Stuff That Ships

FILE:
Stuff That Ships
STATUS:
Build-and-ship; some shipped, some in pilot
CONTENTS:
OSTRAQ · IQualify · eTrax + eCombine · ConManagement · DraftIQ · HumanGrove · Promenade · MyAthlete
PRIOR INCIDENTS:
CDC / Ebola · Microsoft x Activision M&A · Call of Duty / Diablo 4 launch days · U.S. Bank Churchill Downs
CALL CADENCE:
Same-day intake; engagement scope within 24 hours

// The board

OSTRAQ

Private, accurate, tamper-proof. Elections were told to pick two. OSTRAQ refuses.

Elections are stuck with a problem nobody's solved: you can have private, accurate, or tamper-proof, but never all three at once. OSTRAQ is what happens when you refuse to accept that trade.

Prove you can vote without giving yourself away. A voter should be able to establish they're eligible without handing over their identity to do it. (Behind the scenes: cryptographic identity proofing built on IdNFT.)

Every vote counted right, and provably so. Not "trust us." Counted correctly, and able to prove it after the fact without exposing how anyone voted. (Behind the scenes: zero-knowledge proofs.)

Results nobody can quietly change. Once it's recorded, it stays recorded. Tampering doesn't survive contact with it. (Behind the scenes: a hash-chained, tamper-evident ledger.)

All of it runs on cryptography built for the threats that are coming, not the ones we already beat, while most of the country still votes on decades-old staleware. We can do better. OSTRAQ is what better looks like.

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IQualify

The résumé-screening industry is a keyword racket. IQualify is the honest version.

The résumé-screening industry is a racket built on keyword grift, and it fails good people for the dumbest possible reasons. IQualify is the honest version.

It tells you why. Why you got screened out, before you waste the application, instead of dropping you into a black hole and never explaining.

It audits its own bias. Built to surface and check its own bias instead of hiding it, an honest alternative to the keyword theater automated hiring turned into.

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eTrax

Where's the gear, and whose name is on it? eTrax always knows.

Two halves of one problem nobody in school athletics wanted to own — where's the equipment, and how good is the athlete. eTrax is the equipment half: it tracks athletics gear and its chain of custody so nothing walks off without a name attached.

Accountability the gear budget deserves. Built for school athletics, where the equipment budget is real and the accountability usually isn't. eTrax is the ledger that makes someone answerable for every item.

FERPA-clean from the ground up. It touches student data, and that's not optional, so it was built to handle it correctly from the first line of code.

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eCombine

Roster decisions based on something real, not a gut call and a stopwatch.

The other half of the same problem: eCombine is the evaluation side. Roster and recruiting decisions too often come down to a gut call and a stopwatch — eCombine scores and evaluates athletes so those calls rest on something real.

The measurable, comparable, defensible side. Built for the combine: the part of athlete assessment you can actually put a number on and stand behind.

FERPA-clean from the ground up. Student data handled the way student data has to be handled, from day one.

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ConManagement

Run a convention at real scale and the tooling is either ancient or held together with tape. This is the replacement.

Run a convention at any real scale and you find out fast that the tooling for it is either ancient or held together with tape. ConManagement is the replacement.

One system, not six. The operations, the schedule, and the commerce in one place instead of six tools that don't talk to each other.

The part everyone forgets. It manages the volunteers who actually make the event run — the piece nobody plans for until it falls apart — built by someone who has actually run the floor, not guessed at it from a product spec.

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DraftIQ

Your league's sharks have spreadsheets and a Discord. DraftIQ puts the same edge in your corner, live, on the clock.

Fantasy drafts are won and lost in the ninety seconds you're on the clock, and the people who win have a war room you don't. DraftIQ is that war room, for everyone else.

A co-pilot on the clock. It reads your roster, your league's scoring, and the board as it empties, then tells you who's actually worth taking next, while the pick still matters.

Wherever you draft. Desktop and web, side by side with whatever platform your league uses. No tab-juggling, no paste-the-export rituals. Built for the people who take the draft too seriously, by someone who does too.

Launch demo

HumanGrove

Every account is a verified human, every moderation call is on the record, and the feed is yours. The anti-everything-app.

Social platforms rot because the business model rewards outrage and surveillance. HumanGrove fixes the structure, not the symptoms: small self-governing communities, one verified human per account, and moderation you can actually audit.

One human, one account. A phone turnstile mints a portable token, so a block sticks to the person — not a handle they can respawn an hour later.

Moderation on the record. Every mod action is a hash-chained entry anyone can recompute. Tamper with one and the whole chain breaks, live, in front of you.

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Promenade

Ten thousand strangers on one boat for seven days. Promenade is how they find their people before the ship sails.

A social and media layer that drops into a cruise line's guest app: affinity groups, photo sharing, and the photographer re-bundle, sitting on a reservation-derived accountability backbone that quietly automates the CVSSA crime-logbook obligation.

Find your people, opt-in by design. System and user-created affinity groups, so ten thousand strangers can sort themselves into the handful of people worth meeting, without anyone being opted into something they didn't choose.

"Photos of me," free to share. Guests find the shots they're actually in, and the ship's photographer re-bundles them into something worth buying, instead of a wall of prints nobody claims.

Accountability built into the backbone. Audited, case-bound identity resolution for crew, on a reservation-derived spine that turns the CVSSA crime-logbook obligation from a manual chore into something the system just keeps.

Built for the ship, not the cloud. A per-cruise data module that runs local-hot at sea and goes cloud-cold after, so it works when the satellite link doesn't.

[ Open the file ] Launch demo

MyAthlete

Every kid's recruiting profile is scattered across ten sites and a shoebox of screenshots. MyAthlete pulls it into one.

Recruiting rewards the families who can afford a $3,000 service and a parent with time to chase every form. MyAthlete is for everyone else.

One profile, not ten tabs. It pulls a young athlete's stats, film, and recruiting footprint out of the ten places they're scattered and puts them in a single profile.

From the data families actually have. It reads the stats off the screenshots and flyers parents already keep, instead of demanding clean spreadsheets nobody maintains, so the kids without a service in their corner aren't invisible.

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