Horus is a free web tool that shows a student, course by course, how artificial intelligence is reshaping the value of what they're learning. Most students put four years and a lot of money into a degree with one quiet worry running underneath it: will AI make parts of what I'm studying obsolete before I even graduate? The public conversation only swings between hype and doom. We're building the calm, evidence-based answer.
What it does
A student picks their degree program. Horus breaks it into the specific skills their courses are built to teach, then gives each one an honest verdict:
| Verdict | ||
|---|---|---|
| Automating | Transforming | Untouched |
| Machines increasingly handle the task. The human role shifts to directing and checking the work. | You'll now do this alongside AI. The skill to build is the augmented version of it. | A durable human edge AI isn't reaching — worth leaning into and protecting. |
What Horus never does is tell a student their major is doomed — because the data doesn't say that. Most of what AI does today augments human work rather than replacing it, and the product is built to reflect that, not to scare people.
Where the answers come from
The verdicts aren't opinion. They're grounded in real data on how people use AI across thousands of actual work tasks — the open Anthropic Economic Index — cross-referenced with the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET skill framework and mapped onto a program's real curriculum. The result is a now-cast: an honest read of where things stand today, shown with its limits visible — not a crystal-ball promise about the next decade.
This summer's build
- Scope (v1): one degree program, end to end — built to scale across programs and schools.
- Pipeline: map curriculum → O*NET skills, draft tags with the Claude API, validate by hand.
- Runtime: static JSON, no database for v1.
- Ship it: deploy on DigitalOcean.
Stack: Next.js · React · TypeScript · Tailwind · Python + pandas · Claude API
The payoff
Agency. Instead of guessing, a student comes away with a concrete sense of what to focus on, which AI skills to pick up alongside their major, and where their lasting advantages lie — turning a vague fear about the future into informed choices they can make right now.
How it’s built?
One cohort. One ship.
