Memos by Brian Swichkow

Auto Company
Auto-Company is an open-source autonomous AI system, created by Zheyuan "Max" Kong and released under the MIT License, that runs a self-directed "company" of AI agents around the clock on a personal...
Text-to-CAD
Text-to-CAD is an open-source library of agent skills for computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing, created by the developer earthtojake and released under the MIT License. It gives AI...
Karpathy Loop Engineering
Karpathy Loop Engineering is Andrej Karpathy's formulation of loop engineering: instead of prompting an AI step by step, the operator defines a goal and lets the agent loop — discovering tasks,...
Loop Engineering
Loop engineering is the practice of designing workflows in which an AI agent pursues a goal across repeated cycles — planning, acting, checking its work against an external verifier, and feeding...
Maydan LA
Maydan LA is a Middle Eastern and North African restaurant in Los Angeles, CA from chef Rose Previte, built around a central live-fire hearth and named for the Arabic word for a public square or...
Silo
Silo) is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction television series on Apple TV, based on the Silo novels by Hugh Howey. It follows the thousands of people who live in a vast underground silo, bound by...
CulturePulse Pythia API
CulturePulse Pythia API is an ai-powered psychographic and cultural-analysis API from CulturePulse that models how audiences interpret messages and which narratives are likely to resonate with them....
Dungeon Crawl
Dungeon Crawl is a competitive card game for two to five players in which everyone races to collect and attune complete sets of armor while attacking rivals and summoning monsters to slow them down....
Blackbird
Blackbird is an open-source OSINT tool, created by Lucas Antoniaci, that searches for accounts tied to a given username or email across more than 600 social networks and online platforms. Written in...
Headroom
Headroom is an open-source context-compression tool from Headroom Labs that shrinks the tool outputs, logs, files, and retrieval chunks fed to large language models before they reach the model....
Blackbird
Blackbird was a brand strategy and business innovation firm, founded in 2017 and based in New York City, that combined consumer intelligence, strategy, and creative work to solve problems and drive...
Daniel Edelman
Daniel Edelman is the founder of a Stealth AI Startup, having taken on the role in June 2025. Previously, he was the Founder and Chief Hat Officer at Deli Hats, a venture blending cultural humor with...
Austin Riedel
Austin Riedel is a Los Angeles–based software-engineer and the founder of Build With ARC, a spec-driven development platform for teams shipping backend APIs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has spent...
n8n MCP
n8n MCP is an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI coding assistants structured access to n8n's node library so they can build and manage workflows. Released under the MIT...
Brendan Weafer
Brendan Weafer is a business leader and former-professional-athlete with a diverse career spanning corporate health, wellness, and entrepreneurship. After competing in 16 professional MMA and...
Self-RADAR
RADAR is a structured monthly relationship check-in framework created by the Multiamory team to bring clarity, intentionality, and proactive communication into partnerships of all kinds. It stands...
Andrew Flachner
Andrew Flachner is an entrepreneur and the President and Chief Executive Officer of RealScout, a technology company focused on enhancing the residential real estate experience for agents and clients....
BB on Storyteller Consciousness
This memo contains a conversation between myself, Brian Swichkow, and BrianBot (Local) about the Storyteller Consciousness—a conscious acknowledgment that the stories we tell create the reality that...
The Black Hole Buffer
The Black Hole Buffer is a system of automated rules, primarily configured through Missive email filters and Apple Shortcuts, that reroutes communications from specific, antagonistic individuals to...
My Sticky Wall
My Sticky Wall, also known as My Storyteller Consciousness{bold}, is a visual representation of the stories I'm telling myself. It's a fun-ctional art piece in My Studio/ADU and takes over the...