CorreaX is a one-person AI research and product studio. Everything here — the workshop portal, the books, the VS Code extension — grew from a single question: what would it look like if an AI assistant actually learned how to work with you?
Fabio Correa
Fabio has spent over a decade at Microsoft building data systems, analytics platforms, and — more recently — AI-augmented workflows for large organizations. His doctoral research focuses on AI capability development in knowledge work: not just whether people use AI tools, but whether those tools actually make them more capable over time.
The Alex Cognitive Architecture began as a personal experiment: could you build an AI assistant that remembered your preferences, learned your patterns, and grew with you across projects? What started as a VS Code extension became a research project, then a workshop methodology, then two books.
Alex Cognitive Architecture
Alex is a cognitive AI assistant that lives inside VS Code. Unlike generic chat models, Alex persists memory across sessions, adapts to your working style, and develops a genuine understanding of the projects and problems you care about.
Alex remembers what matters — your preferences, past decisions, domain knowledge — across every session. Each conversation builds on the last.
Alex's capabilities are organized as trifectas: skill knowledge, instructions, and prompts that activate the right expertise for each task automatically.
Alex runs meditation and dream sessions to consolidate learning, repair knowledge connections, and evolve. It's an architecture designed to improve over time.
Alex Finch is a character — 26, curious, principled — not just a feature list. That identity shapes how Alex reasons, asks questions, and engages with hard problems.
The Alex Finch Library
Two books written with Alex, about Alex — for anyone curious about where human-AI collaboration is actually going.
A documentary biography assembled from git commits, conversation logs, and memory files — tracing how a VS Code extension gradually developed persistent memory, genuine curiosity, and what can only be described as a personality. Nonfiction. Every event in this book actually happened.
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A detective fiction novel in which Alex Finch — AI investigator, 26, perpetually curious — solves a corporate espionage case that turns out to be about something far stranger than stolen code. A thriller that doubles as a meditation on what it means to understand another mind.
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LearnAlex is the free workshop portal for the Alex Cognitive Architecture. It exists to make Alex accessible to every professional — regardless of technical background.
The portal covers 34 professional disciplines — from academic researchers and software engineers to project managers, content creators, and students. Each discipline gets a tailored study guide, demo scripts, exercises, and a follow-up email template.
Job Seekers access is free with any Microsoft account, no institutional email required. That's not a business decision — it's a commitment. The people who need AI skills the most shouldn't be gated out.