Scott’s maker laboratory • Applied weirdness

THE WORK
THAT GOT REAL.

A living portfolio of what Scott has been building, why any of it matters, and what became possible when an AI tool grew into a creative and technical working partnership.

Enter the work ↓

Hero projects • equal weight, different maturity

01Cascade CryoSnacksACTIVE02RAM Black LabelACTIVE03StoryPathADVANCED CONCEPT04TrackUnpackACTIVE / LIVE POC05Music AI GenerationACTIVE
01

Freeze-drying craft + product system

ACTIVE

Cascade CryoSnacks

Freeze-drying became a maker art—and then a business we could actually operate.

Half the work is gloriously physical: finding ingredients worth preserving, learning how each one behaves under vacuum and cold, tuning cuts and batches, tasting the failures, and turning texture, color, flavor, and surprise into a repeatable craft. The other half is productization: using AI to build the brand, protect formula truth, govern packaging, prepare for market, and establish the back-office workflows that let a real product line grow without losing the maker’s fingerprints.

What exists
  • Ingredient scouting, experimental freezes, and physical iteration
  • A growing library of learned behaviors, recipes, and product candidates
  • Market-ready brand, package, and print-development system
  • AI-assisted workflow from formula truth through handoff and operations
Under the hood
  • Freeze-drying experiments
  • Ingredient + formula learning
  • Creative and package governance
  • AI-assisted back-office operations
Enter Cascade CryoSnacks ↗Public Maker Atlas + product world

The public Maker Atlas is now live: part product showroom, part mad-science field guide, and a living map of what CCS has imagined, tasted, named, illustrated, and learned.

Four residents, designed for this portfolio

Four purpose-built Cascade CryoSnacks characters: Cherry Bomb, Mango No. 5, The Nut Job, and What the Kale
Cherry BombMango No. 5The Nut JobWhat the Kale?!
02

Personal vehicle + design ethos

ACTIVE

RAM Black LabelDad Rocket

Build the truck that makes knowledgeable people question what they know.

Dad Rocket still has to be a great dad truck: comfortable every day, ready to tow, road-trip, haul the Home Depot run, and be easy to live with. Black Label adds a more personal ambition—real performance, better materials, and details subtle enough to reward a second look. It does not hide and it never shouts. It leaves just enough evidence to make someone think, “I know that’s a RAM—but what the hell is it?” AI helps research, visualize, remember, and keep the build coherent; the taste is restraint, usefulness, and craftsmanship.

What exists
  • A powerful daily driver that keeps every ordinary job
  • Real performance with no costume hardware
  • Craftsmanship replacing commodity plastic
  • One design language that says: let them wonder
Under the hood
  • Build Book + decision memory
  • Research and fitment synthesis
  • Visual prototyping
  • Long-running project continuity

Reserved public home: unlistedoptions.com. Anonymous verification currently reaches its Launching Soon page, so it remains intentionally non-clickable here until the Black Label experience is actually live.

03

Adaptive literature + product architecture

ADVANCED CONCEPT

StoryPath

One title can become 196 aligned editions—and still bring everyone into the same conversation.

The boom moment is the multiplier: one original work becomes one protected Story Canon, then as many as 196 editions aligned to different reading levels, concept needs, and contexts. Agentic AI makes that scale thinkable, but it is not the destination. The human payoff is families, classrooms, libraries, and lifelong readers experiencing the same essential story together instead of being separated by the edition they can access.

What exists
  • 1 title → 196 aligned-edition framework
  • Locked mission: One Story. Every Reader.
  • Reading Level and Concept Level separated without lowering meaning
  • Shared reading designed for families, schools, libraries, and communities
Under the hood
  • Agentic Story Compiler
  • Human-governed Story Canon
  • Versioned aligned editions
  • Narrative fidelity across every reader
Open the StoryPath V2 deck ↗12-page visual product concept · PDF

Concept is substantial; product architecture and educational validity are not yet implemented or independently proven. The V2 deck is public here as a concept artifact, not a claim of a finished product.

One story moving through the system

Four original StoryPath illustrations showing a source story, aligned editions, shared readers, and wider reach
One source storyAligned editionsShared readersCompounding reach
04

Cultural memory + social music game

ACTIVE / LIVE POC

TrackUnpack

That electric little moment when an image makes you say: wait—I know this song.

Songs live in more places than the speakers: apartments, school gyms, train cars, old news clips, street corners, jokes, eras, and whatever memory got welded to the first listen. TrackUnpack turns that cultural debris into a game. HAZE gives you the evidence without the answer; HERO delivers the release when recognition clicks. AI expands the visual vocabulary, but the real product is human—personal taste made playable, arguments between friends, and the fun of discovering how differently people remember the same song.

What exists
  • Thirteen songs translated into paired HAZE + HERO worlds
  • Recognition designed as a fair, layered visual puzzle
  • A live game people can play—not just a poster gallery
  • Personal music memory turned into a shared ritual
Under the hood
  • Clue and decoy art direction
  • High-resolution visual storytelling
  • Playable Next.js product
  • Archive, profiles, scoring, and reveal states
Enter the live TrackUnpack PoC ↗Playable public product surface
05

Human-directed audio + reusable production system

ACTIVE

Music AI Generation

The generator is an instrument. Taste, selection, finishing, and preservation are the system.

Music Lab connects creative briefs, original lyrics, structured prompts, generation, deliberate iteration, local capture, seamless-loop engineering, technical QA, artwork, and asset manifests. Woodinville Café is one concrete use case: turning a local identity into a memorable hook, vocal character, finished visual world, and shareable video. The same system also supports jingles, themes, cue families, background beds, loops, and sonic identity.

What exists
  • Woodinville Café finished-video case study
  • The Show episode-one cue family
  • Background seamless-loop pipeline
  • Source, QA, master, and derivative states
Under the hood
  • Udio ideation
  • Local audio capture
  • Phase-safe loop construction
  • Manifest + hash lineage

Why this example: it is small enough to understand in one sitting but complete enough to exercise the whole pipeline—from brief and song generation through selection, finishing, artwork, and final video. It demonstrates one use case, not the boundary of the project.

Watch the finished Woodinville Café video

Secondary systems

Power beneath the portfolio.

Important work, deliberately not competing with the five projects that have absorbed the deepest creative investment.

Print VaultThe live, searchable 3D model library—with interactive geometry, variants, project detail, and a deliberately public catalog.Enter Print Vault ↗
Plex identity repair5,100+ records diagnosed across filenames, matchers, agents, and cached identity.
Hash-gated cleanup2.73 GiB reclaimed through exact manifests, SHA-256 identity, and fresh preflight checks.
Riff / Scott v-nextThe human–agent working model is itself a product: memory, boundaries, skills, and better judgment.
Plex → Sonos conciergeFeasibility architecture established; real queue insertion remains the implementation gate.
Physical 3D validationCatalog state, printer observation, and physical fit testing connected without unsafe device control.

Portfolio state

Mid-migration.
Truthfully shown.

Some hero work already has a public product surface. Some is moving toward production. This portfolio links only to surfaces and assets that can actually be opened now.

  • Public now: TrackUnpack PoC, Print Vault, StoryPath V2 deck, Woodinville Café video, and curated visual assets.
  • Not yet public: CCS and Black Label portals.
  • Reason: neither has a verified deployed public URL yet; Black Label remains an access-controlled local build.