Great Houses

In this episode of The Great Houses Forum, Gregory Treat sits down with Zack Fava, founder of Methian, an AI-powered homeschooling operating system built to give parents full sovereignty over their children's education. Zack shares his journey from 15 years in the Department of Defense to building a platform that handles curriculum creation, state compliance documentation, mastery-based tracking, and AI-assisted grading, all customizable to each family's principles and pedagogy. The conversation explores how AI can restore household sovereignty by replacing institutional dependence with parent-controlled tools, and how platforms like Methian and Runcible might eventually form an integrated household AI stack covering education, business management, and domestic life. Gregory and Zack also discuss the dystopian risks of hosted AI, where employers gain deep insight into users' profiles, and argue that family-held data sovereignty is the healthier alternative. Read Ronald Dodson's article "House-Centric AI and the Return of the Aristoi" here.