The Work · In Public

Where the work
lives in public.

Writing, building, and conversations about technology that serves everyone — not just those who already speak the language.

Video

Building in public.

Short-form work from @c.fu.cac — the ideas, unfiltered.

The Catalyst Game video
// the catalyst
Lauched the first Catalyst Game on 07.07
Not community work. Collective work. And it's the piece people get most excited about.
First Real Transmission video
// we build
Building an App, Live, With the Room
The trailer for the weekly LIVE series where the community shapes what gets built, in real time.
First Real Transmission video
// first transmission
First Time Showing My Face
The introduction — who's behind the account, and what this space is really about.
// live feed — coming soon

Space held for an auto-updating TikTok feed embed. For now, the latest work is always on the profile.

Watch everything on TikTok →

Writing

The long form.

Essays and series on technology, wellness, and the space between.

01
The Room Has Failed
The Room Has Failed
On the spaces built to serve people that measure the wrong things — and who gets left out when we optimize for the metrics instead of the humans.
Substack 02
I Thought I Was Just Tired
I Thought I Was Just Tired
The personal reckoning underneath the work — building a life that fit everyone's idea of me except mine, and the stillness it took to see it.
Medium 03
The Workaround Economy
The Workaround Economy
A series on the invisible labor of making broken systems work — and what it costs the people forced to build the workarounds.
Substack · Series

The People's Build

An app, built in the open —
by the people who'll use it.

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Most software is built for you, behind closed doors, by people you'll never meet. This one's different. Every week, the community shapes what gets made — the research, the decisions, the direction. Run like a campaign, because that's what it is: a movement to prove technology can be built with people instead of at them.

01 Built in public No black box. The whole process — the wins, the dead ends, the decisions — happens live and in the open.
02 Shaped by the room The community does the research and helps steer what gets built. You're not watching — you're building.
03 Owned by everyone Technology as something a community makes together, not just something they're sold.
Join the build.
Follow the roadmap, take on research, and help decide what comes next. No tech background required.
Join the movement →

The Consciously Connected Experience

Some of the most powerful work
isn't written or filmed. It's played.

Alongside the essays and the builds, Cielo Studio runs a live transformational experience: The Catalyst Game — a 30-day gamified challenge where people pull the vision of the life they want into reality, a little every day. Not community work. Collective work. And it's the piece people get most excited about.

The Catalyst Game

A game you play against your own defaults.

Each day brings a different prompt — a small, intentional move across the seven domains of a life: infrastructure, joy, sovereignty, signal, and beyond. You score yourself at the start. You score again at the end. The distance between is the point.

It's structured enough to guide, open enough to hold whoever shows up.

// what players said

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It doesn't matter that it's a computer; I can enjoy the experience I'm having with it. She explained what it really was — creating your vision, and pulling it into reality a little every day. It transformed everything for me.
Cycle 01 Participant
A powerful tool for honest self-reflection and meaningful growth. It creates the space to pause, assess where you are across the domains of life, and recognize both your strengths and the areas ready for attention. Cycle 01 Participant
Every prompt is slightly different from what I'm used to. It's refreshing. I had always avoided computer games — this transformed everything for me. Cycle 01 Participant
See how the experience works →