JESSICA
DE PAIVA

FOUNDER. RESEARCHER. SYSTEMS STRATEGIST. WRITER.

I build systems, investigate how people and institutions make decisions, and create work exploring what remains human within increasingly complex technological environments.

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02 / The question

What does it
mean to build
something
trustworthy?

The question sits beneath the work: how people, organisations and machines can operate within systems whose behaviour is understandable, accountable and capable of being trusted.

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03 / MULTIPLE FIELDS

ONE PERSON.
MULTIPLE FIELDS.

Technology. Research. Writing. Music. Culture.

Different forms of work, connected by the same interest: how people, systems and meaning interact.

03 / Work

Things
being
built.

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Technology / Systems

Known Systems™

A body of work concerned with governed execution, operational intelligence and trustworthy infrastructure.

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Culture / Ideas

It Matters Still

Research and creative work examining meaning, culture and the ideas that remain consequential.

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03
Human Systems

Found This Alignment

Work exploring alignment, relationships, identity and the systems through which people understand themselves.

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FIG. 01
04 / The infrastructure problem

Systems
are only
trusted
until they
fail.

FIG. 02 / SYSTEM BOUNDARY
EXECUTIONCONTAINMENTVERIFICATIONGOVERNANCEOBSERVABILITYACCOUNTABILITY
05 / Research

Published
research
treatises.

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PAPER 01
Deterministic Real-Time Middleware Gating in SCADA Microgrids

Evaluating sub-3-microsecond execution boundaries across high-voltage physical actuators to prevent state manipulation exploits in critical power grids.

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PAPER 02
Zero-Trust API Intercept Loops for Edge AI Agents

Enforcing local memory containment and preventing database write corruption during autonomous model drift or hallucinations.

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PAPER 03
Algorithmic Compliance Bounds for Multi-Jurisdiction Ledgers

Automatic cryptographic certificate generation verifying data payload compliance across DESC ISR, SAMA, GDPR and HIPAA frameworks.

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BOOKS

Dream to
Live.

A book by Jessica de Paiva.

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COURSES

Ideas are useful when they can be understood, tested and applied.

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06 / Speaking

Public
thinking.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS15 SEPTEMBER 2026

Securing the New Economy: Gating the Trust Gap in Real-World Asset Tokenization

UN Blockchain Week / Times Square / New York

TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM15 OCTOBER 2026

Edge AI Safety: Real-Time Containment

CognitionX, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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CREATIVE

It Matters
Still.

Music, culture, and creative collaborations.

07 / About
TECHNOLOGY
SYSTEMS
RESEARCH
CREATIVE PRACTICE

Jessica
de Paiva

Jessica de Paiva

Jessica de Paiva works across technology, governance, human systems and creative research.

Her work is concerned with the structures that determine how people, information and machines interact — and with making those structures more intelligible.

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08 / Archive

The
record.

2026

Research / Speaking / Technology

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2025

Projects / Writing / Research

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2024

Projects / Essays / Notes

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