Sparkwise
2021–presentCo-founder and CTO. Sparkwise automates live group learning — scaling up the active engagement people need to build skills in business, AI, and more.
01Title
Ari Bader-Natal
I design, build, and operate online learning environments that help learners access new opportunities and create new futures.
In a phrase: learning engineering
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02Work
Ari Bader-NatalWork
Work
Three organizations, 2012–present
Calbright College
2019–2021Founding CTO of a fully-online, competency-based college in the California Community Colleges system, designed for working adults.
Minerva Project
2012–2019Employee #1, then Chief Learning Scientist. Seven years creating new tools for learning and teaching, including Minerva's signature Forum, tools for formative assessment, and a connected suite of authoring tools.
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03Projects
Ari Bader-NatalProjects
Selected Projects
Four of 18 · view the full index
Agent-native authoring for Sparkwise · 2025–now
Architect is an agent-native learning design and authoring tool for building Sparkwise modules.
Shift perspective. Unlock creativity. · 2025–2026
Unexpected questions and lateral thinking prompts for AI tools.
Collaborative coding for visual thinkers · 2010–2026
Sketchpad is a website that allows people to collaboratively code and share interactive visualizations written with Processing and P5.js. Online since 2010.
A central collection of web favorites · 2015
Favelog is a self-generating website that archives and catalogs my personal collections of favorites, saves, stars, and likes across the many services that I use online.
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04Patents & Writings
Ari Bader-NatalPatents & Writings
Catalogue of Patents
Nine issued, 2017–2026
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U.S. Patent
12,659,427 Techniques for computer-guided multi-device group learning -
U.S. Patent
11,217,109 Apparatus, user interface, and method for authoring and managing lesson plans and course design for virtual conference learning environments -
U.S. Patent
10,666,696 System and method for a virtual conference interactive timeline -
U.S. Patent
10,541,824 System and method for scalable, interactive virtual conferencing -
U.S. Patent
10,356,364 Registering and displaying visual attention metadata in a web video conferencing and seminar system -
U.S. Patent
9,961,119 System and method for managing virtual conferencing breakout groups -
U.S. Patent
9,935,987 Participation queue system and method for online video conferencing -
U.S. Patent
9,674,243 System and method for tracking events and providing feedback in a virtual conference -
U.S. Patent
9,578,073 System and method for decision support in a virtual conference
Selected Publications
Six of 18 · full bibliography
Bader-Natal, A. · 2020
Bader-Natal, A., Fost, J., and Genone, J. · 2017
Katzman, J., Regan, M., and Bader-Natal, A. · 2017
Levitt, R., Bader-Natal, A., and Chandler, V. · 2017
Bader-Natal, A., Lotze, T., and Furr, D. · 2011
Bader-Natal, A. and Lotze, T. · 2011
Selected Posts
Three of 121 · all posts
July 2026 · Sparkwise blog
April 2026 · Sparkwise blog
April 2025 · Sparkwise blog
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05Favorites
Ari Bader-NatalFavorites
Recently Liked
From favorites.aribadernatal.com
- Web: This is the Babel fish we’ve been waiting for
- Web: The Evolution of the Agent Harness
- Repo: cloudflare/cloudflare-os
- Repo: cloudflare/computer
- Repo: emollick/cezanne-city
- Repo: nyblnet/bento
- Web: Flue — The Open Agent Framework
- Web: one document, two hands
- Repo: EveryInc/tend
- Repo: EveryInc/hands-on-deck
- Repo: kepano/obsidian-skills
- Web: A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable
- More: favorites.aribadernatal.com
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