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Satori Canton

AI Consultant · Board Member · Founder · Batesville, Arkansas

I've caught two technology waves from the very beginning. Here's what I've learned.

Case Stories

Every claim on my resume is backed by a real story. These are the situations, the work, and the outcomes — unfiltered.

From Broken Pipeline to Board Seat

How diagnosing HeartStamp's AI failures led to pivoting their entire model strategy — and a board seat.

a 30-person AI-powered greeting card startup with an ambitious generative AI vision that needed both technical and strategic direction

Diagnosed LoRA training failures, pivoted the company to a model-agnostic prompting system using art historical vocabulary, guided MVP launch, and joined as Board Member.

Architecting FarmVille

Lead ActionScript architect for the game that defined social gaming and reached 80 million monthly players.

Zynga, building what would become the most viral social game in history on the Facebook platform

Designed and built the client-side ActionScript architecture for FarmVille, which reached 80+ million monthly players and defined the social gaming category.

Rally the Team, Own the Wave

How a company layoff in 1996 led to founding a game studio, publishing with Activision, and eventually owning the definitive Flash developer community.

a team of game developers rallied after a company layoff, evolved into a studio that rode two technology waves — PC gaming and then interactive web

Founded Satori Interactive in 1996, shipped games with Activision and Viacom, pivoted to Flash, acquired ActionScript.com, rebranded in 2003, and ran the definitive Flash developer community for nearly two decades.

Building the AI Art Community

A decade of neural network research, 300+ articles on art movements, and one well-timed community launch.

the generative AI art explosion of 2023 — and the decade of ML research and art historical study that preceded it

Founded StyleGuideAI, grew a 1,000+ member AI artist community, developed systematic approaches to AI art direction, and built the reputation that led directly to the HeartStamp engagement.

300 Articles, One Obsession

How writing deeply about every major art movement for a decade built a systematic vocabulary for AI image generation.

a decade of self-directed art historical research culminating in 300+ published articles on art movements and AI generation techniques

Built a systematic art-historical prompt vocabulary, published 300+ articles on Medium, and established the domain expertise that powers StyleGuideAI's consulting practice.

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AI Strategy

Specification Engineering

The Spec Is the System

Why vague AI instructions are a liability — and the framework I built to fix that.

enterprise AI deployments where long-running agents were producing technically impressive but fundamentally wrong outputs

Developed the AI Fluency Ladder and Five Pillars of Specification Engineering framework, published as a Medium article, and shipped an open-source Claude skill (specify) that implements the full workflow.

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Specification Engineering

When the Tool Is Its Own Proof

Building an open-source Claude skill that implements the Specification Engineering framework — and discovering the SKILL.md is itself a spec.

a self-directed open source project to encode the Specification Engineering framework as a reusable, deployable Claude skill

Designed and shipped 'specify' — an open-source Claude skill that walks any agent task through the Five Pillars of Specification Engineering — and published it as a reusable workflow anyone can deploy.

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Art Installation

Electronic Engineering

Sound You Can See

Building a 10,000 sq/ft art and maker space where the speakers are original paintings, the sound is shaped by DSP, and audio becomes animation.

a personal creative space — 10,000 sq/ft of art studio, event venue, and maker space — founded in Batesville, AR in 2018

Opened Satori Gallery featuring 20 original musician portrait DML flat-panel speakers driven by a 5-channel DSP audio system, a full wood/metal/leather maker space, and recurring Oscilloscope Art events where audio channels drive real-time visual animations.

One Model Is Not Enough

Building an AI agent harness that uses your ChatGPT subscription to challenge Claude — and a 'dark factory' that executes long-horizon specs while you sleep.

a self-directed open-source project — published as @scanton/phase2s on npm — built to solve real problems I hit every day using AI for software development

Published Phase2S: a full AI coding agent harness with 29 built-in skills, cross-model adversarial review, a 'dark factory' for autonomous spec execution, and 1,191 tests. Works on your existing ChatGPT subscription — no API key required.

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Open to fractional and project-based engagements. No forms, no scheduling links — just a direct conversation about the actual problem.