About us

The people behind the dialogue.

Our story

How it started.

GOCRATIQ started with an uncomfortable observation. Students were finishing more work, faster than ever, and understanding less of it. AI had made the answer free. It had not made the thinking any easier — it had made it optional.

That left a question worth building a company around. Should a machine that can answer anything hand over the answer, or should it teach you to reach it? Every other tool had already chosen. We went the other way, and built a tutor that refuses.

The method is not new. It is the oldest one there is: ask, until the person in front of you works it out. What is new is that it no longer needs one tutor for every student. At our core we believe intelligence is not having the answer. It is how you arrive at it.

“The goal isn’t better answers. It’s better thinking.”

Founders

Who is building it.

Douglas McCabe

Douglas McCabe

Founder & CEO

Douglas spent four decades building companies — construction, finance, national real estate services, asset management — the kind of work that rewards discipline and punishes wishful thinking. He is a graduate of Oregon State University’s School of Civil Engineering.

He is spending this decade on schools instead. The through-line is the same one that ran through every company he built: strong organizations come from people who can think, and thinking is a thing you can teach.

He calls this chapter “Douglas 2.0”. The ambition is a national movement in education, with youth entrepreneurship at its center.

Alexander Foster

Alexander Foster

Co-founder, Product & AI

Alexander is a product strategist and AI systems architect. His work is turning unclear ideas into things that exist — offers, products, workflows, plans people can actually follow.

His range covers digital marketing, operational systems, AI implementation, software product development and education technology.

What he does on any given day is narrower than that list suggests: find what matters most, challenge the assumption everyone has stopped examining, and name the next five steps. It is a habit of mind the tutor is built to teach.

Get in touch

Reach us at info@GOCRATIQ.com