Field Forge holds four constraints and turns them into a live micro-app.

No prompts.
No build process exposed.

Just structured intention becoming something usable, a quiet experiment in civic software.

PreTect began not as a product, but as a discomfort — a sense that many of the most consequential decisions we make are taken without anywhere proper to stand.

Buying a house is a good example. You can see what a building is now, and imagine what it might become. But between those two sits a missing middle: a way to understand whether the future you’re imagining is actually plausible.

PreTect is an attempt to create that middle — a calm, grounded way of thinking inside the future before committing to it.

There is a particular exhaustion that comes from being everywhere — not physically, but cognitively.

Doomscrolling isn’t a moral failure. It’s a systems problem.

We are surrounded by machines that reward dispersion, keeping attention in motion until presence quietly drops out.

Somewhere between my prompt and the output, a boundary was encountered. A line had been drawn in advance, by designers, lawyers, ethicists, policy teams, and the quiet weight of geopolitical pressure.

The machine didn’t “decide”.
But a decision was present.

That distinction is the future.