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All essays →One in five people is neurodivergent, and among autistic adults up to four in five are out of work. Whether a room lets them do their job is the sharpest test of design I know.
The economics of brain health run to trillions and name building design as a lever, yet construction money still buys aesthetics and lowest first cost instead of cognition.
WELL and Fitwel have certified thousands of buildings and trillions in assets, and every scoring system stops at counting installed features before it ever asks whether an occupant got healthier.
A system that turns unstructured research into parametrised, verifiable recommendations, shown through a five-step pipeline and a five-layer knowledge structure built from neuroarchitecture examples.
A 1999 California study links classroom daylight to test scores, and reading past its headline number shows how many separate questions one finding has to answer before it can guide a design decision.
A data system only produces reliable dashboards once facts and interpretation are built underneath them, in that order.
Ontology and agentic AI decompose problems the same five ways; the real difference is which one lets me know where a decision came from.