The Cloud, Augmented.
Putting intelligence where it belongs.
Downstream.
The smarts have been stuck in someone else's data center, upstream. I bring them down to you—running where you are, portable and durable and yours to keep.
I'm Nicholas (Nick) Cottrell. I treat your brand, product, and the systems underneath as one thing, not three things. I've done it across multiple technology waves: peer-to-peer, spatial computing, business intelligence, and now AI. I’ve worked for BitTorrent Inc., Fandom, AltspaceVR (Microsoft), Mavenlink (now Kantata), and more. My patented interaction patterns have been cited by Apple and ByteDance.
Short version: I make stuff,* and I'm picky about how it holds up. The work I'm proudest of always started as a problem nobody had a clean way to describe yet. Here's some of it.
Product systems for living brands. Built to play nice.
Want to dig deeper? Check out A Bridge in the Sky, an open-source generative storytelling project. Or take a look at my research program. Help me make this ‘AI governance’ stuff legible.
*please inquire about design/dev contracts
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I want to help creators bring their tools back downstream: close, durable, and theirs to keep. ✌️❤️
