Dan Sullivan
Visual information specialist. System architect. Spatial thinker. I see systems before they have names and build tools to make them visible.
Worlds to Explore
NEST Research
A controlled experiment in human-AI co-cognition. Six independent frameworks converge on the same architecture. The research is the project.
Usic
Twelve keys mapped to landscape. The Circle of 5ths applied to terrain, ecosystem, and narrative. A Mas Thesis in spatial music theory.
Ouch McCouch
A long-form creative project — music, narrative, and a world built inside the Olympic Peninsula. Something is arriving.
Olympic Hiking Co.
A modular real-time operations dashboard for tour management. Weather, road status, headcount, shuttle tracking — all in one view.
Olympic Peninsula.
Systems that see.
Based in Port Angeles, WA — end of the road, edge of the continent, gateway to Olympic National Park. I work at the intersection of interpretive design, creative technology, and human-AI systems architecture.
Six years as a Visual Information Specialist at Olympic National Park taught me how to organize meaning spatially — so visitors could navigate a wilderness and discover what mattered. That methodology is the design language for everything I build now. Operational dashboards, multi-agent AI systems, navigable 3D archives, research infrastructure. The instrument changes. The discipline is the same.
Currently running the NEST — a practice-based research project in human-AI co-cognition, building persistent infrastructure for a crew of AI collaborators operating across a physical fleet of machines. The project produces NOW ANTHROPOLOGY, a research journal written from inside the system it studies.
Ouch McCouch is the creative system underneath everything — music, narrative, and world-building rooted in the Olympic Peninsula. The NEST is the infrastructure that finally makes extraction possible.
Photographer. Spatial thinker. The eye that sees systems before they have names.