# perardua.dev

> Jeremy McEntire — engineer, researcher, and author. Structural thinker applying systems reasoning to AI and organizational theory.

## About

Jeremy McEntire has twenty-five years of experience building and leading engineering teams, from Intel to startups to independent research. He holds 5 US patent filings (granted and pending) and has published 25 active research papers across AI and organizational theory. He is the author of 5 books.

## Research (25 papers)

Structural Compression Theory (SCT) across four domains:

### Activation Geometry (13 papers)
- AI-1/2: Training Trajectory Structure (consolidated: Leap+Verify + Ensemble Collapse)
- AI-3: Constellation-Indexed Model Composition
- AI-4: The Shape of the Problem: Domain-Invariant Structural Signatures
- AI-5: Capability Manifold Surveillance: Topological Detection of Model Distillation
- AI-7: GenAI Is Socially Awkward: RLHF Instruction Tuning Damages Social Cognition at Small Scale
- AI-8/9/10/11/12/13: The Geometry of Failure (consolidated: terminal measurement, concentration barriers, limits of linear intervention)
- AI-14: Causal Basis Discovery for Domain-Selective Noise Injection
- AI-15: The Inter-Instance Compression Barrier
- AI-16/17/18/19: The Dissociation of Geometry and Function (consolidated: activation-level state transfer)
- AI-20/21/23/24: Context Management in Autoregressive Language Models (consolidated)
- AI-25/26: Universal Entanglement in Transformer Activation Space (consolidated)
- AI-27: The Entanglement Theorem
- AI-28/29: Entanglement Under Fine-Tuning (consolidated)

### Bridge Theory (1 consolidated paper)
- Bridge: The Cage and the Mirror: Compression, Selection, and Institutional Self-Deception (consolidates The Generative Lossy Channel, The Cage, Dysmemic Pressure, and The Mirror)

### Organizational Theory (5 papers)
- OT-4: Multi-Agent AI: Substrate-Independent Dysfunction
- OT-5: Ambient Structure Discovery via Stigmergic Mesh
- OT-6: Emergence: A Programming Paradigm for Constraint-Shaped Agency
- OT-7: Contraction Dynamics: Constraint Typing and Gaussian Fixed-Point Convergence
- OT-8: The Strategic Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff

### Applied and Market Analysis (6 papers)
- AP-1: Tournament-Based Performance Evaluation and Systematic Misallocation
- AP-2: Structural Immunity: Platform Dominance and Corporate Impunity
- AP-3: The Inversion of Doubt: Skepticism Inverts Epistemic Warrant
- AP-4: The Topology of Influence: Latent Structure and Resilience in Online Populations
- AP-5: Decentralized Drone Swarm Coordination via Broadcast-as-Shared-State
- MM-1: Welfare-Optimal Matching in Hiring Markets via Min-Cost Flow

### Monograph
- Structural Compression Theory: A Unified Information-Theoretic Account (SSRN, Published)

## Essays (15)
- The Drunkard's Walk
- The Tragedy of Process
- Gödel's Children
- The Fiduciary Trap
- The Legibility Trap
- The Scale Trap
- The Context Trap
- The Cage
- The Mirror
- The Cage Yields
- The Mirror Breaks
- The Geometry of Talent
- The Last Website
- One Algorithm, Many Skies
- Why We Can't Have Nice Things

## Books (5)
- The Cage and the Mirror (Cage & Mirror Publishing, 2026)
- The Key and the Current (Cage & Mirror Publishing, 2026) — coming soon
- Introduction to Applied Synthesis (Cage & Mirror Publishing, 2026)
- Beyond Code (Packt Publishing, 2026)
- Privacy: The Architecture of Forgetting (Cage & Mirror Publishing, 2026)

## Open Source Projects (30)

### Reference Implementation
- Exemplar — governed code review service and reference implementation for the governance stack

### AI & Agents
- Signet — personal sovereign agent stack, 62K lines Rust (https://signet.tools)
- Signet Eval — deterministic policy enforcement for AI agent tool calls
- Agent-Safe — SPL capability tokens, 6 SDKs, ~2us eval
- Pact — contract-first multi-agent framework
- Apprentice — adaptive model distillation
- Constrain — induced-understanding prompt and constraint generation
- Transmogrifier — register-aware prompt translation
- Webprobe — generic site state-graph auditor
- Advocate — six-persona adversarial review engine
- Herald — webhook relay and message queue for AI agents
- Simulacrum — cognitive simulacrum with two-phase classifier dispatch

### Stack Governance
- Baton — cloud-agnostic circuit orchestration
- Arbiter — access auditing, trust scoring, and consistency analysis
- Sentinel — production attribution and contract tightening
- Ledger — schema registry and data obligation manager
- Cartographer — stack adoption and compatibility scanner
- Stack Smoke — cross-stack smoke test harness
- Aegis — resource-budget primitive
- Covenant — contract validation runtime
- Scram — emergency termination service
- Vigil — sub-threshold anomaly detection
- Witness — human-in-the-loop coordination primitive

### Org & Management
- Chronicler — event collection and story assembly
- Stigmergy — organizational awareness via ART-based signal processing
- Ascend — AI-powered engineering management CLI
- Kindex — persistent knowledge graph for AI workflows (https://kindex.tools)

### Infrastructure & Privacy
- Tessera — self-validating executable document format
- HermesP2P — decentralized ephemeral P2P messaging (https://hp2p.net)
- BlindDB — client-side encryption architecture demo

All at https://github.com/jmcentire

## Patents (5)
- US 12,041,145 — Edge Communication Locations (Twilio, 2024)
- US 11,720,396 — API Request Throttling (Twilio, 2023)
- US 11,601,519 — Edge Communication Locations (Twilio, 2023)
- US Provisional 63/981,369 — Stigmergic Coordination Protocol (2026, pending)
- US Provisional 64/054,727 — Decentralized Multi-Agent Coordination (2026, pending)

## Links
- Website: https://perardua.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/jmcentire
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jandrewmcentire/
- Publisher: https://cageandmirror.com
- Resume: https://perardua.dev/assets/McEntire_resume.pdf