A working arts ecosystem
Zac grew up around the Artisan Resource Center, the 43,000-square-foot Marietta working-arts center co-founded by his parents and built around dozens of independent studios.
Explore the center ↗The person behind the product
This idea has
a long family tree.
Zac Potter is an independent researcher and systems builder in Atlanta. His work moves across art, health, knowledge organization, ethics, and product design because he keeps returning to the same question: how do complex human systems become clear enough to use?
Let AI Introduce Us is the latest branch of that work.
Proof of work
Different domains.
One recurring method.
A whole system, built over years
Zac founded Lion's Heart Health and authored its 196-page book-and-workbook system, developed with professional review. Sarah Potter served as Creative Director and Graphic Designer.
See the case study ↗The method, made researchable
At the 19th International ISKO Conference in São Paulo, Zac presented how knowledge-organization systems can shape what people see and reason about in complex social structure.
View the conference slides ↗The newest expression
Let AI Introduce Us applies the same pattern to social AI: find the human problem, make the surrounding system legible, and turn it into something people can inspect and challenge.
Walk through the product ↗How I work
Start human.
Make the system legible.
I begin where a hard human problem is still shapeless. I map the people, permissions, incentives, information, and failure modes, then turn that map into something experienced specialists can test and improve.
- 01Find the human problemBegin with the experience people are trying to reach, then choose technology that serves it.
- 02Model the systemMap actors, permissions, incentives, information flows, edge cases, and second-order consequences.
- 03Organize the architectureTurn complexity into primitives, layers, modes, interfaces, and decisions that can be challenged.
- 04Prototype quicklyMake the thinking visible enough to test, criticize, improve, and build.
- 05Bring the right disciplines inInvite engineering, design, research, legal, privacy, security, and safety expertise to strengthen the work.
The practical ask
I want to help build this.
I am approaching this role because it sits directly on top of a product category I want to help create. If the idea or the way I developed it is useful, I would value a conversation about where I could contribute most.