Yichuan (River) Wang

I design AI products — and ship them.

Product designer and design engineer. Three products live this year; the largest has 41,000 readers, the fastest launched three weeks after the idea.

Open to full-time roles · Providence / remote / relocation · yichuan.wang.work@gmail.com
Work · Product structure and economics

Unhappened

One shared world per premise instead of a private copy per reader: the decision that made reading free and the whole product possible.

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Live · 41,000 readers · 2026
UnhappenedSearchY

The deepest world

What ifThe Soviet Union did not break up

In August 1991, the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded in its narrower aim…

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Work · Workflow design for a professional tool

Scene Zero

A screenwriter's process broken into steps a machine can judge, and a Zero that reads your own words back to you.

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In progress · 463 tests · 2026
SCENE ZER1 LOGLINE234567
3×5 CARD
0 WORDS
ELEMENTS

Five things a logline has to carry. Each row quotes your own words back.

WHO“a three-person crew”
WANT“wraps a night shoot”
OBSTACLEnothing is in their way yet
STAKES“the scene cannot be cut”
HOOK“no way to know until the edit”
STEP 1 / 7MODEL OFFRULES 10 checkedLANG EN
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Work · AI behavior design

Antumbra

A voice with rules, and a checker for every rule — so the model can't drift into jargon, flattery, or claims nobody can check.

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Live · closed testing · 2026
Antumbra

About them, you want one straight answer.

No hedging, nothing left for you to decode. We run it, you get one line.

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Art · Earlier work

MYLIFE

120 agents, three rules, and a society that decides for itself what love and violence are. Exhibited at RISD, 2026.

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RISD Graduate Exhibition · 2026
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Work
  • Counterfactual-history encyclopedia. Live.
  • Pre-production tooling for film crews.
  • A tool for judging relationships. Live, closed testing.
Art
  • A simulated society. RISD Graduate Exhibition, 2026.
  • Relational Signal
    AR prototype driving procedural spatial audio.
Teaching
  • Game Design — Co-Instructor, RISD
    Five weeks, 14 students, concept to playable Unity build.
  • Unreal Engine 5 — Teaching Assistant, RISD
    One-on-one technical guidance, 14 students.