Every build is documented as it happens — the plan, the detours, and the divergence between them. What works and what breaks are both worth showing. This is where that record lives.
A capability earns trust by surviving contact with reality, not by looking finished. Building in the open keeps us honest about that — and turns the work itself into something others can learn from.
A plan looks clean until real data, real routing, and a real deadline push back. Building in public means the gap between intended and actual is visible — and that gap is where the real lessons are.
A working feature shows what's possible; a stalled one shows what to avoid. We share both, so the next person — including future us — doesn't have to relearn the same thing the hard way.
There's always one active build out front. Right now it's Americana Century — a place-intelligence platform charted along Route 66, built in public for the road's 2026 Centennial.
One intake, several lenses, one map layer — built honestly on the Mapbox stack, with the gap between planned and actual left in as part of the story. The road is the spine: a hundred years of Route 66, told three ways. Submitted to present at BUILD with Mapbox 2026.
Follow the build →When a build wraps, it doesn't disappear — it stays here as a permanent record. The story of the build is the deliverable, so each one keeps its own page for good.
The Habitus platform built along Route 66 · submitted to BUILD with Mapbox 2026 · planned-vs-actual as the through-line.
The following build slots in here when it begins — same log, a new road.