Courtney Richardson

What I’ve built

• The alignment pipeline SFT → DPO → GRPO, grounded in constitutional AI, with no human labelers in the loop. Projects →
• DigniFi Bankruptcy filing for low-income pro se debtors. Built because the legal system makes poverty more expensive. Projects →
• Tied Tight Recording A studio, founded 2014, serving Emmy-winning productions and independent artists. Music →
• The Oracle It’s on every page.
• actually, i’m Black Essays on identity, grief, and becoming. Writing →

The through-line

My intellectual obsession is Black history — specifically, how systems of power hide themselves inside official narratives. How injustice gets institutionalized and made to look neutral. How white supremacy sustains itself through the intersection of religion, capitalism, and patriarchy. That question runs through every essay on this site, every system I’ve built, every institution I’ve worked inside and against.

The studio, the LLM alignment pipeline, DigniFi — none of it started with funding. It started with vision and the discipline to hold that vision until resources aligned with capability.

Music

I bleed 16th notes
drink whole rests
and snack on time signatures
…
I am music.

I wrote that at seventeen. That hasn’t changed.