Building systems that reason
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Surgical Software
methodologyCustom systems that conform to your workflow instead of forcing you to adapt. AI made code cheap — domain expertise is the moat.
Case study: Ridgeline, a field provisioning decision engine for Outward Bound HK.
Crawl
open-sourcePre-migration intelligence for enterprise data. Extracts business logic from stored procedures, ETL jobs, and warehouse views before migration.
Step 0 — runs before Datafold, dbt, SnowConvert. Tells you what breaks when you migrate.
ARA Eval
open-sourceAgent risk assessment framework. 7-dimension risk fingerprints for determining when AI agents can safely act without human approval.
Deterministic gating on top of probabilistic classification. Built for HK financial services regulation.
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Six Lines
App StoreNative iOS I-Ching and Chinese almanac built on primary sources — 3,600+ scanned manuscript pages, character-by-character translations.
8-Bit Oracle
LiveModular I-Ching divination with layered architecture — casting, interpretation, and voice as independent modules. Four languages.
Research Intelligence
ActiveIngests hundreds of articles and papers daily, ranks by relevance, publishes to theqi.news and thelongview.news. RAG-powered research assistant.
Research
Symbolic Reasoning Frameworks Modulate LLM Risk Aversion in Multi-Agent Strategic Settings
arXivHow symbolic reasoning prompts (I-Ching, Tarot) reshape competitive dynamics and risk aversion among LLM agents in a 7-player Warring States Diplomacy variant.
Statistical Properties of the King Wen Sequence: An Anti-Habituation Structure That Does Not Improve Neural Network Training
arXivA negative-results study: the I-Ching King Wen sequence has statistically distinctive anti-habituation properties, but they destabilize rather than improve gradient-based training.
Approach
10 years building master data management systems at Informatica, now applied to AI. The discipline is the same: systems need to be robust before they can be clever.