A system for improving how we think, innovate, and communicate.
The foundation for innovation, understanding, and design.
As presidential speechwriter and National Geographic producer Daniel H. Pink explores in ‘A Whole New Mind’, we are moving from the Information Age into the Conceptual Age. A timewhere value belongs to the big-picture thinkers, the innovators, and the meaning-makers.Written before the AI race began.At TheActiveCloud, we believe the most vital skill of our time is the ability to think wellacross domains, to apply insight, creativity, and logic in any environment.
We call this General Purpose Thinking, not just essential for your career.
Essential for life.
General Purpose Thinking enables us to:
• Solve complex problems with creativity and depth.
• Innovate within constraints.
• Question productively, resulting in better outcomes.
• Communicate with clarity and efficacy.
In an age of technology, AI acceleration, and societal stagnation, it’s not just specialists we need. We need thinkers flexible, curious, and connected across disciplines.The way we’ve built society has brought us far.But to go further, we need to evolve how we think.
Teaching systems literacy.
Learning how the world works.
At TheActiveCloud, we believe understanding systems is essential to creating a better future.
This pillar exists to help people and institutions make sense of the structures shaping ourlives, and to empower better thinking, better decisions, and better solutions.
With Nimbus, we explore:
• What systems are and how they influence behaviour, outcomes, and culture
• How to identify when systems are breaking down
• How to design, redesign, or improve systems to better serve people and the planet
Nimbus is about giving people the tools to see clearly, think holistically, and act wisely intheir communities, teams, and organisations.Because the future won’t be built by individuals working alone.It will be shaped by those who understand how things connect and how to make them better.
A way of seeing.
Crafting Meaning, Systems & Futures
At TheActiveCloud, we believe design is not just for products or spaces. It is the lens throughwhich we shape our lives, our communities, and our world.
Design is how we translate vision and empathy into reality.
It’s the conscious act of creating meaningful systems, experiences, and tools. Whether that’s crafting your personal life withpurpose, shaping cultural narratives through artistry, or innovating complex social andorganisational systems.
Through Cirrus, we aim to improve:
• Personal Design: How you structure your life, habits, decisions
• Social Design: How relationships, communities, cultures are shaped
• System Design: How organisations, institutions, societies function
• Creative Design: Moving from unconscious to conscious creation
This pillar embodies the belief that good design is essential for thriving individuals and societies.
It bridges emotional depth and intellectual rigor, empowering you to be botharchitect and artist of your future.Because when you design well, everything work, relationships, contribution elevates
The Thinking Capability Score (TCS) is the first metric that lets you measure how well you think.
It captures something previously invisible: the quality of thought behind your decisions, strategies, and systems.
TCS is made up of three simple components:
(GPS) – General Purpose Thinking
(SUS)– Systems Understanding
(DCS) – Design Coherence
Each is scored giving you a final TCS out of 100.
This gives leaders, teams, and individuals a way to see their blind spots, benchmark their thinking, and take action with clarity.
Until now, we’ve measured performance, productivity, finances, but never thinking itself.
TCS changes that.
It makes great thinking measurable, repeatable, and proprietary.
This methodology is exclusive to TheActiveCloud, it can’t be found anywhere else.
In a time of complexity and information overload, TCS helps you cut through the noise, and upgrade the system behind everything: your thinking.