The Work What we are building 2026

The Projects.

The software, systems, and experiments the Institute is building — and where each one honestly stands. The Journal is the published work; this page is the workshop.

No. 01

Projects

the principal work
No. I

Sorserer

A scholar’s tool for tracking primary sources, replication status, and citation provenance — so a claim can carry its evidence with it.

public repo coming soon
No. II

NewsBuddy

A reader-side companion that surfaces provenance, citations, and counter-evidence for any article — the reader’s tools catching up to the reporter’s.

public repo coming soon
No. III

Patron

A pseudonymous patronage and donation rail for civic projects — support the work without surrendering your identity.

public repo coming soon
No. IV

Muni

A municipal-finance dashboard prototype — line-item spending and revenue, made auditable by the public it belongs to.

public repo coming soon
No. V

DeBIOS

A foundational identity and consent layer for the Institute’s tools — prove who you are, and only what you choose to prove.

public repo coming soon
No. VI

DecentralisedDB

A decentralised data layer for civic records — public information that stays public because no single party can withhold it.

public repo coming soon
No. 02

Side Projects

smaller experiments, still public
No. i

Power Browser

A smaller experiment from the workshop — notes and a write-up forthcoming.

public repo coming soon
No. ii

Github Board Skill

A conversational Claude Code skill for reading and editing a GitHub Projects kanban board — natural-language driving, task routing, staged previews. MIT-licensed.

github
No. iii

SymbolicDB

A smaller experiment from the workshop — notes and a write-up forthcoming.

public repo coming soon
No. iv

Classical Consciousness

A smaller experiment from the workshop — notes and a write-up forthcoming.

public repo coming soon
No. v

Everyone Engineer

A smaller experiment from the workshop — notes and a write-up forthcoming.

public repo coming soon