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The In Silico Awards will ask entrants to document their human-machine process. It would be strange to ask that and not answer it ourselves. This is our own dossier, in the same six parts we ask of entrants, at the same disclosure level we publish for finalists.
The dossier
The founder writes novels in long, structured collaboration with AI systems, and believes that way of working deserves a serious home — standards, disclosure, and honors — rather than a defensive crouch. The site is the first public artifact of that conviction.
Frontier LLM assistants — Anthropic’s Claude among them — served as drafting partners, code collaborators, and design critics. The site itself is deliberately plain: static HTML, CSS, and a few lines of JavaScript. No framework, no tracker, no analytics.
The founder set the mission, the award structure, the judging weights, the fee philosophy, the youth safeguards, and the ethics posture; chose the names; rejected drafts; and directed each redesign. The machines proposed. A person decided.
AI assistance drafted copy, wrote and revised the stylesheet and markup, stress-tested policies, and critiqued the site’s own design — including the critique that an earlier hero animation was a stock “AI company” cliché that argued against our literary positioning. It was right. We cut it.
Twelve site versions sit in the founder’s archive folder ahead of this one — hero rewrites, navigation reshuffles, copy passes, a redirect problem, and one full change of visual direction. Revision is not a stage of this kind of work. It is the work.
Tools are named and credited. No living author’s style was imitated. No scraped or borrowed text was used. The imagery is our own. And the collaboration is disclosed here, in public, permanently — because that is the entire point of the organization.
Disclosure level
This dossier is written at the level we publish for finalists with their approval: the honest shape of the collaboration, without the private notebook. Exact prompts, working drafts, and internal tooling stay private — ours and yours.
That calibration is deliberate, and it is the standard the awards run on: proprietary craft is allowed. Secrecy about authorship is not. You may keep your techniques. You may not keep the fact of the collaboration.
If you can describe your process this honestly at this altitude, you can write a dossier. Here is what we ask for.