Reference Page Steven Woods

Project Suite Overview

Repo-owned portfolio coordination: 16 active summaries, comprising six public software/publication projects, seven archives, and three private projects with approved public metadata only. Windigo is the Costa Rica rental portal under confidential-project, separate from personal financial planning and the Woods Financial Dashboard. Kanban is excluded. Star Swarm is an entirely separate parallel comparison with Aurora, developed using Claude and Firstmate; Firstmate is tooling, not a separate portfolio project or work series. Thirteen public histories feed the public commit/archive charts. Working Activity reports approved daily aggregates; AI Briefing has a 391-commit unclassified assisted baseline, not 391 verified code changes or installed upkeep. Other projects, including Star Swarm and Aurora separately, await source-owned reports. No activity measure changes release labels. See REPOSITORY-HANDOFFS.md for one-at-a-time coordination.

Tracked projects 16
Active project lines currently carried by this overview.
Reference pages 6
Top-level public entry-point pages outside the active project cards.
Priority bands 5
The current reprioritization vocabulary for this suite.
Updated 2026-10-27
Update this when the portfolio judgment layer changes materially.

How To Use This

Keep one durable portfolio-level mental model in the repo instead of in chat only.
Separate factual project status from portfolio judgment, so the manifest exports can stay factual while priority and time-energy-value tradeoffs can change faster.
Make reprioritization explicit by editing one small source file and rerendering the public and repo-readable overview surfaces.
Current branch snapshot: main. This page reflects the repo coordination state in this checkout, so it can run ahead of or behind the live public site until changes are published.

Update Workflow

Time-Energy-Value Rules

Current Priority Lanes

Protect public surfaces

Projects 4

Keep already-public software, docs, and dashboards trustworthy before expanding scope.

Publish local progress

Projects 0

High-value, usually lower-energy work where repo docs or manifests are already ahead of the public surface.

Steady advance

Projects 8

Important ongoing work that benefits from regular small batches rather than a one-off push.

Seed and clarify

Projects 1

Early-stage areas where a small baseline is more valuable than broad exploration.

Private tracking

Projects 3

Keep only a high-level public summary while the underlying work remains private.

Web Entry Point

Reference Pages

Repository content inventory

Text, recordings, transcripts, file provenance and machine-readable source discovery across the full versioned repository.

Content requests and decisions

Reviewed source gaps, ranked maintenance batches, evidence-backed resolutions and decisions needed from Steven.

Project suite overview

Portfolio map, public/private surface guide, and reprioritization layer across the full project suite.

Profile

Compact executive profile with current links to LinkedIn, Inovia, and the open archive projects.

Academic ancestry

Direct advisor lineage with links to the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Patents and publications

Selected books, patents, and academic publications.

Recovered Legacy Archives

Old Research Archive Recovery

Recovered entry point for the historical Spectra research site, including preserved publication, course, bibliography, reserve, and raw research-artifact archives.

Project Records

Aurora Galactica

Open project page
Standalone repo exportPublicProtect public surfacesEnergy mediumValue highHorizon short

Public project page synced from its published repository or archive status manifest.

  • Likely current work: Public main at 148f82e (October 15) records a beta dry-run pass and music acceptance hold. The live production build-info.json still identifies Aurora 1.4.1 build 1164, source 54398ff5, from June 11; the older exported production date is accurate.
  • Next step: On the active machine, review the full working history and prepare an approved daily aggregate report under WORKING-ACTIVITY-INTERFACE.md after the AI Briefing setup. Keep production source metadata tied to the released build; this does not authorize promotion or change release ownership.
  • Quality: This is the strongest product-style public surface in the suite, so small inconsistencies are disproportionately expensive.
  • Coordination note: High-value continuity task: preserve and review current local work before starting another gameplay or publication batch.
Drift note October 22: source main differs from the exported production commit, while the hosted production build matches that export. Review development on its owning machine; do not manufacture a fresh production date.

Star Swarm

Open project page
Standalone repo / hosted build importPublicProtect public surfacesEnergy mediumValue highHorizon short

A playable arcade-style formation shooter with data-driven packs and a prompt-assisted content forge, developed with Claude and Firstmate.

  • Likely current work: Independent Star Swarm game/content-platform development using Claude and Firstmate, as a parallel comparative attempt entirely separate from Aurora. October 22 deployment, notification, and hub import identify clean build 65d1434; source-owned docs remain authoritative for tested features.
  • Next step: Follow the source roadmap: configurable pack/stage editing and playability validation, broader lab previews, and art/audio provenance review. Choose one bounded batch; do not treat roadmap items as shipped.
  • Quality: State documentation is checked by tests, and deployment is gated by CI. This audit verified build identity and CI, not exhaustive gameplay quality.
  • Coordination note: Firstmate names the development platform used to build Star Swarm, not another project to measure. Attribute Star Swarm's working report to star-swarm, never Firstmate's own repository or agent-state backups. Keep Aurora's code, activity, releases, and roadmap separate. Agent-neutral deployed-build imports and the verified post-deployment notification remain unchanged.
Drift note The hub imports clean deployed build.json identities on refresh. Default-branch development is observed separately; detailed feature claims remain in the source architecture.

Windigo Portfolio Portal

Open project page
Private project summaryPrivate code and data / approved public summaryPrivate trackingEnergy mediumValue highHorizon ongoing

Private property-owner portal for financial review, booking reconciliation, and evidence-backed operations.

  • Likely current work: Owner-facing reconciliation, evidence review, and property operations. These are scope observations, not a verified release or current runtime assessment.
  • Next step: On the owning machine, review the active work lane and establish a sanitized status export under PRIVATE-PROJECT-STATUS.md. Verify a real release before naming it publicly.
  • Quality: Public boundary is explicit. Application correctness and deployment were not tested in this metadata review.
  • Coordination note: Private code and data remain fully private. Only approved descriptions, aggregate commit activity, and verified release metadata may be exported.
Drift note User confirmed this is the former Plan private rental portal entry. Keep the confidential-project id and page for link compatibility. Default-branch activity excludes other branches and local work; zero is not inactivity.

Financial Planner

Open project page
Private project summaryPrivate code and data / approved public summaryPrivate trackingEnergy mediumValue highHorizon ongoing

Private financial-planning application with explicit assumptions, source provenance, and review workflows.

  • Likely current work: Financial planning with explicit assumptions, source provenance, and review workflows. Current execution and release readiness need owner confirmation.
  • Next step: Establish a sanitized owner-approved status export; validate the active runtime, tests, and release policy privately before publishing a release label.
  • Quality: High-level documentation describes structured planning and auditability. This hub review did not validate calculations or financial advice.
  • Coordination note: Separate from Woods Financial Dashboard and Windigo. Keep all implementation and planning data private.
Drift note Initial metadata review reports 63 default-branch commits in the fixed August 31 to October 22 window. Counts are not code-only changes, effort, financial-data freshness, or a release.

Woods Financial Dashboard

Open project page
Private project summaryPrivate code and data / approved public summaryPrivate trackingEnergy mediumValue highHorizon ongoing

Private local-first personal-finance dashboard for source-backed financial review and reconciliation.

  • Likely current work: Local-first source-faithful financial review and reconciliation; the current work lane needs owner confirmation.
  • Next step: Review the discrepancy ledger privately, confirm the active runtime, and establish a sanitized owner-approved status export without publishing financial records.
  • Quality: This is a distinct personal-finance dashboard, not the rental portal. The hub has not validated its calculations or current data.
  • Coordination note: Keep source documents, balances, model details, code, and deployment addresses private. Publish approved aggregates only.
Drift note No default-branch commits in the reported fixed window does not establish that no local or branch work occurred. Release remains unverified.

AI Dystopia Quotes

Open project page
Standalone repo exportPublicSteady advanceEnergy lowValue medium-highHorizon short

Public project page for a curated corpus of recognizable dystopian AI quotations and source metadata.

  • Likely current work: Public main a0e7cc8 (October 4) adds cached artwork, work links, and editorial updates. The hub still represents the approved October 3 export from 3cbaf56; one source commit is ahead of the public export.
  • Next step: Have the owning project review a0e7cc8 and deliberately publish its approved JSON, page, and local artwork assets through its exporter. Do not update the manifest alone to imply those outputs were deployed.
  • Quality: The public page already reads cleanly and feels complete enough to trust; the main question is breadth and selection quality.
  • Coordination note: Source metadata reconciled. Measure future curation value by approved additions rather than scan count.
  • Evidence status: Approved corpus: 32 entries.
Drift note October 22 audit confirms a one-commit source/export difference. Public links work; the source owner must decide whether to publish the editorial and artwork batch.

AI Briefing

Open project page
Standalone repo exportPublic code and publication / private operationsProtect public surfacesEnergy mediumValue highHorizon short

A daily AI briefing, newsletter and podcast for early-stage investors: what happened, what holds up, and what it means, with occasional deep dives.

  • Likely current work: Beta publication, reader feedback, and development/release workflow improvements. The verified hub export is v0.1.4-beta, public source e701aaca, with the October 22 edition and deep dive.
  • Next step: Implement the separate approved daily working-activity report using REPOSITORY-HANDOFFS.md. Classify the private working history without exposing it, preserving the existing two-file release export and release facts. Then prioritize editorial accuracy and bounded reader feedback.
  • Quality: The 19-field export, public tag, canonical page, links, and freshness panel are verified. This audit did not validate editorial accuracy, email delivery, or audio quality.
  • Coordination note: Release exports own data/projects/ai-briefing.json and ai-briefing.html. The new independent working report may own only data/activity/ai-briefing.json. Source-owned upkeep remains to be installed; daily public checks cannot refresh private working activity. Keep operational and subscriber data private.
Drift note Initial registration gaps are resolved: the canonical manifest points to news-pipeline, source identity matches v0.1.4-beta, and its page loads current hub observations. Public code commit counts exclude private operations and editions.

PhD renovation project

Open project page
Standalone repo exportPublicSteady advanceEnergy mediumValue highHorizon medium

Public project page synced from its published repository or archive status manifest.

  • Likely current work: Exporter metadata now uses the source commit and real export time. A new --status-only mode refreshes public status without rebuilding thesis artifacts; the release remains 1.0.0.
  • Next step: Review the three pre-existing remote migration/reporting documentation commits separately, then continue intake triage.
  • Quality: One of the most mature documentation and validation surfaces in the suite.
  • Coordination note: Metadata fix published; the remote documentation branch remains a separate integration task.
Drift note Public metadata now represents clean source f5eea43. Artifact dates remain independent. The older local checkout was not altered.

Masters of Mathematics renovation project

Open project page
Standalone repo exportPublicProtect public surfacesEnergy mediumValue highHorizon short-medium

Public project page synced from its published repository or archive status manifest.

  • Likely current work: Exporter provenance and public runner-link reconciliation completed October 3. The exported release remains 1.0.0-rc.1.
  • Next step: Continue bounded portability or benchmark work; use the updated exporter for subsequent factual status changes.
  • Quality: Strong research-restoration presentation with clear public framing; still benefits from discipline more than expansion.
  • Coordination note: Small publication gap closed; defer broader benchmark expansion until deliberately prioritized.
Drift note Public status now identifies source commit 408c933 and the live runner URL. The runner responded HTTP 200 during this pass; experiment execution was not tested.

Steven Woods Public Record Project

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSteady advanceEnergy mediumValue highHorizon medium

Deep research archive for Steven Woods' talks, interviews, profiles, awards, and cross-company public record.

  • Likely current work: Person-centric continuity work, baseline identity tightening, profile preservation, and keeping the source-manifest and review-ledger split deliberate.
  • Next step: Use the content inventory to recover prior private transcripts, review existing first-person Q&A and resolve source identity/edition gaps. Keep LinkedIn exports and unreviewed transcripts in a private working repo; public copies need explicit approval.
  • Quality: Clear role boundaries and continuity surfaces; 21 of 22 approved records now have local artifacts. New Inovia and bio.link copies are explicit public-browser transcriptions, not original page dumps.
  • Coordination note: Use this as the canonical person-centric layer, not a dumping ground for company-depth material.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 22 approved / 0 deferred / 0 rejected (22 total).
Drift note October 26 added Inovia, bio.link and attributed Wikipedia content captures. LinkedIn remains uncaptured; capture dates do not replace original source/review dates. Committed content fingerprints do not prove multimedia completeness.

Steven at Google Canada Archive

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSteady advanceEnergy low-mediumValue highHorizon short

Research archive for Steven Woods' Google Canada period, covering leadership, Waterloo engineering growth, talks, interviews, and Canadian media coverage.

  • Likely current work: Now that the seeded baseline is public, deepen interview, media, and transition coverage in small, high-signal batches.
  • Next step: Add one more interview or ecosystem source batch, then tighten the public summary only if the center of gravity changes materially.
  • Quality: Now has a seeded, continuity-safe public baseline with room for deeper source density.
  • Coordination note: Good candidate for steady, source-batch progress rather than another structural pass.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 9 approved / 0 deferred / 0 rejected (9 total).
Drift note October 3 provenance repair records the archive's actual committed content and a fingerprint that excludes its own manifest. Dates retain the source history; this repair does not claim new research or completeness.

Steven at Inovia Archive

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSteady advanceEnergy lowValue medium-highHorizon short

Research archive for Steven Woods' Inovia period, covering leadership, talks, public appearances, and ecosystem-facing material.

  • Likely current work: Seeded-baseline maintenance plus current-role, team-profile, and ecosystem appearance capture.
  • Next step: Localize the current team profile and add one more public-appearance or ecosystem source batch.
  • Quality: The continuity structure is in place; the main gap now is source depth rather than project setup.
  • Coordination note: Best advanced through small, explicit source batches.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 3 approved / 0 deferred / 0 rejected (3 total).
Drift note October 3 provenance repair records the archive's actual committed content and a fingerprint that excludes its own manifest. Dates retain the source history; this repair does not claim new research or completeness.

Canberra / CSIRO / Knights Archive

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSeed and clarifyEnergy mediumValue mediumHorizon short

Research archive for Steven Woods' Canberra period, combining CSIRO work, Canberra life, and hockey with the Canberra Knights.

  • Likely current work: Still mostly a scaffold, with the core value in establishing a first honest source baseline rather than broad research.
  • Next step: Seed the first CSIRO, Canberra Knights, and local-context sources so the archive has a real evidence floor.
  • Quality: Clear structure exists, but there is not yet enough source depth to treat it as active archive work in the same way as the stronger projects.
  • Coordination note: Good candidate for a small, bounded seeding pass rather than a big research campaign.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: no formal source records yet.
Drift note October 3 provenance repair records the archive's actual committed content and a fingerprint that excludes its own manifest. Dates retain the source history; this repair does not claim new research or completeness.

SEI Pittsburgh Archive

Open project page
Shared-public archive subprojectPublicSteady advanceEnergy low-mediumValue highHorizon short

Research archive for Steven Woods' Software Engineering Institute period in Pittsburgh, covering publications, institute context, and startup-transition material.

  • Likely current work: Seeded-baseline maintenance plus additional staff, paper, and startup-transition context around the SEI-to-Quack bridge.
  • Next step: Add one more staff or transition-context batch, then refresh the summary only when the bridge story materially improves.
  • Quality: Strong continuity and evidence progress, with a published baseline that now supports steady deepening.
  • Coordination note: Good steady research lane now that the scaffold phase is over.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 12 approved / 0 deferred / 0 rejected (12 total).
Drift note October 3 provenance repair records the archive's actual committed content and a fingerprint that excludes its own manifest. Dates retain the source history; this repair does not claim new research or completeness.

Quack.com Archive Project

Open project page
Shared-public bridge archivePublicSteady advanceEnergy medium-highValue highHorizon medium

Collection of memories, demos, artifacts, press, and recovered code from the Quack.com era.

  • Likely current work: Preservation and source-completeness work around AOL by Phone, investor outcomes, first-party capture gaps, and stronger preserved press.
  • Next step: Keep working campaign-by-campaign, preserving fragile or first-party evidence before widening the editorial surface.
  • Quality: All 6 approved records now have local content captures, with 8 local paths across all 20 records; 14 deferred leads still need evidence work. The approved-copy page metric is calculated rather than hard-coded.
  • Coordination note: Treat the bridge record as compatibility, not as a second canonical home.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 6 approved / 14 deferred / 0 rejected (20 total).
Drift note October 26 preserved both approved patent pages and the Jeromy Carriere Waterloo profile, retaining original dates and approval labels. Source commits identify committed archive content, not a new historical discovery or complete image/PDF preservation.

Kinitos / NeoEdge Networks Archive

Open project page
Shared-public bridge archivePublicSteady advanceEnergy medium-highValue highHorizon medium

Canonical deep archive inside the shared public repo for the Kinitos origin story and the later NeoEdge Networks era, covering documents, demos, artifacts, and recovered code.

  • Likely current work: The preservation branch has been integrated in 993055e after reviewing its derivatives and removing private log filenames from the public lead note. All 24 approved records have existing local artifacts.
  • Next step: Resume deferred-source and public-corroboration research in bounded batches; raw private logs remain outside the repository.
  • Quality: One of the strongest deep archives in the suite after Steven and Quack, with clear continuity discipline.
  • Coordination note: Publication backlog closed; pursue source depth next, rather than repeating preservation setup.
  • Evidence status: Evidence baseline: 24 approved / 8 deferred / 0 rejected (32 total).
Drift note October 3 provenance repair records the archive's actual committed content and a fingerprint that excludes its own manifest. Dates retain the source history; this repair does not claim new research or completeness.