## Core Belief **AI-native people will build a world with more consensus, community, and abundance - but only if we lay the technical foundation for this new world. If we do not, global capitalism will rerun the social media playbook with AI and tear us apart for profit.** ## Who I Am: An AI-Native Advocate Worked nights at a Grand Rapids polishing plant before joining the Navy. Military intelligence taught me how rigid hierarchies stifle innovation - and why distributed intelligence beats command-and-control every time. I moved from GRCC to Grand Valley to University of Michigan, where I led a 30-person team that built a scientific satellite. After a decade in Michigan tech working progressively smaller companies and broadening my skillset, I honed my belief that :**Technology should make us time-rich not extract our attention and bring neighbors together not fragment our communities.** I'm not a 10x coder. I'm someone doing very well in the current system who knows it's broken and believes it can do better for everyone. Over the past year, I've been building the alternative - starting with myself as the first AI-native user. ## The Vision: Three Interconnected Projects ### 1. Extended Cognition → Individual Empowerment **What**: sovereign AI integration amplifying your impact **How**: Voice-first, persistent memory, you own/control all data **The Bet**: Empowering people will create personal freedom and an explosion of human potential, seeding the community with people more capable and open to solving complex collective action problems ### 2. Civic Engagement Platform → Consensus Lead To Change **What**: Democratic decision-making tools for communities amplifying the collective impact of community **How**: Values discovery, consensus building, shallow conflict resolution, core value conflict mediation **Why Next**: Solving collective action problems that can alleviate aimless suffering and promote human flourishing **The Bet**: AI can facilitate and overcome obstacles to local democratic governance. Make finding common ground easier, understand the other side so you when you are arguing, know you're arguing about core values. Make coordinating efforts easier, no endless meetings. Consensus enables collaboration on better societal integration with AI. ### 3. Abundance Localism → Collaboration Leads To Community Resilience **What**: Technology coordinated resource-sharing and community investment time and money **How**: Tool libraries, skill exchanges, time banks, mutual aid, commitment tracking, project management **Why Next**: Reduce everyone's time burden through voluntary cooperation on projects that produce a positive ROI on individual time or money utilization... **Vision**: Why should 20 neighbors own 20 lawnmowers? **The Bet**: We can live better for less when resources(time/money) are voluntarily collectivized **The Thread**: Empowered individuals → Better collective decisions → Shared abundance ## Why This Moment Matters People remember when technology connected rather than isolated. When neighbors solved problems together. When work had meaning beyond consumption. We're at an inflection point. AI's integration patterns haven't solidified. A small group can still change the trajectory from extraction to empowerment. ## What I'm Building Now: Becoming Visibly AI-Native **September 2025 Demo**: Watch me live with extended cognition. See where the path to amplified impact started. Understand what AI-native really means. I'm not asking you to imagine - showing you the future through my modeled integration. ## The Mission Partnership Model ### Looking for < 20 Mission Partners Who Understand: - AI will either democratize capability or concentrate power - The most revolutionary act today is building alternatives to Silicon Valley's extractive vision - Technology should serve people through communities, not capital ### What Mission Partners Provide: - Belief in the vision - Beta testing and honest feedback - Expertise and strategic guidance (the brain trust) - Financial support (>$10k/year) - Network connections and introductions ### What Mission Partners Receive: - First access to transformative technology - Proof that alternatives are possible - Chance to shape the future of human-AI collaboration - Daily transparency (open development, AI progress reports) - Quarterly strategy sessions ### Accountability Structure: - You fund the vision, not feature requests - Complete financial transparency - Working prototypes at every milestone - Direct input on strategic direction (quarterly) - Open source eventually - this is for humanity ## Finding Mission Partners: Tech Week & Beyond **Strategy**: 1. **Tech Week 2025**: Live demonstrations of AI-native workflow, build email list 2. **LinkedIn Networking**: Connect with regional tech players 3. **Relationship Building**: Not cold pitches - `genuine connections with aligned values` 4. **Local Focus**: West Michigan tech leaders, foundation board members, successful entrepreneurs ## The Ask "Help build the technological infrastructure for human flourishing. Join the effort to ensure AI amplifies human potential rather than extracting it. Watch me demonstrate what AI-native means. If this future resonates, become a mission partner." ## Success Milestones **Year 1**: 10+ AI-native individuals demonstrating daily dramatic impact **Year 2**: 10+ communities using civic platform for governing decisions **Year 3**: 100s of neighborhoods coordinating abundance infrastructure, returning millions of hours and 10s millions of dollars back to volunteers **Year 5**: Open source model inspiring with global adoption **Year 10**: Proof that technology can enable flourishing over extraction ## Next Steps 1. **Watch the Demo**: Experience AI-native interaction firsthand (video link) 2. **Join the Conversation**: Watch recordings of quarterly partner gatherings or attend demo sessions 3. **Become a Partner**: Test out the tech and help build the foundation for community-owned technology