Questions

Gothic Grandma is a single company (Gothic Grandma LLC) organized as a House with several rooms — modes representing what's currently on offer to a visitor, not fixed departments. .Laboratories is the team's R&D room; .Workshop is the solo maker's room; Studio and Library are still opening.

A department is fixed; a room is a mode. The same piece of work can move rooms as its offer changes — a solo build in Workshop graduates to Laboratories the moment it's either sold to the outside world or relied on by the whole team. Rooms describe what something currently is, not who happens to own it.

Laboratories is multi-member — the team's room, and the one that will keep growing. Workshop is Nathan, solo — a workshop, display room, and invention room at once. A Workshop build graduates to Laboratories on either of two independent triggers: it's productized (sold to the outside world), or it's team-adopted (the whole team relies on it, whether or not it's ever public).

No, not without unanimous consent from the team — the promises that come with outside capital strip away the power to work on the mission on its own terms. Full explanation on About →

No. MUSE is one specific product of Laboratories — the modeling and simulation platform (FONT, MOVER, GESTALT, PRIMO, TESSERA, PYNAX, and the Go control plane). It's not an umbrella term for everything the House builds. More on MUSE →

MUSE is a GPU-native, agent-based simulation platform. It models scientifically inspired entity behaviors — rocks, trees, weather, animals, humans, cells, neurons — using real internal systems rather than scripted outcomes. Explore MUSE →

Language models predict plausible text; they have no internal model of a physical or biological world. MUSE simulates systems mechanistically — entities carry real state, that state evolves according to grounded models, and behavior emerges from actual interaction, not pattern matching.

In-house tools shown on Laboratories even though none of them are public products — they're there because the whole team relies on them, the same graduation bar any Workshop build has to clear. GLYPH is the team's unified dev workbench; PYTHIA is visual pipeline orchestration; CALLIOPE is the standalone language/command layer used throughout GLYPH and headed toward the rest.

Kanon is a sync/logic instrument — a pseudo-random square-wave generator for temporal alignment of multi-device experimental recordings. It's co-owned company IP from day one, not a Workshop side project waiting to graduate, so it belongs on Laboratories once it's a real, purchasable product. Until then it's teased on .Workshop. More on Kanon →

Email hello@gothicgrandma.com with a short description of what you're trying to do. Research, enterprise, and education engagements each have their own page under MUSE.

The workshop, display room, and invention room at once — Nathan Baune's own room, solo. It may never grow into a team room, and that's fine; not everything needs to become Laboratories. Visit Workshop →

Three kinds of things: builds still under construction, craft-showcase pieces on a productize-or-not track (Kanon, Back of House, QUILT), and finished personal builds that need no traction to justify existing (Kadmus, Spectrum).

Workshop's consulting work is where Gothic Grandma's independence actually comes from — the creator's own expertise, offered to the world, funding the House without diluting control of it. Full explanation on About →

A parametric, fastener-free 3D-printed enclosure design language — joinery-inspired, not injection-moulding vocabulary. General-purpose, not specific to any one product. More on QUILT →

Studio is Yasmine and Nathan's room — home objects, built together. The door's locked for now. More when it opens.

Library is MUSE's public application layer — home to GRIM (the "Grim Reader") and MUSE Living Worlds, emergent interactive fiction built on top of the simulation platform. The door's ajar: come back for a preview.