Shivansh Chawla

Cogni is a Chrome extension that makes you think before the AI does. It's built on 10+ research papers on what heavy AI use does to original thinking, including work from Harvard, MIT, UPenn and Microsoft itself.
In one of the studies students given unlimited GPT scored worse once it was taken away. They felt no difference.

I started building it after scrolling back through my own ChatGPT history one evening. I was looking for an old prompt and instead found dozens where I'd asked the AI to generate things from scratch that should have started with me. Names, angles, opening lines, first drafts of ideas. I wasn't editing my own thinking. I'd stopped supplying any.

Cogni sits on top of your ChatGPT or Claude session and only steps in when you're about to let the AI supply the substance. Fixing your grammar goes straight through. Asking it to write the whole thing from scratch gets a pause first: what's the core point you want to make, in your own words? You give it a line, then the AI helps. The idea stays yours. Nothing leaves your browser and no prompt text is ever stored.

My product - https://www.thinkwithcogni.com/
I have been using A LOT of AI lately, mostly due to work and some personal projects, and I felt its convenience and models that keep getting smarter started to build an overreliance and started clouding my independent thinking, and my thoughts started feeling generic like the AI outputs.
And then I ended up coming across 10+ papers that supported this finding. So I built Cogni for myself, a tool that essentially sits on top of your claude/chatgpt sessions (other platforms coming soon) and intervenes when you are over-relying on AI, asking you to pause and think first before just asking these tools for help.
A lot of my friends also noticed this, so I slowly shared it with them as well. When they started noticing improvements in their thinking, I thought this could be helpful for others too. So decided to launch.