Portfolio · 2021–2026
Sixteen protocols. One flagship.
Studio research, sealed rails, and the product they became. Start with Arcanus, then read the work that taught us how to ship it.
Arcanus Network
Encrypted tunnels, peer-to-peer voice, sealed mail, live messenger. The studio’s first public protocol — and the product the rest of the portfolio was training for.
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Piedmont Relay
Independent operators, city-level paths, keys that never leave the device. Research that became Arcanus VPN.
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Decatur Dial
The 0x as a phone number. Encrypted audio, prepaid minutes, missed rings that return the reservation.
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Midtown Vault
Compose like mail. Seal like a chest. Store ciphertext. The host cannot open it.
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Inman Park Inbox
A conversation, not a letter. Live encrypted chat without a subject line or a gas fee per message.
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Ledgerveil
How a payment can be a receipt without becoming a biography. FinTech that cannot keep a secret is just a louder bank.
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Hearth Keys
Keys stay in the house. Sessions bound to idle. A receipt is not a confession.
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Pecan Rail
Georgia-named settlement rail: readable prices, honest meters, no folklore in the checkout.
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Oak Session
How a session starts, how it dies, and why idle time is a privacy feature.
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BeltLine Proof
Public settlement layer, private life on top. Proofs for operators that are not dossiers for strangers.
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Shade Protocol
The first full control-plane sketch: what a host is allowed to know, and the discipline to log less.
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Cinderlane
Early sealed-message prototypes. Ugly. Honest. The ancestor of Midtown Vault.
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Chattahoochee Clear
A study of public ledgers: magnificent at proof, terrible at intimacy.
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Grant Park Gate
What an operator is allowed to see: a receipt and a request. Not a life.
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West End Wire
The split between a stored seal and a live thread. Two tools. One studio.
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Stone Mountain Notes
Two founders, one Georgia LLC, and the first notebooks on keys, discretion, and why Atlanta was enough.
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