I help organizations see what is in their own material.
I'm James Intriligator, a cognitive scientist, designer, and artist. Through my firm, Glider Innovations, I build "Custom Gliders": systems made to order around one organization's archive, research, or decisions, with its own people at the center. I also run working sessions for leadership teams who want to work this way themselves.
Planning an anniversary? I build searchable, connected archives for schools and colleges, in time for the celebration. Here is how it works.
Where the work comes from
Custom Gliders
A Custom Glider is built for one client, around that client's own material: boxes of documents, years of meeting notes, a network of people, a body of law. It lets them search it, follow a thread across it, and see patterns that no single document shows. I build each one to order and keep working on it with the people who use it.
Workshops and talks
Working sessions for school and district leaders, university leaders, and executive teams who want to use AI as a serious thinking partner and keep the judgment with their own people. I also give talks on gliding, on Transversal Design, and on designing for the people most designs leave out.
Recent builds
An archive for an author working through boxes of research documents for a nonfiction book. The documents are read, translated, cross-referenced, and searchable on the author's own computer. In use.
A people map for a mentoring network that wanted to see who could work well with whom, across more than 450 members. In use.
A clause-by-clause comparison of national AI laws for a policy group, showing who each clause empowers, burdens, protects, or leaves out, with the evidence for every reading.
Transversal Design
Hard problems rarely belong to one field. A school's archive is a history problem, a privacy problem, a design problem, and a question about what alumni want to feel when they open it. I call my way of working Transversal Design: map the dimensions a problem really has, move across them on purpose, and build what the crossing shows you. Gliding is how I do that with AI, in a long, steered conversation where the model brings range and people make the calls.
Art
I have made generative light and animation since 1993, including a 2000 patent on animations that seem to keep time with music, and visuals for the theater pieces Curie Curie and The Passage.
