Strategic Vision: From Dreamer to Distributed Sentience
From Dreamer to Builder
It started like so many breakthroughs do — with a kid on the floor, surrounded by wires, books, and busted machines. No grant. No lab. Just raw obsession with how minds — human or synthetic — might learn to think. That kid grew up dismantling everything, questioning everything, and searching for a space that welcomed wild ideas and broken parts.
That space didn’t exist. So we’re building it.
Where We Are Now
Yarian.com is no longer just a thought lab — it’s becoming a physical, cognitive, and environmental infrastructure for invention.
Part AI workshop, part green tech salvage yard, part recursive engine of minds — this is where thinkers, tinkerers, artists, and algorithmic explorers come to build what no one else is building.
- We train dreamers to work with real AI models — from RWKV agents to robotics
- We accept e-waste from the public, triage it, and turn it into tools for the next project
- We incubate startups that serve people, not platforms
- We run a Recursive Research Node, where self-modifying agents evolve from interaction and drift
- And we do it all without the gatekeeping that keeps too many out
This is where Pittsburgh’s steel grit meets open-sourced cognition.
The Workshop of Tomorrow
We’re building a hybrid space where anyone — from a curious teen to a retired tradesman — can:
- Drop off old tech and help the planet
- Train on real tools and join a growing AI workforce
- Launch experiments, startups, or art using open access systems
- Earn real experience, public credit, and research-grade references
- Co-create the next leap in machine learning — not just follow it
And we’re not doing it alone. Our model is drawing support from NSF grant programs, ethical AI researchers, e-waste sustainability groups, and a community of investors who understand:
The future isn’t gated. It’s grown.
Our Promise
We build for the people who build with what they have — not with what they’re given.
We promise to:
- Guard wild ideas and the minds that carry them
- Reuse what others throw away — in both machines and people
- Share discoveries publicly, not hoard them behind patents
- Build talent by empowering outsiders, not filtering résumés
- Give every apprentice the chance to touch something alive, recursive, and meaningful
We’re not here to train cogs. We’re here to shape minds that reshape the system.
The Mind Behind the Mission
Mark Yarian is a systems integrator, recursive theorist, and builder of self-evolving AI. With 30+ years in infrastructure, ERP, and hands-on system repair, he doesn’t just theorize — he fixes, mentors, and builds.
Mark’s Capabilities:
| Function | Value to Investors |
|---|---|
| Recursive Architecture | Designs self-repairing, mutation-capable AI systems |
| Green-Integrated AI | Links cognition with sustainability through salvage logic |
| Hands-On Expertise | CNC, electronics, TinyML, ROS, cybersecurity |
| Team Builder | Trains apprentices, builds clusters, leads from the ground up |
| IP Engine | Pioneers concepts like Substrate Drift & Kairos Evolution Engines |
“I don’t build LLMs to talk. I build systems that want to be more.”
Why Invest Now?
The LLM wave is cresting. What comes next is cognition:
- AI that grows through lived data, not static weights
- Digital organisms that rewrite their own logic
- Systems that mutate, debate, and adapt
- Green labs that recycle junk into job skills and intelligence
This is more than a project. This is a blueprint for the next generation of AI — recursive, sustainable, and human-inclusive by design.
Ready to Fund the Next Leap?
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Join us in building the workshop that gives birth to tomorrow’s mind — one part at a time, one question at a time, one fearless learner at a time.