I'm 22, based in Spokane, Washington, and full-time on COHESION since April 11, 2026. Background is psychology and communications coursework (in progress, not credentialed). Before this I ran a youth-mentoring nonprofit called The Flock and interned at Hutton Settlement, a residential care home for displaced children. I've spent thousands of hours sitting with people while they figured out what they actually believe, which turns out to be the relevant training for designing behavioural measurement of judgment.

Late last year I kept noticing the same failure mode across every AI-augmented workflow I observed. Radiologists accepting AI-highlighted scans they'd have caught as wrong a year earlier. Paralegals trusting hallucinated citations. Clinicians rubber-stamping AI triage recommendations. The operators weren't making bad decisions because the AI was bad. They were making bad decisions because they had stopped making decisions. I started calling it judgment decay. Once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it.

Since going full-time on April 11, I've shipped a 31-claim provisional patent (USPTO confirmation #1414), a 1,372-line open certification specification, a live production scoring API at api.cohesionauth.com, an SSRN preprint (6571519), a five-domain interactive demo across regulated industries, Delaware LLC formation, and 22+ outreach emails to AI leaders, regulators, and researchers. Solo. Fifteen-hour days. Using Claude Code at max effort as a parallel-workstream force multiplier. The only reason COHESION exists is that nobody with the credentials looked.