Essays and field notes.
The growing library around Vellis and the broader Volant Labs thesis: authored essays, product notes, and field observations.
Library
4 published perspectives
Adding My Book Collection to Vellis
A first-person account of extending Vellis with Book and Collection entities, importing a Goodreads library, and turning personal context into something queryable.
The graph is a theory
Why legibility is the wedge for agentic software, and why the graph should be treated as an executable point of view rather than passive storage.
Runtime-native controls: policy where execution happens
A field note on why governance should sit near the write path, not in a disconnected approval ritual after the fact.
Open data, proprietary intelligence
Vellis is an open graph engine. This field note draws the line that keeps it open while the operational intelligence organizations build on it stays their own.
Stay close to the thinking
New essays and field notes as they land. No noise, just the ideas behind Vellis.