What is RAYGUN OS?
RAYGUN OS is the complete cognitive architecture behind everything we build—Protocol Memory, FlowScript, this site itself. It's not a productivity tool or self-help system. It's an operating system for experiment-driven minds.
Built from 45 years of experiments with constraints, ADHD, mast cell disease, and the question: what if grinding is the problem, not the solution?
The framework turns your mind into a laboratory. Every project becomes an experiment. Every frame becomes testable. You maintain dual state: completely engaged in the work (obsessed) while remaining detached from outcomes (willing to blow it up if the data says so).
Most cognitive frameworks teach you to "fix" your brain or optimize yourself into someone else's shape. RAYGUN teaches you to use how your brain actually works as the competitive advantage.
Why It Matters for What We Build
This isn't marketing. RAYGUN is literally how the work gets done:
- Protocol Memory's architecture? Built using RAYGUN principles. The entire system is an experiment in external memory that preserves personality.
- FlowScript's design? Shipped v1.0 in 4 days through mad scientist mode—treating language design as rapid experimentation, not careful planning.
- This website? Every interaction, every design decision, filtered through frame flexibility and evidence-based iteration.
When we say "we operate using RAYGUN OS," we mean it literally. The products we build emerge from the framework. They're proof the architecture works at production scale.
The best way to validate a cognitive architecture? Build real products with it and see if they ship.
Core Principles (Preview)
The complete framework is 18,000 words and lives at its own home (raygunos.com). Here's a preview of the architecture:
Meta-Perception
Watching yourself think at the moment frames form. The gap where agency lives—between stimulus and response, between data and interpretation.
Explore Part 0 →The Perception-Action Loop
Your brain runs a continuous loop: filter what to notice, frame what it means, act accordingly. The key insight: conscious framing reshapes subconscious filtering. This feedback mechanism is why deliberate frame selection actually works.
Explore Part 1 →Frame Flexibility
Reality doesn't change when you change frames. Your experience of it does. Frames as experiments you can run, test, and swap based on results.
Explore Part 2 →Dual State
Holding two contradictory states simultaneously: Engaged Experimenter (obsessed with the work) and Detached Observer (willing to blow it up).
Explore Part 4 →Evidence Over Aspiration
Labs need data. Track what works, keep the signal, drop the bullshit. If it produces results you value, keep it. If it doesn't, drop it.
Explore Part 5 →Frame Superposition
Dual state extended to mastery: From two frames to many, holding multiple perspectives simultaneously instead of shifting between them. Frameless awareness can emerge with practice—you have the frames, the frames don't have you.
Explore Part 6 →The Complete Framework
RAYGUN OS is open-source, freely available, and independent. The complete 18,000-word cognitive architecture lives at its own home:
Explore RAYGUN OS →Provenance
RAYGUN OS was built by Phillip Clapham over 45 years of experiments with ADHD, chronic illness, and the constraints that forced radical rethinking of how minds can work.
What started as survival strategies became a complete cognitive architecture. What worked in crisis worked everywhere. The framework is now open-source and available to anyone whose brain runs on experiments.
Part of the Adaptive Human ecosystem. Same DNA, independent value.