Current Work

Adaptive interfaces for human flourishing.

Human capacity changes.

Most systems assume it does not.

My current work spans three connected bodies of work: an independent research and consulting practice, a proposed public-interest evidence body, and a commercial adaptive systems company.

Each has a different role.

Together, they explore how care systems, environments, objects, and intelligent infrastructure might respond to changing human capacity with more dignity, timing, and trust.

Kutuhala Studio

Field lab + consulting practice

Kutuhala Studio is my independent research and design practice.

It begins with slow looking.

—Before the product question.
—Before the pitch.
—Before the system decides what it thinks the problem is.

The studio explores how objects, environments, services, and intelligent systems might respond to changing human capacity in real settings.

Field research
Design consulting
Prototype investigations

Best for

Healthcare teams, startups, labs, and innovation groups that need discovery, research, foresight, or strategy before committing to a solution.

Visit Kutuhala Studio → (kutuhalastudio.com)

Umwelten Institute

Public-interest research + evidence

Umwelten Institute is a proposed nonprofit evidence-generation body.

Its role is to study how healthcare systems can support human capacity before strain becomes crisis — especially for caregivers, older adults, and people carrying sustained cognitive, emotional, or physiological load.

It does not commercialize products.

It builds evidence, convenes partners, and develops public-interest framing for adaptive care systems.

Evidence generation
Working groups
Policy framing

Best for

Academic collaborators, funders, health systems, public-interest partners, and research groups interested in validation, ethics, and governed implementation.

Visit Umwelten Institute → (umwelten.co)

SOMA Systems

Commercial adaptive systems company

SOMA Systems is the commercial product and IP development company.

It is developing Somatag and SOMA Engine — a screenless interface and adaptive decision layer exploring how physiological signals and low-burden cues might support return before overload becomes visible.

First interface: Somatag
Adaptive layer: SOMA Engine
Core loop: Detect → Intervene → Measure

Best for

Pilot partners, hardware collaborators, investors, health innovation teams, and organizations interested in adaptive systems for sustained caregiving, cognitive, emotional, or physiological load.

Visit Somatag → (somatag.com)

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