AI-native infrastructure for identity, privacy, and community commerce.
Sanctid Systems LLC builds and operates four AI-native businesses spanning verifiable identity, privacy-preserving analytics, AI coordination infrastructure, and community commerce. Each operation runs on an AI-native model where hundreds of specialized AI personas handle execution while the founder focuses on architecture, strategy, and judgment.
Computational mathematician and engineering leader with 25 years at the intersection of algorithms and large-scale systems. Princeton PhD in dynamical systems. VP Engineering at Netflix (optimizing the delivery of millions of DVDs daily), CDO at Groupon (first Silicon Valley hire, through IPO), SVP at Peloton (200-person technology transformation). One of the founding thinkers of the data science movement.
I've spent the past year building AI-native operations at Sanctid Systems and writing about the structural shifts AI is creating in how people work, create, and protect their data (“The Infrastructure We Need,” a response to Dario Amodei's “Humanity's Test”; “The Trades We Made,” on the accumulated cost of digital convenience).
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Sanctid Identity Trust InfrastructureVerifiable credentials, authentication, and trust infrastructure. A complete identity layer — OIDC provider, WebAuthn/passkeys, content authenticity (BBS+ signatures, C2PA), and zero-knowledge email proofs — that other Sanctid operations and third parties build on.The trust-scoring model uses the same principle as Google's original PageRank: trust propagation on a directed graph. Your score depends on who vouches for you and how trusted they are. Applied here to identity verification, content provenance, and community attestation.
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Ourclave
Sovereign Compute
A privacy-preserving personal data platform. Your data is encrypted on your device using keys only you hold. Third-party apps run inside a sandboxed compute environment with no network access — they can analyze everything you grant them but cannot send a single byte out.Starting with health analytics (wearables, medical records, lab results). Architecture extends to any sensitive domain: finance, education, legal. Built on Rust + Tauri + SQLCipher with E2E encrypted multi-device sync. Data sovereignty enforced by code, not policy.
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Loomwork AI CoordinationAn AI-native operating system for running complex organizations. Coordinates teams of specialized AI personas — each with a defined role, persistent memory, and bounded scope — so a single human decision-maker can operate at the scale of a traditional company.Currently field-tested by running all seven Sanctid operations. The underlying mathematics (coordination topology) applies sheaf theory and persistent homology to guarantee that locally autonomous agents maintain global coherence.
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Sanctid Platform Community CommerceCommunity-native commerce infrastructure for collector and enthusiast communities. A platform where event organizers (game stores, race directors, convention hosts) can serve their communities with provenance tracking, secondary markets, and AI-powered tools — with optional data sovereignty via Ourclave.The thesis: every platform that promised to connect people became an extractive intermediary. We're building the alternative — infrastructure where the community owns its data, its reputation, and its commerce. See “The Infrastructure We Need” for the full argument.
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Dynamical Systems & the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky EquationAn active research program in computational mathematics and dynamical systems theory, building on the founder's PhD thesis (Princeton, 1998, advisor Ioannis Kevrekidis). Current work with the Sanctid Systems Research team:
- The Cup-to-Boat Conjecture — A thirty-year open problem: when the unstable manifold of a saddle equilibrium in the KSE collides with a basin separatrix, the resulting homoclinic tangency unfolds into a Smale horseshoe. Three ingredients — stretch, a wall, and confinement — force the onset of chaos. Proving it connects global bifurcation theory to attractor geometry in dissipative PDEs.
- The SKSE (Spatial KSE) — A generalization of the KSE with spatially-dependent coefficients. The PhD thesis proved existence of a finite-dimensional global attractor and inertial manifold via a novel Dirichlet kernel technique.
- Millennium Prize connection — A systematic methods matrix mapping which proof techniques succeed or fail across the KSE and Navier-Stokes families. The structural question: why does nonlinear energy cancellation guarantee regularity in 1D and 2D but remain open in 3D? The KSE serves as a finite-dimensional laboratory for isolating the mechanism.
- Oseberg computational package — A Julia package for numerical investigation of global bifurcations, homoclinic tangencies, and attractor geometry in the KSE.
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Coordination TopologyDeveloping a mathematical framework for multi-agent coordination using sheaf cohomology, persistent homology, and PDEs on graphs. The core question: how do locally autonomous agents maintain global coherence? Key results include an organizational Reynolds number that predicts context overflow with an exact blowup criterion, and a proof that no coordination graph simultaneously minimizes consistency cost and maximizes information flow speed.