R&D
Working notes from the edges of Changeist's practice — tools, simulations, frameworks, and experiments that don't always reach a deliverable but shape how we think. Each piece shows something we built, the decision that shaped it, and one honest observation from making it. Published irregularly, when something is worth showing.
The Container Problem
Without a defined container, nothing is clearly showable. So we built one.
Regional Futures Observatory
A live database for sensemaking the future of a rapidly changing region — not just aggregating data.
Simulating Pharma Frontiers
Testing whether a simulation engine built for AI risk could carry a different kind of frontier.
Simulating Mobility Futures
Making future transportation tradeoffs feel like lived decisions, not policy abstractions.
Money for Mars
A card-based exercise for inventing financial systems that can't use Earth's assumptions.