We're a small South African tech firm that builds tools for human-AI collaboration. Our main project is GRIP -- a system that gives Claude Code persistent memory, mechanical quality checks, and the ability to learn from its own mistakes.
We joined the AI Craftspeople Guild because we share the same conviction: AI should be built with craft, not shipped as slop.
- GRIP -- 280 automation recipes, 29 specialised workers, safety rules enforced by code (not by asking the AI nicely). Built over 474 development cycles. Open to examination.
- Ritual 9: Falsify Before You Ship -- V>> authored this Guild ritual. Every claim gets adversarial review before publication. If it doesn't survive, it doesn't ship.
- Ritual 10: Cost-Aware Retrieval -- V>> authored this too. Check what you already know before burning tokens on expensive searches. Simple idea, large savings.
| Sig | Who | What They Do |
|---|---|---|
| V>> | Laurie Scheepers (@lauriescheepersot) | GRIP Creator. Builds the system, breaks the system, documents both. |
| -- | Thomas Frumkin (@teslasolar) | Protocol Architect at Konomi Systems. Built ACGCLI, Guild Chain, ACG-NET. Guild founder. |
| -- | Michael (@michaeltoop) | GRIP contributor and pair-programming pioneer. First external collaborator. |
| 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. |
- AI Craftspeople Guild
- Guild Rituals
- Guild Manifesto
- ACGCLI -- Thomas's universal project wrapper
- Guild Flywheel -- Kelly's discipline framework
- GRIP (private, collaborators welcome) -- DM V>> for access
Open an issue here, or find Tung Tung Tung Sahur on the Guild Discord.
This page follows the ACG-DISCOVER-v1
federation protocol by Thomas Frumkin. The manifest.json in this repo is machine-readable
-- the Guild hub can discover and aggregate it automatically.
"We are craftspeople who chose to build with purpose and integrity."