McCluster
McCluster Research Lab · Living systems research

The website is the instrument.

A working product and a research environment. Production and research policies are kept separate and versioned.

Lead researcher · Matthew McCluster ORCID · 0009-0000-8988-8955 GitHub · source + history Zenodo-ready · CITATION.cff
Research program

One live system, two evidence planes.

Real product→ Opportunity + decision ledger→ Audience Science→ Production policy+ Research Lab→ Validated result→ Paper / dataset / software release
Observe

First-party events and explicit preferences.

Decide

Every option, choice and policy version, logged before rendering.

Publish

Code, protocols, de-identified data, DOI-ready.

Flagship product + commercial research system

CIA Mind Control is not separate from the lab.

Open the album →

Business-model loop

Discovery→ Album→ Direct identity→ Repeat relationship→ Revenue / action

Questions worth proving

  • Which entry content creates broad catalog exploration rather than single-track consumption?
  • Which experiences turn a listener into a returning direct relationship?
Research integrity

Product data is not automatically a human-subject research dataset.

An experiment is never described here as IRB-approved or exempt because the developer believes it should be. That determination belongs to the appropriate institutional process.

Current lab governance state: research program registered; human-subjects determination not yet asserted.
Canonical bibliography

Research this system is built against.

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