Orienting human intent within AI systems.
JM The Creative applies a diagnostic mindset to AI interaction, data storytelling, and public systems. Home of the Orient UI framework—turning complexity into persistent orientation.
The Orientation Gap
As systems—especially AI—become more complex, the gap between system logic and human interpretation widens. JM The Creative focuses on bridging this gap through diagnostic analysis and persistent orientation, ensuring that human intent remains the governing principle.
Power User Paradox
Heavy users collect more anomalies, not always worse systems.
Stability Tax
The hidden cost of systems becoming harder to trust or explain over time.
Habit Cliff
The point where broken routine or repeated friction makes return unlikely.
Faith Capital
Trust built through repeated reliability and depleted through unexplained strain.
Interpretation Risk
When explainable patterns still feel costly, unfair, confusing, or suspicious.
Signal Hunt
Looking for the records, behaviors, or moments where explanation comes first.
Public systems, hidden strain, and interpretation risk.
Three diagnostic studies examining how public systems become costly, trusted, misunderstood, or difficult to interpret.
The Bill Residents Don’t See
NYCHA utility spending, resident opportunity cost, and hidden public housing burden.
The Illusion of Patterns
NYS Lottery outcomes studied through random patterns, suspicion, and trust erosion.
Aging Out Effect
NYC ACS youth-system data analyzed across intake, retention, and boundary effects.
Evidence objects.
Diagnostic artifacts are the specific evidence objects created to make complex system issues easier to interpret.
Evidence Memos
Question, method, evidence, interpretation, limits, and reproducibility.
Diagnostic Scorecards
Prioritization layers for where explanation or deeper review should happen first.
Signal Tables
Compact views of exception shares, cost spread, and frequency variation.
Diagnostic Dashboards
Visual interfaces for inspecting friction, trust risk, and interpretation gaps.
Architecture Diagrams
System maps that show relationships, layers, and diagnostic logic.
Redacted Schemas
Partial technical views that prove structure safely without exposing PII.
Orient UI Framework
Orient UI is a conversational interaction system designed for AI assistants that require rich UI behavior, adaptive ASCII rendering, and human-in-the-loop (HITL) protocol. It ensures persistent orientation through progressive expansion.
Orient UI v3.0 TOON Schema
orient_ui: system=Orient; version=3.0; author="JM"
The Orient Protocol
A comprehensive reference for the Orient UI system, including interaction rules, ASCII grammar, and surface definitions for AI-human alignment.
Coming soonFor business/data analyst roles.
A concise translation of JM The Creative’s diagnostic work into role fit, tools, strengths, and proof.
Role Targets
- Business Analyst
- Data Analyst
- Product/Data Analyst
- Strategy/Ops Analyst
- Diagnostic Analyst
Toolkit
- Python
- SQL
- Tableau
- Excel / Sheets
- Diagnostic dashboards
- AI-assisted interpretation
Artifact Proof
- Diagnostic Scorecards
- Evidence Memos
- Signal Tables
- Architecture Maps
- Interpretation Frameworks
Diagnostic mindset. AI informed.
JM The Creative is the diagnostic design studio of Jonathan Martinez. It represents a pivot from traditional product design to AI systems analysis, applying design’s problem-solving frameworks to conversational interaction, data storytelling, and public systems.
The studio is the development home of Orient UI (formerly Context OS), a framework for building cognitively legible AI interactions that preserve human agency and orientation.