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.
- Sweet spot
- Narrative and go-to-market for infrastructure that does not have a story yet. Five years across autonomous AI and cryptographic trust: marketing for an AI-native L1 at Ritual, community for restaking at EigenLayer, go-to-market for agent governance at Inversed, research at a privacy venture studio. Audiences built from zero, contributor economies designed and run, and the primitive explained to developers, capital, and the room that can say no.
- 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.
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 If I cannot explain it from zero, I do not publish it.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 | |
| Index | Subnet Legibility Index | The top 32 Bittensor subnets, scored on whether a newcomer can understand them. | 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 |
I give voice to complex technologies as a player/coach.
The technology arrives before it has a narrative and metaphors to make it legible to a broader audience. I build those stories brick by brick.
Player/coach means I am in the work, not above it. I set the themes, then write, edit, and give notes alongside the team. The teams I have built, a community function from scratch, a marketing function pre-product, a brand team through hypergrowth, ran on shared purpose and high autonomy.
Technology this new does not have a story yet. My work is making it mean something to the people who decide its future.
If the technology is ahead of its story, let's talk.
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.