DRIFT
A shared decision substrate. Humans hold authority. AI consults on demand. Automation acts where resistance is bounded.
Most AI tells you what to decide. DRIFT exposes the decision landscape, empowering the decision maker.
DRIFT does not automate decisions. It makes human decisions more defensible.
Most XAI explains the past. DRIFT illuminates the path forward.
Your stack doesn't change.
DRIFT is infrastructure. Your inputs, your agents, your UI plug in. The engine is the constant.
your users already produce
or skip this layer
briefings · widgets
- Deterministic Identical inputs always produce identical outputs.
- Stateless No data from one request influences another.
- Complete Every alternative scored on every layer.
- Validated Inputs schema-checked; invalid requests rejected.
The interface in action
Three AI agents reasoning over a sealed engine, live on edge hardware.
Hero node consuming live PX4 / MAVLink telemetry. Synthetic threat overlays via authenticated inject channel.
Same engine, different domains
The claim DRIFT is built around.
Applied live as analytical lead for the Landolt photometric calibration mission at SRR and MDR. 216 slides, 9 formal Requests for Action generated, 44 uncovered requirements identified.
Three independent DRIFT engines running on Raspberry Pi edge hardware as a simulated drone swarm. Peer reconciliation catches stale-state failures invisible to single-node systems.
Real-time race strategy: tire state, track evolution, pit window, safety car probability. Different landscape, same engine.
Collaboration on community-scale decision-making under sea level rise uncertainty. A domain with no shared vocabulary with autonomous systems, and the engine runs unchanged.
Agency-scale application on Palantir AIP and Foundry. Same engine, running from agency view to portfolio view to single-program view. Live demonstration available under NDA.
Shared Decision Substrate
Where humans and AI work safety-critical decisions together, neither replacing the other.
Air traffic control. The Secretary of Transportation has committed $12.5 billion to modernization with AI as a stated component, and his framing is exact: AI tools, but AI does not make decisions. That is the framing DRIFT was built for.
Resistance, freedom, and hardening rendered as structured representation. Weather, fuel, coordination, rules, equipment — the pressures controllers carry in their heads today, externalized into a working surface that both humans and AI agents read.
Holds full decision authority. Signs the clearance. Carries the consequence. Brings judgment, experience, and accountability that does not transfer to a machine.
Reads the same landscape. Provides a consistent analytical floor that does not change with who is at the console, how many hours into the shift, how busy the day has been. Surfaces blind spots. Answers questions on demand. Never recommends actions.
What was invisible becomes visible. Stakeholder divergences that today stay hidden in voice coordination surface automatically. System-level patterns that no individual facility can see become detectable across the network. The cognitive context of every operational moment is captured as ground truth, not reconstructed after the fact.
Not a prediction engine. Not a recommendation system. Not a surveillance tool. DRIFT does not generate controller performance metrics — this is a public commitment, not an aspiration. The pitch to the workforce is offensive, not defensive: AI as a colleague at every position, not a replacement for any of them.
Terrain Network
Observations up · Context down · Decisions stay local.
Each facility runs its own Node with full decisional independence. Aircraft Resistance Profiles travel with each aircraft across handoffs. The Hub aggregates qualified reports across the network and surfaces patterns no individual Node could see. Observations flow up. Context flows down. Decisions stay local.
Matthew D. Magsamen
Tell me about your decision environment. I will follow up to schedule a private demonstration.
Patent Pending · US Provisional 63/988,869 (DRIFT) and 64/013,824 (MSR)
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