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The Quill Build Archive.

Workflows, software, tools, and experiments built around real operational problems.

An archivist’s brass filing cabinet whose five drawer plates read Workflows, Software, Apps, Extensions and Experiments, under a raised blueprint lid diagramming People to Tasks to Data to Output.

Rick Lofton, founder. Role list: To Verify.

The Quill Build Archive.

Workflows, software, tools, and experiments built around real operational problems.

Rick Lofton, founder. Role list: To Verify.

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Type: All Projects, Workflows, Software, Apps, Extensions, Experiments.

Status: Planning, In Progress, Testing, Released, Archived.

Problem area: Operations, Creative Rights, Collaboration, Publishing, Music, Customer Experience.

LOOK shows still material — websites, interfaces, case-study work. MOVE shows moving material — apps, games, prototypes and motion studies.

Every status, count and date in this archive is To Verify. Nothing here is published as a verified outcome.

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LOOK shows still material — websites, interfaces, case-study work. MOVE shows moving material — apps, games, prototypes and motion studies.

Every status, count and date in this archive is To Verify. Nothing here is published as a verified outcome.

Selected project preview

Memory Marbles

  • Type: Experiment
  • Problem: Collaboration
  • Stage: Testing — To Verify
  • Evidence level: To Verify
  • Last verified: To Verify

Experiment in collective recall, tagging, and knowledge mapping.

Memory Marbles is selected. The painted panel shows Music Streamline; the live detail and the relationship map follow the selection.

Selected project preview

Memory Marbles

Type
Experiment
Problem
Collaboration
Stage
Testing — To Verify
Evidence level
To Verify
Last verified
To Verify

Experiment in collective recall, tagging, and knowledge mapping.

Every status, count and date in this archive is To Verify. Nothing here is published as a verified outcome.

Project relationship map

Direct connection, supports, depends on. Relationship kinds: To Verify.

  • Music Streamline

Project relationship map

Direct connection, supports, depends on. Relationship kinds: To Verify.

Archive navigation and search preview

Active builds are the builds in progress or in testing. Counts are derived from the archive, not from the artwork.

  • All projects: 10
  • Active builds: 5
  • Planning: 5
  • In Progress: 3
  • Testing: 2
  • Released: 0
  • Archived: 0

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Build notes with no gallery card. Three case studies have no card anywhere in the supplied gallery artwork. Rather than paint a card over the artwork, they are listed here and linked from their sibling projects.

Build notes with no gallery card

Three case studies have no card anywhere in the supplied gallery artwork. Rather than paint a card over the artwork, they are listed here and linked from their sibling projects.

Archive navigation and search preview

Active builds are the builds in progress or in testing. Counts are derived from the archive, not from the artwork.

Search preview

Search to find builds by name, problem area, or technology.

Build notes with no gallery card

Three case studies have no card anywhere in the supplied gallery artwork. Rather than paint a card over the artwork, they are listed here and linked from their sibling projects.

Build archive utilities

Explore past builds, archived experiments, and retired projects for reference and lessons learned.

  • Archived builds: 0
  • Retired experiments: To Verify
  • Lessons library: To Verify
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Retired experiments and the lessons library are To Verify and have no destination yet, so neither is a control.

Build archive utilities

Explore past builds, archived experiments, and retired projects for reference and lessons learned.

Request access

Retired experiments and the lessons library are To Verify and have no destination yet, so neither is a control.

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Every build starts with a problem worth solving.