SigmaClava — A Maison TergaDo company
The future of human experience is a research problem.
SigmaClava is the human experience research house of Maison TergaDo. We research, design, and build the systems people will live, learn, feel, and create inside — beginning from the human, not the machine.
CorrespondenceThe thesis
Most AI research asks what machines can do. The rarer question is what living with them should be like — for a child learning, a family communicating, a mind that works differently than the software assumes.
SigmaClava exists for that question. We treat human experience — attention, emotion, learning, dignity, connection — as the primary research surface, and intelligence as the material.
We begin from the human, and build outward.
Programs of inquiry
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Companionable Intelligence
How AI presences earn a place in family life: emotional regulation, trust, boundaries, and presence design.
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Neurodivergent-First Design
Interfaces and systems designed from AuDHD and neurodivergent cognition outward, rather than retrofitted.
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Learning as Experience
AI-shaped curricula and learning environments that adapt to the child, not the child to them.
- term 04
Sensory & Ambient Wellbeing
How environments, media, and machines can lower the human nervous system’s cost of living.
Programs are long. We publish when there is something true to say.
Principles
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The human is the constant.
Technology is the variable. We never design a person around a system.
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Experience is evidence.
Lived experience — including neurodivergent experience — is primary data, not an edge case.
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Nothing ungoverned.
Intelligence in our work is always named, bounded, and answerable to a human.
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Built things are arguments.
We research by building. A working system is our unit of publication.
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Understatement.
We claim what we can defend, and nothing else.
The House
SigmaClava is a house of Maison TergaDo — one mandate within a family of ventures. One family; separate mandates.
From research to the world
Where our research becomes commissioned work, it is delivered through OccultOpes, SigmaClava’s development division for commercial engagements. Vendor documentation, security practices, and engagement structure live there.