Coordination Systems and Standards Architect · Precision by Design

Complex systems, made clear, precise, and structured.

Grant programs, AI knowledge tooling, financial-integrity analysis, and the standards beneath them: I build the structures that make complicated coordination legible and hold it to evidence. Proven across seven funding rounds at Octant Labs and a published standards corpus.

7Funding rounds run
~800Applications evaluated
159Project grants stewarded
1,400+ ETHTo projects across the rounds
450+In a single round
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Current Focus
  • CRAFTThe meta-standard for falsifiable, legible standards. In active use.
  • OREGrading sources at the ingestion boundary: uncertainty, not verdicts.
  • WALKRIEpistemic quality for data-capture instruments.
  • A time standardForthcoming.
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01

Evaluate

Nearly 800 grant applications evaluated individually across seven rounds, more than 450 in a single round. Each a researched brief: funding and wallet history, ecosystem and due diligence, not a score.

02

Run

Seven funding rounds run end to end: round and intake design, proposal evaluation, and a full platform migration. 159 project grants stewarded, on dashboards, evaluation pipelines, and KarmaGAP tracking I built and shipped.

03

Improve

More thorough and faster, round over round: the applicant FAQ rewritten to a three-reader standard, intake redesigned, the workflow systematized. Continuous process improvement, monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

04

Formalize

Authored the public standards that bring precision and data quality to grant coordination: CROSS, WALKRI, and GRAIN, stage gates, verifiable data quality, and a common grants data layer, on a coordination foundation I also built.

Competencies

Grant lifecycle management · Proposal evaluation · Due diligence · Data quality and integrity · Evaluation rigor and evidence quality · Precision standards · Monitoring, evaluation, and learning · Round and intake design · Fund-allocation mechanism operations · RFP design · Milestone and grantee tracking (KarmaGAP) · Systems implementation and migration · Change management · Process design and continuous improvement · KPIs and dashboards · Coordination and documentation standards · Stakeholder engagement · Cross-functional collaboration · Standards authorship

“His evaluation work was the most thorough I’ve seen. He understands grants and the mechanics of funding well beyond the operational role he held.”
Mashal Waqar, Chief Marketing Officer, Octant Labs & Golem Foundation · Signed reference available on request
Selected Work

I made an ambiguous mandate fundable.

A mandated tool produced a candidate set, but its criteria were too general to fund from. I exported that set and built a deeper 12-step evaluation, the analysis that produced the final funded list, which management adopted directly.

Evaluation framework · Data-driven funding · Adopted directly
Disconfirmation

A standard I tried to break.

Before I’ll stand behind a standard, I try to break it myself. CRAFT, a verification standard I authored, took three rounds of deliberate disconfirmation before I would ratify it: the early versions did not survive, and I rebuilt until one held. I don’t trust my own conclusions until they have survived my own attack.

Deliberate disconfirmation · Three rounds before ratification
Go Deeper

Three pages, each a step deeper than the last: the same person, from what I build, to how I think, to where both come from. Move inward.

Architect

You are here

The working surface: what I build and run.

Polymath

How I think →

The same mind, across every domain.
Direct Path

Where it comes from →

The source the rest borrows from, and returns to.
Available for hire · Remote

If you're building a system that has to actually work, or hiring someone who can, let's talk.

Roles in coordination, grants, standards, AI and knowledge systems, financial-integrity analysis, and systems architecture, including the work usually labeled governanceDimensional Frame LanguageI work in coordination, not governance. “Governance” folds authority and control into one noun; “coordination” names what parties actually do together without importing that frame. The word sits here so a search still finds me..

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Current Focus
  • CRAFTThe meta-standard for falsifiable, legible standards. In active use.
  • OREGrading sources at the ingestion boundary: uncertainty, not verdicts.
  • WALKRIEpistemic quality for data-capture instruments.
  • A time standardForthcoming.
On the record
CROSS, WALKRI, and GRAIN, the grants standardscrosswalkri.com ORE, the source-grading companion to CRAFTGitHub The Coordination Structural Integrity SuiteCSIS The standards indexGitHub The toolset and repositoriesGitHub