Canvas & Chaos

Project Concept

Muse Board is a spatial canvas where you drop anything, text snippets, images, color swatches, links, voice notes, sketches, quotes…and a real-time AI collaborator analyzes the full canvas to surface connections you didn’t see. The AI isn’t in a chat sidebar. It’s on the canvas with you. Its outputs are spatial objects you can move, dismiss, connect, or build on. The interaction IS the interface.

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Daniel Riaz Team Lead RSVP Approved

Founder at Trend Up Digital

Daniel developed the project concept, created personality of the LLM's responses to the user's entries as part of the core UX, created and organized the team, as well managed the team submission. Tools used for Anthropic's Claude Code (Opus 4.6), VSCode, Github etc...

Knowledge chaser with a passion for creative platforms and technologies. Enjoy exploring emerging media and new storytelling platforms. Spent my career growing consumer facing unicorns, and advising startups across incubators in San Francisco and overseas. Looking to authentically connect with both mission driven and artistic enterprises.

LLM storytelling, voice-driven UX, Realtime 3D Avatars

Right now I am tinkering with both LLMs, and real-time 3D. I love realtime 3D from a raw visual and creative standpoint, but very curious about how LLMs can be used for narrative or storytelling. Recently built my own AI agent to explore the full voice stack and can see my agent (Professor Alan) here, https://github.com/driaz/Professor-Alan Per the realtime 3D tinkering you can see a portfolio of works across Unity and Unreal Engine 5 here -- artstation.com/daniel-riaz

Douglas Goldstein RSVP Approved

Program Lead, Emerging Technologies (AI/XR) at Fashion Institute of Technology

Douglas served as creative director and product architect — defining the conceptual framework (the connection taxonomy, ghost nodes as first-class citizens, the epistemological rules), writing the prompt architecture that drives every analysis, and designing the full user experience from canvas to 3D graph. He directed the demo strategy, curated the fragment library, and shaped the narrative arc that turns a technical demo into an emotional reveal about hidden connections between strangers.

Doug Goldstein is a creative technologist and educator working at the intersection of computer vision, embodiment, and social interaction.

AI-native consumer products; CV-powered, embodied social experiences; playful feedback systems that shape behavior and self-perception; early-stage company formation and studio-style building; connecting with potential cofounders—especially designers and engineers—interested in exploring new product behaviors before categories harden.

Lately I’ve been tinkering with CV-powered social apps that use the body and face as interfaces—exploring how real-time feedback, play, and presence can shape behavior and connection.

Gautam Nair RSVP Approved

Founder at Self Employed

I built Constellation end-to-end — a semantic fragment graph tool where users curate text and image fragments on a canvas, then two Claude personas (a Semantic Cartographer and Professor Alan) map the invisible topology between them as a navigable 2D/3D force-directed graph with six connection types. I scaffolded the project using Ralph Loops and multi-agent orchestration for rapid parallel development, and owned the full-stack architecture

engineering, rock climbing, founding, music

Working on a platform called Gig Connector - a platform for local musicians and venues to find each other to coordinate hirings for performances and allow both parties to track relevant metrics.