A seven-part investigation into the invisible systems that classify, sort, price, and shape every modern life. Each episode is an interactive experience. Together, they form one connected universe.
You don't read about how a recommender system works. You become the input. You don't watch a documentary about psychographic clusters. You get sorted into one, in front of yourself, with your own choices.
The line at the end of Episode 01 — "You are not on the same internet as them" — is the thesis sentence of the whole series. Each episode picks up where the previous one ended and reveals another layer of the operating system.
This isn't a website. It's a civic intelligence universe. You walk in. You take an action. You see something you didn't know existed. You carry that knowledge into the next episode. Eventually the system reacts to you.
Each episode is built as a participatory experiment, not a passive read. You make choices. The system remembers them. The next episode picks up where the last one ended — sometimes literally, in the bridge line; sometimes structurally, by inheriting your persona, your data trail, and the class you've been sorted into.
This is the format we believe modern journalism actually needs: simulation with citation. Every claim has a paper trail (see Episode 01, Stage 08). Every interaction reveals a real mechanism. Nothing is fictional — only re-presented in a way that makes the invisible feelable.