The Foundry
Arguments become
things you can test.
The Lab holds models, prototypes, and interactive cases. Every artifact is labeled by what it is—not what we hope it might become.
The Coordination Tax
A model for finding where context disappears.
This interactive model is a research instrument: it makes a hypothesis inspectable and gives domain experts something concrete to challenge.
Open the full investigationTrace how responsibility and context move through a fragmented system.
The richest context rarely crosses the boundary. The person repeats, reconciles, and carries it forward.
Agent operations
Citadel
The model can generate code. Citadel addresses the operating problem around it: routing, durable state, safety boundaries, verification, parallel work, and handoffs that survive a session.
Operate the caseVerifiable acceptance
ProofJudge
AI acceptance decisions become signed DecisionArtifacts that another system can re-check. The write-up exposes both the tamper proof and its honest limit: provenance is not objective truth.
Read and test the receipt
Context infrastructure
Context Aggregator
A dated Electron/React experiment for analyzing a workspace, shaping what travels, scrubbing secrets, and exporting a context payload another system can inspect.
Trace the context pipeline
Playful systems
Pet Parade
What if the software around us made room for delight—not only efficiency? The case pairs the original desktop work with a browser-native interactive reconstruction.
Enter the habitatLab standards
No concept art masquerading as impact.
- 01State the artifact
Model, reconstruction, prototype, deployed tool, or operating system.
- 02Expose the test
What would have to change for the underlying argument to hold?
- 03Publish the limit
What the artifact cannot establish, reach, or solve.
- 04Record the result
Success, failure, surprise, and the next decision.
Build with the Foundry
A credible prototype needs a real context.
Bring domain authority, affected-person access, implementation capacity, or funding for a bounded experiment.
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