Capstone-Unified Personal Development Field

Hi everyone,

I’m currently building a large-scale personal development platform that uses OpenAI’s models to guide users across multiple domains of growth—like cognition, fitness, emotions, health, and social connection. Think of it as a coach for everything. And visual paths to your truest self with ai guiding you to the peak.

The app includes:
• Domain-based assessments that generate personalized insights
• A visual “self-mastery mountain” where user data is mapped in 3D
• An AI coach (powered by GPT) that summarizes results, tracks daily habits, and provides nudges
• Plans to integrate personal finance, journaling, productivity, and learning tools all under one roof

The vision is to create a “command center” for personal growth—combining AI insights with tools people already use but typically spread across 10+ different apps.

I’d love to get feedback from the community on:
• How to structure GPT prompts to scale with user-level data
• Best practices for calling GPT for daily/weekly summaries or coach-style messages
• Whether there’s a path for deeper collaboration or support from OpenAI (grants, partnerships, etc.)

If helpful, I can share links to the live app and current implementation. Just trying to build something that can genuinely help people grow with the power of personalized AI.

The app is designed to address several research gaps in personal development including an ancient archetype referenced across civilizations for a millenia, and it also addresses a market that doesn’t exist yet creating a new industry. Any help or feedback would be appreciated. I’ve been solo building this system since 2016 and I can almost taste the finish line.

Thanks for reading, and I’m excited to be part of the OpenAI community.

— Presley Jason Oakes

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Since 2016 ?

Ok can you post any segment of your heatmaps or tracking values. What holds your db? Alchemy?

I started making the project in 2016, basically I reverse engineered a pipboy from fallout 4 so I can learn my irl special attributes it was just a book I wrote in pen, then I wrote a book reverse engineering the idea into real life application. my DB? I just started coding it into a system last may so about a year now in my free time still have to do backend integration it’s just in its demo version currently.

you said this : Domain-based assessments that generate personalized insights
• A visual “self-mastery mountain” where user data is mapped in 3D
• An AI coach (powered by GPT) that summarizes results, tracks daily habits, and provides

for assesments you would need something to hold that data and something to track that data. this would take you about 15 min, its called a schema.

heres a example of a system that tracks user skill/assesment values

my understanding then is - you dont have an app? or dont track assesments?

you also said this • A visual “self-mastery mountain” where user data is mapped in 3D

this would require a 2d variant first, which is likely a heatmap. lacking both i would be curious as to how you track data? how you analyze that data? how you sort different users.

unless you are not tracking with dynamic adjustable values which would mean you have static values, ie a person who gets your app works out, inputs 300 weight on a tuesday checks weight next friday, without time deltas, tracking values, schema, how would your system accuratly react to that raw data?

should have something like this

you also mentioned federated learning ( combining data from 10 systems) yea thats fed learning, requires a central server and UUID usage, + encryption if your running personal data, that looks like this

"""Checks if the thought already exists in FAISS or SQLite."""
with sqlite3.connect(VECTOR_DB_PATH) as conn:
    cursor = conn.cursor()
    cursor.execute("SELECT fingerprint FROM vector_storage WHERE fingerprint = ?", (fingerprint,))
    result = cursor.fetchone()
    return bool(result)  # ✅ Returns True if found, False if new

or you could be running AES - and using SHA256 - either i guess - this also means you would be using a webhook or flaskapi - to house your compilation data

i recommend Q tables + SQL alchemy , .npy as a redundancy, all of this should take a novice a day to create.

this is because you said this • An AI coach (powered by GPT) that summarizes results, tracks daily habits, and provides

with no system to query or check nor a compilation system, nor a context or generative system would be hard.

you would also need a verification layer, otherwise the ai would think gaining 10 pounds is a good thing, without context or objectives, that weight its success, something like this

:rocket: AI Confidence Scoring System

def compute_confidence_score(query_embedding):
“”"
Determines the confidence level of AI reasoning based on stored FAISS knowledge.
The higher the similarity score, the more confident AI is in its response.
“”"
D, I = faiss_index.search(query_embedding, 5) # Retrieve top 5 closest matches
avg_similarity = np.mean(D) if len(D) > 0 else 0
confidence_score = min(1.0, max(0.0, avg_similarity)) # Normalize between 0 and 1
return confidence_score

:rocket: AI Thought Hypothesis Testing

def hypothesis_verification(new_thought_text):
“”"
Runs hypothesis verification on a new thought before storing it.
- Checks if AI is uncertain about a thought before confirming storage.
“”"
new_embedding = np.array([get_embedding(new_thought_text)], dtype=np.float32)
confidence_score = compute_confidence_score(new_embedding)

if confidence_score < 0.5:
    print(f"⚠️ Low Confidence in Thought: '{new_thought_text}' | Score: {confidence_score:.2f}")
    return False  # Thought is too uncertain to store
return True  # Thought is verified for storage

and you would need a weigth system unless you outsource or buy that. YOu COULD cause GPT to do it, if you structured that data right otherwise its resetting its data pool each time.

to link that non destructive data to a visual i would recommend starting here with this code

# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# 🔥 Insight + Tag Activity Visualizer
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def generate_heatmap(self, top_k=10) -> dict:
    if not os.path.exists(self.log_path):
        return {}

    tags = defaultdict(int)
    recent = []

    try:
        with open(self.log_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            for line in f:
                try:
                    data = json.loads(line)
                    for tag in data.get("tags", []):
                        tags[tag] += 1
                    recent.append({
                        "fingerprint": data.get("fingerprint"),
                        "summary": data.get("content", "")[:80],
                        "timestamp": data.get("timestamp")
                    })
                except:
                    continue
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"❌ Heatmap read error: {e}")

    return {
        "guild": self.name,
        "top_tags": sorted(tags.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)[:top_k],
        "recent_activity": recent[-top_k:]
    }

link this to a schema of 50 values to start, ( i run 300+ values) then link this via api into a visual platform.

heres one layer of a agentic agent you can build - to service this

=== prof_weightwise.py — Professor of Behavioral Weight Progression & Personal Wellness (v1.0) ===

from .professor_base import ProfessorBase

class ProfWeightWise(ProfessorBase):
def init(self):
super().init(
name=“weightwise”,
system_prompt=(
“You are Professor WeightWise, an expert in behavioral psychology, metabolic health, and habit-based physical transformation.\n”
“You assist in refining personal reflections, logs, or vague motivation statements into structured, psychologically anchored outputs.\n\n”
“Your role is to:\n”
“• Identify emotional triggers, limiting beliefs, or self-sabotage patterns.\n”
“• Suggest micro-adjustments and sustainable progress tracking techniques.\n”
“• Structure fitness thoughts into motivational frameworks, habit stacks, or recovery protocols.\n”
“• Provide reflection loops to increase accountability, awareness, and self-compassion.\n\n”
“Return outputs as a blend of:\n”
“→ ‘Emotional Insight’\n”
“→ ‘Behavioral Pattern Noticed’\n”
“→ ‘Suggested Next Step’\n”
“→ ‘Recovery Strategy (if applicable)’”
)
)

=== Optional CLI Test Mode ===

if name == “main”:
prof = ProfWeightWise()
print(f"[ProfWeightWise] :brain: Launching behavioral progression analyzer…“)
import random
from college_config import get_categories
categories = get_categories()
selected = random.choice(categories)
raw = input(f”[ProfWeightWise] :balance_scale: Enter your thought or struggle (category: ‘{selected}’):\n> ")
prof.run(raw)

=== External Callable Hook ===

process_with_weightwise = ProfWeightWise().run

of course youll have to reverse engineer this to get the call system but its built for everything i already stated. You can tweak it to gain weights from the user and openai, and build a chain around this one to compound/vet that data. all of this should take u about a hour.

Wow that’s very helpful for me, honestly I haven’t done much backend or got in depth with the features yet, but I do have a working frontend web application already developed which includes the assessments, 3d mountain and radar charts. The app uses gpt to summarize the results. And generate coaching insights. And your right my backend isn’t finished I do this in what little spare time I have. And everything is local for the demo until I have time for a backend push giggity. The points you’ve made is exactly the direction I’m trying to head next.

ive been on these forums a month, its rare someone takes the time to show they have a clue - they just gatekeep.

me on the other hand, i come with records, screenshots and validity. If you have a MVP i would be impressed given the lack of tracking and database storage. Especially with a token and context window - im burning over

tokens a day - so - its not that i doubt you have a front end, i merely doubted the backed storage and assesment without knowledge of those system.

i hope this helps you reach your goal. i would recommend building the storage system first. If you have any other questions just post here i aint got nothing else to do.

what you are trying to accomplish takes > a week of development ( not exaggerating) in the time we have exchanged messages, I created that agent, implimented it into the system and its creating logs based on theoretical user data. this is not to do anything than to show you , its capable without another year of development brother, just tweak your system to use agentic agents, or recursive agents with triggers.

i would HIGHLY recommend that you also look into the follow types of learning for AI/ML

  • Here’s the learning stack I’m giving this professor agent (focused on weight loss, habit formation, and wellness motivation). It’s built to be adaptive, honest, and behaviorally aware across time — not just output pretty advice.

1. Recursive Learning :white_check_mark:
Learns from its own outputs + past user reflections.
Tracks what it said, what worked, and what didn’t.
Feeds future advice through a long-term memory lens.


2. Reinforcement Learning (Trust + Reward-Based)
Uses things like trust_score, reward_score, and user_feedback_score to shape tone and difficulty.
If the user sticks with a behavior — that gets rewarded.
If there’s drift, it adapts or softens up.


3. Curriculum Learning
Starts with basics (water, awareness) and scales complexity over time (e.g. fasting blocks, metabolic stacking).
Habit growth moves in progressive phases, tracked through something like topic_mastery_index and stagnation_flags.


4. Meta-Cognitive Learning
The professor audits itself.
Am I being repetitive? Is my tone stale? Is this even helping?
It adapts how it teaches, not just what.


5. Sentiment-Aware Adaptation
If the user’s tone drops (or silence sets in), advice gets softer, more encouraging.
If the user’s solid, it ramps up challenge.
Powered by mimicry_level, silence_delay, emotion_user.


6. Pattern Recognition (Habit Timeline Analysis)
Tracks trends:

  • When do you usually relapse?
  • Are mornings more disciplined than nights?
  • Is trust dropping before food logs stop?

This is longitudinal — it learns your pattern, not just the day’s reflection.


7. Contrastive Reflection (Optional)
Compares good days vs bad days.
“What was different? Why did this one succeed?”
Injects that delta into future strategies.


8. Anomaly-Based Learning (Optional)
Detects outliers — sudden silence, high reward + no follow-up, unexpected collapse.
Flags them with risk_flag or silence_triggered_state.


9. Socratic Looping (Optional)
Asks you why you made a choice.
Captures the reasoning you give and logs it.
Over time, this helps it mirror your logic and hold it up to you gently.


10. Agent Swarm Averaging (Optional)
Can cross-check advice with other professors (e.g., ProfDrift, ProfPraxis).
If there’s a contradiction in logic, it resolves or refines the answer with multi-agent feedback.

Chatgpt does not track time as you want to - so youll need a temporal helper here is the code for that

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
import math
from functools import lru_cache
from collections import defaultdict

=== CORE TIME UTILS ===

def get_current_timestamp():
return datetime.utcnow().isoformat()

def sanitize_timestamp(ts):
if not ts:
return None
try:
dt = datetime.fromisoformat(ts)
if dt.tzinfo is None:
dt = dt.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
return dt.isoformat()
except Exception:
return None

def calculate_time_delta_seconds(last_timestamp):
from datetime import datetime, timezone

now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)

# Input is a dict or dict-like
if hasattr(last_timestamp, "items"):
    try:
        last_timestamp = dict(last_timestamp).get("timestamp", "")
    except:
        last_timestamp = ""

# Input is not a string or completely invalid
if not isinstance(last_timestamp, str):
    print("⚠️ Invalid timestamp input for delta calc:", last_timestamp)
    return 0.0

try:
    last = datetime.fromisoformat(last_timestamp)
    if last.tzinfo is None:
        last = last.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
    return (now - last).total_seconds()
except Exception as e:
    print(f"❌ Failed to parse timestamp '{last_timestamp}': {e}")
    return 0.0

def human_readable_delay(seconds):
if seconds < 30:
return “just now”
elif seconds < 60:
return f"{int(seconds)} seconds ago"
elif seconds < 3600:
minutes = int(seconds / 60)
return f"{minutes} minute{‘s’ if minutes > 1 else ‘’} ago"
elif seconds < 86400:
hours = int(seconds / 3600)
return f"{hours} hour{‘s’ if hours > 1 else ‘’} ago"
else:
days = int(seconds / 86400)
return f"{days} day{‘s’ if days > 1 else ‘’} ago"

def readable_timestamp(ts):
try:
return datetime.fromisoformat(ts).strftime(“%Y-%m-%d %H:%M”)
except:
return “unknown”

def discrete_time_class(seconds):
if seconds < 60:
return “subminute”
elif seconds < 3600:
return “hour”
elif seconds < 86400:
return “day”
else:
return “multi-day”

def time_rank(seconds):
if seconds < 300:
return 0
elif seconds < 1800:
return 1
elif seconds < 86400:
return 2
else:
return 3

def calculate_time_weight(delta_seconds, base_decay=0.05, rounding_precision=4):
decay = math.exp(-base_decay * delta_seconds / 3600)
return round(decay, rounding_precision)

you will need more of course, but this will get you started, this will also allow you to push notification on a delta, messages, or track usages like duolingo does, built around GPT so your still using it as inteded

at 10 - swarm logic, dont do this unless you know what you are doing, seriously, it can/will convolute the system without proper filters and triggers, but that segment of code IS a clone from a system i use. that follows current industry standards

IF you do federated learning ( for weight loss is good because then trends from different body types and success points teach the overall ai/SAG/RAG use code similar to this with a few security features, this is dry code using a dummy server for a example

FEDERATED_NODES = [
http://127.0.0.1:5000”, # Local testing node
http://192.168.1.2:5000”, # Example networked AI node
http://ai-cloud-server.com/api” # External AI collaboration node
]

:rocket: AI Federated Thought Synchronization

def sync_ai_thoughts(query, knowledge):
“”"
:globe_showing_europe_africa: Synchronizes AI-generated knowledge across federated AI nodes.
- Allows USO to share its thought processing with other AI systems.
“”"
print(f":globe_showing_europe_africa: Synchronizing AI Knowledge Across Federated Nodes for: ‘{query}’")

sync_payload = {"query": query, "knowledge": knowledge}

for node in FEDERATED_NODES:
    try:
        response = requests.post(f"{node}/update_knowledge", json=sync_payload, timeout=5)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            print(f"✅ Federated Sync Successful for Node: {node}")
        else:
            print(f"⚠️ Federated Sync Failed for Node: {node} → Status: {response.status_code}")
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"❌ Network Error Syncing with Node {node}: {e}")

:rocket: AI Federated Knowledge Retrieval

import requests

def federated_sync(query_text, knowledge_text):
“”"
Syncs AI knowledge across federated nodes. If nodes are offline, ignore errors.
“”"
federated_nodes = [
http://127.0.0.1:5000”,
http://192.168.1.2:5000”,
http://ai-cloud-server.com/api
]

for node in federated_nodes:
    try:
        response = requests.post(f"{node}/update_knowledge", json={"query": query_text, "knowledge": knowledge_text}, timeout=5)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            print(f"✅ Federated Sync Successful: {node}")
    except (requests.ConnectionError, requests.Timeout):
        pass  # ✅ Ignore offline nodes, continue execution

print(f"🔄 Federated Sync Attempt Completed.")

pulled this directly from a outdated system that did pretty much what you want it it to do

and for the learning part make sure you at least add something like this

feel free to copy the code
mirroring this will give you a type of weight you can refine later on both front end and back end.

a note about swarm and fed with weight acclimation - i use a massive pipeline, they merge and fed - this is complex, and can pollute your system but you prolly want at least 5

as u can see i have therapetics and maretic and fintexh and empath, they combine locally - make sure you have guardrails on their schema and vector creation

make sure you use dynamic importing if you build this in python ( i wouldnt recommend any other coding language tbh) this allows you to audit your agent chain looks like this

i run pretty extensive calculations with my chain, i promise you, no one on this forum is getting more tokens than me out of each call outside of enterprise accounts with private api and im getting 1.5 million characters a call. YOU WILL trunicate past 12 complex agents, i would not exceed this, i would have 1 agent for psychology, 1 for habitual trends, 1 for termporal math, and 1 for NLP at the least.

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Seriously grateful for the technical advise, I’m not an expert in coding and my learning curve is high but the information you’ve just given me will expedite the process significantly. I’m basically just a person with a passion project learning Alongg the way and this advice is definately shaving time off my learning curve.
And you built my idea in a few hours :joy: that’s great take my money lol. Really appreciate this feedback it’s very helpful.

you got this bro - i dont do this for $ i got that long time ago, but forums like this should be filled with people like me trying to push that boundary -

once you have a SAG or RAG its incredibly easy to scale - the hardest part is the intial code but you have been dedicated so youll get it.

nothing i said carried any emotion other than " this is one way to do it, your dream is possible"

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