INCHINGTO AGIIndependent Research & Ventures · Alberta

Independent Research & Ventures · Alberta

Building small, evidence-led bets on consequential systems.

Justin Bumstead builds and documents practical projects at the edge of AI, infrastructure, and civic life—what changed, what worked, and what deserves the next inch of effort.

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01 / RESEARCH NOTES

Recent field notes.

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Project update

Building a source-verifiable road to the NHL

The archive now follows 151,078 player identities across 39 North American and European leagues while keeping incomplete historical denominators explicit.

1 min readProject update

Rebuilding Media from First Principles

Why do we do the things that we do?

1 min readProject update

Version 0.11 release

60 new topics added to the site

1 min readProject update

The first real build

Bringing order to chaos, one domain at a time

1 min read

02 / OPERATING PORTFOLIO

Selected active work.

Each public record states the project’s focus, current thesis, stage, and latest evidence. Incomplete records remain private.

01Operating

Stream of Consciousness personal operating system

CrossCurrents AI

Stream of Consciousness (SOC) began as a low-friction capture system for raw ideas. Its next role is broader: a personal management layer that connects thoughts, time, tasks, priorities, and portfolio projects while preserving natural conversation as the main interface.

Current thesis

A personal operating system should capture thoughts naturally, turn them into priorities and actions, and keep projects moving without adding administrative friction.

Updated Aug 25, 2026Review project Visit live project
02Validation

Critical minerals intelligence

Bedrock Bulletin

A living intelligence layer for understanding which Canadian critical-mineral projects matter, what blocks them, and what changed.

Current thesis

The energy transition does not have an information shortage. It has a decision-quality shortage.

Updated Jul 22, 2026Review project Visit live project
03Research

Taming the frontier of science

Institute for Exotic Science

Tracing the boundary where established science thins into open frontier, and frontier thins into speculation. The work is to map that boundary precisely — to know which pieces of an imagined technology are already real, which are credibly extrapolated, and which are genuine handwaving.

Current thesis

We're going to see thousands of futuristic tech problems become our new reality. This project aims to track them and see how that frontier moves forward.

Updated Aug 2, 2026Review project Visit live project
04Operating

Hockey development intelligence

The Long Road

The Long Road is a living hockey-pathway archive tracking players across North American and European leagues back to 1989–90, resolving historical teams and predecessor competitions, and following each player to verified NHL outcomes. It is built to answer who makes the NHL, which routes recur, and who fought through the minors to reach the top—without publishing a success rate until a complete official participant denominator is proven.

Current thesis

The path to the NHL is not a straight line. A source-verifiable archive can show which development routes actually produce NHL players—and surface the success stories hidden in junior, university, minor-pro, and European hockey.

Updated Aug 24, 2026Review project Visit live project
05Research

Public-interest software

NexusIntel

A small experiment in turning public plans, promises, and spending into a legible stream of delivery evidence.

Current thesis

Policy becomes more useful when citizens can see where it meets execution.

Updated Aug 25, 2026Review project
06Research

Find a fitness partner with compatibility in mind

FitMatch

A fitness-partner discovery concept that applies the matching patterns of dating apps to shared activities, goals, schedules, and preferred ways of training.

Current thesis

Finding a compatible fitness partner is a discovery problem. Better matching can make exercise more social, accountable, and consistent.

Updated Aug 25, 2026Review project
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APPROACH

“The future arrives as a series of small, testable decisions.”

I build in public to make those decisions legible: what I believe, what the evidence says, what changed, and what deserves another inch of effort.

Operating discipline
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Frame a consequential question

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Build the smallest useful lens

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Test it against reality

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Publish what changed

FIELD GUIDE / LIVING COVERAGE

The tools behind
the operating work.

A dated, opinionated record of the AI tools that have been tested, the jobs they handle well, and where they fit into real projects.

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