Initiatives:
Building systems that help people learn, grow, and navigate a changing world
These initiatives are where ideas leave the page and become practice-tested in public, refined with care, and guided by ethics, accessibility, and long-term thinking.
Why These Exist
These initiatives exist because I believe technology should help people grow, not pressure them to keep up.
I'm deeply passionate about building systems that are inclusive by design, accessible to people of different abilities, backgrounds, and learning styles. Too often, digital tools are shaped around efficiency, profit, or novelty, rather than care. My work pushes in the opposite direction, using technology thoughtfully, ethically, and with respect for human dignity.
Each initiative is an opportunity to explore how creativity, storytelling, and emerging tools like AI can be used responsibly. Not to replace teachers, communities, or human connection, but to support them. These projects are built slowly and intentionally, guided by long-term impact rather than short-term trends.
Initiatives — Structured Overview
What are the Grow Unbound initiatives?
Grow Unbound initiatives are long-term projects exploring education, artificial intelligence, hybrid church, digital ethics, and human development.
Key initiatives include:
The Unbound Initiative: A story-driven learning platform that adapts to each learner through narrative-based education, accessibility-first design, and ethical use of AI, supporting curiosity, reflection, and lifelong growth.
Beyond Infinite Skies: A daily AI-assisted storytelling experiment inspired by NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, blending real astronomy, ethical AI, and long-form narrative continuity for young readers.
VegaByte: An ethical AI-readiness initiative that evaluates how clearly websites communicate meaning, structure, and intent to machines, without sacrificing accessibility or human experience.
AI Readiness & Web Standards: experiments in preparing content for AI-first discovery and machine interpretation.
Threshold: An exploratory initiative examining presence, participation, and belonging in hybrid worship, where physical and digital church life intersect.
The Better Machine: A reflective writing series exploring faith, ethics, creativity, and technology, examining how shaping better machines begins with becoming better humans.
Purpose of these initiatives:
To test new models of learning, creativity, and digital stewardship in an AI-driven world.
The Unbound Initiative
Story-driven learning designed to adapt to the learner, not the other way around.
The Unbound Initiative reimagines education through narrative, where stories become the framework for understanding, curiosity is encouraged, and learning unfolds at a human pace. Instead of forcing students into rigid paths, it adapts to how each learner engages, grows, and reflects over time.
- Narrative-based education that supports lifelong learning and curiosity
- Accessibility-first design, guided by ethical and responsible use of AI
- Built to grow with students, evolving alongside their abilities and interests
Status: Active Development
Beyond Infinite Skies
A daily, unfolding story where science, wonder, and reflection meet.
Beyond Infinite Skies is a living AI storytelling experiment built entirely around real astronomical imagery and descriptions provided by NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) API. Each chapter is inspired by a single APOD entry, using authentic space imagery and scientific context as the foundation for a fictional, but educational narrative.
The project explores how AI can be used ethically and responsibly to support a never-ending story: one that maintains themes, characters, and narrative continuity over time while still evolving naturally. AI assists in sustaining long-form coherence, not replacing human intention or care. While the story is fictional, it remains rooted in real science, curiosity, and thoughtful reflection.
Designed for young readers ages 13-18, Beyond Infinite Skies blends imagination with learning, inviting readers to explore astronomy, science, and big questions through story rather than exposition.
- One thoughtfully crafted chapter released each day
- Entirely inspired by real NASA APOD imagery and explanations
- Educational science woven into a long-form fictional narrative
- A living experiment in ethical AI, narrative continuity, and evolution
Status: Live Experiment
VegaByte - AIZER Initiative
As the web shifts away from being purely human-consumed and toward being increasingly processed by AI, many organizations are unknowingly becoming invisible, misinterpreted, or excluded. AIZER exists to change that, ethically, transparently, and responsibly.
AIZER is both a diagnostic tool and a standards-driven approach. It evaluates how well a website or digital platform communicates meaning, structure, and intent to machines, without sacrificing accessibility or human experience.
Unlike traditional SEO or growth tools, AIZER is not about gaming algorithms or chasing rankings. It's about truthful representation, ensuring that what an organization is aligns with what machines understand it to be.
Status: Research & Development
Threshold Initiative
Exploring what it means to gather, worship, and belong in a hybrid world.
The Threshold Initiative is an exploration of the spaces where physical and digital church life meet. It asks a simple but pressing question: how do we preserve the human, relational, and sacramental elements of church when gathering extends beyond the walls of a building?
This initiative examines the lived experience of hybrid worship, where some gather in person, others online, and many move between both. Rather than focusing on technology itself, Threshold centers on presence, participation, and pastoral care: how people feel seen, welcomed, and connected in digital services and shared rituals.
- What does hospitality look like online?
- How do we design digital services that feel participatory, not passive?
- How do we honor reverence, silence, and community through screens?
- How can technology support, rather than dilute, the embodied life of faith?
Status: Research & Development
