Rewire Case Study© Sunny Li 2026 MayThesis Advisor - Forest YoungThesis @ 26’ SVA MFA Design & EntrepreneurshipEmail, Instagram, Website

Table of ContentsProduct / Strategy / Go-to-Market / Cultural Relevance + Competitive Landscape / Next Steps / Process Credits + Bibliography


Rewire Case Study




Product









































What is Rewire
Rewire is an emotional translation infrastructure designed in markdown file that translate care between families who can't read each other anymore.
























































































How to Use
You download the file and attach it to any large language model — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini. 

Type "start a Rewire session," and the AI stops giving advice and starts asking questions. Each session moves you through four phases: an intake that listens, a pattern recognition that helps you see what's repeating, an emotional translation that walks you through seven dimensions of how one moment landed two completely different ways, and a closing reflection drawn from your own words. You leave the session with something you couldn't see before.
























































The /rewire Command
A session doesn't have to end when you close the conversation. You can come back to Rewire anytime — a week later, a month later, after another phone call that didn't land. Just type /rewire, and the conversation picks up wherever you left off.

The command is the bridge between sessions. It means Rewire isn't a one-time tool you use once and forget. It lives inside the AI you already use, ready when you need it. Every conversation you have with your family becomes another data point — another moment to translate, another pattern to surface, another reflection to carry out.

Over time, what you build with Rewire isn't a series of disconnected sessions. It's an ongoing translation between you and the people you love.









Emotional Translation
The emotional translation is the core. It surfaces seven dimensions of divergence between what was said and what was heard — from surface to root.

- What was said
- What it became
- What was lost
- What it built between you
- What keeps repeating
- What triggers it

And the deepest layer underneath — 
the inherited behavior, the cultural script, the fear that's been shaping everything from below.

Each dimension is harder to name than the one before it. Most conversations stop at the first. Rewire takes you to seven.

Rewire Case Study© Sunny Li 2026 May