Sonzai Labs
Co-founder存在 — compounding relational intelligence.
selected work
now
Current company, writing, and active work.
存在 — compounding relational intelligence.
Substack on game design, frontier tech × gaming.
1.5K+ subscribers. Longer essays on why game economies break, why some loops last, and how new tech changes play.
past
Products, game work, research, and experiments that left the notebook.
A Paradigm-backed games company ($200M raised).
Worked on economy systems, game loops, and player experience.
Research and investment in blockchain game companies.
Worked across Tatsumeeko, Spectarium, Jungle, and others. Wrote research on Rise of Kingdoms, STEPN, Star Atlas, and crypto gaming.
A voice-first quiz game.
A cyberpunk Twine game.
Best Gaming, Best Hack on Polygon, and other prizes.
lab
Smaller investigations, consulting, and technical work.
Trained speech-to-text wake-word models using CNNs on spectrogram data.
Helped game studios think through web3 strategy, token design, and economy architecture.