Me? A Semi-Finalist in the AWS 10,000 AIdeas Competition? Here's What I Built

So this happened: my little project, Clew Directive , got selected as a semi-finalist in the AWS 10,000 AIdeas Competition. I'm now among the top 1,000 innovators moving to the building phase. Quick version : Clew Directive is a free tool that generates personalized AI learning paths in 60 seconds using Amazon Nova's reasoning. No paywalls, no tracking, no accounts. Just a PDF you can download and keep. I'm genuinely shocked. But in a good way - like, I believed in the idea, and it turns out other people saw the vision too. Why This Matters (To Me) AI literacy is becoming a baseline life skill. But access shouldn't depend on: How much money you have Where you live Whether an algorithm decided to feed you the "right" courses Your ability to figure out which resources are legit When people are overwhelmed, they freeze. They don't move forward. And that's exactly who I'm building Clew Directive for - the people who want to learn but don't know where to start, who are tired of hype, who ju