Evan B. Carr
Evan B. Carr
Technology in service of life.
From scaling sales teams to shipping AI tools for the planet — I build at the intersection of leadership, technology, and what actually matters.
What if the systems we build actually served life?
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself he always seems to be doing both. Enough for him that he does it well.
— L.P. Jacks
What I'm Building
Sygil
Sygil
Your context. Your authority.
Carried by your agents.
AI agents are only as good as the context they're given. Today that context is scattered across a hundred accounts, locked behind a hundred logins, and copied into a hundred provider databases.
Sygil is the layer underneath: an open protocol and personal vault where your data lives in one place you control, and agents request scoped access to exactly what they need. Every read is granted, scoped, logged, and revocable with one tap.
- Layer 01
The Protocol
An open, schema-driven format for personal data and the AI-native query interface that reads it. Anyone can implement it. Nothing about it depends on us.
Open standard · Apache 2.0 - Layer 02
The Vault
Your data, normalized and stored in your own isolated database. Connect your accounts, see what's there, decide who sees what.
Private beta - Layer 03
The Apps
AI agents and tools that ask your vault for what they need, with your permission, on the record.
Marketplace · Coming soon
Guarantees the architecture enforces
Your data is yours, not ours.
Every user's data lives in its own isolated, encrypted store. Privacy is built into the structure, not promised in a policy.
Open protocol. Closed vault.
Anyone can build a compatible vault, agent, or app. We make money on the vault and the ecosystem, not on gatekeeping the standard.
Leave anytime, with everything.
Export is signed, complete, and re-importable into any conformant Sygil implementation.
Thrshld
Thrshld
Because “they” should be you.
One person, one voice.
Your opinions, your attention, your data — they've been extracted, packaged, and sold. You've been the product for decades. Thrshld flips the model.
Building the table
Seeking co-founders, collaborators, and advisory board members with expertise in:
- Civic governance & democratic systems
- AI/LLM training & data licensing
- Data privacy, consent & compliance
- Growth, network effects & behavioral design
The bigger picture
Cooperative ownership. Technology in service of life. The seven generations. Giving people their voice back. Thrshld is the fullest expression of what I believe — that the systems we build should serve life, not extract from it.
Archaic Intel
Archaic Intel
Every culture once had a map for going down into the dark and coming back changed.
Descent Protocol
An 11-track descent into the underworld and back: dance music for the soul's long journey home.
It begins in the static of the feed, with attention pulled in every direction and something calling underneath it all. From there it follows the old hero's journey through a Jungian lens: the masks we wear to stay safe, the threshold where identity lets go, the underworld where the self dissolves like a caterpillar in its chrysalis, the shadow and the ancestors, the trickster, the vigil by the fire, and finally the return, awake in the middle of the same modern world, here to serve.
Glitchy indie dance and smoky tech house, through jungle, heavy downtempo and UK bass, into euphoric house and future funk, before closing in quiet around the fire. Meant to be heard in order, from first static to final ember.
- DP-01Feed MeOrdinary world
- DP-02Beneath the StaticThe call
- DP-03PersonaRefusal
- DP-04ThresholdCrossing
- DP-05KatabasisDescent
- DP-06Shadow WorkOrdeal
- DP-07Play It WrongThe trickster
- DP-08Old FireInitiation
- DP-09BecomingApotheosis
- DP-10RiverBirdReturn
- DP-11EmberCoda
The Range
The Range
I don't fit in one box. That's the point.
Sygil: The personal data layer for AI agents
Thrshld: One person, one voice
CapitalQuest.ai
OffsetAI.earth, Jungian Dream App
Loveable: Social Wellness App
Sensemaking: The Game
The Paradox Is the Pleasure (April 2027)
The Philosophy of Bubbles (Upcoming)
Moss Hollow Children's Book Series (Upcoming)
Poetry | Meeting the Moment
Book | How to Meet the Moment
Archaic Intel: Descent Protocol
NoSys Conscious Hip Hop
Album: Ourselves in the Mirror
Co-founded GoodRev
Lillianah Technologies Market Validation
Bad Actors Kickstarter
$0k from 0+ backers
0 years of sales and leadership experience
Scaled team 0 → 0
0% attainment, NPS 0
1st, 2nd, and 3rd line leadership
Regenerative Practitioner, Polarity, Cynefin, Sensemaking
Interdisciplinary Studies, Summa Cum Laude
Master of Public Policy, Archer Center DC
What I Believe
Adulthood is being in service to something greater than yourself.
That's it. That's the whole game. I went looking for the definition and found it at the feet of elders, in talking circles, in systems thinking, in the deep end. Everything I build flows from that.
Urgency is a catalyst, not a panic.
I write poetry and build climate tech in the same week. I refuse to pick one lane. Life is short and the work is real — that's not a reason to freeze, it's a reason to move.
The seven generations are depending on us.
The decisions we make now ripple forward in ways we can barely imagine. I build with that weight. Not out of guilt — out of love for what's coming.
Beauty is a delivery mechanism.
A poem can change someone's mind faster than an argument. A well-designed product teaches you how to use it before you read the instructions. I don't separate aesthetics from function — the beauty IS the function.
Life‑oriented people must quickly move towards AI.
This is the moment. The systems that will shape the next seven generations are being built right now, and whoever shows up to build them decides whether they serve life or extract from it. We must hurry while the window is open.
Projects
Featured
Archaic Intel
ActiveBecause every culture once had a map into the dark.
A music and art project ushering in the archaic revival. The debut LP, Descent Protocol, follows the hero's journey through a Jungian lens across 11 tracks, from glitchy indie dance to future funk.
CapitalQuest.ai
ActiveBecause founders shouldn't burn a shot before they're ready.
An AI judgment engine and business coach for fundraising. Founders develop their materials and pitch, certify they're Investor Ready, and connect with investors matched by thesis, stage, and geography.
OffsetAI.earth
ActiveBecause AI should pay its ecological bill.
Helping organizations measure and offset the environmental impact of their AI usage.
Loveable
ActiveBecause isolation is the real epidemic.
Addressing isolation and connection. A platform designed to help people build meaningful relationships in an increasingly disconnected world.
Jungian Dream Analysis App
ActiveBecause dreamwork is essential.
An AI-powered dream analysis app grounded in Jungian psychology. Helps users explore the symbolic language of their unconscious mind.
Sensemaking the Game
ActiveBecause the news shouldn't make you dumber.
Gamifies the daily news with games designed to increase sensemaking about current events.
NoSys Music
PublishedBecause sometimes truth needs a beat.
Spoken word + music exploring system dynamics, culture, and personal responsibility. An invitation to wrestle with what matters.
Bad Actors
PublishedBecause adults don't need permission to play.
The inhibition-crushing party game. Kickstarted in 2017 — 600+ backers, $34k pledged. Players assume characters and answer questions chosen by other players. Chaos ensues.
Index
Writing & Poetry
Books
The Paradox Is the Pleasure
64 Paradoxes to Live With, Not Solve
We are taught to resolve contradiction. This book asks something harder: to live inside it. Sixty-four short meditations on the tensions that shape ordinary life.
The Philosophy of Bubbles
Meditations on Impermanence
An illustrated meditation on play, impermanence, and the art of holding gently, told in the true physics of a soap bubble. No morals. No instructions.
Moss Hollow
A Children's Book Series
Emotionally sophisticated stories told through the desires, mistakes, and discoveries of a six-year-old named Wren and the woodland creatures of Moss Hollow. Ages 4 to 8.
Meeting the Moment
A Spoken Word Poetry Collection
A collection of spoken word poetry channeling the urgency, beauty, and complexity of our times.
Buy on Amazon
How to Meet the Moment
A Guide to Precarious Times
A prose exploration of who we have to become to meet the challenges ahead.
Buy on AmazonThe Chairlift Poet
Recently calling myself The Chairlift Poet, I can be spotted on ski lifts sharing my verse with the majestic mountains and skiers of the Rockies.
When I was a young boy and it came time for my mother's birthday or Mother's Day I would often write her a poem — the truest gift I could give from my heart. It took many years to fully claim my gift as a poet despite looking back on the trail of poetry throughout my teens and twenties.
Today I claim poetry as a craft which I have made a life-long dedication to. Each poem is a channel, like one file pulled out of the full spectrum of quantum possibility, and brought to life via the courtship of my muse. I now offer my words as a joyous give-away of my heart and soul. Whatever your reaction to my craft — I pray it beneficial.
— Evan B. Carr —
Selected Essays
Adventures in Vibe Coding: My Journey to Full-Stack Vibe Coder
From my Wake Up, Neo moment to shipping apps in 11 days flat...
I Sold My Tickets to Burning Man
Sometimes the hardest decisions reveal the most about where we're headed...
Playground Trash: On Judgement and Acceptance of the Other
A reflection on judgement, otherness, and what it means to truly accept...
Influences
Quotes are capsules of information, reinforcement, or enlightenment.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller
What Will You Build?
What Will You Build?
Life is short. What will you do with your one precious life?
I don't pick one lane. I pick the right people. If you're building at the intersection of impact, innovation, and integrity — I want to know about it.
I'm always looking for great collaborators. If something here resonated, reach out. I always give in abundance.
If you're reaching out, it helps to include:
What you're building. What you need. And why me.
Or let's be friends!