The algorithm sees
1,847 things about you. Now make five decisions and see what it does with them.

This is not an article. It is an installation in seven moments. You will assemble a composite, sort five anonymous households, watch the pattern your clicks just produced, and meet the five families you just helped sort. By the end you will have done what the engine does — and you will know the families it does it to.

What does the algorithm see when it sees you?

No data leaves your browser. The composite below is modeled from public-broker schemas — the same field structure your real composite has on file at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Acxiom, Equifax, and four others.

You became someone.
Someone we have written about before.

You did not know
you were reading about
the same machine.

Each of these families appeared in a different Season I story. They were not in different stories. They were in different parts of the engine you just played for 90 seconds. The breadcrumb under each card opens the original case file.

No conspiracy.
No determinism.
No despair.

The three strongest defenses
of what you just saw.

Each defender gets the dignity of being argued well. The installation wins or loses on the strength of its rebuttal — not on weakening the defender first. Outreach in progress to the FAccT-community, vendor trade-association, and sociological-skeptic voices named in the corpus.

Episode response below each defender appears in the full hosted version after outreach completes · 21-day timeline, three-day text-approval round. Full episode-side responses are drafted in the counter-read voices document.