Adam Carlson

Builder and researcher.

I build tools and architectures, generate artifacts, and chase whatever structure looks worth following — across software, research, and mathematics. The projects below don't share a subject so much as a method: each is enhanced by AI, and each has its own page with the longer story behind it.

Projects

• Kairos Frontier Institute

  A research initiative investigating the cognitive, creative, motivational, and economic structures that AI assistance affects — sometimes amplifies, sometimes erodes — and the design principles that determine which. Eleven papers published, more in flight.

• Topology-Driven Discovery

  A research paradigm in which the topology of a knowledge graph, not a predetermined thesis, surfaces the theses latent within it. The graph is built and reasoned over by the same system — each act of reasoning extending the structure that informs the next. First deployed at the Kairos Frontier Institute as Kai; the soil from which InventorLab grew.

• InventorLab

  A plugin for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor that captures patentable inventions as you build them — silent prior-art search, six-pillar obviousness analysis, claim drafting and patent figures in the editor you're already in.

• Cascade

  An architecture in which the act of citing a prior work becomes the mechanism by which economic value flows from new works upstream to the works that influenced them. A single act of patronage cascades through generations of citation lineage in one transaction. Whitepaper now available.

• Vibe Scribe

  A plugin that keeps a project's understanding current as it is built. The AI assistant maintains a journal of what changed and why, and a live map of how the system fits together, so the developer and the AI work from the same, current picture. Open source, across Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

• Mathematics

  An ongoing thread of mathematical work. Papers as they accrue.