Clay Good

Essays

Everything Is a System A synthesis of psychology, neuroscience, control theory, and contemplative practice, on the quiet architecture beneath a life that works, and why goals don't matter, but systems do.
Ads in the Age of AI A case against in-line advertising in LLM conversations and agentic workflows. Why the pitch is bad business, bad math, and bad faith, and a tour of the monetization moves that pay more per user, with better margins, while keeping the model on the user's side. Armorly is the quiet client-side refusal.
Forward Deployed Engineering An honest map of what AI is and is not good for. Why probabilistic systems should handle cognition, deterministic systems should handle verification and execution, and why this is exactly how the human brain has always worked. A field guide for solutions architects, embedded engineers, and anyone tempted to wire a chatbot to production.
Govern at the Source A case study in AI governance. An examination of the endpoint, network, and application layers, the workflows that flow through each, and where the design trade-offs actually live.
The Kinetic Execution Firewall When AI controls a physical body, the gap between hallucination and harm is measured in milliseconds. A proposal for closing it.
Roll Your Own Build vs buy in the age of AI. How cloud-native primitives, open content, and language models collapse the cost of replacing the enterprise software you used to rent - with security tooling as the worked example, and “death to the dashboard” as the natural progression for the workflows that were never meant to be watched.

Utilities

Products

Kyntic Passive OT network monitoring delivered as a managed service for OT/ICS environments. One failsafe device. Two cables. Zero complexity.