Spencer Saldana

Projects

Things I've built.

A mix of shipping work, side projects, and shader experiments. Some live. Some still cooking.

The Science of Making Tokens
Series · Chemical engineering

The Science of Making Tokens

A five-part essay series tracing the actual chemistry, physics, and economics behind a single AI token. From quartzite to one forward pass, written from a chemical engineer's perspective.

Spencer AI
LLM · Agents · Tool-use

Spencer AI

The conversational agent embedded on this site. Knows my work, writing, and calendar. Streams responses, books meetings via real tool-use. The pulsing pill in the bottom-right corner of any page is the entry point.

Future Lag
WebGL · GLSL Shader

Future Lag

GLSL fragment shader exploring perceptual delay. Real-time distortion fields, running on the GPU at 60fps in your browser.

The Helmet Signalin progress
Mobile · React Native · Firebase

The Helmet Signal

A mobile group-rallying app. Light a beacon, set a minimum headcount and a timer, and the clan responds in real time. Medieval-tactical aesthetic on top of modern serverless infra. In security review for the app stores.

The Value Machine
Value creation

The Value Machine

An interactive catalogue of the generalized levers a business can pull to create real value with AI. Worked examples, failure modes, small interactive pieces per pattern. Live at thevaluemachine.com.

Multi-modal Agentforcein progress
Agents · Multimodal

Multi-modal Agentforce

Agent that reasons over text, images, and structured data to drive enterprise workflows end-to-end.

Generative 3D Characterin progress
Diffusion · 3D

Generative 3D Character

Pipeline that turns a short text prompt into a riggable 3D character. Generation, retopology, and skeleton handling.