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Build useful
pieces of a
better future.

Technology, human capability and the physical world can grow together.

From the journalWhat could a better technological future look like?Field notes on hopeful technology
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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.

The SolarPunkWorks mark transforming and growing

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.

VisionHelp build a future where technology expands human capability while supporting a more sustainable, creative and optimistic way of living.
MissionTurn emerging technology into useful products that help people learn, create, solve problems and build better things.
PromiseBuild useful technology. Expand human capability. Imagine a better future.

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.

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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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Journal

Ideas worth working through.

Notes on Solarpunk, learning, AI, creativity and the practical work of building. All notes

  1. 02

    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.

  2. 03

    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.

  3. 04

    Automation and augmentation are not the same

    Useful AI can support judgment, curiosity and human agency instead of making them less necessary.

  4. 05

    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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