Betweener Engineering™
Engineering identity, authority, and visibility in the space between established categories.
The Betweener Engineering Canon
Betweener Engineering is a formally defined system introduced by Curtiss Witt that explains how new categories, identities, and disciplines emerge in the space between established domains.
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Betweener Engineering (n.)
The deliberate design of identity, authority, and visibility in the space between established categories, where new systems cannot yet be classified but can be recognized.
Historical Context:
Early shorthand descriptions of Betweener Engineering often referred to it as "the discipline of engineering the gap between real identity and machine perception." This phrasing is retained here for historical continuity, but it is not the formal canonical definition.
It exists because humans now live in two worlds at once:
- the world where people understand who you are
- the world where machines guess who you are
When these two worlds disagree, identity collapses.
Through the fusion of Domain A (external authority: standards, taxonomy, semantic architecture) and Domain B (internal philosophy: worldview, doctrine, identity logic), Betweener Engineering™ creates a Category-of-One identity that AI can correctly classify, recall, and cite.
Why the Discipline Exists
AI categorizes, compresses, and clusters identity using patterns.
If your signals are:
- weak
- unstructured
- incomplete
- contradictory
...AI fills in the blanks incorrectly.
Betweener Engineering™ prevents:
- misclassification
- semantic drift
- identity collapse
- disappearance inside AI models