Why this site exists

For years, the best information-design work I’ve done never left the building. Rules for how a project reports its own status. Templates that turned a schedule with thousands of activities into something a team could act on in one look. Standards nobody outside a handful of EPC organizations ever saw.

This site is where that stops being true.

Two things are going up here going forward:

Papers. Articles that explain the actual principles behind information design under complexity: how to choose a chart, why most status reporting fails, what changes when the reader is a project team under deadline pressure instead of a casual audience.

The Library. OVP, the Open Visualization Protocol: a deterministic, open standard so that a chart type, once specified, renders identically for a human designer or an AI agent. No guessing, no generic bar chart by default. I’ll be writing about how it’s built as it grows.

If you work in Project Controls, EPC delivery, or you’re building AI agents that need to draw a chart and get it right, this is where I’ll be working in the open.