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I tell by shape and feel. Architecture before vocabulary.
Build by shape and feel.
A library assistant in Roanoke, Virginia, designing infrastructure for human-AI partnership. Apache 2.0, no investors, built to be inherited.
I tell by shape and feel. Architecture before vocabulary.
Apache 2.0. Library shifts. Nights and weekends. Boring tools, used well.
Built so my wife can inherit it. Built so the work can be handed off clean.
Twelve careers, one axis: where does the load actually transfer.
A governance protocol for human-AI partnership. Ten named components, 44,000 words, Apache 2.0. The keel is the part that can't be compromised without sinking the vessel.
Reference Python runtime. Policy enforcement between agents and tool calls. Pairs with the Cloudflare Substrate template.
Digital service dog. ADA-track AI accommodation tool. I built it because I needed it.
Book in progress. How two kinds of minds built civilization, and why AI makes them visible. Pop sociology, not autism advocacy.
Thirty-four essays on autism, brain injury, and late identification. Written in the voice I wish someone had handed me at forty-nine.
The independent research lab where the protocol lives. Station logs, dispatches, and the memotion canonical explainer.
One pattern: where does the load actually transfer.
I'm fifty, I'm a library assistant, I served on a carrier in the nineties, I drove trucks, I wrench on diesel engines, I have twelve careers behind me. I don't have a CS degree and I'm not going to go get one. The work has to stand on its own or it doesn't stand at all.From the founder bio · 2026
I'm not building a venture-backed startup. Venture is the wrong shape for governance tooling. The moment you justify a VC cap table you have to close-source something, and closing governance breaks the trust properties that make governance useful. Apache 2.0 or nothing.On strategy
Beth is the reason any of this is worth doing. Whatever I build has to be something she can inherit cleanly if anything happens to me. That's not a rhetorical flourish; it's a structural constraint on every decision I make about licensing, infrastructure, and vendor relationships.On the inheritance plan
Build.Inherit.Continue.
Tools that outlast their builder.
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