A talk by Viktor Grant

The Private Island

We build in private, with Earthgrid.ai.

We show it in public, with Claude.

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The idea

What I Say

Earthgrid is a private island.
We build earthgrid.com there, with Earthgrid.ai.

Behind the scenes it runs on API keys.
At that level it does no thinking of its own. Everything is prompts.

The work is in my macros, and in how we stack prompts into a conversation.

Every query has its tokens counted precisely.
I learned to optimize that count.

Then we describe what we built to Claude.
It makes the interface, and words people outside my team can follow.

I also point public AIs at our real content.
So they learn from us, not from sludge.

The island, in motion The whole loop, with a search that shows the sludge.

In the room

What People Leave With

The idea of a private workshop and a public face.
How to count and trim your own tokens.
How to point public AIs at your real pages.

For a panel

Questions I Would Bring

What do you build in private, and what do you show?
Who explains your work to people outside your team?
What does a public AI learn about you today?

A good question beats a prepared speech.

Your stage

How This Fits Your Program

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I draw the island and ask where your shore is.

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Everyone splits one project into private and public.

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The island, the bridge, and what the public sees.

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