# ApoKrino

> ApoKrino teaches ideation: a repeatable process for finding, transforming, and developing the ideas already emerging in your own creative work. Founded by Trevett Allen, an educator with 25+ years of teaching experience across the United States, Hong Kong, and Spain. Students have gone on to programs including RISD, SAIC, UPenn, and Stanford.

The way to work with Trevett is one offer: one hour, one-to-one, online, €150 — for anyone whose creative work has got stuck or out of balance, including artists, designers and students preparing portfolios. Book at https://apokrino.com/book.

ApoKrino combines Sketchbook Thinking (the method) and ApoKrino Forge (the app), with AI as a thinking partner in reflection and pattern recognition, never the author of the artwork.

Chinese pages: [中文](https://apokrino.com/zh) | [香港中文](https://apokrino.com/zh-hk)

## Free tools

- [Creative Signal Type Quiz](https://apokrino.com/creative-failure-mode-diagnostic): A 12-question diagnostic that reads you as a maker — which of eight creative types you work from, and what that means for what to make next.
- [Signal Scan](https://apokrino.com/signal-scan): Send a sample of your own work and get back the pattern running through it — the signal you keep making without noticing. Free.

## Practices (print-at-home card decks)

- [Get your own head back](https://apokrino.com/decks): 16 five-minute screen-free paper practices, each addressing a specific creative friction point. $7 each, print at home on 3×5 cards.

## Working with Trevett

- [Book an hour](https://apokrino.com/book): One hour, one-to-one, online, €150. Bring what you've been making — or not making — and leave knowing what's yours in it and what to do next. Sessions are in English (Spanish or French also possible). Further sessions, if wanted, are the same rate; there are no packages.
- [About Trevett Allen](https://apokrino.com/trevett): 25+ years teaching, including the Smithsonian. BA English (Denison), MEd Educational Technology (Concordia), MFA study in poetry.

## Method

- [Sketchbook Thinking](https://apokrino.com/method): A worked cycle from noticing to testing — the inquiry layer before execution.
- [Notes on the Living Arts](https://trevettallen.substack.com): Ongoing writing on ideation and human-first AI.

## For schools

- [ApoKrino for Schools](https://apokrino.com/schools): Human-first AI for creative inquiry in institutional settings. MYP-compatible.

## Software

- [ApoKrino Forge](https://apokrino.com/forge): Sketchbook app with AI-assisted pattern analysis. The system analyzes your work to surface recurring patterns — it never generates art.
- [Sketchbook library](https://apokrino.com/sketchbooks): Real sketchbooks made in ApoKrino Forge, open to page through in the same read-only viewer the app uses. Nothing is staged.
- [Tools & Scanners](https://apokrino.com/tools): Free instruments for reading your own creative work.