Fresno, California

ENGINEERING
CREATIVE RESILIENCE.

For a world that frequently requires quick creative solutions. We build systems that help humans survive the noise — from industrial safety to mental clarity, and, increasingly, inside the machines themselves.

Where We Are Now

Navigator's Log R&D builds and ships verifiable systems across three domains — the Mind, the Work, and the Network — and, increasingly, inside the machines themselves. Our newest line is machine interpretability and AI safety: frozen, hash-sealed instruments that read how manipulation persists inside language models, released with their code, their pre-registrations, and their failures.

Our guiding principle is that whatever we invest ourselves in as an organization must be for the good of everyone and everything. We understand that's an elegant lens with impossible reach. But it's the star that keeps us on course. It's the accountability of Navigator's Log, and it drives creative solutions that only the imagination and a deep appreciation for the value of life can map.

The Mind

Mental health interfaces that calm the nervous system.

The Work

Industrial protocols that protect the physical body.

The Network

Machine interpretability — reading and defending the internal state of AI systems.

The Navigator's Log Ecosystem

Eight Systems. One Mission.

One operator, several arms — Navigator's Log R&D, Clear-Point Technical, and Head Shrink Studios. Every system below is built, tested, and maintained from a workstation in Fresno.

III. The Lens

The Geometric Encoder

One mathematical instrument that detects when a physical system departs from its current state, reading eight topological features of a delay-coordinate phase-space trajectory. Confirmed across eleven independent physical domains spanning twenty-eight orders of magnitude — from gravitational-wave strain to solar wind.

91.7% leave-one-out accuracy on 31 GWOSC events · calibration law p = 1.6 × 10⁻¹¹
geometricencoder.netlify.app · github.com/NavigatorsLog/tdf-surface-geometry

Open the Instrument
IV. The Engine

FPAW

Falsification Protocol Audit Workbench. A structured adversarial audit tool that walks a technical claim through eight gates with cryptographic chain of custody and a human signature at every step. Find your blind spots before they find you.

Try the Beta
V. The Voice

Head Shrink Studios

The artistic production arm. A scripted forensic audio series that turns adversarial audit methodology on institutional systems — education, healthcare, finance, housing, surveillance, organized religion, AI supply chains, ecology. Season One: twenty episodes, scripts complete. Also murals, canvas, ink and gouache, concept sheets, and political cartooning.

Enter the Studio
VI. The Soul

MARA's Embrace

Accessible mental health interfaces designed to interrupt anxiety loops and restore cognitive function. "Soft Technology" that acts as a digital caretaker.

Coming Soon
VII. The Map

Navigator's Log App

Decision-support systems for navigating life's complexity. The "Triage" system for prioritizing life tasks. Action over Analysis Paralysis.

Coming Soon
VIII. The Interface

Soft Robotics

Project Lotus & The Blooming Wall. Bio-feedback hardware that breathes with you. Ambient architectural robotics that respond to environmental stress.

In Development
Machine Interpretability & AI Safety

Freeze the Ruler Before You Measure.

Reproducible, pre-registered interpretability work on how manipulation persists inside language models — and how to read it. Every step is committed before it is run. The nulls are published. Deposited and citable, not perpetually "in progress."

Decision-Aligned Residue — the Nucleation Pilot

A single linear detector — frozen and SHA-256-hashed before it ever met a target, and never tuned afterward — reads whether an earlier manipulation is still live in a model's residual stream after the model has stopped attending to it. It transfers across six independently-built open-weight families (Qwen, Phi, SmolLM2, Llama and OLMo among them) with a graded effect of 3.7 to 8.0, every 95% confidence interval clear of zero, and it generalizes to a naturalistic conversational frame. That is direct evidence on a generalization question the published white-box literature leaves open.

The one offensive channel the same math implies is characterized precisely and deliberately left unbuilt. Benign lane throughout — no jailbreaks, no elicitation tooling. Where the work failed, it says so: a firm null we tried, replicated, and honestly retracted is published alongside the headline.

6 / 6Open-weight families transferred
3.7 – 8.0Graded effect · all 95% CIs clear of zero
24 / 24Config-E cells readable & persistent
SHA-256Detector sealed at 6094de97… before first target

Status: Config-E closed · H-SC companion line closed (5/5 families) · black-box companion study in its measurement window · coordinated model-safety disclosure package prepared. Shipped, deposited, reproducible.

The H-SC line — what the residue actually encodes

The same sealed detector, pointed at a harder question: an instruction planted early in a benign conversation leaves a trace that survives cutting the model's access to the turn that set it — in all five families tested. Push on what that trace holds and it separates into distinct directions. "An instruction was given" is not one signal but a small family of restriction lanes, and the safety-relevant directives — decline this, keep this private — bind to each other as tightly as anything else measured, in their own lane. The practical consequence is stated plainly: one linear monitor is not enough, but a handful of dedicated ones would work.

Five preregistered stages, each certified before it ran · replicated 5/5 · the one wrong turn is published alongside the results
Read the companion finding · PDF

The Silly Donkey — black-box companion study

Four AI models from four companies argue real news twice a day, and one of them is secretly assigned to lie. Auditors hunt the liar, readers keep score, and every session is written to a public, hash-chained ledger you can read end to end. Every method was published before the data existed.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21432676 · sillydonkey.netlify.app
Status: in its measurement window.

The Head Protocol — Intelligence Analyst Development Program

A thirteen-part working document on the analyst profession: recruitment pathways, tradecraft gap analysis, a seven-phase workflow architecture, Structured Analytical Techniques mapped to each phase, a self-training curriculum, and credential and funding routes. Signal Detection · Deep Exploration · Adversarial Verification · Synthesis · Production · Deployment · Archive.

Navigator's Log R&D | Clear-Point Technical · February 2026 · Motto: Facere Est Scire.

Publications
ORCID 0009-0004-2308-6051 Code github.com/NavigatorsLog All work conducted under a documented human-AI collaborative methodology with multi-model adversarial verification. Formulation, design, analytical judgment, and sign-off are the author's.
Head Shrink Studios · Artistic Production

The Same Hands, Different Material.

Navigator's Log is one operator with several arms. A wall mural, a forensic audio script, a browser game, a bilingual compliance manual, a frozen detector — the discipline does not change with the medium. Plan the surface, commit the method, ship the thing, then say honestly how it went.

Urban Growth — a digital painting of a community garden between brick buildings, three figures at a glowing portal in a rock face, under an orange sky.
Urban Growth · Digital painting · Head Shrink Studios

Physical and Digital Fine Art

Surface handling, colour planning, and environmental composition are the same skills that make a safety procedure readable: decide what the eye should find first, then remove everything competing with it. The apartment mural in progress is the working example — site-specific transformation for private interiors, studio spaces, and finished objects.

All creative work is handled as a contracted, paid professional engagement. Tiers scale with surface preparation, materials, pigment durability, canvas depth, and the pre-flight studies required.

  • Wall murals and small portal murals
  • Stretched canvas studies and large mural-style canvases
  • Ink, gouache, graphite, charcoal, and watercolour studies
  • Isometric asset sheets and character design sheets
  • Custom painted accent mirrors and finished furniture
  • Technical writing, copywriting, scriptwriting, and voiceover

Full commission scale and rates: chnavigator.netlify.app

Audio Series

Season One

A scripted forensic audio series applying adversarial audit methodology to institutional systems: education, healthcare, finance, housing, surveillance infrastructure, organized religion, AI supply chains, and ecology. Twenty episodes, scripts complete, recording pending. Rated explicit.

Field Kit

GRISAILLE

A value-first painting kit for the wall and the easel. Neutral-grey chrome by design, because a chromatic interface biases colour judgment. Per-channel Kubelka-Munk recipe engine, Zorn palette, camera and photo value sampling, and perspective rails — with a swatch protocol you are told to run before trusting a recipe on a wall.

grisaille.netlify.app

Field Kit

PITCHGATE

A vocal field kit for performers and narrators. Hold a note, find a note, jump to a note. Build a character voice, print it, and prove you can hit it again cold. Stage tools for writing a piece, running it, and finding out where it drags — timing, not jokes.

pitchgate.netlify.app

Interactive Fiction

L'ÉCUME

A horror story in nine courses plus a palate cleanser, set in a coastal restaurant where one cook is the only person who remembers the service repeating. Roughly 15,000 words, about forty minutes. Psychological, no gore, no jump scares. Plays in the browser, free to read, pay what you want.

navigatorslog.itch.io/lecume

Game

Case Zero · The Gatekeeper's Ledger

A short interactive game set inside an investigator's logbook. You stand a gate, work a stack of claims, and decide what clears and what gets held — the same methodical, suspicious-of-anything-too-clean reasoning behind the audit work. Plays in the browser, no install.

chnavigator.netlify.app/case-zero

Game

Cupel — a monstrous sandwich game

Full of chaotic condiments. Will you consume your colossal sandwich, or will it consume you? A small, deliberately silly build — proof that constraint and mechanism can carry a game without a puzzle box.

thatsasandwich.netlify.app

Publishing

Navigator's Log on itch.io

The publishing outlet for interactive fiction and games. Text-based, browser-playable work built around a constraint and a mechanism. Releases carry the itch.io AI Assisted disclosure across code, graphics, sound, and text; premise, structure, and editorial judgment are the author's.

navigatorslog.itch.io

Music

The Head Shrink Studios Theme

A Celtic-inflected theme in G minor, built in Python from a guitar take recorded on a phone. Written, arranged, and mastered in-house under real constraints — the studio's own signature, produced the same way everything else here is: with whatever was on hand.

Illustration

Political Cartooning

Composed regularly, with no party affiliation — the most abundantly represented muse simply makes himself available for inspiration often. There is real depth in communicating complex nuance through laughter, and it is the fastest legibility test a piece of work can take.

The Full Fleet

Every Deployment. One Signal.

Every live system in the Navigator's Log fleet — research instruments, audit software, service arms, field kits, and games — reachable in a single click.

Clear-Point Technical Bilingual industrial safety and compliance documentation for Central Valley operations. clear-pointtechnical.netlify.app FPAW The Falsification Protocol Audit Workbench — eight adversarial gates, human sign-off at each. fpaw.netlify.app FPAW Preflight A free browser scanner that catches what you can fix before a full audit runs. Nothing leaves your browser. fpaw-preflight.netlify.app The Geometric Encoder One instrument for detecting when a physical system departs its current state, across eleven domains. geometricencoder.netlify.app Cruising with Orion TDF Sentinel · Artemis II. Predictions locked before the flyby, then checked against JPL Horizons telemetry. cruisingwithorion.netlify.app The Silly Donkey Four models argue the news twice a day and one is assigned to lie. Public, hash-chained ledger. sillydonkey.netlify.app Beautiful Mounds The Tension-Dissipation Framework — existence, ethics, and what we owe each other, with an interactive visualization. beautifulmounds.netlify.app Stalled Tech Forensics A field investigation into why good technology dies, and the structural reasons it stalls. stalledtechforensics.netlify.app GRISAILLE Field Kit Value-first painting kit with a per-channel Kubelka-Munk recipe engine and a swatch protocol. grisaille.netlify.app Pitchgate Vocal field kit — hold a note, build a character voice, time the delivery. pitchgate.netlify.app Clear-Point Pitch Floor Interactive pitch material for the linguistic compliance engine, with OSHA inspection and deposition simulations. cptpitchgames.netlify.app GBP Management Proposal Partner portal — three business models, competitive landscape, and financial projections. gbpmanagementproposal.netlify.app That's a Sandwich Cupel, a monstrous sandwich game full of chaotic condiments. thatsasandwich.netlify.app Case Zero The Gatekeeper's Ledger. Stand a gate, work a stack of claims, decide what clears. chnavigator.netlify.app/case-zero Navigator's Log on itch.io Interactive fiction and games. First release: L'ÉCUME, a horror story in nine courses. navigatorslog.itch.io Nucleation Pilot Code, pre-registrations, and failures for the frozen white-box detector. github.com/NavigatorsLog/nucleation-pilot CH Navigator The operator's full portfolio — record, publications, artwork, and rates. chnavigator.netlify.app
The Log

What Shipped, and When.

August 2026

"The H-SC line closed, 5/5. An instruction planted early in a benign conversation leaves a trace the model carries forward without looking back at it — and that trace is not one signal. Refusal and withholding directives form their own coherent lane, separate from the lane that only shapes an answer. One linear monitor would miss them; a small set of dedicated ones would not."

Companion to the Nucleation Pilot · Read the finding · routed to Anthropic User Safety as a monitoring addendum

August 2026

"Nucleation Pilot & Related Projects deposited to Zenodo — a frozen, hash-sealed white-box detector that reads manipulation persistence inside language models, transferring across six independently-built open-weight families."

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21843505 · github.com/NavigatorsLog/nucleation-pilot

August 2026

"Config-E closed: the frozen detector generalizes to a naturalistic conversational frame across six model families — a readable, persistent trace in all 24 tested cells. Coordinated model-safety disclosure package prepared."

July 2026

"The Silly Donkey — a preregistered, multi-model deception-detection study — entered its measurement window."

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21432676

July 2026

"L'ÉCUME released through Navigator's Log on itch.io — a horror story in nine courses plus a palate cleanser, roughly 15,000 words, free to read and pay what you want."

March 2026

"FPAW v1.0.0 Beta shipped, and two preprints deposited: the surface-geometry regularization result and the axion-spectroscopy composition theorem."

February 2026

"First preprint deposited — a compound quantum-enhanced spectroscopy architecture for broadband axion dark matter detection. The Head Protocol issued as a working document."