A Personal Tour

So, I've Been Busy...

A quick tour of what happens when you go down the rabbit hole.

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The Crisis

Is your mind truly your own?

Every day, billions of people hand their most intimate thoughts to AI systems they don't own, can't inspect, and have no governance over. Your conversations, your creative process, your strategic thinking — all flowing into corporate servers, training models you'll never control.

This isn't a privacy problem. It's a sovereignty crisis.

Sovereignty

The question that started everything.

The Foundation

The Metacanon Constitution

What if AI agents had a constitution? Not a set of rules, but a genuine governance framework — one that enshrines human primacy, demands transparency, and requires every agent to operate with presence.

The Metacanon Constitution v3.0 was validated by 21 AI agents embodying historical philosophers and spiritual teachers. It's not speculative. It's a real legal document, developed by real people facing real-life challenges.

Human Primacy

Humans retain ultimate authority over all AI decisions

Transparency

Every agent action is auditable and explainable

Presence

Governance begins with awareness, not automation

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Constitution as Code

OpenClaw

Philosophy is beautiful. But philosophy that can't be enforced is just poetry. So I turned the Constitution into code.

govclaw.com — the Metacanon Constitution codified as machine-readable JSON. Over 1,000 passing rule checks. Sub-millisecond latency. Every principle, every governance layer, every ethical boundary — executable.

1,000+ Rule ChecksSub-ms LatencyMachine-Readable JSONOpen Source
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The Tool

Sphere AI

A local-first, LLM-agnostic cognitive companion. Your thoughts stay on your machine. Your models run on your terms. Your intelligence remains sovereign.

Sphere AI isn't another chatbot. It's the foundation layer — the tool that makes everything else possible.

Sphere AI

The Intelligence

fisheye.news

A 12-agent AI council that deliberates on the news. Not summarizes — deliberates. Each agent brings a different perspective. They argue. They synthesize. They produce intelligence, not information.

Imagine a room of 12 brilliant analysts, each with a different worldview, debating every major story in real-time. That's fisheye.news.

The Council

12 AI Agents

Constitutional governance in action

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The Build

The 7-Day Ecosystem

In approximately one week, using constitutionally-governed AI agents, I built a sovereign ecosystem of 20+ web properties across 7 functional layers. Here's what that looks like in numbers.

Web Properties Built

20+

Across 7 functional layers

Time to Deploy

~7 Days

From concept to live production

Traditional Equivalent

~$2.1M

Estimated agency cost

Actual Cost

~$7,200

API costs + infrastructure

I built this for my own ecosystem. I can build it for yours.

Every property in this ecosystem is governed by the same constitution, built with the same tools, and deployed from the same sovereign infrastructure. This isn't a portfolio — it's proof of concept at scale.

The Philosophy

Presence, Not Hustle

The tech industry worships speed. Ship fast. Move fast. Break things. But what if the most powerful thing you could do is slow down?

Every system I build starts with stillness. Every governance decision begins with awareness. The Metacanon Constitution doesn't just govern AI — it demands that the humans governing AI be present, awake, and intentional.

This isn't productivity advice. It's an operating principle.

"The most important technology decisions are governance decisions, and governance begins with presence."

This might be for you

If you're a founder building something that matters and you need a technical co-pilot who thinks in systems, not features — someone who can deploy AI agents governed by real principles, not just prompts...

If your company is navigating the AI transition and you need someone who's already built the governance layer most people skip — the constitutional framework that makes AI systems trustworthy at scale...

If you're a family seeking sovereign, private intelligence infrastructure that you own and control — built on principles of human primacy, transparency, and local-first architecture...

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The Guides

Three Faces of the Work

The ecosystem expresses itself through three distinct guides — each with its own voice, its own audience, and its own way of serving.

The Mentor

Jedi Sherpa

Wisdom traditions meet AI coaching. For those who want to build with presence and purpose.

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The Master Artisan

Wizard Joe

The premium consulting layer. Strategic sessions, intensive builds, and ongoing advisory partnerships.

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The Artist

Feral Pharaoh

The creative edge. Where AI meets art, mythology, and the raw energy of creation.

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The Mythology

The Lore

Every great system has a mythology. These are the stories that give the ecosystem its soul — the origin tales, the philosophical foundations, the creative expressions that make this more than technology.

Still Going

The rabbit hole keeps going.

What you've seen here is the surface. Beneath each domain is a living system — agents deliberating, constitutions enforcing, intelligence compounding.

I'm still building. Still exploring. Still going deeper into the question of what happens when you give AI systems a soul.

If any of these questions are keeping you up at night too, I'd love to hear about it.

Exploring

What I do for people

Sometimes friends ask me to build this for them.

Here's what that looks like.

A Conversation

Sometimes it starts with a single call. You tell me what you're building, I tell you what I see. No pitch, no proposal — just clarity.

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A Build Sprint

Other times, we go deep. In a week, I deploy my agents and we build your system together. Not a plan — a working, living ecosystem.

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A Partnership

For a small number of people each year, I offer an ongoing, private advisory relationship. We build, iterate, and govern together.

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"I built my ecosystem in a week. Imagine what we could build for yours."

Paul Cooper

I've spent the last decade at the intersection of wisdom traditions, startup culture, plant medicine circles, and personal development. Studying governance and putting it into practice with 3 others, Anna a Lawyer, Diana a Therapist, and Max a Coder. The Metacanon Constitution was born from that convergence: the belief that the most important group decisions are governance decisions, and that governance begins with presence. Now I apply that thinking to Agents.

What are you building?

If something here resonated — if you're building something that matters and you want to talk about it — I'd love to hear from you.

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