Portfolio
Products, research, and interactive pieces built to make invisible problems visible.
A mix of research platforms, narrative experiments, and visual systems that map semantic drift and operating model failure modes.
Research & Platforms
Flagship research and product work.
Beyond The Alignment
Beyond The Alignment is part research lab, part tooling, and part offering that supports the work at The Jambot. We study patterns like the Innovation Tax, the Iron Square, and the $2.30 threshold where maintenance outpaces innovation.
Product Operating Models
Where semantic drift compounds — how meaning is lost at every handoff from customer insight to shipped feature.
Research Artifacts
Analyses and visual reports from the BTA lab.
BTA Next.js Analysis
A forensic look at the Next.js ecosystem — where complexity and maintenance costs hide.
BTA Lab Report
Patterns in delivery performance, maintenance burden, and semantic drift across modern stacks.
Argo Data Story
A visual narrative of the Argo ecosystem and its operational implications.
Ontology Exploration
An interactive D3 ontology visualization of workflow automation and coordination systems.
Graphic Narratives & Interactive Pieces
Visual systems and narrative experiments.
The Platform Plateau
Successful platforms don't fail. They plateau, and the standard fix (treat it like a product) is exactly what keeps them stuck. A 20-slide interactive deck built on Ashby's Law, the Limits to Growth systems archetype, and a test for which teams were never going to be customers at all.
Territory Morphologies
Particle animations as a visual language for system state. Fifteen domains, multiple conditions. The shape is the signal.
The Natural History of Organizations
A museum of living systems. Thirteen interactive exhibits that use nature as a lens to observe organizational patterns: forests, weather, rivers, heat, constellations, geology, mycelium, snowflakes, and evolution.
100 Stars
The org chart is a photograph. This is the game film. An interactive topology of how engineers actually work — mapped across four lenses: team, tool, role, and stack. Built on real Kubernetes contributor data.
Organizational Observatory
A 70-person fictional engineering org rendered through five lenses: artifacts, structure, language health, ecology, and intervention. The signal is already in the data. Three.js point cloud with parametric models, cross-team dependency chords, and guided tour.
Need Model to Make Plan
Reference architectures show the parts at rest. Every failure is a verb, and none are on the page. A 22-slide interactive deck on the six shapes every outage takes, the generation chain linking them, and why the best engineers are consulting a rehearsal the rest of us never built.
Demand Intelligence
The Moneyball move nobody in program management is making. Four analytical frames that turn Jira exports into a demand forecast — velocity, skill signal, historical trend, and team configuration.
Spiders and Rubber Bands
Two metaphors for staying sensitive as systems scale: the spiderweb as attention surface, the rubber band ball as accumulated pressure. An interactive essay on sensory debt and signal discipline across AIOps, product, and security.
BDIA Concept Map
Thirty-seven data architecture concepts mapped by pace layer, coupling, and failure mode. An orrery for thinking through system design decisions — each concept surfaces the trade-off it forces.
Coherence by Design
Four frameworks for navigating organizational transformation: diagnostic lenses, pace layers, risk patterns, and the path forward. An interactive toolkit for practitioners managing the tension between autonomy and coherence.
Lazy AI: People Have Codes
Your customers aren't personas. They're characters with codes — forged by experience, invisible from the outside, and governing every decision they make about your product.
The Unreliable Narrator
A scroll-based narrative experience demonstrating how engineering artifacts act as unreliable narrators — producing confidence without shared reality.
The Unscouted Variable
What sports analytics revolutions reveal about the metric nobody's tracking in software engineering.
Platform Ontology
An interactive ontology map of platform concepts and their relationships, built to make semantic alignment visible.
The Map Is Not the Territory
An interactive scrollytelling guide to how modern applications and platforms come together.
The Execution Threshold
Three agent modes — Assist, Propose, Execute — and the infrastructure requirements that separate them. A practitioner framework for where to extend trust to autonomous systems.
Agent Capability Heatmap
29 platform capabilities. Three agent modes. One question: is your documentation clear enough for agents to act safely? An interactive assessment tool with the Wall-E / EVE / Captain framework.
Context Collapse
How shared understanding deteriorates across teams — and the structural patterns that accelerate it.
Failure Modes
Interactive animated patterns of semantic drift — how small definition gaps compound into systemic failure.
Color Theory
An interactive exploration of how color shapes meaning, mood, and attention in digital experiences, turning palette choices into design decisions you can reason about.
Particle Language
A side experiment, not a deliverable: one shared particle-physics swarm reused as a visual vocabulary for drift, alignment, and coordination overhead. Comes with an open playground where every shape, palette, and slider is exposed.
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