We carve agents — and the myths that bring them to life.
Geppetto Works builds AI that does real work in the world. Every agent begins as a story about how a corner of reality holds together, and becomes a machine that acts on it — anchored, auditable, and honest about what it does not know.
Two hands, one workbench.
The old woodcarver made a puppet and gave it a story so true it woke up. We work the same bench from both sides — the myth and the machine — because an agent that can act but cannot be understood is just a faster way to be wrong.
A story of how order shows up
Before a single line of code, we write the template: what "coherence" looks like in this domain, what would count as a signal, what would be mere noise wearing a costume. The myth is what makes the machine legible to the people it serves.
A gate that only speaks when forced
The myth becomes a forcing gate. It commits when public, mechanical evidence compels it — and abstains, out loud, when it doesn't. A correct "no" is a finished piece, not a failure. Nothing ships that can't show its work.
How a thing gets made here.
Every agent that leaves the workshop passes the same four stations, in order. The order is the discipline.
Make the myth
Name the domain's pattern of order — the story that tells the machine what it is looking for before it ever sees data. Domain-agnostic by design: the same template has certified chaos onset, quantum correlations, and courtroom outcomes.
Carve the agent
Turn the myth into a forcing gate — markers, thresholds, a fail-closed rule. Weak signals become votes; votes stack to a line; the crossing is the decision and the margin is the confidence.
Anchor it
Give the agent a fixed reference it cannot move and an external sensor that reads its drift. Self-report is never a sensor. This is the difference between a tool that stays true and one that quietly convinces itself.
Send it to work
Ship it as a system real people use — and keep it accountable to the myth it was carved from. If it can't explain itself, it goes back on the bench.
Agents carved here.
Different domains, one method. Each of these was made on this bench and sent out to do public-good work.
Guardian
Facial-vector matching across NamUs, FBI, and Interpol — finds a person from a photo, then forgets the photo.
guardian.blackswantechnologies.org →Sterling
Reads whether a neighborhood is paying the health price of nearby pollution, tract by tract.
sterling.blackswantechnologies.org →Ubuntu Predictive Analytics
The method for hire — the same cascade that read gravitational waves and living cells, aimed at your hardest problem.
ubuntupredictiveanalytics.com →PlaceboTech
An interface anchored to your nervous system — it answers to your body, not the words you compose over it.
a Black Swan venture →"An agent that can act but cannot be understood is just a faster way to be wrong."
Commission a build.
Have a problem that needs an agent with a conscience — one that acts, explains itself, and knows when to stay quiet? Bring it to the workshop.
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