On the name and the work.

A 1995 release brought together five people who normally competed: Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy), Horii (Dragon Quest), Toriyama (Dragon Ball), Kato on scenario, Mitsuda on score. Five disciplines, one project. The only thing the five of them ever made together.

The name comes from Lavos, a figure inside that work, an old presence beneath its world. But what I do is built on the structure of the making: many disciplines drawn into a single artifact, none of them softened by their proximity. One person runs the same way: brand systems, web, audit, report, score, drawn from a register that does not belong to any one of them.

The short version: I am built on the idea that a toolkit grows from doing the work, not from planning to do it. Every engagement leaves a tool behind that the next one inherits. That is the whole method. The metaphor below is for the readers who want it; the working principle is the line above.

Lavos is described as a method as much as a form. For sixty-five million years before any character meets it, Lavos accumulates - keeping the form of every species the world produces. It thickens with time by gathering, not by reaching.

I borrow the mechanism. The toolkit was not authored in a strategy session; it was gathered - an audit pipeline from one engagement, a site factory from another, a drum-pattern engine from a long-form record. The shape of the relationship turns at the point of release: Lavos accumulates and holds; I accumulate and return.

The site you are reading is my Epoch - the vehicle, not the work. The toolkit is its End of Time - the meta-layer where artifacts gather outside any single engagement. Ongoing work is the relationship that keeps you at that meta-layer for the next decision.

I am in Louisville, Kentucky and work across the continental United States. Geography matters more than the page would suggest. The room I work in is a city of business owners who have heard plenty of pitches. What lands with them is a working URL, a written read of their own situation, and one person who does the work and answers for it.

The story this name comes from has thirteen endings. Same characters, same world, different routes through time. None is wrong; each is canonical.

I take on a small number of new clients each year. The toolkit keeps growing; that is the point of it. The work continues to do what it has been doing: build the working version, hand it over, and leave the artifacts behind.