I’m an independent researcher and the founder of Variable Zero, which develops approaches to AI decision governance. My work sits where neurobiology, predictive processing and AI meet: I study how people weight information differently, and how the majority’s social shortcuts pass into institutions and into AI systems. I’ve published three hypothesis papers on this, each with its own falsification tests. Before research, I spent most of my career as a business owner in recruitment, advising and strategic partnerships. That’s where I learned to connect people and ideas across silos, and to notice when a system judges by proxies instead of substance.