A FILM BY UNDERSTUDY
Three Mountaintops
Creation. Provision. Definition.
6:12 / Frank Epps / AI narrationTHE SEED / IN DEVELOPMENT
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SYNOPSIS
A universe of your own.
What if your digital life had a home built around who you are?
Three Mountaintops is my personal universe of projects, tools, ideas, and digital workspaces.
It is built around three pillars: Creation, Provision, and Definition. My books and films, my practical work, and the principles that give it all direction belong to the same larger picture.
Three bosses. One larger picture.
Each pillar has its own boss:
- The Director helps develop the creative work.
- The Executive focuses on useful work, opportunities, and execution.
- The Psychopomp supports reflection, meaning, and direction.
I work with each individually. The Armillary is where I can give direction and see how a bounded task passes to agents, returns with evidence, and reaches an approval decision. The Orrery lets me see the whole universe. The Atlas maps its connections and what needs attention. The Understudy studies the patterns and looks for ways to improve the process.
Around those worlds are tools I have built for campaigns, streaming and clipping, filmmaking, prototypes, and more. Instead of leaving them scattered across folders and tabs, I am giving them places I can explore.
My North Star
My North Star is bigger than making a system that works for me.
I want to create the reusable skeleton that lets other people build their own personal Orrery. Not a copy of my universe. A foundation for yours.
Your projects. Your locally built tools. Your way of thinking. Your principles. A digital workspace you can keep shaping into something that helps you thrive.
Connected by choice
The goal is local-first ownership, with clear choices about anything that connects beyond your machine. I have also created an MCP connection as part of this work, with a simple design goal: let invited collaborators explore and share selected parts of a local workspace through defined permissions, without treating the entire private system as public.
Over time, I imagine these places connecting like a community: distinct personal universes, each with its own boundaries, exchanging ideas and building together.
A legacy we can leave behind
I keep thinking about what we could leave behind. Not just a folder of old files, but an organized archive of our work, lessons, stories, tools, and principles. A blueprint and curriculum our families could explore, question, and build upon. A way to understand not only what we created, but how we thought.
The longer-term ambition is a system that learns from feedback, tests improvements, and handles more of its responsibilities within permissions we choose. Something that supports our goals and helps us care for our digital lives without demanding constant attention.
The point is not to spend our lives maintaining a digital world. It is to build one that gives us more room to live outside it.
That is the vision: building a legacy inside the privacy of a household, with doors we choose to open.
The film is a public demonstration of the world so far, not access to my private work or a claim that every future capability is finished.
Transcript
What if your work wasn't scattered across tabs, but connected in a world you could explore?
This is Three Mountaintops. My projects, my tools, and my own way of seeing them. Enter through Gilgamesh and Enkidu, my permission-gated MCP connection. Share only selected knowledge. Then board the Understudy.
An office for useful work. At the Executive's desk, goals become small written work orders. Specialist agents return drafts and evidence, ready for my review.
The mailroom shows research, drafting, send windows, safety checks, and reply sorting. The public numbers are invented, and this room sends nothing. Real conversations come back to me.
In the consulting lounge, an inspection becomes a written scope. The Understudy reviews changed projects and leaves sourced observations. It suggests; I decide.
A studio for stories, books, and films. The Royal Hold turns the gallery into a walkable world, with art you can approach and rooms that open onto the work.
The Hall of Three Lights introduces the fantasy series and its kingdom, Veshara. From here, the story branches into play, worldbuilding, and community.
The Path is the game: town life and turn-based tactics alongside the books. Its muster room brings together missions, companions, and choices with consequences.
Authors Codex is the living scriptorium. Whole manuscripts, characters, places, and lore stay connected, giving the book, game, and films a shared foundation.
The Herald's Hall is Marketing and Patreon: chapter films, membership, the Lane's wares, and the Gathering. A place for the story to meet its readers.
A sanctum for reflection and direction. Michael sits beside the still pool, a meditative guardian. Kingdom Within and the Three Mountains make room for questions about how I want to live.
The Interfaith Library holds space for teaching and inquiry. Its research desk and bookshelves keep traditions in context. The research connection is still awaiting integration.
The Cosmic Blueprint is an observatory for astrology and numerology as reflective perspectives, not predictions. My shared story is public; connecting a personal chart is optional.
Around them, local tools turn ideas into campaigns, clips, prototypes, and creative possibilities.
The Campaign engine prepares posts and artwork for different social platforms, keeps a review step, and supports scheduled publishing.
The Live and Clip lane streams to three platforms, records the session, and finds useful moments for short vertical clips.
The Film Studio connects shot planning, consistent illustrations, animation, and approved takes. This is how a visual idea becomes a rough cut.
The Personal App Generator turns a description into a planned, built, and tested sample in a private sandbox, ready to explore before committing further.
The Astrology engine supplies chart calculations, transits, moon phases, and geographic lines. A shared tool for projects that need celestial data.
The Understudy's observatory ship travels between these places. In the belt, you can steer through the field and approach each comet to discover its capability.
Inside the Armillary, I give direction to three distinct bosses. The braided column brings their perspectives together without erasing what makes each one distinct.
The Director's screen connects outlines, continuity, manuscripts, and films. Creative agents can prepare a proposal, while authorship and acceptance stay with me.
The Executive's screen connects research, preparation, and verification. Opportunities can be compared and an introduction drafted, without silently sending it.
The Psychopomp's screen separates observations, interpretations, and questions. Reflection is supported, never replaced by an automated verdict.
Each can delegate a bounded task to its agents overnight. Scope first. Evidence back. Permission before action.
The Atlas maps connections and surfaces missing evidence. The Understudy studies results and tests its lessons against the next task.
The connected map brings direction, projects, shared tools, and the archive into one view. The Overseer offers a synopsis, not another boss. A missing receipt stays a question, not a fabricated success.
The Horizon preserves what matters. The ship stays outside, while knowledge finds its place in the library.
The librarian represents organized knowledge with its origins and a path back to the source. Preserving a record and deleting its old copy are separate decisions.
This is a public demonstration. My private work stays private. Our North Star is the purpose I choose, not a mission invented for me.
Explore the universe. See what carefully built tools can do. Then imagine a workspace that feels unmistakably yours.
Public demonstration. Illustrative workflows and portal. Real MCP access requires an invitation and defined permissions; this film opens no private connection.
Music: Ascension by Scott Buckley, released under CC BY 4.0. Excerpted, equalized, faded, and mixed beneath narration.