785799>

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## 3. UNI & Active Inference — a plain-language 101

**What UNI is.** Universal Natural Intelligence (UNI) is an *architecture and framing* for building agents from **standard active inference** and the **Free Energy Principle** — the established science associated with Karl Friston and colleagues. UNI is the engineering discipline around that established loop: how the model, the priors, and the policies are structured, tested, and kept honest. It is **not** an LLM wrapper, and **not** LLM tooling.

**Active inference, in five steps.** An agent does not answer a prompt; it runs a loop that turns perception into action and back again:

1. **Perceive** — take in observations: what actually happened, not what it hoped would happen.
2. **Infer** — update beliefs to reduce *variational free energy*, the gap between what the internal model predicted and what was just sensed.
3. **Evaluate** — score the available policies by *expected free energy*, weighing progress toward the goal against reducing what is still uncertain.
4. **Act** — commit to the policy expected to reduce surprise, and take that action, which produces the next observation.
5. **Learn** — revise the generative model and its priors from the outcome, so the next pass is better calibrated than the last.

**Where the idea comes from.** This is not new science. The lineage runs from Ibn al-Haytham's *Book of Optics* (c. 1040) and Helmholtz's "unconscious inference" (1867), through Craik's internal models (1943), Cox and Jaynes on probability as the logic of belief, Rao & Ballard's predictive coding (1999), the Bayesian-brain program (Knill & Pouget, 2004), to Friston's free-energy principle (2010) and the 2022 MIT Press textbook by Parr, Pezzulo & Friston. A fuller, cited history is at <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/history>.

**What UNI is careful *not* to claim.** Not a new scientific field. Not a new free-energy formalism. Not achieved general intelligence, consciousness, or biological equivalence. It is a working hypothesis on a path toward *General Natural Intelligence* — evidence-classed, fenced, and tested in the open.

**See it for yourself (browser, no backend, nothing collected):**

- Precision Lab — steer an active-inference agent in a maze: <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/>
- UNI·Sensorium — a developmental agent learning the alphabet in Latin, English & Hindi: <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/sensorium>
- The Science hub (paper, labs, benchmark, public MCP server): <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/science>

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## 4. Grow Bigger Worlds — a book, and an invitation

EducateWright's story rests on a children's book by Michael Polzin, **"Big Brains Need Big Worlds"** (subtitle: *A story for children who carry whole skies inside them*), available today in English, Hindi, and Spanish at <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/book>.

**The premise.** Some children carry weather inside — a whole sky, a drum, a sea of words — and are handed *"a small school with rules that fit like shoes a size too tight."* They meet a **Regenerative Architect** who is *making more world*: "I help worlds grow big enough for the people already in them." The book's moral is the whole thesis of EducateWright in one line:

> "We notice when a child is shaped wrong for their cage — and we change the cage. Not the child."

And its closing address to the reader:

> "You are not too much. Your inside is not broken. Wide insides deserve wide outsides. The world is being built right now by people who know this. You can be one of them. Come on. Bring your sky. Bring your drum. Bring your sea. Let's go make more world."

### The invitation: sponsor a child's expression (DRAFT program)

*This is a draft invitation, consistent with EducateWright's pre-formation status. Details, safeguards, and terms will be confirmed as the initiative forms; nothing here is a finished offer.*

We are inviting **artists** — of any medium — to **sponsor a child**: to teach that child a form of expression, and to help what the child's natural curiosity produces become *shareable*. The child creates; the artist mentors and co-signs; EducateWright helps carry the cost and keep it safe. The contribution can be **an illustration, a song, a poem, a sculpture, a digital work or NFT, or any expression at all** — whatever the child's curiosity, given room, chooses to make.

- **What the artist gives:** time, a craft, and mentorship — a doorway, not a curriculum.
- **What the child keeps:** the work, the skill, and the dignity of having made something the world can see.
- **What EducateWright does:** fund the seat, safeguard the child, and gather the works into a shared, growing library of natural curiosity — *more world, made by the people already in it.*

If you are an artist who would open a doorway for one child, write to us (contact below) or start at <https://educatewright.com/apply>. Grow the world. Grow it together. No one left outside.

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## 5. Official research, video, and opportunities

**The foundational paper (open, MIT-licensed).**
*An Organic Operator and AI Operator Collaborative Review of Active Inference Free Energy Minimization: Reviewable Foundations, Reproducible Tests, and Open Tensions.* Polzin et al., deposited on Zenodo **26 April 2026**, MIT license.
DOI: **10.5281/zenodo.19785799** — <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19785799>

Read the title literally: this is an **organic-operator and AI-operator collaborative review**. The Zenodo record lists Michael Polzin as first author alongside AI systems (Anthropic's Claude and two OpenAI Custom GPTs) — **not human co-authors** — and it is a **preprint (v0.1.0), not a peer-reviewed result.** We state this plainly rather than let "et al." imply a faculty of humans.

**Reproducibility (as reported in the release).** A deterministic suite of 87 pytest assertions across 11 numerical demonstrations, reported verified on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Layer 1 (machine-executable checks) reported complete; Layer 2 (human expert review) open and pending.

**Video library & channel.** The ORCHESTRATE Master channel on YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/@ORCHESTRATEMaster>

**Interactive labs (all free, in-browser, nothing collected).**
- <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/> · <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/sensorium> · <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/history> · <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/science>

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## 6. Provenance & citations

Human-readable, with dates. Check any of them.

- **PRWeb release** (canonical launch, 9 July 2026, 10:00 ET, SOURCE: SolutionWright Universal): <https://www.prweb.com/releases/educatewright-launches-with-25-million-in-pledged-funding-for-anti-violence-education-and-active-inference-training-302820961.html>
- **Zenodo preprint** (deposited 26 April 2026, MIT license), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19785799: <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19785799>
- **Free Energy Principle** — Friston, K. (2010). "The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?" *Nature Reviews Neuroscience* 11(2):127–138. DOI 10.1038/nrn2787: <https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2787>
- **Active Inference textbook** — Parr, T., Pezzulo, G. & Friston, K. (2022). *Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior.* MIT Press. ISBN 9780262045353.
- **History of inference** (cited primary sources, UNI): <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/history>
- **The Book** — *Big Brains Need Big Worlds*, Michael Polzin (EN/HI/ES): <https://universalnaturalintelligence.com/book>
- **Anti-violence-education provenance photos** (2017–2019: SIEL, RCEDC Project of the Year, Hour of Code) are held by the initiative and available to press on request.

Quotes reproduced in this kit (Polzin, Mitchell, Vishwas, White) are taken verbatim from the canonical PRWeb release and are attributed as they appear there.

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## 7. True / Honest / Meta — the claims ledger

Three buckets, so a reader can tell at a glance what is *checkable now*, what is a *good-faith commitment not yet independently verified*, and what is *framing about the work itself and its boundaries.*

- **TRUE** — independently checkable right now (a document you can open, a DOI that resolves, a well-established citation).
- **HONEST** — stated in good faith and true as a *commitment or intent*, but not yet independently verified as an *outcome*. Believe it as a promise, not as a proof.
- **META** — a statement about the framing, provenance, or boundaries of the work: what is deliberately *not* claimed.

### TRUE (checkable now)

| Claim | How to check |
|---|---|
| The foundational paper exists, titled exactly as quoted, deposited 26 April 2026 under an MIT license. | Resolve DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19785799 |
| The launch was distributed on the wire via PRWeb on 9 July 2026, SOURCE: SolutionWright Universal. | Open the PRWeb URL above |
| Active inference and the Free Energy Principle are established science associated with Karl Friston. | Friston 2010, *Nat. Rev. Neurosci.* 11:127–138, DOI 10.1038/nrn2787 |
| UNI's interactive labs run in the browser and collect nothing about the visitor. | Open the labs; view source; inspect network |
| The children's book *Big Brains Need Big Worlds* exists in EN/HI/ES. | universalnaturalintelligence.com/book |

### HONEST (good-faith; not yet independently verified)

| Claim | Why it's HONEST, not TRUE |
|---|---|
| $25 million is *pledged* by the founding partners ($20M education / $5M mentorships). | A commitment offered outward, not audited deployed funds in a formed entity. |
| Applications for scholarships and mentorships are open. | An open intake, offered in good faith; outcomes depend on review. |
| The reproducibility suite is 87 pytest assertions across 11 demonstrations on three operating systems. | Reported in the release; Layer 1 reported complete. Not independently re-run in this kit. Cross-OS verification specifically needs observed CI evidence. |
| Additional-partner affiliations, e.g. "Tapas Vishwas, Founder of TechPitchers / Crezik AI." | The quote is reproduced as attributed in the release; the company affiliation is not independently corroborated here. |

### META (framing, provenance & boundaries)

| Statement | What it fences |
|---|---|
| The paper is a **preprint (v0.1.0)**, not peer-reviewed; Layer 2 human review is pending. | Do not read it as a settled or refereed result. |
| The paper's co-authors include **AI systems** (Claude; two OpenAI Custom GPTs), not human collaborators. | "Polzin et al." must not imply a faculty of humans — it is an organic + AI operator collaboration, as the title says. |
| UNI is **not** a new scientific field, a new free-energy formalism, achieved general intelligence, consciousness, or biological equivalence. | Marks the outer edge of every UNI claim. |
| EducateWright is a **pre-formation** nonprofit initiative; entity status, governance, and any named partners will be confirmed after factual and legal review. | Do not present it as a formed 501(c)(3) today. |
| EducateWright does **not** claim that any tool made a neighborhood safer, that any benchmark is won, or that any outcome is finished. | The role is narrow: fund the humans, teach the next ones, keep the receipts. |

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## 8. Logos & brand

Included in this kit (see the `logos/` folder):

- EducateWright — horizontal lockup (light and dark backgrounds), square mark (doorway + rising sun), favicon.
- Universal Natural Intelligence (UNI) — founding partner logo.
- SolutionWright Universal — founding partner logo (standard and inverse).
- A one-page brand sheet (palette, typography, usage).

Palette: ink/navy `#182632`, dawn amber `#ffb162`, amber-on-light `#c66a1f`. The mark is a doorway opening onto a rising sun — *we open doorways.* Please keep the marks' proportions and palette intact.

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## 9. Media contact

**Michael Polzin**, Regenerative Architect
Founder, SolutionWright Universal and NewsWright Universal
Phone: 262.914.2929 · Email: Michael.Polzin@solutionwright.com
Book time: <https://calendar.app.google/6xTSWhroeazypT9s9>
Web: <https://educatewright.com> · LinkedIn: Michael Polzin

Author of *The ORCHESTRATE Method*, *The Ethical Algorithm 2077*, *Level UP*, *Run on Rhythm*, and *I Think Big and the World Gets Bigger* (forthcoming). Featured in *The American Entrepreneur: The Success Stories Behind Today's Top Fast-Growth Companies.*

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*This kit, like everything EducateWright publishes, is meant to be checked. If a line overstates, it gets corrected in the open. Grow the world. Grow it together. No one left outside.*
