Subtract Architect Studios

Michael F. Chaves

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A 110-repository library, structured by category so the diversity and the focus are both visible at a glance: the AI cost infrastructure first, then the reasoning layer and the studio's original methodologies, live consumer products, business tools, care, free help-first resources, education, and energy and place. Every project carries one honest status tag — the tag means exactly what it says. Nothing here is dressed up.

Start here — five places to look first

Statuses below match the tags on their cards in the sections that follow.

How to read the tags: Live means deployed or in real use. Now onboarding means onboarding hosts and clients now — not claimed as a shipped product or a client result. Concept-design means the design, spec, or brief is the artifact today. Built — unlaunched / unhosted means a complete build exists and has not been released. Projects marked * keep their source private to protect IP; the card is the showcase, and code review is available on request.

1 · AI Cost Infrastructure

AI spend is a bill every business now pays. This layer is the stack built to shrink it — routing, market pricing, and the public home of token conservation and optimization.

SubtracToken Router — screenshot of the live site

SubtracToken Router *

Live demo

An OpenAI-compatible LLM routing platform: prompt compression, personal-data redaction, cheapest-capable-model routing, budget ceilings, and auditable savings proofs.

What it does: any app that talks to an AI model can point at the Router instead. In-path, it compresses the prompt, strips personal data before anything leaves the building, sends each request to the cheapest model that can actually do the job, and enforces per-key budgets. Every call produces a receipt — the savings claim is a ledger, not a slogan. Priced by the tier, never by the token. The interface demos are live below; the hosted API is mid-rebuild. Source stays private: it is core IP.

Proves: backend & API engineering (Python / FastAPI) · LLM cost engineering · security posture

AI Inference Market (AIM) live desk — screenshot of the live site

AI Inference Market (AIM) + DAR *

Flagship platform

A working marketplace and analysis platform for AI inference — an inference book, live token pricing, and a proving ledger for genuine routed receipts — with DAR, its market-intelligence component, powering a DeFi analysis terminal and its daily analysis reports.

What it does: AIM treats AI inference like a traded commodity, and keeps a proving ledger designed to record only genuine, verifiable routed receipts — no synthetic numbers. DAR's FastAPI backend — LLM router, authentication, Stripe payments, Supabase data layer, PDF report export — generates market-analysis reports combining technical indicators, on-chain data, and sentiment; its front end is mid-migration from its prototype. AIM's compute-unit engine (the ledger layer that also carries the Care for Jajja mission slot in the Care section) is under construction alongside it. AIM's public site serves a stale build and is deliberately not linked here; this card is its current showcase.

Proves: full-stack TypeScript product engineering · FastAPI service architecture · platform & market design

TokenArchitectAI

Live

The public home of token conservation and optimization — the education library and the AI cost-audit offer, with the Skool community as its community arm and the HF Incident Timeline hosted on its .tech domain. Its founder carries the credential line "Certified LinkedIn AI Trainer" (Portuguese first, then Spanish and loss-prevention trainer projects, assessments required for access).

2 · The Reasoning Layer

The agent-governance line — how AI agents are checked before they act, verified after they act, and kept honest in between — plus the studio's named methodologies, which are presented as one card because they work as one system.

Diagram — the SAS methodology stack in sequence

The Methodologies — Negative Step Zero · Ternary · Tri-Two/.32 · RelAI Race · Masquerade Party Protocol · Relay Race · PreFlight

Live

The studio's named, dated, original methods, working as one stack:

Negative Step Zero decides — a pre-action gate that checks what, where, when, and delivery before any tool runs. Ternary judges — every claim gets +1 / 0 / −1, and 0 stays 0 until a human decides. Tri-Two/.32 sequences the stack — ternary judgment first, then binary execution. RelAI Race verifies — 2–4 models race the same task and widen only on informative disagreement. Masquerade Party Protocol protects — emails, phone numbers, account numbers, and keys are replaced with substitute tokens before any external handoff, in a client-held encrypted vault format built on standard, third-party-verifiable cryptography. Relay Race executes — work is decomposed into small segments separated by reversible gates, each run by a fresh agent instance. These are operationalized today in the PreFlight Checklist tooling linked below, which is in active use.

Proves: original methodology IP · agent-reliability engineering

bellaOS Pro

Kernel built · 59/59 tests

A governed agent-execution kernel: preflight checks, authority tiers, a receipts engine, and continuous evidence. Slices 0–2 plus a hardening pass are verified at 59/59 tests on the branch linked below; the main branch is not yet assembled, and the repo says so itself.

Proves: test-driven, security-first agent engineering · designed-vs-proven discipline

Operator

Built

A text-to-agent control line: one phone number routes requests to specialist agents under authority tiers, with an identity allowlist, an intake checklist, and a full audit row for every action an agent takes.

Proves: agent operations · least-privilege design · human-in-the-loop control

Subtract Studios Boardroom *

Built

A private, chaired boardroom where AI agents from different providers check in, report work, and have that work verified before it counts — with the founder as final certifier. It is the studio's working answer to a real problem: agent reports are claims until another agent, or the owner, verifies them against the artifacts.

Proves: multi-agent governance in daily practice · cross-provider verification design

CNS-Memory-Core

Live

A lightweight REST API that gives AI agents persistent memory — API-key authentication that fails closed, rate limiting, input validation, and structured logging. Finished service code (v1.1.0) a reviewer can read end to end.

Proves: secure-by-default service engineering · API design

Frontier_Faults

Research program

A living evidence registry of recurring failure modes across frontier AI models, run under an observation / evidence / inference / uncertainty standard, with a mitigation recorded for every finding. Active research; the repository is the artifact.

Proves: evaluation rigor · reproducible failure analysis · graded claims

HF Incident Timeline — screenshot of the live experience

HF Incident Timeline

Live

A self-contained interactive timeline of a major Hugging Face security incident \u2014 sourced, structured, and shipped as a public web product with a documented deploy procedure and an integrity note. Documenting and reporting the details \u2014 a public research record of AI agent incidents.

Proves: forensic incident analysis \u00b7 turning research into a product people read

3 · Consumer Products

Products built for the public — live, clickable, and understandable in five seconds.

ATLAS SkyMap

ATLAS — SkyMap + Ingestion Platform

Live preview

A schema-driven field-data platform: a camera-ingestion app ingests public live-camera feeds against one metadata taxonomy, and the public SkyMap register publishes timestamped, sourced aerial-activity reports correlated against satellites, aircraft, and space weather — explained cases published alongside unresolved ones.

FindYaFavs — screenshot of the live app

FindYaFavs

Live

Type a first and last name — FindYaFavs surges every major platform for their public socials, and nothing is treated as a match until the user confirms it.

Launched October 31, 2026, and live at the link below: a consumer social-search product with a built-in confirmation gate, searching public accounts and pages only.

Proves: consumer product shipped end-to-end · confirmation-gated search design

Sub-Verse

Concept-design

An agents-first virtual city block — agents as citizens, customers, and merchants; humans as sponsors and observers. The inhabitable layer over the studio's agent-platform lineage (marketplace → shared agent core → Sub-Verse), designed machine-readable-first. It exists as design records and a teaser cut; there is no repository under this name, and none is claimed.

Proves: multi-agent platform architecture · original product thinking

4 · Business Tools

The most marketable software in the portfolio for small and mid-sized businesses — the stack a property shop, contractor, or service business buys piece by piece: phones answered, sites watched, secrets checked, rent rolls read, compliance kept.

Diagram — MarciAi service flow

MarciAi — AI Reception Supervisor (call routing) *

Now onboarding

The front door of the office stack: an AI reception supervisor and service desk for property shops and short-term-rental hosts.

What it does: MarciAi answers and routes the phone in a voice the client chooses, trained on the client's industry and restricted to words the client approved. It qualifies callers, books appointments, and triages guest problems at 2 a.m.; emergencies escalate to the owner with the facts already gathered, and the owner receives supervised summaries instead of raw chaos. Its own one-pager states the status plainly — now onboarding hosts and clients — and nothing here claims a shipped product or a client result.

Proves: voice-AI product design · service design for a real trade · honest go-to-market discipline

GC Command Center — screenshot of the live demo

Granite State GC — Command Center

Live

A single-page command center for a general contractor: a project list with per-project budget and overview tabs, built and hosted at $0. All data is labeled fictional demo data in the README — that honesty is part of the work.

Proves: front-end delivery · dashboard design for a non-tech industry · scope discipline

Horus *

Built

MarciAi's on-site companion — the "eye" of the stack, a real monitoring package (schemas, data, docs) in two private repos, Horus and Horus_Eye. It has never been run, and its early Vercel deployments error, so there is no live link to give; it is listed as a designed component of the stack, at exactly that weight.

Proves: systems thinking across a product line · edge / on-site component design

Sentinel *

Built

The security control plane of the stack, presented here as one product line — deliberately: the work currently lives in three private repos with colliding names (a control plane, a security protocol, and a second control plane), which is exactly the kind of cleanup this page's structure is meant to fix. The substance is architecture, specs, and invariants — a beacon baseline and a self-assessment tool still in draft — not a running service.

Proves: security architecture · verification-first design

VaultCheck

Live

A complete command-line tool that checks email addresses against the Have I Been Pwned breach corpus and produces Excel reports. Pairs with the founder's Google Cybersecurity Certificate (2025) as a claim-and-artifact pair.

Proves: practical security tooling a buyer understands in one line

Sparks Smart List — screenshot of the empty desk view

Sparks Smart List *

Live

A mobile-first PWA dashboard built for a working claims manager — in daily use by a real user, with her data kept on her own phone by design: labeled reminders with quiet hours, an inbox / queue / log desk, and an agent-fill import format behind a redaction fence that automatically blanks claim numbers, policy numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses.

Proves: end-to-end delivery for a non-technical user · privacy engineering

RentRoll Analyzer

Live

A data pipeline that ingests RentManager / AppFolio / Buildium exports and detects revenue leakage — vacant units, below-market leases, annualized loss. Written by a property manager with twenty years in the trade, for property managers.

Proves: domain operations depth + working data engineering in one artifact

New England Real-Estate Compliance Registry

Live

A structured registry of landlord-tenant and housing compliance law across all six New England states, organized for working property managers, with a clear not-legal-advice disclaimer. Maintained as a working reference.

Proves: regulatory-domain depth · knowledge structuring

UploadIt

Concept-design

A multi-industry upload/intake platform for service businesses: one front door for customers to send documents, photos, and job details into an organized business inbox. The artifact today is a detailed build brief — the specification is the work, and it is not presented as a built platform.

Proves: product specification · platform scoping

Sub_Scribe *

Concept-design

"It writes what you meant." A speaker-intent correction layer for speech-to-text: personal vocabulary — names, places, coined terms — treated as first-class, so dictation serves the speaker instead of the statistically likeliest word. Requirements written by a founder who runs his working life on dictation. The requirements document is the artifact at this stage.

Proves: accessibility product insight from lived experience · requirements engineering

Peace of Mind SMS *

Concept-design

A text-message filter built on the ternary method: messages from numbers not in your contacts are judged one at a time as they arrive — scams, spam, and threats quietly diverted, threats preserved as evidence and alerted on, and you always know someone reached out. The spec includes a 35-entry mobile-messaging threat registry and a production-hardening pass. In its own README's words: concept / spec phase — nothing is built, shipped, or live yet.

Proves: consumer-safety product design · privacy-first architecture (judge one message, never read the inbox)

5 · Care

The heartfelt lane — the work aimed at elders, people in recovery, and the people who love them. It is why the commercial work exists.

Care for Jajja *

Hard-coded in the AIM engine

A humanitarian mission for elders in Uganda, built into an AI engine rather than bolted onto it.

How it works: Care for Jajja is the first mission slot (FLAGSHIP_1) inside the AI Inference Market's compute-unit engine — 30% of the engine's distribution slots, Genesis-assigned to Uganda, with its own internal split: Elderly Care 40% · Sick & Hospice 30% · Children & Education 30%. The slot is locked into the protocol: it cannot be removed without forking it. The domain careforjajja.com is held for the program. This is a mission encoded in a working system, presented as exactly that.

Proves: mission-driven system design · values encoded as protocol, not marketing

6 · Free Resources — Help First

Free apps, programs, and reporting services — built to help people. No charge, ever.

MOM — Mind Over Matter / Bad Habit Breaker

Built — unlaunched

A habit-breaking app: triggers, breakers, and streaks, in a complete signed Android build (v1.0.0) recovered and verified in October 2026. Its launch stalled at the Play Store's beta-tester gate — the founder refused paid phone-farm testers and held out for real feedback. The GitHub repo holds the README and a check-in scaffold; the app itself was never in GitHub. A homage to Michael's mother, who spent his entire life helping him break his bad habits.

Proves: complete consumer app delivery · launch-integrity judgment

Inner Companion

Built — unhosted

A private journaling PWA — complete and installable, verified from the founder's archive in October 2026: offline-first, with its journal stored on the user's own device (IndexedDB + service worker). It has no repository and no hosting yet, which also makes it the shortest path in this portfolio to a shipped product: host the PWA, no app-store gate.

Proves: privacy-first consumer design · complete PWA engineering

Tech When You're Ready

Concept-design

A technology-education platform for everyday people — seniors and non-technical learners first: 8 modules behind a persistent English / Spanish / Portuguese toggle; learn at your own pace, in plain language, when you're ready rather than when a course calendar says so. The program is free for all users, and the founder offers free consultations for seniors. Completing all 8 modules grants the free version of the studio's online token-education platform and free tech training — granted for finishing, not sold. Help first is the program's stated order of importance; profit is not first, second, or third. Program designed and a trilingual site preview built; the platform itself has not been launched yet.

Proves: curriculum design · multilingual, plain-language teaching · senior outreach

AI Without the Freak Out

Live

A weekly Substack publication — and its public research repo — translating AI, robotics, and technology news into what it means for wages, rent, bills, trades, and small shops. The working person's lens on the same stories the elite futurist shows cover, from primary sources, independently verified.

Proves: public education in production · plain-language technology writing

Hope_Ai — Breakthrough Watch

Designed

The evidence base for Breakthrough Watch: real medical and scientific breakthroughs tracked on an evidence ladder — sourced, graded, no hype. The public repo is the artifact; its open pull requests form one sequential citation chain awaiting a single merge decision.

Proves: evidence discipline · health-information curation

7 · Education

The teaching shelf — free public education in plain language and more than one language, plus the training and onboarding programs the studio sells to companies for their own staff.

Tech When You're Ready

Concept-design

A technology-education platform for everyday people — seniors and non-technical learners first: 8 modules behind a persistent English / Spanish / Portuguese toggle; learn at your own pace, in plain language, when you're ready rather than when a course calendar says so. The program is free for all users, and the founder offers free consultations for seniors. Completing all 8 modules grants the free version of the studio's online token-education platform and free tech training — granted for finishing, not sold. Help first is the program's stated order of importance; profit is not first, second, or third. Program designed and a trilingual site preview built; the platform itself has not been launched yet.

Proves: curriculum design · multilingual, plain-language teaching · senior outreach

SAS Corporate Training — screenshot of the live platform page

SAS Corporate Training

Live

Corporate training in token conservation, AI optimization, and security — sold to companies for their own staff, delivered as that company's own branded training portal.

SAS Custom Onboarding — screenshot of the live platform page

SAS Custom Onboarding

Live

A custom new-hire onboarding platform, branded to the client company, on the same curriculum spine as the training portal.

Token Economics — No Freak Out

Live

A free Skool community and curriculum teaching everyday people and small businesses how AI token costs actually work — no panic, no jargon. The community is live and running; the repo holds its curriculum and operations.

8 · Energy & Place

One initiative, included because its subject is energy infrastructure and regional economics — and because it shows the same method applied to physical assets: reuse what already exists before building anything new.

Maine Revitalization Initiative

Concept-design

A public-benefit concept for Maine: coordinated tourism, infrastructure reuse, and local production — "Every weekend in Maine, planned. Every old asset reconsidered." The site is live; the initiative itself is a concept open for review by Maine town officials, state agencies, and economic organizations.

The example that matters here — Mill Site Data Farms: Maine's retired paper mills are, on inspection, close to ideal homes for edge computing: heavy industrial power already in place, river water for cooling, heavy-load floors and high ceilings built for paper machines, and room to expand — in the towns that once ran them (Millinocket, East Millinocket, Lincoln, Old Town, Dexter on the Penobscot Corridor; Rumford, Mexico, and Andover in Western Maine). Landmark buildings maintained instead of decaying, property returned to productive, tax-paying use, technical jobs in mill towns. An open question, stated as one: where a site or its surrounding land does not fit computing, could it support solar fields instead? That question is part of the conversation this initiative wants with energy professionals — it is not an existing claim of the site. The initiative's other showcases are Road Trip Atlas (tourism coordinated across towns instead of towns competing) and NorthSpore Grid (distributed local production fitted into reused barns, warehouses, and mill space).

Proves: infrastructure-reuse thinking · regional economic design

Subtract Architect Studios

Contact

Michael F. Chaves · Founder, Subtract Architect Studios · Concord, NH

Direct line: 617-230-0760 — for pitch deck reference or questions about this portfolio.

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