David Carlton Adams
- Based
- Baltimore, MD · Washington, DC reach
- Degree
- Doctor of Musical Arts, cognate in Computer Music — Johns Hopkins University (Peabody), 2026
- Status
- U.S. citizen · no sponsorship needed · clearance-eligible
- Languages
- English · French (professional working) · Japanese (conversational)
- Contact
- contact page · LinkedIn · GitHub
the system
A personal multi-agent operations platform: project state layer, daily generated newspaper, decision queue, and the automation that keeps them honest. Designed, built, and operated daily since March 2026.
176daily briefings delivered, no human assembly step
29scheduled autonomous processes
78projects under one source of truth, every write logged and replayable
interactive demos
Three surfaces of the system, rebuilt on synthetic data. Projects, people, and feeds are fictional; architecture and interaction patterns are the real system's. Source on GitHub.
Flightpath
one-true-state project layer · milestones, heat index, estimate ledger
The Gazette
daily newspaper assembled overnight · ranked opportunities, decision digest
Gander
timeline + what-if sandbox · schedules derived from dependencies and capacity
how it is built
- One writer per factone canonical writer per piece of state; everything else reads
- Models are not trust boundariesevery LLM layer assumed compromisable; safety in the deterministic checks after it
- Gate the irreversible, log the reversibleoutbound keeps a human yes/no; internal writes are logged and replayable
- The paper always publishesdaily surfaces fall back to a validated deterministic base
- Untrusted in, summarized outemail, scraped feeds, and agent output are read-only holds until a human acts
- Audited on rotationintegrity audits over untrusted-input lanes on a seven-week rotation; adversarial pre-ship tests
record
| 2024– | New Uncertainty Collective, co-founder | commissioning + presenting org from zero · ~10 public events · 501(c)(3) standup in process |
| 2025– | Project Poetic Justice, co-lead | creative program inside two DC correctional facilities · security review at every step · ~24 works premiered |
| 2026–27 | Peabody Faculty Learning Community, co-lead | AI, Artistry, and Education · AI in Practice strand |
| 2017–23 | Fast Forward Austin, co-director | six years · single public-funder recompete · 73–81% of every dollar to artists |
| 2020– | Peabody Institute, adjunct faculty; instructor of record | five undergraduate theory terms · 54 students |
| 2001–02 | Texas A&M | coursework in mathematics, physics, chemistry, nuclear engineering |