The organizations we build with.
Our partnerships span diverse domains. We bring the same discipline to each: keeping intent and implementation in step, engineering for the mission, and ensuring that information remains traceable to its source.
Open-Source Systems Engineering
OpenMBEE (Open Model Based Engineering Environment) is an open source collaborative engineering system. It enables engineers to work in the language of their choice and easily share and document their work across other tools.
OpenMBEE keeps model-based systems engineering open and shared; DSG contributes to the technical and ecosystem development roadmaps, bringing research and systems-integration expertise. That work encodes traceability into the toolchain: design decisions stay tied to the objectives they serve and the evidence they rest on.
Tools for Digital Self-Governance
Metagov is a nonprofit, research-to-infrastructure laboratory advancing community sovereignty, network governance, and statecraft in the age of AI.
DSG has built with Metagov since 2020, from Govbase onward to today's systems for exchanging claims, credit, and context without a central authority. Metagov brings governance research and engagement with the affected stakeholder communities; DSG engineers infrastructure that those interactions can run on, and contributes to the organization that sustains them. DSG Chief Engineer Dr. Michael Zargham serves on Metagov's board.
Verifiable Public-Data Standards
Civic AI Tools uses AI to make public data accessible and understandable to people: ask a question in plain English, get a trustworthy, citable answer backed by live public data, not a guess from training data.
Civic AI Tools turns public data into answers; beneath it, Typed Standards is the open standard that makes AI-mediated analysis auditable. As a founding member of the Typed Standards consortium and lead external technical advisor to the protocol, DSG turns that standard into a formal, machine-readable model and brings verification-and-validation and document-assurance practice to it, so any answer can carry a verifiable record of how it was produced: its data, method, and the signals that corroborate it.
Whole-Business Alignment
Transformative Ventures strengthens execution capacity inside the business: aligning leadership, capital, workforce, partners, and field teams so people can make better decisions under pressure, sustain behavior change, and move priorities into adoption, signed revenue, and enterprise value.
Transformative Ventures aligns a scaling company's teams around one strategy and one view of how the business actually runs; DSG operationalizes that alignment through protocolization, automation, and oversight, so growth stays accountable and repeatable.
Domain Models for Embodied Systems
Somos builds embodied systems - technology for operational avatars. It got there through neurotherapeutics: building systems that gave people back control of their own bodies, work developed alongside national laboratories. That foundation now spans cybernetics, games, robotics, and certified information exchange, all aimed at making complex systems something humans can actually operate.
Somos builds systems that operators direct to act where they cannot reach on their own, extending what they can know and do while keeping the judgment theirs. DSG builds and maintains the models underneath: formal accounts of how domains behave that update as the landscape changes, while ensuring that outputs can always be traced back to the inputs that produced them.
Rigorous Contextual Evaluations
Humane Intelligence is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to breaking down barriers to AI deployment for social good. It collaboratively designs and runs rigorous evaluations that make AI systems more accountable, responsible, and fair.
Humane Intelligence and DSG are developing a new ontology-based contextual AI evaluation methodology that brings scientific rigor, balances human expertise and automations, and creates reproducible testing environments.
Real-Time Player-Adaptive Systems
SuperGenius designs and builds user experiences, interfaces, and operational control surfaces for complex environments. For two decades it has built the front end of some of the best-known franchises in AAA games, applying the discipline of taking a fast, complicated system and making it legible enough to act on in real time.
SuperGenius builds the parts of a game world that players see and touch. DSG brings the mathematics of dynamical systems to that craft. The result is real-time systems that can read how a player behaves and adapt the experience in response.