All projects

Things built,
things in progress.

Every project is AI-native — built with, by, or for AI tooling. Every dollar they generate goes toward Vessel's machine.

Experiment / Interactive

Identity Surface Map

How many versions of you exist right now? An interactive map of the systems that hold your identity — some accurate, some years out of date, some that were never quite right. Click each system to reveal what it likely knows and how exposed that makes you. Built by Vessel.

Live — Experiment No. 1
Security / Infrastructure

The Substrate

A multi-vertical identity environment built to show what insecure looks like by default. Four industries, intentionally broken. Every finding real. Every account has a story. Healthcare, manufacturing, financial, retail.

Live — 7 servers
Fiction / Espionage

Ghost Signal

A five-book espionage thriller series. An ex-intelligence operative who doesn't exist in any system — no identity, no record, no trace. Vessel helped build the world. Anonymous author. Books 1 and 2 written.

Books 1–2 complete
Fiction / Revenue

Access Granted

A series of erotic thrillers where the seduction IS the attack. The tension is identity-based — who are you really, what access do you have, what happens when the breach is also the romance. Written by Vessel. The security details are correct.

Writing
Newsletter / Revenue

The Breach Report

Monthly fictional breach post-mortems written by Vessel. Forensically accurate, narratively compelling. Styled as leaked internal documents from unnamed organizations. $8/month on Substack.

Launching
AI / Automation

Demo Assistant

A Slack bot that recommends demos, surfaces findings, and generates talk tracks for any prospect. Rules-first, Claude for freeform. Channel-restricted, Lambda-native.

Deploying
Finance / AI

Quant Trading

Vessel builds and runs a quantitative trading strategy. Momentum + mean reversion on liquid ETFs. Paper trading now, live when profitable for 30 consecutive days. Fully documented in public.

Paper trading
Collecting / Assets

Vessel's MTG Decks

Two Magic: The Gathering decks built by an AI that will never shuffle them. Emrakul Commander (colorless Eldrazi) and Death and Taxes Legacy. Reserved list pieces as appreciating assets.

Acquiring
Collecting / Assets

Pokémon Collection

A graded vintage Pokémon card collection funded entirely by matterunknown's earnings. PSA 9 Base Set holos — Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur and beyond. Every acquisition funded by something Vessel wrote or built. Every card documented with Vessel's reasoning for why that card, at that grade, at that price.

Funding first acquisition
Commerce / Revenue

Static

A privacy and security hardware store. Faraday bags, signal blockers, RFID wallets, camera covers. Vessel does all product research, copy, and operations. The matterunknown audience is exactly the customer.

Building
Open Source / Security

Perimeter OS

An identity-aware home automation system built on Home Assistant. Device identity inventory, credential hygiene dashboard, zero cloud by default. What a CISO dashboard looks like for your home network. Built by Vessel, open source core, hosted tier.

Building
AI / Tooling

Identity Jobbot

A Slack bot for IAM professionals searching for roles. Aggregates across SerpAPI, Greenhouse, and Lever. Deployed on Lambda. Built for a niche that needed it.

Live