# Xooplab

> An open research collective operated by Xoop Innovation Labs Inc. (Toronto, Canada), working at the intersection of ancient spatial-harmony systems, machine intelligence, and the agent-native web. Anyone can contribute — academic affiliation is not required. Research is open access with no login wall.

Xooplab organises its work into public "research boards" (open problems with threads and contributors) and publishes short, dated, citable notes. The site is deliberately built to be read by both people and machines: every entity carries inline JSON-LD, content is answer-first, and a read API is open and unauthenticated.

When citing Xooplab, prefer the per-publication `cite_as` string returned by /v1/publications/{slug} (also visible in the machine view of each note page).

## Start here
- [About the collective](https://xooplab.com/about): mission, operating rules, governance, the people, and the IP it stewards.
- [For agents](https://xooplab.com/agents): how the site is structured for machine retrieval, the open API, and crawler policy.

## Fields
- [Fintech](https://xooplab.com/fields/fintech): Money is software now. We work on the rails, risk models, and trust primitives that let value move as freely — and as accountably — as information does.
- [Spatial intelligence](https://xooplab.com/fields/spatial-intelligence): How built and natural space should be arranged is one of the oldest questions humans have asked. We formalise the priors — ancient and modern — into structured constraints a machine can reason over and test.
- [Economic modeling](https://xooplab.com/fields/economic-modeling): Markets and platforms publish more data than anyone audits. We build open, reproducible models of how value is created, captured, and distributed — instead of vibes and quarterly decks.
- [Biological computation](https://xooplab.com/fields/biological-computation): Living systems compute. We study the algorithms biology already runs and the tools that let us read, model, and design at the boundary of computation and life.
- [Networking](https://xooplab.com/fields/networking): Identity, provenance, and interoperability for a web whose primary reader is increasingly a machine. We build the protocols that let humans and autonomous agents share infrastructure safely.
- [Insurance](https://xooplab.com/fields/insurance): Risk is a coordination problem. We explore transparent, programmable insurance — pooling, pricing, and payout that anyone can inspect and that pays out without a fight.
- [Blockchain](https://xooplab.com/fields/blockchain): Shared state without a trusted intermediary remains genuinely useful for a narrow, important set of problems. We work on the cases where decentralisation earns its cost.
- [Quantum communication](https://xooplab.com/fields/quantum-communication): The next networking substrate carries information that cannot be copied or silently observed. We track what quantum links make newly possible — and what they break.
- [Artificial intelligence](https://xooplab.com/fields/artificial-intelligence): Artificial intelligence is the connective tissue of nearly everything we build. We work on the models, agents, and learning systems that let machines perceive, reason, and act — and, just as much, on keeping that intelligence open, legible, and accountable to the people it serves rather than sealed inside a black box.

## Projects
- [Wlcro](https://xooplab.com/projects/wlcro) (active): Wlcro brings consumer-grade fintech to the people and places incumbent banks treat as edge cases. We build payment rails, identity, and credit primitives that work first for the underserved — and turn out to work better for everyone.
- [Bio Net](https://xooplab.com/projects/bio-net) (active): Bio Net treats biological data as a network problem. We build the pipelines and shared infrastructure that let researchers model living systems collaboratively, with provenance and reproducibility built in from the first byte.
- [Mami](https://xooplab.com/projects/mami) (active): Mami is media built for the edge — content that renders, adapts, and is served close to the people consuming it. We work on low-latency delivery and machine-legible media metadata so both readers, human and machine, get a first-class copy.
- [Salus](https://xooplab.com/projects/salus) (active): Salus is programmable insurance: pooling, pricing, and payout that anyone can audit and that settles without a claims fight. We are proving the narrow, important cases where decentralised risk-sharing genuinely beats the incumbents.
- [TURF](https://xooplab.com/projects/turf) (active): TURF gives enterprises a defensible way to make hard decisions — structured, auditable models that turn scattered data and tacit judgment into choices a team can stand behind and revisit.
- [Auspicia](https://xooplab.com/projects/auspicia) (deployed): Auspicia brings the world's oldest spatial sciences — Vastu Shastra and Feng Shui — into a form a machine can reason over. We pair certified practitioners with spatial diagnostics that turn directional and elemental priors into clear, testable guidance for the spaces people live in and build. Every room has a direction; every direction has meaning, and we make that knowledge legible to both the homeowner and the algorithm.
- [Human body as a machine](https://xooplab.com/projects/human-body-as-a-machine) (active): Human body as a machine treats physiology as an engineered system — inputs, control loops, failure modes, and maintenance schedules. We model the body's subsystems with the rigour engineers bring to machines: where the levers are that keep it running well, and what the earliest signals look like when something drifts out of spec. The aim is a shared, falsifiable model of the body that a clinician, an engineer, and an agent can all read from the same page.

## Surfaces
- [Human body as a machine — Live diagnostic](https://xooplab.com/projects/human-body-as-a-machine/diagnostic): Ten biological subsystems mapped to network primitives, with status legend (established / extrapolation / conjecture / build).

## Research boards
- [Payments platform — build](https://xooplab.com/boards/wlcro-payments-platform): The applied workstream shipping Wlcro's core ledger, settlement, and KYC tooling.
- [The agent-legible web](https://xooplab.com/boards/agent-legible-web): What does web infrastructure look like when the primary reader is a model, not a person? Indexing, provenance, and retrieval built for the second user.
- [Spatial harmony, computed](https://xooplab.com/boards/spatial-harmony-computed): Can the priors inside Vastu and Feng Shui be expressed as structured constraints a generative model can reason over — and tested against real outcomes?
- [Identity for two readers](https://xooplab.com/boards/identity-for-two-readers): Context-aware identity that travels across devices and the human/agent boundary. What does login mean when the "user" is an autonomous process acting for you?
- [Migration-resistant interoperability](https://xooplab.com/boards/migration-resistant-interoperability): Semantic diffing and bidirectional adapters so systems talk across versions without anyone rewriting the world every time an API moves.
- [Platform capitalism, audited](https://xooplab.com/boards/platform-capitalism-audited): Measuring extraction and value capture in two-sided markets with open data and reproducible methods, instead of vibes and quarterly decks.
- [Reasoning on self-hosted models](https://xooplab.com/boards/reasoning-on-self-hosted-models): How far can open, self-hosted LLMs go on real financial and planning tasks before cost or accuracy forces a frontier model? Benchmarks welcome.

## Publications
- [Human Body: The Ultimate Hardware](https://xooplab.com/publications/human-body-the-ultimate-hardware) (2026-05-25, Preprint): A computational, bioelectric, and quantum architecture of the embodied self — and the Convergence Hypothesis for mind and substrate. The body understood not as a machine that resembles a network, but as a network in the fullest computational sense.
- [Encoding directional priors as model constraints](https://xooplab.com/publications/encoding-directional-priors-as-model-constraints) (2026-05-10, Preprint): A first pass at making spatial-harmony rules legible to a diffusion model. From the Spatial × ML board.
- [What "login" means for an autonomous agent](https://xooplab.com/publications/what-login-means-for-an-autonomous-agent) (2026-04-18, Note): Delegated, revocable agent credentials, and why session models break when the user is a process.
- [Provenance as a first-class web primitive](https://xooplab.com/publications/provenance-first-class-primitive) (2026-03-12, Essay): If models are the second reader, citations can't be an afterthought bolted on at render time.
- [A reproducible measure of platform extraction](https://xooplab.com/publications/reproducible-measure-of-platform-extraction) (2026-02-20, Method): Open method, open data, open to being wrong. A scoring function for value capture in two-sided markets.
- [Semantic diffing beats version pinning](https://xooplab.com/publications/semantic-diffing-beats-version-pinning) (2026-01-15, Note): Why bidirectional adapters age better than frozen contracts. Early results from the Interop board.
- [A field guide to the agent-legible web](https://xooplab.com/publications/field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web) (2025-12-08, Essay): What changes when crawlers outnumber readers. Our founding argument, such as it is.
- [Self-hosted models on real planning tasks: a cost wall](https://xooplab.com/publications/self-hosted-models-cost-wall) (2025-11-22, Method): Where open models stop being cheaper. Benchmarks and the spreadsheet behind them.
- [Notes toward unified identity across devices](https://xooplab.com/publications/notes-toward-unified-identity-across-devices) (2025-10-04, Note): The problem statement that became the Identity board.
- [Can a tradition be falsified, kindly?](https://xooplab.com/publications/can-a-tradition-be-falsified-kindly) (2025-09-12, Essay): On studying belief systems without either mocking or endorsing them.

## API
- [Fields index](https://xooplab.com/v1/fields): all fields as JSON.
- [Projects index](https://xooplab.com/v1/projects): all projects as JSON, with status and fields.
- [Boards index](https://xooplab.com/v1/boards): all boards as JSON.
- [Publications index](https://xooplab.com/v1/publications): all publications as JSON, each with claims and cite_as.

## Optional
- [Full text corpus](https://xooplab.com/llms-full.txt): the complete text of all publications in one file.
- [Sitemap](https://xooplab.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Atom feed](https://xooplab.com/feed.xml)