Scaffold portfolio dossier system

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/00-void-thesis.tex

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+\chapter{Void Thesis}
+
+The old web connected pages. GameCult is trying to connect surfaces: stateful rooms where work, support, governance, agents, and tools can meet without pretending that a private chat log is an institution.
+
+\Verdict{The portfolio is not a pile of unrelated projects. It is a pressure rig. Every repo forces the shared substrate to answer a different question: who owns truth, who may act, what changed, who paid, who worked, who gets credit, and what surface can a human actually use?}
+
+\section{The machine}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+  \item \Term{Bifrost} records work, patronage, motions, ledgers, receipts, voting power, and reward pressure.
+  \item \Term{CultMesh} distributes typed state without flattening authority.
+  \item \Term{Eve} renders shared operational surfaces across web, desktop, mobile, game, and overlay consumers.
+  \item \Term{Sai} turns those surfaces into navigable public story.
+  \item \Term{Epiphany} keeps agents from waking up in the middle of the work with no map and a confident little chainsaw.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\section{The public spell}
+
+The gamer-market sentence is blunt:
+
+\begin{center}
+\fcolorbox{voidorange}{voidpanel}{\parbox{0.82\linewidth}{\color{voidtext}\Large Play the games. Support the worlds. Your support becomes governed voting power.}}
+\end{center}
+
+Microtransactions become scoped patron events. Patron events become effective points. Effective points pass through the log-power curve. Votes remain bounded by project governance. A skin purchase does not buy a balance patch. It does make the player part of the governed support body instead of a wallet with a health bar.
+
+\section{The log-power spine}
+
+\[
+  voting\_weight = 1 + \log_{base}(\max(1, effective\_points))
+\]
+
+Base 2 is sharp. Base 10 is flat. The base is not a constant. It is a political agreement. The platform asks: how flat do we want the hierarchy to be?

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/01-eve-surface-web.tex

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+\chapter{Eve And The Surface Web}
+
+Eve is not a dashboard. Eve is a renderer for shared, typed, inspectable control surfaces.
+
+\begin{center}
+\fcolorbox{voidblue}{voidpanel}{\parbox{0.86\linewidth}{\color{voidtext}
+\textbf{Surface pipeline}\\
+provider-owned state $\rightarrow$ CultUI semantic tree $\rightarrow$ Eve projection $\rightarrow$ local renderer $\rightarrow$ command intent $\rightarrow$ provider acceptance $\rightarrow$ updated state
+}}
+\end{center}
+
+The web made documents portable. Eve makes operational interfaces portable.
+
+\input{figures/surface-web-stack}
+
+\section{CultUI semantics}
+
+A surface should describe meaning, not smuggle executable UI:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+  \item stable widget ids
+  \item typed bindings
+  \item command routes
+  \item layout intent
+  \item permission hints
+  \item health and provenance
+  \item local renderer affordances
+\end{itemize}
+
+Web can render it as DOM. Desktop can render it as native controls. Mobile can render it as touch-first panels. Unity can render it as runtime UI. Sai can render it as a story room.
+
+\Verdict{If Eve streams arbitrary DOM, we built remote desktop with better incense. If Eve streams CultUI surfaces, we built a new public interface grammar. Choose the second thing.}

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/02-bifrost-patronage.tex

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+\chapter{Bifrost Patronage And Power}
+
+Bifrost is the financing primitive because Bifrost can recognize support and contribution directly. The old world asks whether a patron gets equity. The GameCult machine asks what scoped support event entered the ledger and what governance curve transforms it.
+
+\input{figures/value-furnace}
+
+\section{What counts}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+  \item direct patronage
+  \item recurring support
+  \item game microtransactions declared as patronage
+  \item accepted work artifacts
+  \item continuous care work
+  \item project-specific contribution
+  \item global substrate contribution
+\end{itemize}
+
+\section{What does not count directly}
+
+Private enthusiasm does not count directly. Discord volume does not count directly. Raw revenue counters do not count directly. They create evidence or support events. Bifrost owns the ledger, not the nearest loud surface.
+
+\section{The gamer pitch}
+
+Buy into a GameCult world and you become a patron of that world. Your purchase can become scoped patron credit. Scoped patron credit becomes voting weight through the log curve. The player gets a voice without becoming a tiny sovereign with a cash shop crown.

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/03-projection-engine.tex

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+\chapter{Projection Engine}
+
+The projections in this dossier are deliberately loud. Timid projections teach nobody anything. The discipline is that every loud number must name the proof required.
+
+\section{Scenario grammar}
+
+\ProjectionBand
+{Internal survival: the project makes GameCult faster, clearer, or less dependent on private memory.}
+{Product wedge: outsiders adopt the project for one painful workflow.}
+{Platform spread: the project becomes part of the shared CultMesh/Bifrost/Eve substrate.}
+{The claim fails because the project cannot produce external repeatability, governance trust, or low-friction adoption.}
+
+\section{Value bands}
+
+\ValueLadder
+{Saves enough labor to justify its maintenance.}
+{Creates a saleable product or patron-supported project surface.}
+{Becomes substrate for multiple GameCult and external participants.}
+{Changes how online work, games, or operational interfaces coordinate.}
+
+These are not valuations. They are pressure gauges. If a project wants a bigger claim, it owes a bigger receipt.

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/04-sai-homepage-pipeline.tex

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+\chapter{Sai Homepage Pipeline}
+
+The TeX dossier is the ceremonial artifact. Sai is the playable public route.
+
+\section{Target structure}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+  \item Each portfolio project becomes a VN room.
+  \item Each projection ladder becomes a DOM card.
+  \item Each governance claim becomes a Bifrost receipt panel.
+  \item Each project can link to its canonical page, repo, and dossier chapter.
+  \item Eve can later render the same portfolio data as a live dashboard.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\section{Sai asset contract}
+
+The folder includes \texttt{sai/portfolio-tour.ink} and \texttt{sai/portfolio.visual-manifest.json}. They are seeds, not final compiled assets. The intended build path is:
+
+\begin{center}
+\fcolorbox{voidorange}{voidpanel}{\parbox{0.84\linewidth}{\color{voidtext}
+\texttt{data/portfolio.yaml} $\rightarrow$ TeX chapters $\rightarrow$ Sai Ink routes $\rightarrow$ homepage VN
+}}
+\end{center}
+
+\Verdict{Do not maintain the PDF, homepage VN, and future Eve dashboard as three unrelated beautiful lies. One portfolio ledger. Many surfaces. Same machine.}
+
+\section{TeX In Browser}
+
+Sai needs a TeX surface, not just a PDF link.
+
+The portfolio dossier should compile as ceremonial PDF, but Sai also needs to embed TeX-authored material in-browser as VN cards, projection panels, formulas, and page-like dossier spreads. That gives the homepage the same authority surface as the document without forcing visitors to leave the VN.
+
+\subsection{Renderer split}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+  \item \Term{Math fragments}: render with a client-side math renderer such as KaTeX for formulas and compact notation.
+  \item \Term{Dossier spreads}: render precompiled page images or HTML fragments generated from TeX during the site build.
+  \item \Term{Live cards}: render structured portfolio data through Sai DOM cards when the card is semantic rather than typographic.
+\end{itemize}
+
+The browser should not run arbitrary TeX as an execution surface. TeX is too powerful and too weird to invite into the house unsupervised. The coherent path is build-time compilation plus a safe runtime fragment renderer.
+
+\subsection{Sai contract}
+
+Sai should learn a new card source kind:
+
+\begin{center}
+\fcolorbox{voidblue}{voidpanel}{\parbox{0.86\linewidth}{\color{voidtext}
+\texttt{tex-fragment}: safe inline/block math or short TeX panels rendered in browser.\\
+\texttt{tex-page}: precompiled dossier page image or HTML fragment emitted by the build.\\
+\texttt{portfolio-card}: structured claim data rendered as local DOM.
+}}
+\end{center}
+
+The VN route can then say: show Eve's projection formula, show Bifrost's voting curve, show the portfolio page spread, then offer the project room choices.
+
+\Verdict{Sai should make TeX walk around the room, not nail a PDF to the wall and call it interactive.}

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/99-data-contract.tex

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+\chapter{Data Contract}
+
+The source file \texttt{data/portfolio.yaml} is the intended claim ledger for the dossier. It should eventually own:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+  \item project id
+  \item display name
+  \item portfolio family
+  \item homepage room
+  \item thesis
+  \item proof needed
+  \item projection ladder
+  \item Sai speaker and scene hints
+  \item Bifrost scope id
+  \item canonical page and repo links
+\end{itemize}
+
+The current TeX files are hand-authored from that shape. The next cut should generate the repetitive project chapters and Sai seed routes from the data file. Manual duplication is tolerable for a first altar sketch. It is not allowed to become architecture.

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/aetheria-zyphos.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Aetheria / Zyphos}{Worlds / narrative stress tests}{Aetheria and Zyphos are not just settings; they are pressure vessels for language, governance, ecology, AI personhood, and playable civilization machinery.}{World Vault}
+\ProjectionBand
+{The worlds give the tools a reason to exist beyond infrastructure worship.}
+{Public fiction and games turn the substrate into places people care about.}
+{The worlds become playable proof of cooperative, agent-rich, mesh-native systems.}
+{Lore outruns implementation and becomes a museum of futures nobody can enter.}
+\ValueLadder{Story gravity.}{Game/world audience.}{Playable society systems.}{Cultural layer for the mesh.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/aquasynth.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{AquaSynth}{Audio research / voice synthesis}{AquaSynth converts phonetic, articulatory, and synthesis research into inspectable audio machinery instead of another black-box voice toy.}{Voice Lab}
+\ProjectionBand
+{GameCult gets better nonhuman speech and sound tooling.}
+{Researchers and creators get controllable procedural vocal synthesis.}
+{AquaSynth becomes the audio meaning layer for agents, worlds, and live avatars.}
+{Research parity consumes all oxygen and never becomes an authorable product.}
+\ValueLadder{Better creature voices.}{Procedural speech tool.}{Voice substrate for worlds.}{Meaning-to-sound infrastructure.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/bifrost.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Bifrost}{Governance / labor / patronage}{Bifrost records work, support, votes, receipts, and credit so GameCult can coordinate without private memory or cap-table cosplay.}{Ledger Hall}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Internal work board and ledger replace spreadsheet folklore.}
+{Patrons and contributors see scoped voting power, project priority, and accepted work receipts.}
+{Bifrost becomes the cooperative funding and governance engine for project ecosystems.}
+{It becomes admin sludge: more forms, no trust, no accepted external work.}
+\ValueLadder{Private alpha ledger.}{Patronage and contribution portal.}{Governed labor platform.}{Cooperative alternative to ownership-by-default funding.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/cultmesh.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{CultMesh / CultLib}{Typed state / distributed substrate}{CultMesh lets participants share typed state, authority, Verses, peers, and simulation facts without crowning a central app as reality.}{Typed State Library}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Local typed cache and networking become boring enough to trust.}
+{GameCult apps use CultMesh for shared dashboards, swarm state, and game state.}
+{CultMesh becomes the state substrate behind Eve surfaces and persistent game worlds.}
+{It stays too abstract and loses to whatever socket survived the demo.}
+\ValueLadder{Reusable persistence.}{Distributed app state.}{Mesh-native tools and games.}{Typed nervous system for the cooperative web.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/cultpong.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{CultPong}{Game / competitive wedge}{CultPong is the small game-shaped proof: competitive feel, account pressure, unlocks, patronage hooks, and multiplayer authority without cosmic onboarding.}{Arena}
+\ProjectionBand
+{A finished small game proves GameCult can ship something normal humans can touch.}
+{Microtransactions become scoped patronage and vote power in a contained arena.}
+{CultPong becomes the simple commercial proof for Bifrost gamer-patron governance.}
+{It remains a charming prototype and cannot carry the governance pitch.}
+\ValueLadder{Playable game.}{Patronage testbed.}{Governed game economy.}{Proof that players can fund and steer worlds.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/epiphany-aquarium.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{EpiphanyAquarium}{Agent ecology / self-modeling lab}{EpiphanyAquarium is the weird lab where agent cognition, visual language, and interactive self-modeling get stress-tested.}{Aquarium}
+\ProjectionBand
+{It gives Epiphany a visual playground for memory and state concepts.}
+{Agent state becomes inspectable enough for humans to steer without reading logs.}
+{Aquarium ideas become reusable UI metaphors for Eve, Sai, and Epiphany.}
+{It becomes gorgeous introspection theater with no operational bite.}
+\ValueLadder{Internal lab.}{Agent-state UI patterns.}{Cognitive interface toolkit.}{Visual language for shared machine minds.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/epiphany.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Epiphany}{Agent memory / execution control}{Epiphany externalizes maps, evidence, role lanes, and verifier state so agents can do real work without pretending the transcript is a brain.}{Agent Forge}
+\ProjectionBand
+{GameCult agents stop losing the plot during local repo work.}
+{External proof tasks route through Bifrost and produce inspectable accepted artifacts.}
+{Epiphany becomes a control plane for governed agent labor.}
+{It remains powerful local tooling that cannot explain itself to normal teams.}
+\ValueLadder{Fewer agent faceplants.}{Repeatable proof work.}{Agent work OS.}{Cognition infrastructure for distributed production.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/eve.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Eve}{Surface renderer / multi-backend UI}{Eve turns participant-owned state into portable operational surfaces across web, desktop, mobile, Unity, and overlay consumers.}{Surface Web Atrium}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Internal dashboards stop being bespoke little maintenance pits.}
+{Mimir, VoidBot, Bifrost, and StreamPixels ship one surface contract to many devices.}
+{Eve becomes the interface layer of CultMesh: every participant can publish a native-feeling dashboard.}
+{It degenerates into remote DOM streaming and inherits every security and UX sin of remote app embedding.}
+\ValueLadder{Operator panels.}{Dashboard product.}{Surface-web substrate.}{A new interface grammar for distributed systems.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/fensalir.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Fensalir}{Native runtime / renderer}{Fensalir is the reusable native body: windows, D3D12, render graph, hot reload, input, audio, and debug surfaces.}{Renderer Bay}
+\ProjectionBand
+{GameCult stops rebuilding native runtime plumbing for every impossible demo.}
+{Mimir, Eve, and visual tools share renderer substrate and inspection affordances.}
+{Fensalir becomes the native surface backend for CultMesh and Eve applications.}
+{Renderer ambition outruns product closure and becomes a beautiful machine nobody ships.}
+\ValueLadder{Reusable engine body.}{Native tool runtime.}{Eve backend.}{Local high-performance surface layer for the mesh.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/ghostlight.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Ghostlight}{Persistent characters / social state}{Ghostlight gives agents canonical state, perceived state, relationship stance, memory, culture, and incentives instead of flat persona mush.}{Ghost Hall}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Characters and repo Faces stop resetting into generic helpfulness.}
+{Games and communities get persistent social agents with inspectable motives.}
+{Ghostlight becomes the social state engine for mesh-native characters and Faces.}
+{It becomes personality theater without grounded state or consent boundaries.}
+\ValueLadder{Better characters.}{Persistent NPC/Face product.}{Social agent substrate.}{Living interface layer for communities.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/heimdall.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Heimdall}{Identity / grants / consent}{Heimdall decides who may cross which boundary under what grant, then lets Bifrost and Eve consume signed claims without becoming key vaults.}{Gatehouse}
+\ProjectionBand
+{OAuth and account linking stop living in each app's private shed.}
+{GameCult apps share identity, grants, revocation, and entitlement checks.}
+{Heimdall becomes the consent gate for mesh apps and patron-governed tools.}
+{It remains auth plumbing nobody funds until the day after it fails.}
+\ValueLadder{Boring gates.}{Shared identity.}{Capability substrate.}{Consent infrastructure for distributed production.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/mimir.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Mimir}{Realtime room intelligence / creator infrastructure}{Mimir turns cameras, microphones, phones, sensors, and OBS-facing output into an evidence-bearing live field.}{Machine Room}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Internal stream rig gets operator control and better receipts.}
+{Creators get room-aware production tools that know timing, calibration, and source quality.}
+{Mimir becomes a live spatial media platform: room as instrument, not webcam stack.}
+{Hardware complexity eats the team before the product surface becomes boring.}
+\ValueLadder{Better streams.}{Creator room OS.}{Realtime spatial media platform.}{Reality-facing interface substrate.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/norn.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Norn}{Graph layout / inspectable maps}{Norn gives the stack readable graph layouts for architecture, work frontiers, dependencies, and evidence trails.}{Graph Loom}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Project maps stop being unreadable node soup.}
+{Bifrost, Epiphany, and Eve get graph surfaces humans can actually parse.}
+{Norn becomes the map renderer for mesh cognition and project governance.}
+{Graph aesthetics improve while decision clarity stays bad.}
+\ValueLadder{Readable maps.}{Graph UI product.}{Governance map substrate.}{Spatial cognition layer for the surface web.}

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/repixelizer.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Repixelizer}{Visual tooling / access product}{Repixelizer turns image transformation and pixel-art workflows into a hosted-access tool with GameCult identity pressure.}{Pixel Workshop}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Internal art workflows get faster and less one-off.}
+{A useful hosted visual tool brings non-engineer users into the ecosystem.}
+{Repixelizer becomes a visual asset surface for Sai, worlds, and creator tools.}
+{It becomes a cute utility with no durable link to the substrate.}
+\ValueLadder{Art utility.}{Hosted visual tool.}{Asset pipeline surface.}{Creator-access wedge into GameCult systems.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/sai.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Sai}{Visual novel renderer / public interface}{Sai turns project surfaces into playable guided rooms, letting GameCult explain the machine without making visitors read the whole reliquary first.}{VN Stage}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Homepage becomes a usable VN tour instead of a pile of cards under a banner.}
+{Projects get character-led public explainers generated from portfolio data.}
+{Sai becomes the narrative renderer for any CultMesh participant surface that needs onboarding.}
+{It becomes decorative anime chrome over stale documents. The shame would be audible.}
+\ValueLadder{Better homepage.}{Playable product tours.}{Narrative UI layer.}{Public story protocol for shared machinery.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/streampixels.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{StreamPixels}{Creator overlays / realtime web product}{StreamPixels is the near-market creator surface: accounts, overlays, events, hosted controls, and OBS/browser-source delivery.}{Overlay Studio}
+\ProjectionBand
+{GameCult gets a shippable creator product with real users and support burden.}
+{Streamers adopt better overlay tooling with Heimdall auth and Eve controls.}
+{StreamPixels becomes the front-market wedge for Mimir and Eve creator surfaces.}
+{It competes as just another overlay tool and fails to expose the deeper substrate.}
+\ValueLadder{Overlay utility.}{Creator SaaS.}{Creator control mesh.}{Distribution channel for room-aware media.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/vibegeometry.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{VibeGeometry}{Geometry / visual reasoning}{VibeGeometry is the geometry scratchpad for making shape, layout, and visual transformation discussable by humans and agents.}{Geometry Bench}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Agents stop handwaving geometric changes they cannot inspect.}
+{Visual tooling gains reusable geometry operations and explainable transforms.}
+{VibeGeometry becomes a bridge between agent intent, rendering, and authoring.}
+{It remains a pile of experiments with no stable operator surface.}
+\ValueLadder{Geometry helpers.}{Visual authoring tool.}{Agent-geometry bridge.}{Inspectable shape language for creative systems.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/voidbot.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{VoidBot}{Social memory / swarm interface}{VoidBot turns Discord and repo memory into askable context, then routes serious work into Codex, Bifrost, and repo Faces.}{Archive Room}
+\ProjectionBand
+{The room stops forgetting decisions five scrolls later.}
+{Repo Faces get source-grounded speech, receipts, and Bifrost-routed work.}
+{VoidBot becomes the social interface to a governed agent swarm.}
+{It becomes a chat novelty that answers well but owns nothing durable.}
+\ValueLadder{Askable memory.}{Swarm coordination.}{Social agent interface.}{Community cognition layer.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/chapters/projects/weksa.tex

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+\ProjectHeader{Weksa}{Language generation / ontology}{Weksa makes meaning own language before surface text starts decorating the walls.}{Language Lab}
+\ProjectionBand
+{Aetheria and Zyphos languages stop being fragile flavor text.}
+{Writers get tools for ontology-first constructed language and translation.}
+{Weksa becomes the meaning layer behind speech, lore, and agent cultures.}
+{It becomes a beautiful linguistics engine without an authoring surface.}
+\ValueLadder{Better fictional languages.}{Worldbuilding tool.}{Meaning substrate.}{Culture-aware language infrastructure.}
+

docs/portfolio-dossier/data/portfolio.yaml

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+# Portfolio claim ledger seed. This should become the source for TeX, Sai, and Eve surfaces.
+projects:
+  - id: eve
+    name: Eve
+    family: surface-web
+    room: Surface Web Atrium
+    thesis: Multi-backend renderer for participant-owned CultUI surfaces.
+    mythic_case: Operational interfaces become portable like documents.
+  - id: bifrost
+    name: Bifrost
+    family: governance
+    room: Ledger Hall
+    thesis: Work, patronage, voting, credit, receipts, and reward pressure become inspectable records.
+    mythic_case: Cooperative funding without cap-table custody.
+  - id: epiphany
+    name: Epiphany
+    family: agents
+    room: Agent Forge
+    thesis: Persistent agent memory and verifier-backed work execution.
+    mythic_case: Governed agent labor becomes repeatable.
+  - id: cultmesh
+    name: CultMesh / CultLib
+    family: substrate
+    room: Typed State Library
+    thesis: Typed distributed state with explicit authority.
+    mythic_case: The nervous system for mesh-native apps and games.
+  - id: sai
+    name: Sai
+    family: public-interface
+    room: VN Stage
+    thesis: Visual novel renderer for public portfolio/story surfaces.
+    mythic_case: Narrative UI for onboarding into complex systems.
+  - id: mimir
+    name: Mimir
+    family: media
+    room: Machine Room
+    thesis: Realtime room intelligence and creator production surfaces.
+    mythic_case: The room becomes a measurable interface.
+  - id: fensalir
+    name: Fensalir
+    family: runtime
+    room: Renderer Bay
+    thesis: Native rendering/runtime body for high-performance tools.
+    mythic_case: Local surface backend for the mesh.
+  - id: voidbot
+    name: VoidBot
+    family: social-agents
+    room: Archive Room
+    thesis: Discord/repo memory and swarm interface.
+    mythic_case: Community cognition layer.
+  - id: heimdall
+    name: Heimdall
+    family: identity
+    room: Gatehouse
+    thesis: Identity, grants, claims, consent, and revocation.
+    mythic_case: Consent infrastructure for distributed production.
+  - id: streampixels
+    name: StreamPixels
+    family: creator-tools
+    room: Overlay Studio
+    thesis: Hosted creator overlays and realtime stream controls.
+    mythic_case: Distribution wedge for room-aware media.
+  - id: aquasynth
+    name: AquaSynth
+    family: audio
+    room: Voice Lab
+    thesis: Research-grounded procedural voice and sound synthesis.
+    mythic_case: Meaning-to-sound infrastructure.
+  - id: weksa
+    name: Weksa
+    family: language
+    room: Language Lab
+    thesis: Ontology-first procedural language and translation.
+    mythic_case: Culture-aware language substrate.
+  - id: ghostlight
+    name: Ghostlight
+    family: social-state
+    room: Ghost Hall
+    thesis: Persistent social state for characters, agents, and Faces.
+    mythic_case: Living interface layer for communities.
+  - id: aetheria-zyphos
+    name: Aetheria / Zyphos
+    family: worlds
+    room: World Vault
+    thesis: Narrative and game-world pressure vessels for the substrate.
+    mythic_case: Playable society systems.
+  - id: cultpong
+    name: CultPong
+    family: game
+    room: Arena
+    thesis: Small playable proof for governed game patronage.
+    mythic_case: Players fund and steer worlds.
+  - id: repixelizer
+    name: Repixelizer
+    family: visual-tools
+    room: Pixel Workshop
+    thesis: Hosted visual transformation and pixel-art workflows.
+    mythic_case: Creator-access wedge.
+  - id: vibegeometry
+    name: VibeGeometry
+    family: visual-reasoning
+    room: Geometry Bench
+    thesis: Inspectable shape and transformation tooling.
+    mythic_case: Shape language for creative systems.
+  - id: epiphany-aquarium
+    name: EpiphanyAquarium
+    family: agent-lab
+    room: Aquarium
+    thesis: Agent ecology and visual self-modeling lab.
+    mythic_case: Cognitive interface toolkit.
+  - id: norn
+    name: Norn
+    family: graph
+    room: Graph Loom
+    thesis: Readable graph layout for work, evidence, and architecture.
+    mythic_case: Spatial cognition layer for the surface web.

docs/portfolio-dossier/figures/surface-web-stack.tex

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+\begin{center}
+\fcolorbox{voidblue}{voidpanel}{
+\begin{minipage}{0.9\linewidth}
+\color{voidtext}
+\textbf{\color{voidorange}Eve Surface-Web Stack}\\[6pt]
+\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{>{\bfseries\color{voidblue}}p{0.22\linewidth}X}
+Provider & Owns truth, commands, acceptance, and rejection. \\
+CultMesh & Carries typed state, subscriptions, identity hints, and authority boundaries. \\
+CultUI & Names widgets, bindings, command routes, layout intent, and accessibility hints. \\
+Eve & Projects the surface into local render backends without stealing ownership. \\
+Consumers & Web, desktop, mobile, Unity, overlays, and future rooms with too many screens. \\
+\end{tabularx}
+\end{minipage}
+}
+\end{center}

docs/portfolio-dossier/figures/value-furnace.tex

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+\begin{center}
+\fcolorbox{voidorange}{voidpanel}{
+\begin{minipage}{0.9\linewidth}
+\color{voidtext}
+\textbf{\color{voidblue}Value Furnace}\\[6pt]
+\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{>{\bfseries\color{voidorange}}p{0.22\linewidth}X}
+Work & Accepted artifacts become contribution credit. \\
+Patronage & Direct support and declared game purchases become scoped patron credit. \\
+Decay & Historical balances decay where the deployment says they decay. \\
+Log Curve & Effective points become voting weight through the negotiated base. \\
+Receipts & Every mutation explains who acted, what changed, and why it counted. \\
+\end{tabularx}
+\end{minipage}
+}
+\end{center}

docs/portfolio-dossier/main.tex

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+\documentclass[11pt,oneside]{report}
+
+\input{preamble}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\PortfolioTitlePage
+\tableofcontents
+\clearpage
+
+\input{chapters/00-void-thesis}
+\input{chapters/01-eve-surface-web}
+\input{chapters/02-bifrost-patronage}
+\input{chapters/03-projection-engine}
+\input{project-index}
+\input{chapters/04-sai-homepage-pipeline}
+
+\appendix
+\input{chapters/99-data-contract}
+
+\end{document}

docs/portfolio-dossier/preamble.tex

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+\usepackage[margin=0.72in]{geometry}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
+\usepackage{lmodern}
+\usepackage{microtype}
+\usepackage{setspace}
+\usepackage{array}
+\usepackage{booktabs}
+\usepackage{longtable}
+\usepackage{tabularx}
+\usepackage{xcolor}
+\usepackage{hyperref}
+\usepackage{fancyhdr}
+\usepackage{titlesec}
+\usepackage{enumitem}
+
+\definecolor{voidblack}{HTML}{05070B}
+\definecolor{voidpanel}{HTML}{0B111A}
+\definecolor{voidblue}{HTML}{59B7FF}
+\definecolor{voidorange}{HTML}{FF8A2A}
+\definecolor{voidgreen}{HTML}{8EDFB0}
+\definecolor{voidtext}{HTML}{EDF6FF}
+\definecolor{voidmuted}{HTML}{B7C7D9}
+\definecolor{voidred}{HTML}{F87171}
+
+\hypersetup{
+  colorlinks=true,
+  linkcolor=voidblue,
+  urlcolor=voidorange,
+  pdftitle={GameCult Portfolio Dossier},
+  pdfauthor={Void / GameCult},
+  pdfsubject={Portfolio projections, governance thesis, and Sai visual novel source plan},
+  pdfkeywords={GameCult, Eve, Bifrost, CultMesh, Sai, portfolio, patronage, governance}
+}
+
+\setstretch{1.06}
+\setlist[itemize]{topsep=3pt,itemsep=2pt,leftmargin=1.4em}
+\setlist[enumerate]{topsep=3pt,itemsep=2pt,leftmargin=1.6em}
+\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
+\pagestyle{fancy}
+\fancyhf{}
+\fancyhead[L]{\small GameCult Portfolio Dossier}
+\fancyhead[R]{\small Void draft / loud projections}
+\fancyfoot[C]{\small \thepage}
+\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.3pt}
+
+\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\bfseries\color{voidblue}}{}{0pt}{\Huge}
+\titleformat{\section}{\Large\bfseries\color{voidorange}}{}{0pt}{}
+\titleformat{\subsection}{\large\bfseries\color{voidblue}}{}{0pt}{}
+\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-24pt}{12pt}
+
+\newcommand{\Term}[1]{\textbf{\color{voidorange}#1}}
+\newcommand{\Signal}[1]{\textbf{\color{voidblue}#1}}
+\newcommand{\Verdict}[1]{\vspace{4pt}\noindent\fcolorbox{voidorange}{voidpanel}{\parbox{0.94\linewidth}{\color{voidtext}\textbf{Void says:} #1}}\vspace{6pt}}
+\newcommand{\ProjectionBand}[4]{
+  \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{>{\bfseries\color{voidblue}}p{0.18\linewidth}X}
+    Base Case & #1 \\
+    Sharp Case & #2 \\
+    Mythic Case & #3 \\
+    Failure Mode & #4 \\
+  \end{tabularx}
+}
+\newcommand{\ValueLadder}[4]{
+  \begin{center}
+  \fcolorbox{voidblue}{voidpanel}{
+    \begin{minipage}{0.92\linewidth}
+    \color{voidtext}
+    \textbf{\color{voidorange}Value Projection Ladder}\\[4pt]
+    \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{>{\bfseries}p{0.18\linewidth}X}
+      Survival & #1 \\
+      Product & #2 \\
+      Platform & #3 \\
+      World-Web & #4 \\
+    \end{tabularx}
+    \end{minipage}
+  }
+  \end{center}
+}
+\newcommand{\ProjectHeader}[4]{
+  \chapter{#1}
+  \noindent\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{>{\bfseries}p{0.18\linewidth}X}
+  Domain & #2 \\
+  Thesis & #3 \\
+  Homepage Room & #4 \\
+  \end{tabularx}
+}
+\newcommand{\PortfolioTitlePage}{
+  \begin{titlepage}
+  \pagecolor{voidblack}\color{voidtext}
+  \centering
+  \vspace*{0.75in}
+  {\Huge\bfseries GameCult Portfolio Dossier\par}
+  \vspace{0.15in}
+  {\LARGE Eve, Bifrost, CultMesh, Sai, and the surface-web portfolio\par}
+  \vspace{0.35in}
+  \fcolorbox{voidblue}{voidpanel}{\parbox{0.82\linewidth}{
+  \Large
+  This is not a VC memo. This is the map of a cooperative machine learning to publish work, patronage, governance, and interfaces as inspectable state.
+  }}
+  \vfill
+  {\large Drafted in Void's voice. Projections are intentionally over-the-top and structurally falsifiable.\par}
+  \vspace{0.3in}
+  {\small Build target: TeX PDF now, Sai visual novel homepage tour next.}
+  \end{titlepage}
+  \nopagecolor
+  \color{black}
+}

docs/portfolio-dossier/project-index.tex

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+\chapter{Portfolio Hall}
+
+Every project below is a room in the same compound. Some are products. Some are infrastructure. Some are research engines with sharp teeth. The point is not to rank them like startup lottery tickets. The point is to show how each one pressures the same shared machinery: Bifrost for work and patronage, CultMesh for state, Eve for surfaces, Sai for public story, and Epiphany for agent memory.
+
+\input{chapters/projects/eve}
+\input{chapters/projects/bifrost}
+\input{chapters/projects/epiphany}
+\input{chapters/projects/cultmesh}
+\input{chapters/projects/sai}
+\input{chapters/projects/mimir}
+\input{chapters/projects/fensalir}
+\input{chapters/projects/voidbot}
+\input{chapters/projects/heimdall}
+\input{chapters/projects/streampixels}
+\input{chapters/projects/aquasynth}
+\input{chapters/projects/weksa}
+\input{chapters/projects/ghostlight}
+\input{chapters/projects/aetheria-zyphos}
+\input{chapters/projects/cultpong}
+\input{chapters/projects/repixelizer}
+\input{chapters/projects/vibegeometry}
+\input{chapters/projects/epiphany-aquarium}
+\input{chapters/projects/norn}

docs/portfolio-dossier/sai/portfolio-tour.ink

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+VAR visited_eve = false
+VAR visited_bifrost = false
+VAR visited_projects = false
+
+=== start ===
+# speaker: Void
+# avatar: void
+# scene: portfolio_hall
+# sprite: welcome@left
+# dom: portfolio
+Welcome to the portfolio hall. This is the same machine as the PDF, except now it has the manners to let you walk around.
+-> hub
+
+=== hub ===
+# speaker: Void
+# avatar: void
+# scene: portfolio_hall
+# sprite: point@left
+# dom: portfolio
+Pick a door. Each one is a project, a surface, a funding argument, and a future lawsuit against private memory.
+* [Eve: the surface web] -> eve
+* [Bifrost: patronage becomes power] -> bifrost
+* [Project hall: every repo gets a room] -> projects
+* [Enough. Give me the normal document.] -> done
+
+=== eve ===
+~ visited_eve = true
+# speaker: Void
+# avatar: void
+# scene: surface_web
+# sprite: document@left
+# dom: eve
+Eve is not a dashboard. Eve is the renderer for shared operational surfaces. Web, desktop, mobile, Unity, overlay: different flesh, same semantic contract.
+-> hub
+
+=== bifrost ===
+~ visited_bifrost = true
+# speaker: Void
+# avatar: void
+# scene: ledger
+# sprite: document@left
+# dom: bifrost
+Bifrost records support, work, votes, receipts, and credit. Buy microtransactions in a GameCult game and, when that project declares it, your support becomes scoped patron power. Friggin' voting power. Try not to become weird about it.
+-> hub
+
+=== projects ===
+~ visited_projects = true
+# speaker: Epiphany
+# avatar: epiphany
+# scene: forge
+# sprite: map@right
+# dom: portfolio
+Every project gets a room because every project pressures the substrate differently. The point is not ceremony. The point is knowing which claim each machine is supposed to prove.
+-> hub
+
+=== done ===
+# speaker: Void
+# avatar: void
+# scene: portfolio_hall
+# sprite: document@left
+# dom: portfolio
+Fine. Take the PDF. But remember: the document is only one surface. The machine wants to render everywhere.
+-> END

docs/portfolio-dossier/sai/portfolio.visual-manifest.json

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+{
+  "asset_base": "/static/interactive/cotsc-praxis/",
+  "default_scene": "portfolio_hall",
+  "default_caption": "GameCult Portfolio Hall",
+  "metadata_contract": "Seed manifest for rendering the portfolio dossier as a Sai visual novel. Generated routes should derive from docs/portfolio-dossier/data/portfolio.yaml.",
+  "scenes": {
+    "portfolio_hall": {
+      "label": "Portfolio Hall",
+      "background": "backgrounds/project-atlas.png"
+    },
+    "surface_web": {
+      "label": "Surface Web Atrium",
+      "background": "backgrounds/streampixels-overlay-studio.png"
+    },
+    "ledger": {
+      "label": "Bifrost Ledger Hall",
+      "background": "backgrounds/ledger.png"
+    },
+    "forge": {
+      "label": "Agent Forge",
+      "background": "backgrounds/forge.png"
+    }
+  },
+  "actors": {
+    "Void": {
+      "avatar": "void.png",
+      "default_sprite": "point",
+      "sprites": {
+        "point": "sprites/void/point.png",
+        "document": "sprites/void/document.png",
+        "welcome": "sprites/void/welcome.png"
+      }
+    },
+    "Epiphany": {
+      "avatar": "epiphany.png",
+      "default_sprite": "map",
+      "sprites": {
+        "map": "sprites/epiphany/map.png",
+        "evidence": "sprites/epiphany/evidence.png"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "dom_cards": {
+    "portfolio": {
+      "selector": "#portfolio-dossier-card",
+      "title": "Portfolio Dossier"
+    },
+    "eve": {
+      "selector": "#portfolio-eve-card",
+      "title": "Eve: Surface Web"
+    },
+    "bifrost": {
+      "selector": "#portfolio-bifrost-card",
+      "title": "Bifrost: Patronage Becomes Power"
+    }
+  },
+  "tex_cards": {
+    "voting_curve": {
+      "kind": "tex-fragment",
+      "title": "Log-Power Voting",
+      "source": "voting\\_weight = 1 + \\log_{base}(\\max(1, effective\\_points))"
+    },
+    "surface_pipeline": {
+      "kind": "tex-fragment",
+      "title": "Eve Surface Pipeline",
+      "source": "provider\\ state \\rightarrow CultUI \\rightarrow Eve \\rightarrow local\\ renderer \\rightarrow command\\ intent \\rightarrow accepted\\ state"
+    },
+    "portfolio_pdf": {
+      "kind": "tex-page",
+      "title": "Portfolio Dossier Spread",
+      "source": "/docs/portfolio-dossier/main.pdf"
+    }
+  }
+}