Projects

Yorick Writing Studio

Yorick is an AI-assisted writing and thinking system I conceived, designed, and am actively building. It exists because most AI writing tools optimize for output at the expense of voice, judgment, and authorship. Yorick takes the opposite approach: the writer stays in control, AI assists without overwriting, and the system is designed around the integrity of the creative process.

The project started from a specific observation: writers were losing trust in their own work because AI tools made it too easy to generate text that was not theirs. Readers and editors were reacting not just to AI-generated prose but to the suspicion that a piece might be machine-written. The design challenge was to build a system where AI support strengthens the writer's work without replacing it.

What I Designed

• An editor-first workspace where the manuscript is the center of gravity, not a chat window
• Selection-driven AI actions: tighten, expand, clarify, increase tension, rewrite dialogue, check continuity
• A proposal tray that holds AI-generated alternatives without silently altering the draft
• Separation of analysis (diagnostics, continuity checks) from revision (text rewrites)
• Writer control over AI intrusiveness: quiet, helpful, or active modes
• Story Bible, canon tracking, and scene-level contextual intelligence

Why It Matters Professionally

Yorick is directly relevant to the broader challenge of designing AI-enabled products. The problems it addresses—trust, transparency, user control, workflow integration, the boundary between human judgment and machine output—are the same problems facing any team building AI into their product. This project forces me to work through those problems at the interaction design level, not just in theory.

Current Status

In active development. Private alpha with working writers. Core design decisions are stable. Implementation is ongoing. Details are intentionally limited while the product is in development.