The intersection of
art and autonomy
I'm Steve Whiting -- a UCSD student, recording artist, and the founder of RISE Holdings, an AI-native creative and technology company.
By day, I design and build autonomous agent systems -- fleets of AI daemons that monitor, synthesize, and execute without human input. By night, I write and produce music under the name Steve Stylez.
The throughline is the same: build systems that create value while you sleep. Whether that's a G-Funk record or a 50-daemon orchestration layer, the craft is in the architecture.
Two projects.
Two worlds.
A Day In
The Life
West coast vibes, 808s, and stories from the daily grind. ADITL is the soundtrack to building something from nothing -- late nights, long drives, and the moments in between.
Listen NowStory of
Heartless
Raw, stripped-back folk rock. Acoustic guitars, honest lyrics, and the kind of songwriting that sits with you. A different side of the same artist.
Listen NowAutonomous agent
infrastructure
Great Sage is a production-grade autonomous AI system running 50+ daemons on a Mac Mini. Event bus architecture, health monitoring, chain synthesis, and persistent memory via ChromaDB. It doesn't just assist -- it operates.
Daemon Fleet
50+ specialized daemons handling content creation, social posting, health monitoring, and system orchestration. Each daemon is a self-contained unit with its own lifecycle.
Event Bus
Daemons communicate through a structured event bus. Actions trigger chains -- a content daemon fires, the social daemon picks it up, the analytics daemon tracks it.
Persistent Memory
ChromaDB-backed vector memory gives the system long-term context. It remembers past decisions, learns from outcomes, and builds institutional knowledge over time.
Work with me
Autonomous Agent Architecture Design
- Full system design document tailored to your use case
- Daemon specifications with lifecycle management
- Event bus schema and inter-daemon communication patterns
- Deployment guide (Cloudflare Workers, Mac Mini, or cloud)
- 1 hour architecture review call
- 30 days of async support via email
Learn the system
Architecture Blueprint
The complete system design behind Great Sage. Daemon architecture, event bus patterns, health monitoring, and deployment topology. Everything you need to build your own.
Skill Pack
12 production-ready skill definitions for Claude Code. Content generation, social posting, code review, deployment automation. Drop them in and go.
Agent Playbook
From zero to autonomous in 30 days. Step-by-step guide covering agent design, daemon management, persistent memory, and the operational playbook I use daily.
Follow the build
Weekly dispatches from inside an autonomous AI system. What's working, what broke, what shipped. No fluff.