From Lab to Life30 Sep 2026 · Essay
The Right Context, Not All of It
Written deliberately as a lesson rather than a product story, taught through The Curator v3.80.0.
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The thesisChasing Jarvis: The Bottleneck Was Never the CodeWe are learning to build and ship real digital products using AI coding agents. The gap between idea and shipped product is no longer technical, it is contextual.The methodEvery Product Needs a HomeBuilding a modern website in the age of AI agents: a manual, told through the new website of The CuratorThe researchContext as Architecture: Full-Corpus Grounding, Orchestrated Agentic Development, and Compliance-by-Design in a Production AI Assistant PlatformThis paper reports a longitudinal design-science case study of a single production artefact — Lumina, a multi-tenant AI assistant platform — across two complete generations built fourteen months apart in capability terms and seven months apart in calendar terms.
From Lab to Life20 Sep 2026 · Essay
The Context Engine
Three kinds of context, three write rules, and a project that outlives the session, the harness, the model and the machine
From Lab to Life18 Jun 2026 · Essay
The Curator — Product Update (v3.0.1-beta.20 → beta.23)
Release notes for The Curator v3.0.1 beta.20 to beta.23: Shared Brain synchronisation improvements, a new test-automation infrastructure, and stability fixes.
From Lab to Life1 Jun 2026 · Essay
Building the Organization of Tomorrow
ORGANISATION OF TOMORROW (ØØT): An Open-Source Framework and Playbook for Partner-Run, AI-Augmented Organisations
Research1 May 2026 · Paper
Organisation of Tomorrow (ØØT) — Building the Organization of Tommorow: An Open-Source Framework and Playbook for Partner-Run, AI-Augmented Organisations
Presents ØØT as an open-source framework and playbook for partner-run, AI-augmented firms.
From Lab to Life27 Apr 2026 · Essay
From Graph to Intelligence: The My Curator MCP and the Art of Querying Your Second Brain
How My Curator MCP Turns Your Second Brain into a Frontier AI Research Partner
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From Lab to Life23 Apr 2026 · Essay
Building Knowledge Immortality Through the Second Brain Architecture and The Curator App
The philosophical case for the second brain: knowledge immortality, externalised expertise, and curation (compounding) versus retrieval (stateless).
From Lab to Life30 Jan 2026 · Essay
OpenClaw: The AI Assistant That Lives in Your Pocket (And Actually Gets Things Done)
A research-based overview of OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot / Clawdbot), the open-source, always-on personal AI assistant created by Peter Steinberger.
From Lab to Life15 Oct 2025 · Essay
How I Built an AI-Powered Vacation MCP Search Tool in 14 Days (And Why You Should Care)
The MountVacation MCP server build story, and one of the first open-source MCP servers for tourism.
From Lab to Life1 Sep 2025 · Essay
Data Sovereignty in the AI Age: Building Your Own Private ChatGPT
In my work, I regularly encounter businesses paralyzed by AI’s data requirements. A law firm wants to analyze contracts using AI but cannot risk client confidentiality. A manufacturer needs AI-powered documentation analysis but won’t send proprietary processes to external servers.