How it works · the AI canon
The records are the canon.
The AI is the reading interface.
You can read Island of Strangers as plain novels — chapter by chapter, beginning to end. This page is about the other way in: reading the island as the structured records it left behind, explored through an AI.
- You do not upload your own story.
- You do not ask the AI to invent the plot.
- You explore an existing set of records, one at a time.
How you read it
Three steps. About two minutes.
The reading protocol is identical on every platform; only the loading mechanics differ. Here is the whole shape of it.
- 01
Download the records
You receive a structured set of records — intake forms, transcripts, ledgers, and the Charter.
- 02
Load them into an AI
Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or NotebookLM, then paste the starter prompt.
- 03
Begin on the Settlement Floor
Read the island one record at a time — ask the AI to cite the record behind every claim.
What it looks like
You ask. The records answer.
A short, spoiler-safe sample of the Settlement Floor route. The AI cites the record behind every claim — and never invents canon.
reading session·settlement floor
Book I — Settlement
you
What did the first night on the beach look like?
ai
› reading from records/arrival.md
- The boat unloads onto the sand and pulls away. No harbor, no authority comes with it.
- A broadcast plays over the shore: the strangers have been selected for renewal.
- Supplies are stacked on the beach — barrels, cups, blankets — but nothing labeled.
- By dark, the first decision is water: who draws it, who waits, who is trusted to share it out.
where to go next
- read it through Amara, holding Yara
- open the supplies ledger from the sand
- continue to the first morning
That is the reading experience. You are not asking the AI to invent a story — you are asking it to guide you through the records.
What's inside the records
The story is told through documents.
Intake forms, transcripts, ledgers, broadcasts, consent fields, and the Charter. Every claim the AI makes points to a record you can open and read yourself.
Records, not chapters
The island is built and unbuilt through forms, ledgers, and transcripts. With the AI, you read the documents a society left behind rather than a straight narration.
Eight reading routes, one canon
Settlement Floor, Mother's Bag, Mateo's Ledger, Translation Room, NEMOS Logic, and more. Same records, different angles in.
Citations on every claim
Ask the AI for the record behind a statement. If it can't show you, it isn't canon — it's interpretation.
What you receive
One download. Every platform.
A purchase ships the full records for a book, packaged for each AI plus the full record set, a starter prompt, and the Charter.
what you receive
A downloadable set of records.
You receive a folder of files you load into an AI platform. There is no software to install and no account on this website.
delivered as one zip · readable in any text editor too
- Per-platform packs for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & NotebookLM
- The full record set — intake forms and records
- Transcripts, broadcasts & ledgers
- Petitions and consent fields
- The Charter
- Eight reading routes, from the Settlement Floor to NEMOS Logic
- A starter prompt to open your first session
- READER_PROTOCOL.md — how the AI reads, not authors
- Free updates as the records are revised
Reading routes
Same records. Eight angles.
You pick the role. The records don't change; the route you take through them does.
Settlement Floor
First-time readers of Book I
The clean public doorway. Walk the first hours of the settlement with no foreknowledge — what was decided, in what order, and why.
“What did the first night on the beach look like?”
Mother's Bag
Readers who follow people
Read the island through Amara: every decision measured against an infant's breath, hunger, and future.
“Walk me through Amara's first 12 hours, hour by hour.”
Mateo's Ledger
Procedural mystery readers
Work the records against each other. Find where a page protects, where it injures, and where two accounts cannot both be true.
“Which records contradict each other?”
NEMOS Logic
Institutional / systemic readers
Read the machinery itself: classification, relief language, routes, consent fields, supplies, and absence. The most systemic way in.
“What does NEMOS classify before it transfers?”
Platform setup
One guide per AI platform.
Each guide includes the recommended records pack, the upload pattern, the starter prompt, and the platform-specific limits worth knowing before you begin.
ChatGPT
easyRecommended pack · ChatGPT Records Pack (Compact)
Full guide with the starter prompt and notes on platform limits →
Claude
easyRecommended pack · Claude Records Pack (Compact); paid plans can use the Full Records
Full guide with the starter prompt and notes on platform limits →
Gemini
moderateRecommended pack · Gemini / GitHub Pack (Full Records folder or repo import)
Full guide with the starter prompt and notes on platform limits →
NotebookLM
moderateRecommended pack · NotebookLM Pack (10–20 compiled sources)
Full guide with the starter prompt and notes on platform limits →
Where to begin
Start on the Settlement Floor.
The clean public doorway — the first hours of the settlement, with no foreknowledge. Open the demo or a book, paste the starter prompt, and ask: what did the first night on the beach look like?