Cardona CT Lab · Reading Index
Whitepapers
Technical point of view backed by working systems: AI governance, workflow architecture, design engineering, accessibility, production tooling, and the Forge platform.
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Featured research
Forge Platform: Governed AI-Enabled Content & Production SystemsFlagship
Structured content, bounded specialist tools, AI evaluation, human authority, accessibility, stable contracts, provenance, and production reliability as one system architecture.
AI Evaluation & Human Authority
Why generation, validation, human approval, and operational authority are separate product states.
Design Systems as Production Infrastructure
A worked Design → Code evidence chain from intent and tokens through React implementation, accessibility, tests, and production behavior.
Interactive evidence
Architecture ExplorerInteractive
Switch between product, data, agent, and infrastructure views, with explicit responsibility and trust boundaries.
AI Evaluation Model
Schema drift, unsupported facts, accessibility gaps, authority violations, and validated output as reusable product constraints.
Evidence Provenance
Claim → Artifact → Code → Decision → Verification: a transparent evidence model for principal-level portfolio claims.
Credentialed Forge Recruiter DemoLive system
Hiring teams with guest access can inspect the AI lab, case-study mode, architecture, provenance, design system, interview modes, and the canonical ten-lesson Forge tour.
Technical papers & systems
CourseForge LCMS
Web-native authoring and offline-safe SCORM 1.2 / 2004 publishing for defense and simulation training.
Graded hotspot demonstrator
Operate a keyboard-accessible scored image hotspot: the 508 contract, focus, region labels, and announcements, made visible.
Feedback-ladder demonstrator
Answer a scored question and watch the tiered feedback escalate, incorrect to hint to reveal, with live SCORM score and status.
In-preview 508 audit demonstrator
Recolor a sample frame and watch the traffic-light verdict and per-element WCAG findings update, with a one-click nearest-passing fix.
Callout authoring demonstrator
Drag a label or its target on an image and watch the connector line auto-anchor to the box edge facing the target, keyboard included.
ForgeMarkInteractive
Governed classification marking for training content: derived banner, portion tags, and a derivative-authority block, rendered identically across every publish target.
ForgeMark marking demonstrator
Operate the marking live: set a policy and watch the banner, tags, and the five publish gates pass and fail.
ForgeScaffold naming labInteractive
Edit a course outline and inspect deterministic SOP names, art-role tokens, and case-insensitive collision blocking.
Forge3D
Interactive 3D visualization and annotation for the web, bundled to run on air-gapped networks.
PlantForgeLiving
Simulation-first plant care with deterministic policy and bounded local AI that never actuates hardware unbidden.
Local AI LabLiving
Governed local-AI research with a model evidence registry and measured, human-approved promotion.
MeshForgeMeasured
A local image-to-3D pipeline with four source-to-candidate demos, three verified vessel classes, sealed coffee, wine, and milk volumes, a measured coffee-foam cap, bounded interaction, human review, and explicit CAD boundaries.
ImageForge motion benchmarkLiving
Playable local video-generation studies with fixed controls, measured performance, human review, and a versioned capability ledger.
Greenshot export, made explicitDevelopment preview
Capture choices, DPI metadata, WebP, physical resizing, and adjustable UI size. Includes a downloadable PDF and the limits of 558 focused tests.
BIM Bid Engine
Review-first electrical BIM-to-bid estimation, with authority gates and human sign-off before any figure ships.
Flood Risk Intelligence Dashboard
A design-engineering case study in making layered flood risk legible and decision-ready.
Design systems & accessibility
Agent UI Pattern Library
Agentic UX patterns and token discipline, with accessibility claims held to evidence. Cardona Lab with Kong.
508 Auditor
Accessibility issue grading, remediation code, and keyboard / ARIA checks inside a review workflow.
508 Contrast Checker
A WCAG 2.x two-color contrast utility for checking marking and interface colors against the AA and AAA floors.