Extensa

Software needs better ground truth.

Space was never written down, so Extensa is writing it down: a live, queryable record of the physical world.

A studio building the machine-readable record of physical space.

Extensa, in concept: a sidewalk robot logs a couch blocking the pavement, and a later scan records it gone and the clearance restored.

Why now

The physical world is still under-described.

World models, sensors and interfaces all keep improving. The friction is still in turning the world itself into something software can read without flattening it into fiction.

How I am approaching it

Build the corpus. Capture the physical world continuously, resolve it into persistent structure rather than disposable frames, keep provenance attached, and expose it as something a model can query. Perception is one layer of that; the harder half is representation, persistence and retrieval.

What needs to be true

Earlier work sits behind Extensa as context.

Why now

01

World models, robotics, autonomy, and simulation all depend on better physical-world inputs. The bottleneck now is trustworthy data tied to the real world.

Extensa sits in that gap: capture, structure, and interfaces that help machines reason about real places with less hallucination and less operational fog.

What Extensa inherits

02

Earlier work in crypto, applied AI, and secure systems produced a bias toward systems you can audit.

That bias carries forward into Extensa as a product principle: keeping provenance attached to every capture.

Then

Extensa continues a long-running pattern: I pick infrastructure shifts early. Bitcoin in January 2013, a language model of my own in 2022, and then the physical world.

Now

Extensa put hardware, data infrastructure and model work in the same system, aimed at agents, robots, spatial interfaces and logistics.

What stayed with me

The system has to keep history, provenance, and constraints visible.

Beneath it

Earlier work still shapes this one.

2023

Language models

Superintelligence

I trained the model from the tokenizer up and built the stack that served it.

2021

Financial infrastructure

CoinHomes and SelectHomes

I built the lending and settlement stack that let people buy property against bitcoin or private company stock without selling either.