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Satori Canton

AI Product Leader · Head of AI · Board Member · Batesville, Arkansas

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

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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.

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.

From Interrogation to Creative Session

How rethinking an AI agent's interaction model took HeartStamp from a 96% bounce rate to 87% completion.

Redesigned Stampy's interaction model from an average 8-question interrogation (96% of users bounced before seeing a card) into a 4-step creative session that 87% of users complete.

AI Product Leadership

AI UX

Agent Design

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Architecting FarmVille

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The Spec Is the System

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

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.

AI Strategy

Specification Engineering

Prompt Engineering

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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.

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.

Specification Engineering

AI Agent Design

Open Source

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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.

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.

Art Installation

Electronic Engineering

DML Audio

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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.

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.

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