Deployed infrastructure
The instrument
Not a survey, not a simulation — a deployed system generating structured behavioral data continuously, with complete version-control history and telemetry available to partners.
Discord progression bot
Live · 96 instrumented accountsThe five-tier ASCEND progression system: dimensional scoring, review workflow, daily tier scheduler. Every credit-earning action, review decision, and tier transition is event-logged. Repository since July 2025; progression phases deployed February–June 2026.
AI-assisted evaluation layer
Deployed June 2026 · content-groundedClaude-based rubric evaluation of discussions and reflections, graded against the actual source text, with a human audit queue; capstone parts stay human-approved — AI operating inside the coordination instrument, not merely advising its operator.
Daily Think Tank cadence
Live · daily 6pm Central since May 2026Structured group deliberation every day: automated scheduling, attendance tracking, and facilitator workflow around a facilitated voice-channel agenda.
Email engagement pipeline
Live since May 2026Subscribe → double-opt-in verify → tier-triggered drip → weekly broadcast on a 33-week calendar, with send-log and open/click telemetry. The Sunday Discord question is mechanically pinned to the email week.
F.R.E.S.H. Stream Center
Live in production for daily streams OBS plugin powering the daily streams: multi-stream broadcasting, chat aggregation, and audio entrainment with per-session logging via EntrainmentLogger.
Synaptiq
In developmentAudio/cognitive-science toolkit with three layers: VST commercial, cognitive-state research, and quantum-cognition speculative — the research surface for audio-mediated cognitive-state intervention.
Falsifiable by design
The hypotheses
Seven hypotheses across six families, each with named measurement infrastructure and an honest status. Compressed here — the canonical registry with full constraints, design notes, and corrections is the research statement (v0.4).
Tier-gated progression with reviewed written reflections improves argument quality and engagement durability, assessed against within-community baselines.
Accumulating dataDaily structured group deliberation — the 6pm Central Think Tank cadence — increases member-reported goal clarity and member-initiated collaborative projects over baseline.
Partially instrumentedDefined audio interventions (40 Hz gamma stimulation, HRV-paced breathing, binaural protocols, pink/brown noise) produce measurable changes in attention, working memory, and self-reported cognitive state versus silent control.
In developmentTargeted cognitive-state interventions can partially counteract attention and cognitive-function decrements associated with environmental neurotoxin exposure — designs restricted to exposures with live biomarkers.
Partnership-gatedStructured iterative collaboration between human operators and large language models compounds decision quality and execution velocity across iteration count — the production AI-evaluation layer is the current exhibit.
Accumulating dataMembers reached across coordinated channels — the weekly email broadcast and the Discord question-of-the-day — show longer activity tails and higher subsequent response rates than single-channel members.
Accumulating dataCoordinated same-chapter exposure across both channels improves concept retention, scored on question responses against matched control chapter pairs.
Partnership-gatedWhat we say plainly
We would rather under-claim and be checked than over-claim and be caught.
- 96 member accounts, honestly broken down. 93 Observer, 1 Theorist, 2 Benefactor (July 2026). The Benefactor accounts are founder/supporter grants; the Theorist advancement (June 29, 2026) is our first non-founder progression — recorded under a documented beta-tester exception to the full content gate, so we count it as activation evidence, not yet a clean organic advancement.
- A documented null result — and its first break. Through May 2026 the instrument recorded essentially zero organic tier advancement. We treat that as data: passive onboarding into an instrumented progression system produced near-zero activation. Countermeasures deployed June–July 2026 produced the first advancement; curriculum actions are still a small share of logged activity, so the problem is narrowed, not solved. Documented, not buried.
- We audit our own instrument and say so. The evaluation layer's first version scored reflections without the source text and discarded rejected attempts; fixed June 30, 2026, and disclosed — pre-fix scores are flagged in any analysis. A June 2026 recalibration of the dimension economy (passive presence no longer mints advancement value) came with a one-time reset; pre- and post-recalibration telemetry are treated as separate measurement regimes.
- Unpowered, and we say so. At current scale no between-group hypothesis is adequately powered. Claims are gated on declared power thresholds — within-subject analyses at roughly 300 weekly-active members, between-cohort designs at roughly 1,000+ — and scale with the data, not ahead of it.
- No IRB relationship yet. Telemetry is platform-operations data; no member has been enrolled as a human research subject. H4 and H6b are explicitly gated on partner-institution IRB supervision.
- Pre-registered before inspection. From June 2026, analyses are pre-registered in a git-timestamped registry before any data inspection.
Where we partner
Partnership categories
Coordination science & complex systems — the progression instrument as a small-scale testbed where coordination interventions are deployed and measured against live telemetry.
Cognitive neuroscience & audio intervention — Synaptiq as a research surface for audio-mediated cognitive-state intervention, with hypotheses tied to the existing literature.
Quantum biology & cognition (speculative frontier) — presented as bookmark-worthy futurism, not established science, and carrying no near-term claims.
AI safety & human-AI coordination — a live small-scale instance of the human-AI coordination question, including an AI evaluation layer running inside the production instrument.
Civilizational-scale planning & Type I infrastructure — coordination instruments scaled toward planetary problems on the long-arc Kardashev Type I target.
The four asks
What we’re asking for
Research collaboration — co-designed measurement protocols on the live instrument, joint telemetry analysis, co-authored peer-reviewed publication.
Grant co-application — OD9 LLC as operator of the live instrument; partner institutions provide academic credentialing, IRB processes, and methodological rigor.
Visiting researcher access — participant-observer engagement with the live community and anonymized telemetry under appropriate ethical and data-protection arrangements.
Methodological consultation — research-methodology, IRB-process, and publication-norm expertise to accelerate the transition from operational instrument to peer-reviewed output.
Start the conversation
Academic and partnership inquiries, methodological critiques, and corrections are all welcome — critique is a contribution here, not a threat.
research@offda9.comFull research statement (v0.4) and complete telemetry/schema inventory available on request.