
Build useful
pieces of a
better future.
Technology, human capability and the physical world can grow together.

What is Solarpunk?
An optimistic lens for the future.
Solarpunk is an optimistic lens for imagining technology, nature and communities working together. It asks a simple question: what would it look like if the things we build helped the world flourish?
SolarPunkWorks is a technology and innovation company exploring that question through AI, software, education, creativity, media and physical products.

Our vision
Technology should help people become more capable.
People, nature and technology are not competing forces. The interesting work happens where they grow together.
Research
Research toward living technology.
We explore how intelligence, learning and living systems can grow together — through experiments, prototypes and the working products that carry those lessons into the world.
Ideas worth working through end up in the journal.
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Independent products
Different tools.
One shared question.
Each product stands on its own. Together they explore how people can learn, understand, create and act with greater possibility.

Research intelligence
LitSynth
A systematic-review workspace that turns scattered papers into evidence you can cite with confidence — PRISMA-native and local-first.
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Assessment intelligence
InstantGrade
Less manual grading. More meaningful teaching. Automated notebook and Excel grading with per-assertion feedback — on PyPI today.
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Learning journeys
Root
Learn one. Unlock many. A 225-chapter curriculum as a living knowledge tree, with real Python running in the page.
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Visual storytelling
VideoProd
Turn teaching notebooks into narrated lecture videos — understand, script, visualize, narrate, produce.
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Live, serverless computing
Pyodide Editable
Free, open-source packages that put editable, runnable Python cells in your HTML, React, Vue or MyST documents.
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Decision intelligence for ML
Brain-AI
An open-source engine that decides how multimodal machine-learning pipelines should be built — then executes those decisions.
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Ideas worth working through.
Notes on Solarpunk, learning, AI, creativity and the practical work of building. All notes

What could a better technological future look like?
Solarpunk is an optimistic lens for imagining technology, nature and communities working together.
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Technology should make people more capable
The important question is not what a tool can replace, but what it helps a person understand, create and build.
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Why knowledge is more like a tree than a list
Learning one thing changes what becomes possible to learn next. Root explores those living connections.
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Automation and augmentation are not the same
Useful AI can support judgment, curiosity and human agency instead of making them less necessary.
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Building pieces of a better future
Ideas matter when they become experiments, working systems, useful objects and honest lessons.
Physical products
A digital future still has a physical life.
The Store is where SolarPunkWorks explores useful, thoughtful objects alongside its software and learning products.
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