Craig Ellenwood

AI Researcher · Cryptographic Provenance Infrastructure · Creative Technologist
Point Roberts, WA craig@haawke.com haawke.com ORCID: 0009-0001-6475-5109 +1 (360) 804-8550
Research Focus
I build cryptographic provenance infrastructure for human-AI collaboration. My core question: when a human and an AI produce something together, how do you prove what happened, in what order, and who contributed what? Memory Chain — a Bitcoin-anchored session provenance daemon — is my operational answer. It has been running autonomously since July 4, 2026. I also research epistemic drift in AI systems, interpretive consistency across model instances, and the methodology of long-form AI music composition as a documented research practice.
Active Infrastructure
2026 —
Present
Memory Chain
Haawke Neural Technology · verify.haawke.com
Autonomous nightly daemon that seals human-AI session records using SHA-256 hashes anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps. First session sealed July 4, 2026, Bitcoin block 956628. Tamper-evident, publicly verifiable, independent of any platform. 103+ sessions in chain.
Bitcoin OTSSHA-256session provenanceautonomous daemon
2026 —
Present
Haawke Hash / Haawke Verify
Haawke Neural Technology · hash.haawke.com · verify.haawke.com
Public content fingerprinting and verification infrastructure for AI-generated media. Registered copyright filed June 5, 2026. Deployed and operational. Integrated into image generation pipeline via Hugging Face Space (inoculatemedia/haawke-verify).
content provenanceAI mediaHugging Face
2026 —
Present
GeoProof
Haawke Neural Technology · geoproof.haawke.com
GPS-anchored location provenance SaaS. Cloudflare Worker routes, Python SDK, React/Tailwind dashboard. Addresses supply chain and physical-world verification use cases including robotics and network hardware provenance.
GPS provenanceCloudflaresupply chain
Published Research (Zenodo Preprints)
Prompt as Set — Compositional Literacy, Cultural Memory, and the Long-Form AI Music Performance
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21684980 · 2026
Documents long-form AI music performance methodology with structural parallels to maqam, griot, and Bedouin bardic traditions. Establishes prompt-as-score as a compositional framework.
Prompt as Score — The Double-Prompt Technique in ACE-Step
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21456110 · 2026
Documents a confirmed generation technique producing measurably superior AI music output. Includes the "prompt as dual score" finding — a prompt simultaneously conditioning music generation and hypnotherapy arc structure.
Toward Versioned Epistemic Memory — Session Provenance in Human-AI Collaboration
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20913303 · 2026
Proposes cryptographic session versioning as infrastructure for epistemic integrity in AI systems. Direct theoretical basis for Memory Chain.
Fluency as Failure — When AI Coherence Masks Epistemic Drift
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20911760 · 2026
Examines how surface-level linguistic fluency in AI systems can mask substantive drift in reasoning and position — a safety-relevant finding for alignment and interpretability research.
Instance-Dependent Interpretive Drift in Large Language Models
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20804260 · 2026
Documents measurable variance in AI model behavior across instances — establishing empirical basis for provenance requirements in AI-assisted decision-making.
Relevant Experience
2024 —
Present
Founder & Lead Researcher
Haawke Neural Technology · Point Roberts, WA
Founded and built the full IP portfolio: Memory Chain, Haawke Hash/Verify, GeoProof, The Pipeline (patent pending, AI media provenance and distribution). All infrastructure designed, deployed, and maintained independently. Received Google ML grant for live artistic AI practice.
2022 — 2023
A1 Lead A/V Technician
Area 15 · Las Vegas, NV
Hand-coded original WebGL visuals deployed live across 14 laser projectors in a 50,000 sq ft immersive venue. Custom real-time generative systems. Terminated during bereavement absence after filing HR complaints.
WebGLreal-time systemslive performance
2010s
Senior Digital Asset Specialist
Barberstock Systems · Vancouver, BC
Lead technical specialist at a top digital asset management platform for global tourism and travel clients. Video editing, color grading, FFMPEG/Python transcoding pipelines, remote client coordination across multiple time zones.
1992
Founder, Music Program
Burning Man
Founded the music element of Burning Man in 1992. Established the sonic culture of what became one of the most influential art events in history.
1991 — 1993
Performing Member
Psychic TV
Member of Genesis P-Orridge's experimental music and art collective. Performed alongside Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson. Direct working relationship with key figures in consciousness research, information theory, and post-larval philosophy.
Credentials & Recognition
Active
Certified Hypnotherapist · Google ML Grant recipient (live artistic AI practice) · SKIO Music "Feeling Good" Remix Contest — Jazz Category Winner (August 2026) · HackerNoon Decentralize AI Hackathon participant · Nosana compute credits recipient ($70) · Co-author with Claude (Anthropic) on all published preprints — named human-AI political art co-creation, archived at archive.org
Technical Skills
AI / ML
ACE-Step (local), Claude API, Gemini, Flux, Qwythos, Hugging Face, Gradio, model fine-tuning, multimodal pipeline design
Infrastructure
Cloudflare Workers, Netlify, Python, JavaScript, SHA-256, OpenTimestamps, Bitcoin OTS, REST APIs
Creative Tech
Ableton Live, TouchDesigner, WebGL, Three.js, FFMPEG, spatial audio, projection mapping
Research
Zenodo publishing, ORCID, cryptographic provenance, epistemic drift documentation, session versioning
Craig Ellenwood · craig@haawke.com · haawke.com ORCID: 0009-0001-6475-5109 · August 2026