Development prototype · synthetic economics

Can your portfolio grow without making people pay the hidden cost?

Alexa+ is the voice. AT Protocol is the portable body. Obsidian is the creator-controlled memory. PIXIE makes the system ask before it acts.

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Full screen is optional and starts only when you ask. Press Escape or choose “Use windowed workspace” to leave it.

Creator capture · off by default

Your camera and microphone answer to you

Choose what PIXIE may use for this session. The browser asks permission only after your selection. Recordings remain in this page until you download or discard them.

Choose capture sources Microphone Camera

Camera off · microphone off · not recording

Vocal commands are optional and browser-dependent. Supported commands: “start recording,” “stop recording,” “discard recording,” and “mute microphone.”

No passive listening, server upload, face recognition, emotion or health inference, transcription, or publication occurs here. Download, transcription, Audio.com handoff, and AT Protocol publication are separate future actions.

Quarter 1

Steward three holdings

Every figure is fictional. Select an allocation, review PIXIE's preview, then approve or cancel.

Portfolio interpretation

No allocation has been approved. The portfolio remains entirely under your control.

The inversion

A body without corporate possession

Voice

Alexa+ provides conversation through an open MCP interface.

Steward

PIXIE explains uncertainty and waits for explicit approval.

Body

AT Protocol can carry deliberately public identity and provenance.

Memory

Narrative Provenance keeps the private archive in the creator's Obsidian vault.

Creator-controlled memory

A vault the creator can still understand without PIXIE

Ordinary Markdown and unchanged attachments remain usable in Obsidian, Finder, Files, or any text editor. PIXIE previews a move and its rollback before touching the archive.

Capture: originals arrive in 00 Inbox.
Classify: fact, creator statement, third-party claim, interpretation, inference, or unresolved.
Preview: show the original path, destination, reason, collision risk, and rollback.
Approve: move only after the creator agrees; keep the receipt in 30 Decisions.
Publish separately: an AT Protocol receipt requires another explicit decision.

Creator production pipeline

The DAW is a source—not a disposable upload step

PIXIE preserves the Loptr Lab DAW session, source recordings, stems, mixes, masters, captions, artwork, credits, and release manifests as related but distinct assets.

Create

Loptr Lab DAW, video editor, writing, design, task, and production tools keep their editable originals.

Review

PIXIE previews filenames, rights, versions, captions, destinations, and rollback before handoff.

Play

A standards-based HTML5 audio/video package works natively and can be enhanced by Plyr with WebVTT captions.

An approved master receives an Audio.com metadata handoff; upload and Public/Unlisted visibility remain creator decisions.

Aether OS is a possible browser host to test later. No native Aether integration, security guarantee, or partnership is claimed. Audio.com upload is manual or requires a future documented/approved API.

Hackathon development status

What is built, what remains, and what it costs

BuiltGame loop, consent preview, MCP tools, AT receipt preview, Obsidian vault, production contracts, and local creator capture

NextPublic repository, HTTPS deployment, Alexa+ review, accessibility testing, demo video

BoundaryNo health inference, location tracking, food ordering, real finance, or silent file actions

Planning estimates; donated founder time is still economic value
Work	Hours	Cash range	Moves PIXIE forward
Production deployment and Alexa+ MCP validation	18–30	$0–$300	Turns the local proof into a judgeable voice workflow
Obsidian adapter and reversible file-action test	20–35	$0–$500	Demonstrates the original file-stewardship thesis
Accessibility review and paid co-design	12–20	$600–$1,800	Tests whether control and cognitive load work for people
Demo, captions, submission, and promotion	15–25	$0–$400	Makes the ecosystem legible in under three minutes
Total remaining	65–110	$600–$3,000	Prototype—not full clinical, ordering, or production platform

At a planning value of $75 per development hour, remaining labor represents $4,875–$8,250 before cash expenses. A prize accelerates accessibility testing, hosting, and compensated co-design; it does not erase the labor already contributed. Prize eligibility and amounts remain governed by the official hackathon rules.

One practice · separate authorities

Explore the ecosystem

Veiled Dominion — power becomes mastery through restraint.
Break the Grid — systems can manufacture crisis.
PIXIE Device Stewardship — the person describes intent; the system handles machinery.
Narrative Provenance — local authorship, rights, consent, and evidence memory.
Made Sick — voluntary creator care and economic agency.

This is an independent Loptr Lab prototype. No affiliation with or endorsement by Amazon, Bluesky, Obsidian, the Financial Times, artists, or referenced fictional franchises is implied.

Provenance & Open-Source Acknowledgments

Attribution & Lineage

PIXIE Holdings builds on foundational open-source tools, interactive narrative design patterns, and open specifications.

Financial Times

Uber Driver Game — Conceptual & structural inspiration for balancing quantitative metrics with human friction in synthetic micro-economies.

inkle / Ink

Ink Scripting Engine — State-driven branching narrative design patterns and choice-divert structures.

AT Protocol

Bluesky Social — Decentralized open network protocol driving the portable identity and Lexicon receipt structures.

Obsidian & MCP

Obsidian & Model Context Protocol — Open standards for creator-controlled local memory archives and standardized voice agent tool interfaces.