Brands in autonomous futures
A current line of work on autonomous brands, agentic commerce, AI-operated operations, consumer-facing product worlds, and the strange public behavior of businesses mediated by agents, models, prompts, generated media, and automation.
Microdrop / strategy game in development
An in-development microdrop and strategy game about a food truck, packaged tamales, catering, inventory, recipes, merchandise, and a brand system operated through agentic workflows. The project uses an everyday food business to examine autonomy, supply, local regulation, customer trust, operational improvisation, and AI-mediated brand behavior.
A Design Fiction advertisement for an autonomous cargo-and-garbage hauling service from a self-driving future, where moving "stuff" — from freight to the household dumpster — becomes both a consumer need and a commercial opportunity. The artifact uses a mundane municipal-services brand to make an autonomous-vehicle future specific enough to examine — the kind of grounded implication a research report can't surface.
BuzzBallz study
Speculative strategy study
A study using a ready-to-drink brand context to examine AI-generated campaign worlds, retail behavior, product invention, cultural texture, visual storytelling, and autonomous brand operations.
Functional AI writing instruments
Writing tools built as design fiction — software that compiles and runs, made to test how AI should sit beside a person's own voice as a collaborator and muse rather than a chatbot that answers for them.
Functional AI writing instrument
A working alternative to the chatbot that positions AI as a silent collaborator completing your thoughts in your own voice. Ghostwriter indexes a writer's own documents into a local vector store and offers style-aligned, in-line completions — a study in what AI feels like when it augments a voice instead of replacing it. Built with Tauri, Rust, and local or cloud models. Source: github.com/bleeckerj/ghostwriter-tauri.
Functional prototype / writing game
A fork of Ghostwriter that pits the writer against the clock. A configurable countdown runs while you write; when it expires, the AI takes over and continues the thought — game mechanics that trade deliberation for momentum. Less pondering, more articulating: Pilates for the writer's brain.