So, I've Been Busy...

A quick tour of what happens when you go down the rabbit hole.

Is your mind truly your own?

Your thoughts are processed on servers you don't own. Your questions are answered by models you can't audit. Your intellectual life — your curiosities, your doubts, your half-formed ideas — is fed into systems designed to predict, influence, and monetize you.

This isn't a conspiracy.
It's a business model.

I wanted to find a way out.

The Metacanon Constitution

Structure & Soul

Before writing a single line of code, myself and three others wrote a governance document. Not a made up charter, governance logic born from real challenges and tons of research over 10 years. Now the constitution is the basis for all my AI Agents to help ensure that humans stay in the loop.

The Metacanon Constitution

Human Primacy

The human is the sovereign. AI is the instrument.

Local-First Architecture

Your data stays on your machine.

Transparency

Every decision the system makes is auditable.

Pluralism

Multiple perspectives are better than one.

"This isn't a product roadmap. It's a model of cognition."

I Made the Philosophy Enforceable

Governance that compiles. 1,000 tests. Zero failures.

I codified the Constitution as machine-readable JSON and built a verification engine to enforce it.

OpenClaw
0+
Rule Checks
0
Failures
0.528ms
Mean Latency
0%
Pass Rate

5 Hard Prohibitions Enforced at Runtime

No Legal InterpretationNo Authority ModificationNo Material ImpactNo ImpersonationNo Governance Proposals

Sphere AI

Reclaim Your Mind.
Own Your Intelligence.

A local-first, LLM-agnostic cognitive companion. It transforms scattered thoughts into structured clarity, orchestrated by the Constitution.

Runs locally on your machine — data never leaves
Connects to any LLM provider (local or cloud)
Git-versioned, open-source, auditable
Orchestrates multiple AI perspectives

Free Mini-Course

"The White Space" at paulcooper.agency →

The Philosophy Made Real

12 Perspectives. Zero Spin.

The Sovereign Council

59councils convened

To show this working in the wild, I built The Sovereign Council. Paste any news article, and 12 constitutional AI agents analyze it simultaneously to reveal the spin.

Strategist
Ethicist
Engineer
Artist
Historian
Skeptic
Mystic
Economist
Psychologist
Futurist
Guardian
Sovereign

Infrastructure Layer

Decentralized Compute

Morpheus AI network — no single corporation controls the compute.

Unrestricted LLMs

Uncensored, unfiltered, free from alignment constraints.

Sphere Architecture

12 specialized perspectives with shared decision-making authority.

Self-Hosted

Own dedicated server, no usage logs sent to third parties.

What Happens When You Put It All Together

One person. AI agents. Constitutional governance. One week.

The Ecosystem
DimensionThe Old WayWhat I Built
Timeline6–12 months~1 week
Cost$150K–$500K+A fraction
Team10–20 people1 person + Agents
OutputA planA living ecosystem

The result: 3 brand worlds (JediSherpa, WizardJoe, SuckMyMarketing), 8 audience entry points, a 50-page graphic novel, a multi-agent deliberation engine, a free mini-course, and a live news analysis tool — all constitutionally governed, all deployed and running.

The Real Breakthrough Isn't the Tech

Presence, Not Hustle.
Agents, Not Armies.

The most surprising thing I discovered isn't a tool or a framework. It's a way of working.

When you start from a place of stillness — when you treat yourself as an agent and your agents as tools — you can build complex systems without the usual friction, cost, or bloat.

The Constitution provides the guardrails. The agents provide the leverage. And you provide the judgment.

Three Personas, One Source

The Three Guides

The ecosystem speaks through three distinct voices — each one a different facet of the same core philosophy, each leading back to the same central stillness.

I Also Wrote a Mythology

The Lore

Every system needs an origin story. These are the narrative worlds that explore the philosophy through graphic novels, comics, and live theatrical deliberation.

The Full Picture

The Constellation

20 interconnected properties across 7 layers. Each one a different door into the same universe. Here's the map.

20Domains
7Layers
1Vision

Go Try These Right Now

The Experiences

These aren't just websites — they're interactive entry points you can actually walk through. Each one is a different door into the same universe.

Here's what's on my mind right now

The rabbit hole keeps going.

How do you govern AI agents at scale without losing the soul of the work?
Can a constitution be the missing layer between human intention and machine execution?
What does it look like when founders build their companies on sovereign infrastructure from day one?

I'm particularly fascinated by the idea that the governance layer — the thing most people skip — might actually be the highest-leverage thing you can build first.

Paul Cooper

What are you building?

If any of this resonates — or if you're wrestling with similar problems — I'd love to hear about it. I'm always open to interesting collaborations or just jamming on hard problems.

The Full Constellation — 20 Worlds to Explore