I’m Ian Frelinger. I build systems and care about the craft of interaction — how tools feel when a real person has to live with them. My background spans game design, interaction design, and sim and modeling.

Ashlar is a local-first .NET runtime for AI workflows you embed. Models propose; Ashlar keeps a receipt for what ran and an admission gate for what gets trusted. It governs behavior, not intelligence.

I work best with engineering peers and design partners who already share the problem.