Objective
What are we trying to solve?
Research and planning for governed work.
Epistemic Cognition keeps objectives, evidence, risks, decisions, and next steps connected from start to finish.
Why this exists
Complex work needs a place to keep its reasoning intact.
Plans scatter across notes, conversations, files, and half-finished decisions. Assumptions can start to look settled. Unknowns can slip out of view. Epistemic Cognition gives serious work a clear place to hold what matters.
Knowledge
What do we know, and what's missing?
Assumptions
What are we treating as true without proof?
Path
What is the right way forward?
Decision infrastructure
Reasoning, evidence, risks, decisions, and next steps stay connected.
Decision infrastructure gives complex work a durable shape. The objective stays visible. Evidence can be reviewed. Assumptions can be challenged. The path forward has a record behind it.
The projects
Research and planning carried into real work.
Each project gives a different kind of decision a place to become clear. Together they connect evidence, judgment, action, and the record that remains afterward.
Core project family
From a governed objective to work that keeps moving.
Foresight
Foresight gives a serious objective a durable record. It keeps evidence, assumptions, uncertainty, decisions, risks, and next actions connected as the work develops.
The Foresight Protocol sets the discipline for the work. The Foresight Notebook gives that discipline a working surface. The Foresight book gives the underlying ideas a lasting home. Together they make it possible to revisit a decision, see what supported it, and understand what changed.
- Define the objective, constraints, success criteria, and time horizon.
- Keep facts, assumptions, unknowns, and material claims visibly distinct.
- Carry verified decisions into reviewable plans and next actions.
Foresight Studio
Foresight Studio keeps the material behind a decision together in one working notebook.
Bring in notes, links, files, images, audio, and video. Keep sources, interpretations, open questions, decisions, and next steps visible as the project develops. The notebook gives individuals and teams a shared place to return to the work, understand how it took shape, and continue from a clear record.
- Gather project material and working context in one notebook.
- Keep sources, interpretation, decisions, and follow-up work distinct.
- Carry the notebook across browser, mobile, and desktop work.
Sequode
Sequode gives machine-built software a shape people can inspect, run, and understand.
Its visual graph carries named inputs, connected steps, clear outputs, approvals, failures, saved versions, and run history. The point is to give people a readable view of software that may be too large, dynamic, or interconnected to understand by reading code directly. The graph becomes the human interface to the running work.
- See how information moves from input to result.
- Review dependencies, approvals, blocked paths, and failures in context.
- Run repeatable work while keeping its structure visible.
Steward
Steward keeps the next meaningful action visible when life and work are competing for attention.
It carries reminders, routines, important dates, bills, income, tools, and unfinished work into one continuing view. Steward is built around one-step guidance: what matters now, what is waiting, and what needs to happen next.
- Keep commitments and important dates from disappearing between conversations.
- Hold practical context around money, routines, tools, and active tasks.
- Return with a clear next action and the history that explains it.
Projects in practice
Focused work for evidence, finance, research, energy, access, and connection.
Northlight Claims
Northlight gives physical-damage claim work a governed record from intake through review.
Claim facts, uploaded evidence, routing decisions, corrections, and status changes remain connected. Deterministic triage identifies the review path, while sealed snapshots and exported packets preserve the record for later verification, handoff, or audit.
- Preserve uploaded evidence with hashes and an append-only ledger.
- Route routine files and flagged exceptions through clear review paths.
- Export readable claim packets with the supporting record attached.
MoneyBall
MoneyBall helps a company see where cash flow is present across its operations and where revenue becomes delayed, underused, or hidden.
It brings company metrics into working views for decision-makers and operators. Connectors, synchronized records, reports, and approvals give teams a shared picture of where income is being delayed, underused, lost between steps, or hidden inside the numbers they already collect.
- Organize operational and financial measures around the decisions they support.
- Surface patterns that can reveal missed or delayed revenue.
- Keep decision work, operating follow-through, and approvals connected.
Nagi
Nagi is an experimental neural network designed for training across participating computers.
The work is at an early stage. We are developing a way for computers to take on small training tasks, return results, and measure whether those results improve the network. We are seeking funding for the computing infrastructure needed to train Nagi.
- Develop training that can run across participating computers.
- Check each result for a measurable improvement.
- Build the infrastructure needed to train and evaluate the network.
Longevity Research Project
The Longevity Research Project follows evidence across aging, healthspan, comparative biology, and biomedical research.
A living journal, biological correlation tree, and source records show how findings connect across molecular, cellular, organismal, human, and canine evidence. The archive has passed 240 research papers and journal entries, with eight books that carry the research into a longer, durable form.
- Read findings with their sources, limits, and unresolved questions.
- Trace relationships across biological scales and comparative evidence.
- Keep promising signals grounded in the strength of the evidence behind them.
Home Energy Watch
Home Energy Watch turns a utility usage export into a measured record a homeowner or reviewer can examine.
It finds the overnight baseline, flags the nights and intervals that break from it, and keeps the rule that produced every flag attached to the result. Weather, household load estimates, dated notes, file history, and downloadable reports stay beside the readings they help explain.
- Read Green Button, utility XML, and interval CSV exports.
- Compare measured usage with the equipment and patterns inside the home.
- Build a reviewable record for household, advocate, or commission work.
SpotMelts
SpotMelts compares precious-metal listings with the value of the metal inside them.
Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and copper listings are evaluated using available weight, purity, asking price, current spot price, and buying-path evidence. Reviewed opportunities rise to the top with melt value, confidence, availability, and the details a buyer still needs to verify.
- Compare asking price and estimated melt value on a per-gram basis.
- Remove unavailable listings and unclear buying paths before review.
- Keep observed facts, calculated values, and buyer verification responsibilities distinct.
Test By Mail
Test By Mail gives eligible people a private way to request funded home test kits and understand the next step.
The work begins with partner-funded HIV self-test access and can support other eligible home tests where mailing the kit creates a private, practical path to access. Health departments, clinics, and community programs can connect funding, approved inventory, discreet fulfillment, and follow-up guidance in one request path.
- Check basic program fit before a kit is reserved.
- Support discreet fulfillment with clear instructions and privacy choices.
- Connect each request with appropriate follow-up and local care resources.
The Belladonna House
The Belladonna House brings people together inside a hosted murder mystery built for a room full of private motives.
Phones carry each guest's role, objectives, discoveries, and final accusation. Printed room signs, object cards, evidence, props, and atmosphere pieces turn a home or venue into the estate. The host prepares the space, opens the room by QR code, and guides three to twenty-five players through the night.
- Give every guest a private role and a reason to speak with the room.
- Connect physical clues with live discoveries through QR codes.
- Carry the group from arrival through evidence, alliances, and one final accusation.
Proximity
Proximity helps adults see who is active nearby, where people are gathering, and when an opportunity to connect is current.
A live map and grid make nearby activity visible while each person controls how much location detail they share and who can reach them. The project is centered on timing, consent, privacy, and the practical moment when online discovery becomes a real-world connection.
- See current activity through map and grid views.
- Choose the level of location detail shared with other people.
- Use block, report, and visibility controls around every interaction.
Bring the work that needs a clearer objective, better knowledge, or a cleaner path forward.