Founder & Principal Researcher, Project Navi
Building mathematical and governance frameworks that let AI systems adapt without fracturing.
Project Navi provides navigation infrastructure for AI systems — the measurement frameworks and governance protocols that make coherent adaptation possible.
The Four Pillars:
- DSC — Differential Symbolic Calculus for measuring creative regimes
- WMC — World Model Capital for trust allocation in machine cognition
- REO — Relational Emergent Ontology as philosophical foundation
- Schema Registry — Versioned data models and canonical data contracts
Enterprise: Navi Pro — Code intelligence and governance infrastructure
Published in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (APA, 2024) on peer workforce retention. Managed $600K+ in federal (BJA) and corporate (Elevance Health) grants. 10+ years leading cross-system behavioral health programs.
- Trajectory-based alignment for AI safety
- Multi-stakeholder coordination measurement
- Real-time coherence tracking during system transformation
projectnavi.ai · Schema Registry · nelson@projectnavi.ai
Machine cognition, human values.



