SocratesXR:

Applied AI for Humans.

What Is SocratesXR?

SocratesXR is an applied AI education program grounded in the Socratic method. Through a structured workshop arc, learners don't just study AI — they build with it. Each participant constructs a custom AI Tutor or Digital Teammate, gaining hands-on fluency in prompting, evaluation, and ethical reasoning along the way.

The approach is simple: you cannot effectively critique what you do not understand. SocratesXR makes that understanding possible — for students preparing for the workforce, for faculty redesigning their courses, and for institutions navigating AI policy at scale.

How SocratesXR Works

SocratesXR is a strategic collaboration between two independent companies,
each contributing distinct expertise.

SocratesXR teaches learners, educators, and institutions to work with AI critically and ethically — building human capacity in an era of automation. Not replacement. Partnership.

ProvenanceAI.

THE PLATFORM - TECHNOLOGY & INFRASTRUCTURE

ProvenanceAI provides the technological backbone — the AI-native learning management system where SocratesXR courses live, and where human learning becomes visible, measurable, and fair. The "how."

Exact Rush Multimedia Publishing.

THE PRACTICE - CONTENT & PEDAGOGY

Exact Rush provides the pedagogical architecture, curriculum design, content creation, and human-in-the-loop methodology that defines the SocratesXR learning experience. The "what" and the "why."

TOGETHER

While ProvenanceAI builds the infrastructure of trust for the AI era, SocratesXR builds the human capacity to navigate it.

Three Commitments

What every SocratesXR course is built around.

Don't just generate. Interrogate. Learners define what they will never outsource to a machine — and build the skills to lead AI, not follow it.

01

Agency over automation

Technology moves fast; ethics must move faster. Every module embeds critical thinking about bias, privacy, and authorship — the questions only humans can ask.

02

The humanities as guardrails

construction as comprehension

03

To understand it, you must build it. Learners construct a tangible AI tool across the course — taking the black box apart and putting it back together.

Co-Founders

Jesse Ackles

CO-FOUNDER
Jesse is a writer, editor, and educator with deep roots in applied linguistics and legal writing. He spent years leading linguists and quality specialists to improve LLM training through rigorous audits and editorial standards — part storyteller, part systems thinker, equally at home refining a sentence or managing a complex workflow.
Christopher Driscoll, Ph.D.

CO-FOUNDER
Chris is a tenured Associate Professor at Lehigh University, CEO of ProvenanceAI, and founder of Exact Rush Multimedia Publishing. He brings five books, years of applied humanities teaching, and a builder's instinct for turning complex ideas into frameworks people can actually use — in classrooms, boardrooms, and beyond.