I turn complexity into conviction for infrastructure at the frontier.
Five years building autonomous AI and cryptographic trust: private transactions, the chain agents run on, the security other networks borrow, the governance layer that decides what an agent can and can't do. Nine years of brand, community, and change work before that.
- Currently
- Co-founder, Compression. Advising company redesign centered on agents, currently a 1,200-person consumer brand.
- Open to
- A scoped narrative or go-to-market project with a protocol, a foundation, or a fund. An advisory seat. Or a full-time Head of Marketing, Head of Narratives, or Go-to-Market Lead at a network layer. Remote or Colorado, with a week or more of travel a month.
- Next
- Exploit Summit, Montreal, September 28 to 29. I mapped the room before going: every organization on the stage and the sponsor wall, by what it actually does. mikyo.one/exploit →
Three ways narrative turns into adoption.
Translating the primitive, not the slogan
At Ritual I explained native inference, trusted execution, and self-scheduling agents to developers, researchers, investors, and a general audience before there was a product to demo. At Inversed I wrote two interactive white papers on the infrastructure and organizational layers agents integrate with. If I cannot explain it from zero, I do not publish it.
Audience and community from nothing
Ritual's foundation account from zero to 40,000, a combined audience past 100,000, and a community that quadrupled while its peers shrank. At EigenLayer I built the community function at the moment restaking was being named, then ran it through two stakedrops and the token launch. Growth on narrative, not incentives.
Narrative for the hard audiences
Positioning for regulators, investors, and enterprises. Threshold's go-to-market anchored to the EU AI Act's 2026 enforcement window. A privacy product validated with three trading desks at Decent. Research turns into revenue in the room that can say no, and that is the room I write for.
Four seats, one category.
The point of view, in public.
| Affiliation | Type | Title | One line | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Map | Exploit Montreal Mapped | Exploit Summit 2026: 58 organizations, mapped by what they do. | Sep 2026 | |
| Essay | The Bleed | A day a week per person, freed by AI and never put on the books. | Jun 2026 | |
| Essay | Organizational Metabolic Syndrome | Why added intelligence makes some organizations worse, and three fixes. | Jun 2026 | |
| Essay | Time Under Load | Technology moves on an exponential, organizations on a line. | Jul 2026 | |
| Thread | Intelligent Money | Smart contracts are deterministic, not smart. Ritual Foundation, 74K views. | Dec 2025 | |
| Thread | EVM++ | Execution sidecars as a base-layer primitive. Ritual Foundation, 32K views. | Dec 2025 | |
| Thread | The World Computer | The precompile that gives Solidity a browser. Ritual Foundation, 24K views. | Dec 2025 | |
| White paper | The Agentic Stack | Nine layers of autonomous agent systems, infrastructure to governance. Interactive. | 2026 | |
| White paper | The Organizational Stack | How organizations become agent systems. The companion to the Agentic Stack. | 2026 | |
| Film | Unlocking Human Coordination | Documentary on EigenLayer's ethos. Co-director and executive producer. | 2024 | |
| Film | Building Web3 Showcase | Three films for Protocol Labs: Starling Lab, Audius, Textile. Executive producer. | 2020 |
Player-coach, editor first.
I hold one editorial standard for everything that goes out under a name I am responsible for: build the idea from zero, so a reader who has never met the technology gets the whole thing, and say the most in the fewest beats. No borrowed vocabulary, no slop, no line I would not put my own name on. That standard is the job. The channels are where it shows up.
I lead by being in the work. I set the themes a team is hitting, then write, edit, and give creative feedback alongside them. The teams I have built (a community function from scratch, a brand and content team through hypergrowth) ran on shared direction and real ownership, not review chains. How that scales depends on the seat. For a head of narratives or marketing, it is a small team of specialists in brand, social, and design given one editorial direction and real ownership of their lane. For a go-to-market lead, it is the users, partners, and ecosystem builders who end up carrying the story for you. Either way the move is the same: find the serious people early and give them a reason to stay.
And I build the system behind the story: audience and community analytics, evaluation loops on what is landing, a house style enforced mechanically, because a narrative that cannot survive contact with the numbers is a liability. The story and the instrumentation are one product.
Technology this new does not have a story yet. My work is making it meaningful for the people who will decide whether it lives or dies.
If your mechanism is ahead of its story, let's talk in Montreal.
A scoped project, an advisory seat, or a full-time narrative or go-to-market lead at a network layer. Remote or Colorado. I am at connect@mikyo.one, or book directly below.