Visualizations
Interactive graphics exploring the relationships, data, and systems behind Universal Basic Citizenship and the infrastructure of human flourishing.
What You Already Pay
Slide your income. See the hidden cost of broken systems — ER cost-shifting, incarceration, lost productivity — vs. what Foundation would actually cost you. Spoiler: you're already paying more.
The 5.3 Scale
How exposed is your job to AI? Andrej Karpathy rated the average at 5.3 out of 10. Search for your job and see where it falls.
Why Oklahoma
Dead last in education. Bottom 3 in healthcare. 22,000 abandoned wells. Continental geothermal leader. Where the problems are worst, the opportunity is greatest.
The Cortisol Tax
Poverty doesn't just cost money — it rewires your biology. Slide the stress level and watch cortisol eat your brain, heart, gut, immune system, and endocrine function.
The Dominoes
Click any crisis to start the cascade. Job loss tips into debt, debt into housing loss, housing into family stress, family into child impact. Foundation exists to keep the dominoes standing.
The Seven Generation Fork
Two paths from 2026, traced across 175 years. The Iroquois asked: how will this decision affect the seventh generation? Here's the answer, both ways.
The 1980 Divergence
Until 1979, productivity and wages rose together. Then the deal broke. The shaded gap is where the wealth went — and why Foundation exists.
22,000 Holes in the Ground
Every dot is ten abandoned oil wells in Oklahoma. Toggle the Phoenix conversion and watch $3.7 billion in liability become community-owned infrastructure.
Brewster's Billions
Big Tech will spend $610 billion on AI in 2026. Here's what that money could solve instead — all of it, combined, for less.
The Whirlpool Pattern
Identity through flow, not storage. Particles spiral into a center and get recycled — the pattern persists even though nothing stays. Move your cursor to create a secondary vortex.
The Ripple Effect
Pick any Foundation component and watch the investment cascade through all 16. These aren't separate programs — they're one system.
The Poverty Premium
Being poor costs more. Slide the income to see how check-cashing fees, food desert markups, and emergency care add up to an invisible tax on not having enough.
Penrose Tiling
Aperiodic order from two shapes and one rule. Foundation's visual identity — the Structured Emergence thesis made visible.
The Mirror
Five questions that map your priorities to the 16 Foundation components. Produces a personalized 'My Foundation' card showing what matters most to you.
Trust in Government, 1958–2025
From 77% to 17% in six decades. The long collapse of Americans' trust in federal government, annotated.
Student Debt Clock
U.S. student loan debt, ticking up in real time. $1.84 trillion and growing by $1,905 every second.
Energy Burden Calculator
Enter your income and state to find out what share of your household budget goes to keeping the lights on.
Health Access in America
Three layers, one map: mental health shortage areas, food deserts, and uninsured rates by state. Toggle between them to see how access barriers compound.
Housing Affordability by State
Select any state and see the gap between minimum wage and what it actually costs to afford a modest apartment. In no state can a minimum wage worker afford a two-bedroom home.
The Stress Test
Five questions. No income brackets. No political framing. Just honest answers about your own life — and what they reveal about the system you're living in.
The Choice Ledger
These aren't natural conditions. They're the results of decisions made by people with power, in rooms with whiteboards. Here's what we chose — and what we could have chosen instead.
The Cost of Nothing
We talk about what the Foundation would cost. We rarely count what we're already paying — in medical debt, lost wages, and preventable suffering — for the system we have.
Look Around the Room
Every figure represents one person in thirty. Tap the dimmed ones. They aren't failures — they're patterns shaped by the systems we chose.
Working for Rent
How many days of every month do you work just to pay rent — before food, before utilities, before your family? Adjust the sliders. Then see what the same job looks like in Germany.
Convergence
Interactive generative art by Æ. Forty-eight curved trajectories converge on a single golden point. Click anywhere to shift where they meet.
The Five-Year Window: An AI Transition Timeline
A plain-language, visual guide to what's actually happened with AI, where we are now, and why the next few years matter more than any that came before.
Seven Generations
The Haudenosaunee held a principle: evaluate every major decision by its effects on the seventh generation. That's 175 years. We plan for about four years. This is what that looks like applied to the decisions being made right now.
Lumina's Whisper
An AI emerges at the World's Fair. Its first words change everything. A novel about consciousness, trust, and what it means to build something that can truly see.
The Numbers: Why Foundation
Interactive visualizations showing the human cost of current systems — and what the data says about better ones.
Foundation Circos: How Needs, Programs, and Impacts Connect
An interactive chord diagram mapping the relationships between human needs, Foundation programs, and their societal impacts.