Where we're heading
A high-level roadmap.
The Codex is early, and deliberately so. This page sketches where it's going rather than promising dates — a direction of travel for the people who might want to help steer it. Two threads matter most right now: supporting the artists who give these experiences a face, and working with researchers to turn careful accounts into data worth studying.
For artists — a fairer path to selling your work
If you paint, draw or render what you've seen, the Codex wants to be the best home your work has ever had — one that protects it, credits it, and helps it earn you a living. That happens in phases:
- Now
Link straight to your work
The simplest, zero-commitment step: if you make art, we credit you and point visitors to your own webstore, commissions page or socials. Your work stays entirely yours — the Codex just gives it context and an audience of people who genuinely care about what you paint.
- Next
Print-on-demand, integrated
Integrate pay-as-you-print services so you can sell prints of your work directly to like-minded people here, without any upfront cost or inventory. You set the terms; the Codex handles the plumbing.
- The dream
A community art-printing collective
Eventually, a small-scale printing collective that puts the means of production in the community's hands — artists keep the maximum net profit, and the project only ever takes a small cut to cover maintenance and overheads. Not a marketplace that extracts from artists; a co-op that serves them.
If any of that resonates — whether you'd like your store linked today or you want to help shape the collective — please get in touch.
For researchers — better records, better data
A quiet ambition sits under all of this: that the way we record these experiences could actually be useful to science. Right now, first-hand accounts of these states are scattered, unstructured and hard to compare. The Codex is trying to change that — but doing it well needs people who understand what makes data rigorous.
If you're an academic or researcher in this field, I'd love to work with you to refine how experiences are captured — the prompts, the structure, the scales — so the archive yields good-quality, comparable data that can genuinely help further understanding, rather than just another pile of anecdotes.
Want to help build this?
Full transparency: the Codex is currently built and run by one software engineer. Every thread above — the print collective, the research tooling, the curation systems — is more than any one person can carry alone. So if you think you can help, or you simply want to get involved, I genuinely want to hear from you: artists, researchers, developers, curators, or anyone who cares about this being done right.