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Stack Smart Guides.
Gamified Financial Literacy System
A gamified financial literacy system built for young adults — 20 levels across 5 worlds, live calculators, and a companion workbook, designed to make real money knowledge feel less like homework and more like something worth finishing.
Behind the Project
Challenge
Most financial literacy content is either too dry to finish or too generic to act on. Young adults don't need another wall of definitions — they need a reason to come back to the material every week, and a way to see it apply to their own numbers instead of a stranger's example.
Solution
A 20-level curriculum spread across 5 worlds. Each level pairs four short lessons with a knowledge check, and each world closes with its own boss fight — four total — where live calculators apply the material to the user's own real numbers. A companion workbook, built as a spreadsheet, mirrors the curriculum tab for tab.
Result
The full 20-level system, calculator suite, and companion spreadsheet are built and live as an active product. It's sold as a one-time purchase, marketed primarily to parents and grandparents as a gift for the young adult in their life, and continues to evolve alongside the rest of the DigiWorld line.
Gamified Curriculum · 5 Worlds · 20 Levels · 4 Boss Fights · 4,625 Total XP · Live Calculators · Companion Spreadsheet Workbook
Built With an AI Collaborator
Process, not a single prompt.
Stack Smart Guides was developed through defined research and development cycles rather than a one-shot generation — an ongoing collaboration between domain expertise and a trained AI system. Every layer, from curriculum structure to calculator logic to level-by-level copy, went through repeated rounds of prompt engineering, output review, and refinement before it shipped.
Stage 01
Research & Concept
Defining the curriculum's scope and sequencing, and establishing the voice, tone, and structural rules the AI collaborator would work within.
Stage 02
Prompt Engineering & System Design
Building structured system prompts to govern level content, XP logic, and calculator formulas — the constraints that kept output consistent across all 20 levels.
Stage 03
Prototyping & Iteration
Generating and testing level drafts, calculator behavior, and interaction flows in cycles, revising the prompts themselves whenever an output missed the mark.
Stage 04
Refinement & QA
Fact-checking every financial claim and formula by hand, tightening copy for accuracy and tone, and confirming each boss-fight calculation held up against real numbers.
Selected Screens
A closer look
These screens show how Stack Smart moves from overview to application, from the level map and world breakdown, to a boss-fight calculator running a user's real numbers, a worked knowledge check, XP progress across all 20 levels, and the companion spreadsheet workbook that mirrors the curriculum tab for tab.
Landing screen — XP, levels, and world overview
World 1: Foundation — level breakdown
Boss fight tool — Real Hourly Rate Calculator
Boss fight knowledge check — worked, real-number answers
XP progress tracker across all 20 levels
Companion spreadsheet workbook — mapped tab-for-tab to the curriculum