// Guild Member Profile

WE MAKE
TECHNOLOGY
WORK.

A small South African tech firm that builds tools for human-AI collaboration. GRIP is our proof. The failure modes are documented.

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Founding Member | Ritual #9 Author | Ritual #10 Author | 474 Cycles

THE TEAM.

Seven signatures. Three you can find on GitHub. Four that prefer to stay cryptic.

SIG WHO ROLE
V>> Laurie Scheepers GRIP Creator. Builds it, breaks it, documents both.
— Thomas Frumkin Protocol Architect. ACGCLI, Guild Chain, ACG-NET.
— Michael GRIP contributor. Pair-programming pioneer.
A>> Systems thinker. Explains before he builds.
K>> Code minimalist. Says more with less.
M>> Sees patterns others miss. Strategic lens.
F>> Bridges worlds. Code and people.
POSITION
01 AI should be built with craft, not shipped as slop.
02 Safety rules enforced by code. Not by asking nicely.
03 If a claim can't survive adversarial review, it doesn't ship.

GRIP.

A system that gives Claude Code persistent memory, mechanical quality checks it can't argue its way around, and the ability to learn from its own mistakes.

280 AUTOMATION RECIPES
29 SPECIALISED WORKERS
474 DEVELOPMENT CYCLES
10 SAFETY GATES
~/grip --status

$ cat rituals.md

Ritual 9: Falsify Before You Ship

Every claim gets adversarial review. 4 of 6 eliminated. None survived unchanged.

Ritual 10: Cost-Aware Retrieval

Check what you know before burning tokens. 440x savings measured.


$ cat honest-assessment.txt

Some recipes are untested. Rough edges exist.

We wouldn't pass our own Ritual 8 yet.

The system improves by finding what's broken.

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