Tyler Sullberg

Ty Sullberg

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Hi! I build tools to humans find connection, autonomy, and purpose.

I’ve lived many lives - software engineer, management consultant, founder, community organizer, sangha member. My problem solving approach attempts to integrate and transcend these perspectives.

Coordination technology

I’m founder of Ize, a platform for collective attention and action. You can think of it as “Zapier for collective intelligence”. I built Ize as a solo-founder and engineer from Jan 2024 through March 2025.

You can check out a demo here
Read the postmortem here.

I’m currently working on a side-project for AI multi-agent deliberation and coordination. It’s essentially Ize adapted for a purely agentic context. DM me if you’re interested in collaboration :)

Prior to Ize, I built coordination tools for blockchain. I was VP of Product and Protocol for 4K, a protocol for on-chain assets. 4K was a purely decentralized on-chain alternative to the legal system for enforcing physical property rights.

I’m a contributor at several collective intelligence research groups including Metagov, DAOStar, Active Inference Institute, and Sensemaking Scenius.

Community organizing

The most effective coordination technologies are human culture and relationships. I’ve helped build several community organizations:

Cofounder of The Conscious Club: Creating community via meditation + rave
Cofounder of Open Sangha Collective: A grassroots organization removing capitalism from Western Buddhist sangha.
Mutual aid: I’m Currently working on building a Mutual Aid Network here in Portland.

Dhamma / meditation

Actually, I take that back - the most effective coordination technology is mind. I write about the relationship between dhamma and collective intelligence in my Substack.

Meditation is a big part of my life. I started with Mahasi-style Vipassana back in 2018 before moving to TWIM. My practices these days is oriented around Mahamudra.

Publications

Relational AI: Designing Agents for Human Systems: A framework for designing AI agents that navigate the messy reality of human meaning, trust, and attention.
Collective Attention as a Service: A Postmortem of Ize 👀: Exploring what motivated Ize’s design, why it didn’t work, and what the next generation of coordination tools can learn from the Ize experiment.
Metagov: “Beyond DAOs: Design Decisions for Internet Organizations”: Deep dive into designing how membership, power, and value flow through internet organizations.
Active Inference Institute: “Governing Continuous Transformation” Livestream Series: Explores applying the principles of Active Inference and Free Energy in an organizational design context.
4K protocol whitepaper: Decentralized protocol for on-chain physical property rights.
DAOIP-5: Grants Management: Open standard of interfaces and structures for web3 grants programs.
CircleCI: “Clojure Microservices for JavaScript Developers”: 3 part series on building Clojure microservices I co-wote for CircleCI. My time at CircleCI influenced the design decisions of Ize - both the emphasis on the functional programming and conceptualizing collaborative process as “workflows”.