01 / Enterprise
KRI
ZEK
Technology ventures and systems work for organisations with complex, high-stakes problems.
Explore KRI ZEKIndependent engineer
& product thinker
Building enduring digital products through clarity, curiosity, and a systems point of view.
I wrote the book on why games change us, published the research behind it, and built tGiX™, the algorithm that turns play telemetry into a measurable cognitive index.
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Krize Kster Krishna Soni tGiX™ Algorithm KRI ZEK Altered Brilliance
Krize Kster Krishna Soni tGiX™ Algorithm KRI ZEK Altered Brilliance
01 / About
A considered approach to technology: make it useful, make it clear, and make it last.
The through-line is thoughtful systems.
Years spent at the intersection of gaming, neuroscience, and AI: the book, the peer-reviewed research, and the algorithm that turns gameplay into a proprietary cognitive dataset.
More about the approach02 / Selected Research
Quantifying human potential through play.
01 Springer — Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 700
Versatile Gaming by Neurological and Behavioral Analysis
Peer-reviewed proof that game structure changes cognition, not just engagement.
02 Zenodo — Preprint
The tGiX™ Algorithm
Turns raw play into a measurable, defensible index of how a person thinks.
03 Zenodo — Preprint
Beyond Virtual
Argues that gameplay under stress is the ground-truth training data general intelligence is missing.
02 / Selected ventures
Building in two directions.
KRI
02 / Consumer products
Altered
Brilliance
Mobile-first tools shaped around focus, strong interaction design, and less digital clutter.
Explore Altered Brilliance03 / Notes & writing
Things worth thinking through.
Notes on building software, systems, products, games, and the wider ideas behind them.
Read the journal 01 / Ventures 4 min read
Corporate Scaffolding: Bridging Enterprise Core and Consumer Brilliance
How KRI ZEK LLC scales international engineering networks to ship modern high-performance application ecosystems under Altered Brilliance.
Read note 02 / Gaming 5 min read
The Witcher and Immersive World-Building: Narrative Logic in Systems Design
Exploring how immersive virtual environments and game development loops inside CD Projekt Red and Naughty Dog masterpieces inspire structural layouts in frontend architecture.
Read note 03 / Philosophy 5 min read
The Systemic Watchmaker: Software Modularity through Horological Design
Why high-end mechanical watch movements from Tissot and Seiko offer the ultimate blueprint for clean, modular, and fault-tolerant software engineering.
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