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Paul Visciano


Sci-Fi is reality — minimalist design for every surface, mobile, desktop, and augmented reality.

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Field notes from Sci-Fi Labs — how spatial apps for web, mobile, and XR take shape.

They can pull the plug — cloud cable cut, local model still running
Essay · Dependency

They can pull the plug

Anthropic cut OpenClaw off Claude subscriptions. Overnight, agents that ran people’s work stopped. That is what a stack you do not own costs.

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Too dangerous for you — AI vault open to officials, closed to the public
Essay · Power & control

Too dangerous for you

Government can kill a frontier model for the public overnight. Trusted orgs keep the keys. Citizens wait outside the vault.

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Utility vs Personal AI — tool agent vs companion agent
Essay · Agent design

Utility vs Personal AI

OpenClaw proved agents could do things on your computer. It also tried to be a companion. The same agent can rarely be both.

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Who has your data?
Essay · Privacy

Who has your data?

Your data is already tracked, sold, and resold by a dozen companies you cannot easily leave. OpenClaw is just the next door.

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Who owns the answer? — one answer replaces many options
Essay · AI & influence

Who owns the answer?

We used to Google something and read a page of results. Now we ask a model and get one answer — owned by someone.

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Reclaim your data — personal data flowing into a private knowledge graph
Essay · Data sovereignty

Reclaim your data

Data is currency. Platforms and brokers already know it. A local knowledge graph is how you keep the value.

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Knowledge Graph series
Series · 1 of 3

KG · The canvas and the stack

Infinite canvas, time as depth, and the whole stack on 16GB of shared memory.

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Knowledge Graph series part 2
Series · 2 of 3

KG · Voice, mobile, and the queue

Mic permissions, Metal watchdogs, conversation nodes, and a server-side LLM job system.

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Knowledge Graph series part 3
Series · 3 of 3

KG · A living interface

Component extraction, design tokens, timeline as dimension, and the Sci-Fi Labs frame.

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Bonsai
Field note · Local models

Bonsai on a 16GB Laptop

How PrismML’s 1-bit models make 27B-class reasoning practical for Knowledge Graph without the cloud.

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Grok Bot
Field note · Agent systems

Grok Bot

xAI’s early beta: AI teammates that sign into your tools, work in parallel, and return finished work.

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Knowledge Graph
Sci-Fi app · Sovereign memory

Knowledge Graph

AI without the chat window — a private spatial canvas for memory, running entirely on hardware you own.

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Where is Paul
Sci-Fi app · Spatial life map

Where is Paul?

A living spatial record of a life — globe, timeline, and stories that turn real moments into something navigable.

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Sci-Fi app · 3D music

Musical Cubes

Music production as something you turn — rotating 3D instruments on web, PWA, and native mobile.

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About

Paul Visciano

Now I design and build the full stack myself — web, mobile, and XR — using AI as a collaborator. Across a range of projects, the goal is the same: turn science-fiction ideas into real products, and push web technologies past their usual limits.

Underneath it all is a longer bet. Sovereignty. Memory you own. Models you run. Tools that answer to you — not rented, not watched, public only when you choose.

Before going independent, I was a Principal Engineer at OutSystems — design systems, shared UI, the patterns teams reuse so enterprise software doesn't reinvent itself on every project. That work crossed into Stencil.js, the open-source compiler from the Ionic team that turns TypeScript and JSX into real web components. I partnered with Apple to implement features they requested for their internal design system, built on Stencil, and contributed to the project directly.

Before that, more than a decade at Paylocity on Core Mobile — the app employees open to clock in, request time off, and check a paycheck. Paylocity serves roughly 44,000 companies and more than six million people on the platform. We rebuilt it more than once, through Ionic and Xamarin, so other teams could ship without fighting the stack.

11yrs

Core Mobile at Paylocity

269

Open source stars

27

Countries traveled

170+

Developers onboarded

2026 — NOW

Independent Designer & Engineer · Self-employed

Building sovereign AI systems, spatial storytelling, and selective client work after leaving OutSystems in March 2026.

2024 — 2026

Principal Engineer · OutSystems

Worked on the OutSystems design system and helped Apple implement features for their internal design system built on Stencil.js, contributing directly to the open source project.

2014 — 2025

Senior Software Engineer, Core Mobile · Paylocity

A decade on the team that built Paylocity Mobile — Ionic, Xamarin, and the Web API underneath.

2011 — 2013

Software Developer · Quad/Graphics

Early product and internal tools at a major marketing and print company in Sussex, Wisconsin — one of the largest commercial printers in North America.


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