Sonzai Mind Layer
Co-founder, Sonzai LabsThe Sonzai Mind Layer is now open source.
Memory and personality infrastructure for AI characters and agents. Run it locally, keep your database, and connect your model. Licensed under Apache 2.0.
selected work
Projects
Things I've built, am building, or have had a hand in. A shorter list of shipped work, distinct from the longer games resume.
work
Consumer AI, open source & writing
AI experiences, the systems behind them, and writing.
Pocket Souls
Sonzai LabsConsumer AI companions with voice and memory.
Worked on the companion experience and the systems around the model: conversation context, persistent memory, and character behavior.
Metaversus
AuthorSubstack on game design, frontier tech × gaming.
Longer essays on why game economies break, why some loops last, and how new tech changes play.
past
Shipped
Products, game work, research, and experiments that left the notebook.
Limit Break
Game DesignerA Paradigm-backed games company ($200M raised).
Worked on economy systems, game loops, and player experience.
Delphi Digital — Gaming Citadel
Research & InvestmentResearch 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.
Selected essays & research
AuthorGame economy and design writing, on Naavik and Metaversus.
Star Atlas: The Most Ambitious Blockchain GamenaavikThe Mind Layermetaversus 13AI Agents, Crypto, Freysa & Charisma Gamesmetaversus 12Airdrops & Points, Attention & Riskmetaversus 11Web3's Barbell Impact on Gamingmetaversus 10Factory NFTs, & Recourse after Hacks/Scamsmetaversus 9Sustainable Web3 Game Economies is a Cursed Problemmetaversus 8We Expect Too Much From Blockchain Gamesmetaversus 7Evaluating Blockchain Game Investments — ImmersionsidequestHow Conflict & Friction Drives Gameplaymetaversus 6Axies, & Play and Earn's Social Contractmetaversus 5Funding, Freedom, Free Guy: The Creator Economymetaversus 4
Karaoke Quiz
Voice-game builder @ Volley (YC W18)A voice-first quiz game.
Paranoid Android
Solo devA cyberpunk Twine game.
ETHGlobal: On-chain cyberpunk game
Hackathon builderBest Gaming, Best Hack on Polygon, and other prizes.
lab
Research & tinkering
Smaller investigations, consulting, and technical work.
Wake-word detection @ GovTech Singapore
Trained speech-to-text wake-word models using CNNs on spectrogram data.
Economy & web3 strategy consulting
Helped game studios think through web3 strategy, token design, and economy architecture.