Independent preprintV1.0 / 2026
Generalized HKR Theory
Facts as dynamically centered states.
A research program for contextually manifest reality, connecting ontology, geometry, information, and computation.
Open digital studio / Hamburg
Every commit helps something bloom.
shiftbloom studio designs, builds and maintains digital public good — tools, platforms and small acts of infrastructure — commit by commit, in public, with anyone who wants to help.
hamburg · 53.55°n 9.99°eevery commit helps something bloomest. 2024
Creative research
Questions become public experiments.
Shiftbloom works between open-source software, critical technology, and visual practice. We prototype to understand a subject, then publish what might be useful to others.
context field / projected view
context → transport → fact-core
Current research / document status
01Ontology / geometry
Open-dimensional context
Treating every contextually effective influence as a possible dimension, rather than fixing the field in advance.
02Holonomy / drift
Facts in motion
Modeling a fact-core as the changing center of transported local manifestations across context and time.
03Research program
Claim-field validation
Turning the theory into testable claim histories with context lattices, redundancy, ablations, and replication.
Earlier experiments included an OpenAI privacy-filter sandbox. The project has ended and remains part of the studio record rather than an active release.
Open source
Code, built in the open.
Developer tools, research scaffolds, and interface experiments — ideas that are better when other people can inspect them.
06 projects · full index
SB-01TypeScript · React · State
SB-02Python · AI Safety · FastAPI
SB-03React · Tailwind · A11y
SB-04React · Next.js · Performance
SB-05FastAPI · Transformers.js · PII
SB-06Python · FastAPI · Tauri
Speech synthesis, one step to run.
voxcpm2-api
A RESTful and streaming API for VoxCPM2 speech synthesis with one-step setup, cross-platform wheels, and a Tauri desktop client.
github releases · ★6
the honest voice — labels, specs, code, metadata
$ git commit -m "water the readme" · 04:12 · hamburgEvery repo in the garden ships with a readme that tells the truth. MIT or permissive — nothing here ships finished; everything ships growing.
Bloom your code.
Build public good.
The studio
Software should grow like a garden.
shiftbloom began in 2024 as a handful of Hamburg developers doing small pro-bono builds. The work was public from the first commit — and strangers started showing up in the issue tracker with fixes, questions and better ideas.
So we made it official: an open collective, funded transparently, run openly. No agency, no pitch decks — a studio in the older sense of the word: a room where people make things together, with the door propped open.
“We're not an agency and not a startup. We're a garden — slower than a startup, more patient than an agency, and meant to outlive both.”
01value
Open by default
If it can be public, it is public. Roadmaps, budgets, mistakes and merge conflicts — you can watch all of it, from day one.
02value
Public good over private gain
Everything we ship is free and open, and meant to outlive the people who made it — including us.
03value
Craft with warmth
We review code like gardeners, not judges. Care in the details, kindness in the comments.
04value
Made by people
Every line — of code, of copy, of ink — is credited to a person. Tools are instruments here, never authors.
05value
Grounded in Hamburg
Direct, humble, weatherproof. Flat hierarchies, flat shoes, decent coffee.
Fact sheet — numbers are data; data wears mono
- founded
- 2024
- base
- hamburg, de
- coordinates
- 53.55°n, 9.99°e
- form
- open collective
- licenses
- mit · cc by-sa 4.0
- funding
- eur — ledger public