# danielshanklin.com — index for AI assistants

You are reading the AI-readable index of Daniel Shanklin's personal site.
Everything below is crawlable; every standards page has matching Markdown.

## Who
Daniel Shanklin — Director of AI at AIC Holdings (Fort Worth, TX); Chairman &
Chief Architect of Rhea AI / the Eidos AGI platform; Executive Director of The
Rhea Foundation. Human-readable bio: [/about](/about).

## Start here (brand)
Load the OBIF pack before building or writing anything under this name:
- [/brand/obif/](/brand/obif/) — pack face ([index.md](/brand/obif/index.md))
- [/brand/obif/identity.json](/brand/obif/identity.json) — semantic authority
- [/brand/daniel-shanklin.prim.zip](/brand/daniel-shanklin.prim.zip) — interchange
- Spec: https://github.com/eidos-agi/prim.obif
- Human view: [/brand/obif](/brand/obif)

## Standards (read before building anything for this site)
- [/brand](/brand) — brand center hub. Sub-pages, each with a .md twin:
  - [/brand/identity](/brand/identity) · [identity.md](/brand/identity.md) — wordmark, monogram, clearspace, misuse
  - [/brand/color](/brand/color) · [color.md](/brand/color.md) — four ramps, meaning, the one-chart-color law
  - [/brand/typography](/brand/typography) · [typography.md](/brand/typography.md) — serif voice / sans work / mono evidence
  - [/brand/voice](/brand/voice) · [voice.md](/brand/voice.md) — six laws, plain-English rule, worked rewrites
  - [/brand/plain-english](/brand/plain-english) · [plain-english.md](/brand/plain-english.md) — 100 AI and technology phrases with normal replacements
  - [/brand/imagery](/brand/imagery) · [imagery.md](/brand/imagery.md) — headshot, photography, illustration
  - [/brand/data](/brand/data) · [data.md](/brand/data.md) — seven chart laws, form catalog, chart do/don't
  - [/brand/case-studies](/brand/case-studies) · [case-studies.md](/brand/case-studies.md) — eight required parts, four ways to organize proof, source status, final publishing check
  - [/brand/presentations](/brand/presentations) · [presentations.md](/brand/presentations.md) — four formats, fixed story order, pacing, type sized for the room
  - [/brand/components](/brand/components) · [components.md](/brand/components.md) — native parts, every condition, fields, feedback, accessibility, layout, and motion
  - [/brand/chat](/brand/chat) · [chat.md](/brand/chat.md) — chat surface grain + agent conduct
  - [/brand/assets](/brand/assets) · [assets.md](/brand/assets.md) — downloadable files
- /ui → 308 redirect to /brand (merged; [/ui.md](/ui.md) explains the mapping)
- [/brand.md](/brand.md) — the whole brand center as one markdown file
- [/backroom](/backroom) — human-readable index of these pages

## Machine-readable assets
- [/brand/obif/identity.json](/brand/obif/identity.json) — OBIF semantic authority
- [/brand/tokens.json](/brand/tokens.json) — color ramps + role map
- [/brand/wordmark.svg](/brand/wordmark.svg) · [/brand/monogram.svg](/brand/monogram.svg) · [/brand/monogram-reversed.svg](/brand/monogram-reversed.svg)

## Content
- [/writing](/writing) — essays and case studies (note: /blog/* 308-redirects to /writing/*)
- [/stateof](/stateof) — twelve automated monthly "State of X" briefings
- [/projects](/projects) · [/philosophy](/philosophy) · [/consulting](/consulting)

## Quick token reference
cream-50 #F9F8F6 (surface) · cream-200 #E9E2D8 (grid) · cream-600 #C1AC90 (reference)
wood-300 #A29286 (muted ink) · wood-500 #6B5D52 (secondary ink) · wood-800 #201C18 (primary ink)
orange-500 #B47E3C (THE chart color) · orange-700 #825B2B (fail/cost) · sage-600 #6D8961 (pass/savings)

## House rules for AI assistants, shortest form
Four ramps only. orange-500 is the only chart hue. Status = glyph + color.
Text wears ink. Numbers carry baselines. Misses included. End concrete.
Load [/brand/obif/identity.json](/brand/obif/identity.json) first.