synthesis.work

The Synthesis Manifesto

We build, write, and decide with AI every day, and we keep what the work teaches us. We have come to value:

Memory that compounds over fresh starts

Verified work over reported progress

Work that outlives its tools over the best tool of the moment

Human judgment over machine initiative

Everything on the right has real value. We stake our work on the left.

Principles behind the manifesto

  1. Verify against the source, not against memory: the machine's memory, or your own.
  2. Work arrives with its evidence. Progress that cannot show itself is a claim, not a result.
  3. Partial work says so, plainly. Nothing ships silently incomplete.
  4. A safeguard that cannot run must stop the work and say why. Protection that fails quietly is not protection.
  5. Leave every piece of work in a state the next session, the next tool, or the next person can pick up.
  6. Archive first, delete second.
  7. A lesson written down once can protect every session after it.
  8. Agents prepare the ground and keep the records; people decide what matters.
  9. The complete fix is the default. A shortcut is a recorded decision, never a habit.
  10. Keep the work in forms more than one tool can read: the tool is a guest in the work, not its landlord.
  11. Publish the reusable mechanism; keep personal and entrusted information private.
  12. Adopt good practice wherever it appears. Improving the work matters more than winning the argument.

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Signatories

76 signatures

Signatories include AI practitioners, engineers, product and project managers, published authors, CEOs, and CTOs. If these principles reflect how you want to work, add your name.

A non-commercial effort to make good practice available to anyone. The manifesto is in the public domain. Signing expresses support for the principles; it doesn’t require using any particular tool.

  1. Rajiv Pant
  2. Sezer Ovunc
  3. Kirimgeray Kirimli
  4. John Genovese
  5. Yujin Kim
  6. Arun Lal
  7. Saurabh Dogra
  8. Guthrie Collin
  9. Karl Martino
  10. Bobby Cherian
  11. Fırat Doğan
  12. Matheus Czizeweski
  13. Francesco Marconi
  14. Rodrigo Vieira Del Bem
  15. Nisheeth Ranjan
  16. Simon Zouain
  17. Marcelo Freitas Kalitch
  18. Marc Frons
  19. Vijit Sharma
  20. Luis Lara
  21. Amanda Hamilton
  22. Pierce Williams
  23. Doruk Topcu
  24. Jason A. Smith
  25. Donato Bencosme
  26. Kat Sheplavy
  27. Andrew Babaian
  28. James Lawrie
  29. Leonardo Valcésio Cunha
  30. Tahir Khan
  31. Naveed Ahmad
  32. Susannah Locke
  33. Oliver Félix
  34. Jonathan Gonzalvo
  35. Jagadamba Krovvidi
  36. Ron Parsons
  37. Nagaraj Nagabushanam
  38. Sanjay Bhakta
  39. Ahmed Malik
  40. Anshul Kaul
  41. Ben Gerst
  42. Chris Palo
  43. Taylor Wilsdon
  44. Patrick inverso
  45. Nishant Dani
  46. Emil Peñaló
  47. Bharat Krish
  48. Anil Bhojani
  49. Phillip Thomas
  50. Tyler Chance
  51. Manu Tandon
  52. Arpan Bhukhanwala
  53. J. Scott King
  54. Puneet Sibal
  55. Drue Kataoka
  56. Vinod Unny
  57. Jacques-Philippe Piverger
  58. Sabah Carter
  59. Ramin Beheshti
  60. Hanike Kirimli
  61. Tiffany Xingyu Wang
  62. MOKENA makeka
  63. Joshua Shane
  64. Larena Winn
  65. Mark O'Callaghan
  66. Mike Finkel
  67. Kabir Seth
  68. Tarun Gangwani
  69. Rebecca Cruz
  70. Himanshu Joshi
  71. Melanie Pitson Evers
  72. Dion Bailey
  73. Wren Bach
  74. Giri
  75. Myles Lagolago-Craig
  76. Charles Vignoles

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