I got a $10,000 Emergent Ventures grant to build 
Vivacity. That is a wild sentence to get to write, and I do not want to make it sound smaller than it is: someone looked at this idea and decided it was worth backing.
Vivacity is the thing I keep coming back to: simulation infrastructure for AI agents. Not another polished demo that only works in the happy path. I want agents to be able to act in a world, see what their choices do, branch the state, and try again. The hard part is making that loop real, inspectable, and useful beyond one carefully staged run.
That is what I am building toward with this grant. Ten thousand dollars is serious fuel for an early project, and I want to turn it into a much more serious system: one where the world keeps its state, actions have consequences, and an agent can learn by actually doing. Vivacity is still being built. The point is to make the next version more real than the last one, then keep going.
Emergent Ventures is a grant program administered by the Mercatus Center. I am grateful they chose to back me and Vivacity while the work is still at the stage where focused support can change what becomes possible.