We’re excited to announce that the code used to create the systems maps in the Unsolvable: Think Again! book series is now available as an open-source toolkit.
👉 Explore the code here: github.com/team-earth/gosr-ai-workflow
👉 Browse the datasets here: github.com/team-earth/data
🧭 What This Is
Over the past few years, we’ve developed GOSR, a structured method to map complex societal problems — and the solutions already underway to address them. These maps have powered more than 10 published books across domains like:
- Urban and rural loneliness
- Mental health and addiction
- Education reform
- Climate change adaptation
- Food insecurity
- Civic resilience against extremism
- Peacebuilding in entrenched conflicts
Now, the AI-assisted workflows behind those datasets are publicly available for anyone to reuse, extend, or build on.
🛠 What the Code Does – GOSR
The gosr-ai-workflow repo provides tools for building structured, modular solution maps from source content — using a flexible, repeatable schema:
- 🎯 Goal – What success looks like
- 🪨 Obstacles – High-level systemic barriers
- ⛓️ Sub-Obstacles – Detailed, grounded challenges
- 💡 Solutions – Concrete actions or ideas
- 🧭 Resources – Real-world organizations or initiatives
This schema allows you to create structured maps of civic problems — ready to feed into search engines, AI agents, or collaborative planning tools.
📘 10-Book Series: Now Fully Indexed
Each dataset aligns with a specific book in the Unsolvable: Think Again! series. You can now find structured metadata for all 10 books, including tags, summaries, publication dates, and direct dataset links.
The full list is indexed in metadata.yaml and embedded on kevinkells.com.
👥 Who This Is For
We designed the workflow and data to serve a range of audiences:
- 🔧 Civic tech developers – Build search tools, visualizations, or AI interfaces on top of structured civic maps
- 📊 Policy researchers & systems thinkers – Study patterns across domains, or contribute new use cases
- 🌱 Social innovation labs – Use maps to surface local assets and align collaborative efforts
- 🎓 Educators – Use books + maps in courses on systems thinking, design, or social innovation
- 🧭 Community organizers – Create maps that help locals find “who’s doing what”
- 🤖 AI builders – Leverage structured knowledge to guide people through complex challenges
- 🏛️ Cities & funders – See the landscape of active work and where gaps or leverage points exist
- 📚 Readers – Understand how each book was built, and how you can use or extend the ideas
🚀 What You Can Do Now
- Explore the data:
Start with the Un-Lonely New York City map or browse the full dataset repo. - Run the workflow:
Clone thegosr-ai-workflowrepo to generate your own maps from new topics or documents. - Read the books:
Unsolvable: Think Again! on Amazon gives story-driven context behind each dataset. - Join the process:
Suggest topics, contribute maps, or adapt the tools for your own work. We welcome collaborators across all fields and sectors.