Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for facilitating user thinking about an arbitrary problem, as well as providing capabilities to output to and interface with external or additional computer systems, resources, or devices, or any combination thereof. The system includes logic to facilitate user specification of a user model structure for the arbitrary problem, and may utilize an archetype structure or an archetype process or both. Some embodiments of the system and method include a presentation or other output creation engine in conjunction with the system and method for facilitating development of thinking about the arbitrary problem. The system includes output and interface logic to accomplish interfacing with and/or incorporation of a plurality of external or additional computer systems, information sources, resources, or devices.