Griffin Keystone LLC
A Michigan company building software, construction work, music and goods — one project at a time, tested before it's trusted.
I see the lazy. I see the weak. I build for future generations.
Why I build
I build because I see people struggle — with motivation, with responsibility, and with doing things right. Everywhere I go, I see shortcuts taken.
I want to be the first of my generation to not take any of them. I build for the future, so what gets built here stands strong.
What we do
Keystone Canduit
Griffin Keystone's social network — built by the trades, open to everyone: posts, photos, video, messages and résumés.
Jobsite Command
Jobsite management for crews and companies — tasks, goals, notes and records in one place.
Construction
Construction and handyman work, done by licensed partners and held to one standard.
Custom Software
Software built to order, scoped honestly before any work starts.
Apps
Focused tools — hour tracking, budgeting, forecasting and more — each its own installable app.
AdaptiveOS & AI research
Original research into how intelligent systems participate in the world, and the tools that grow from it.
Music
Original music from Griffin Keystone Music.
Merch
Quality wearables and goods carrying the Griffin Keystone mark.
Independent study
The ideas behind this company come from years of self-directed reading across fields that rarely talk to each other. This is not a list of degrees — it is the work I studied on my own, and the sources I learned from.
Phenomenology & philosophy of mind
- Edmund Husserl — Logical Investigations (1900–1901)
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty — Phenomenology of Perception (1945)
- Alfred North Whitehead — Process and Reality (1929)
- David J. Chalmers — "Facing up to the problem of consciousness," Journal of Consciousness Studies 2(3), 1995
Neuroscience
- Antonio Damasio — Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010)
- Mendoza-Halliday, D., … Bastos, A. M. — "A ubiquitous spectrolaminar motif of local field potential power across the primate cortex," Nature Neuroscience 27, 547–560 (2024)
Consciousness science
- Giulio Tononi — "An information integration theory of consciousness," BMC Neuroscience 5:42 (2004)
- Karl Friston — "The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?" Nature Reviews Neuroscience 11, 127–138 (2010)
- Anil Seth — Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (2021)
- Hoel, E. P., Albantakis, L., & Tononi, G. — "Quantifying causal emergence shows that macro can beat micro," PNAS 110(49), 2013
Complexity & the origins of life
- Sharma, A., Czégel, D., Lachmann, M., Kempes, C. P., Walker, S. I., & Cronin, L. — "Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution," Nature 622, 321–328 (2023)
Developmental bioelectricity
- Michael Levin — "Bioelectric signaling: Reprogrammable circuits underlying embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer," Cell 184(8), 1971–1989 (2021)
AI interpretability
- Sofroniew, N., et al. (Anthropic) — "Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model," arXiv:2604.07729 (2026)
Geophysics & biophysics
- W. O. Schumann — on the natural resonances of the Earth–ionosphere cavity, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A 7, 149–154 (1952)
- Hore, P. J., & Mouritsen, H. — "The radical-pair mechanism of magnetoreception," Annual Review of Biophysics 45, 299–344 (2016)
Mathematics
- Mario Livio — The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (2002)
Language design
- Original work: the Universal Symbolic Language (USL), a constructed language and dictionary built by Dakota L. Griffin
Studying a source is not the same as its authors endorsing this work — every author above is cited for what I learned from them, nothing more.
Original frameworks
LAP LAW
AxisLayer
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