How To Create A CoModel For Valentine's Day Analysis

This is a Step-by-step guide for CoModel.ai using an example on Valentine's Day.

Paco Araujo
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24 steps
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3 minutes

Comodel

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Navigate to [https://comodel.io/](https://comodel.io/)

Click the "What is the specific problem you're studying?" field.

In Problem Statement describe the problem to address. If you click on the help button it will clarify how to write a problem statement. For this example we will add: *Valentine's Day creates an annual economic surge in spending on gifts, dining, and experiences, leading to a gap between consumer spending habits and financial well-being. The systemic factors driving this phenomenon include social expectations, marketing influences, and supply-demand dynamics. Understanding these feedback loops can help individuals and businesses make more informed decisions about seasonal spending behaviors.*

Also you can upload files to the Knowledge section to help producing better results, for our example we will leave it blank.

Once ready head to the COPILOT.

The COPILOT

The COPILOT will help you with the task at hand, add a question or you can ask copilot you want to understand the problem and the GEN AI will craft a response using loops.

For this example we will type: "*How do social norms and marketing strategies reinforce spending habits during Valentine's Day?*" and click **SEND**.

This is the result of our task, dont be disappointed, remember that the tool is still on beta, click on the STAR Button on the bottom toolbar, this will rearrange the whole CLD.

Toolbox This includes a Text tool, an arrow tool, a box tool, a flow tool, and the arrange tool. It's important to understand that stocks and flows are still under development and don't have full support.

Once rearranged you can click on the variables to space them out, and on the arrows to re-shape them to your needs.

When you click the arrow it will show 4 nodes, the two connections (from - to), the middle to re-shape the line and the Relationship.

You can select multiple lines by holding the SHIFT key on your keyboard and clicking the arrow. In this example, for clarity, I selected all the Negative relationships in the CLD and then clicked on as shown, this will change the arrows to dashed.

Positive Connections are Solid lines, Negative are Dashed.

Just keep in mind that when you export the CLD to XMILE and open it in Stella, the dashed arrows are implemented as Delayed. I'm only exporting them to image, and use the dashed lines for clarity, so this doesn't matter.

CoModel detects all the Loops formed by connecting the variables with arrows, and depending on the sign it will assign an R (Reinforcing) or B (Balancing) Loop tag and a Name Label, assign names to all the loops. Also, when you click on the Loop Tag it will select the variables and connectors that form the selected loop.

On the right panel it will show you the reasoning for the created Loops, be aware, again this is a Beta and as all AI tools that are out there, it might fail.

The Loops Tab,

Click on the Loops tab and to go on.

This Panel shows the Loops that where created and it assigns an incremental number and the type of Loop R or B, and it describes the variables that are connected in the loop, and when clicked, it highlighst the selected loop.

When you select the loop, the Loops tab will show two buttons, the COPY IMAGE and the DOWNLOAD buttons. The first one will copy the image to your Clipboard, and the other downloads the image as a PNG file.

Click "Download" to save a PNG file to your hard drive.

Main Menu

The Sandwich button will show you the main menu.

Here you can create a new file, open a previous file, import a diagram, save it (which needs to have an account), export to XMILE and Logout.

Double-click the "Name this model!" to add a name and save the file.

Type "Love Dynamics Example"

That0s about all for now. Explore the tool at your own pace. Challenge the AI to build better diagrams and please give feedback to SKIP to improve the app. Thanks for following along.