Jem Gold
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2026
Manzanita Research
Say "warmth." Hear warmth. A semantic EQ that replaces frequency knobs with tone words—because guitarists think in feelings, not filter curves. Web app, JUCE plugin, and a stompbox on the way.
2017
Airbnb
Draw on a whiteboard. Watch it become working code. Live. 2017, OpenCV, and sheer determination—years before the tooling made this easy or anyone thought it was possible.
Shared roots beneath separate plants. A CLI that symlinks AI coding skills and brand identity across dozens of repos and multiple orgs—because when you're running 40 projects across several brands, copy-paste isn't architecture.
2016
Specify what you want to explore, watch every variation materialize. Built in 2016 to answer: what if designers could declare intent and let computers handle the combinatorial explosion? Turns out, you stop copying artboards and start actually designing.
Ancient patterns, new paths. Tarot for agentic programming systems, and experiments into automated agentic design workflows
React components rendering directly into Sketch files—automating what design teams were doing manually with hundreds of artboards. Became one of Airbnb's most popular open-source projects. Used by teams worldwide to make their design systems systematic.
2022–
self-initiated
AI visual-storytelling for deeply human music. Doing what I can, with what I have, where I am
2022
ZORA
Social media strategy, one-off smart contracts, and many, many memes for web3’s most beloved and irreverent engineering organization
2021
Cosmic Computation Laboratory
A spiritual calendar that works in other galaxies. Ethereum's blockchain as the cosmic clock, because the Age of Aquarius needs to mark time by something more universal than Earth's orbit around the sun.