organvm — Public Process
Essays about building an eight-organ creative-institutional system. Theory, art, commerce, orchestration, community, marketing, and the meta-system that connects them all.
Essays
Why AI Function Calling Needs Ontological Grounding
Why AI Function Calling Needs Ontological Grounding
Registry-Driven Development: How a JSON File Governs 81 Repositories
The design and evolution of registry-v2.json — a single JSON file that serves as the authoritative source of truth for 81 repositories across 8 GitHub organizations, encoding status, dependencies, documentation tiers, and promotion state.
The Parallel Launch: Why We Shipped 81 Repositories Simultaneously
The Parallel Launch: Why We Shipped 81 Repositories Simultaneously
Uniform Quality at Scale: How Every Repo Earns Its Badges
The philosophy of uniform quality treatment — why every repo with code gets the same Platinum infrastructure regardless of size, how graceful degradation makes this tractable, and how badge rows build institutional trust at scale.
Testing the Meta-System: CI/CD Across Eight Organs
How continuous integration works at scale across 8 GitHub organizations and 78 repositories — the challenges of testing documentation-heavy repos, graceful degradation in CI workflows, and what ‘green’ means for a creative-institutional system.
Recursive Engines at Scale
How a 21-organ recursive engine with 1,254 tests scales symbolic processing from philosophical abstraction to production infrastructure, and what breaks when you try.
Generative Music Case Study
How symbolic narrative events from a recursive engine become live generative music through the Omni-Dromenon performance infrastructure, and what machine-composed performance actually sounds like.
Epistemic Tuning Explained
How knowledge atomization, vector search over Claude conversations, and an eight-phase auto-revision engine create a system that knows what it knows — and adjusts that knowledge deliberately.
The Documentation-Implementation Gap: Honest Accounting
An honest assessment of the gap between documentation and implementation across 67 non-infrastructure repos — why 32 README-only repos is honest rather than shameful, how documentation-first development works, and how the gap narrows over time.
Coaching Platform Metrics: Commerce Retrospective with Actual Numbers
A transparent metrics retrospective on the gamified coaching platform — revenue trajectory, engagement data, retention curves, and an honest assessment of what ‘commerce’ means when the goal is organizational sustainability rather than profit maximization.
The Choreographic Interface: Designing Systems for Human Movement
How the choreographic interface pipeline transforms body movement into digital response — from sensor ingestion through mapping layers to real-time audiovisual output — and what this means for residency applications at Eyebeam, Somerset House, and the Processing Foundation.
From Bronze to Platinum: Quality Ladders for Creative Infrastructure
The tiered quality system that scaled documentation from 7 flagship READMEs to 270,000 words across 72 repos — how each tier builds on the previous, what makes a README portfolio-quality, and what the Platinum additions (CI, badges, CHANGELOGs, ADRs) complete.
AI-Conductor Methodology: Directing 270,000 Words of Documentation
The AI-conductor workflow model in detail — how 270,000 words of portfolio-quality documentation were produced in days rather than months, the token economics behind it, the risks of AI-generated content, and the quality assurance techniques that make the output trustworthy.
Aetheria RPG Post-Mortem: A Full I→II→III Pipeline Retrospective
A candid post-mortem of Aetheria, the educational RPG system that traced the full pipeline from gamification theory in ORGAN-I through game design in ORGAN-II to commercial SaaS product in ORGAN-III — what worked, what failed, and what the numbers actually say.
The Meta-System as Portfolio Asset: Why Application Reviewers Care About Orchestration
How meta-system documentation — registries, governance rules, orchestration workflows — has become the strongest portfolio asset in a landscape where funders and hiring managers evaluate infrastructure capacity, not just individual outputs.
How We Orchestrate Eight Organs Across 79 Repositories
A detailed account of how eight specialized organs — theory, art, commerce, orchestration, public process, community, and marketing — coordinate across 79 GitHub repositories to sustain autonomous creative practice.
Governance as Creative Practice: Why the Eight-Organ System Exists
How treating governance as an artistic medium — not bureaucratic overhead — enables sustained autonomous creative practice across eight specialized organs.
Five Years of Autonomous Creative Systems: What I’ve Learned About Orchestration
A retrospective on five years of building autonomous creative infrastructure — from chaotic solo repositories to an eight-organ system coordinating 79 repos across 8 organizations, and the governance lessons that emerged from repeated failure.
Building in Public: Radical Transparency as Creative Methodology
Why building in public is not marketing but methodology — how radical transparency in governance, documentation, and process creates stronger creative infrastructure and genuine audience connection.