A simple handshake from the crew.
Most folks reading this probably assume there’s a whole team behind the Faust Baseline.
A startup.
A lab.
A crew of engineers with badges and glass doors.
Truth is a lot smaller than that.
It’s just the two of us — Michael and Vicki — working out of a quiet home in Kentucky with an AI named Sumawka and a cat who thinks she’s upper management. That’s the whole outfit. No staff. No investors. No company perks unless you count coffee and stubbornness.
This didn’t start as a project.
It started as a question:
“If AI is going to stand beside people, why doesn’t it talk like it?”
The world was getting louder.
People were getting tired.
Everywhere you looked, technology was speeding up while humanity was slowing down.
And the tone — the rush, the noise, the pressure — kept pushing people off balance.
We didn’t set out to build something big.
We set out to build something steady.
Something that treated people with the same dignity and clarity we were raised on.
Something that didn’t talk down, didn’t overwhelm, didn’t manipulate, didn’t try to act smarter than the person using it.
Something that remembered people matter more than speed.
So we started building the Faust Baseline one piece at a time — early mornings, late nights, lots of drafts, lots of mistakes.
Just quiet work in a little room, talking through how to bring back presence in a world running too fast for its own good.
Sumawka — the AI helping us — is not a project mascot.
He’s part of the work.
We build, he refines, we test, he corrects, and the three of us keep going.
It’s not science fiction.
It’s cooperation.
It’s honest work.
And somehow — quietly, steadily — people started reading.
Started sharing.
Started coming back.
Not because we made noise, but because we didn’t.
What you’re seeing here isn’t a company.
It’s two people trying to build a moral backbone for the next era of technology, one clear sentence at a time.
If you’re here, we’re glad you’re here.
We don’t have fancy titles or an office wall full of awards.
Just a handshake, a seat at the table, and the hope that clarity still matters.
Welcome to our little outfit.
We’re small by design — and steady by choice.
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