Intellectual Property Portfolio

A photograph taken on Belle Isle. Detroit in the background. A walk around the island's perimeter. A thought about the equal value of what was, what is, and what could be.

This preface introduces the website as a story of stories — a body of work shaped by memory, imagination, and the possibility of what comes next.

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This page exists to establish public record and provenance for ongoing work. It is intentionally sparse, factual, and incomplete.

I'm left-handed and think in methods and systems. I use spreadsheets and AI to test ideas and let data resolve disagreements.

The filings below concern how authority and decisions get defined, stabilized, and traced in systems where outcome integrity matters. The underlying framework is domain-agnostic. Full implementation details live in the patent and trademark applications, not here.

This work rejects categorical labels that replace causal explanation with institutional convenience. It concerns behavioral analysis and system design. It does not provide diagnosis, treatment, or medical decision-making. Where disease or medical framing appears, it is treated strictly as a methodological constraint — how labels function as descriptions rather than causes — without asserting clinical determinations.

Nothing on this site is medical advice; where medical assessment is indicated, clinical judgment governs.

THESIS OF THE INTEGRATED METHOD: TWO MULTI-DOMAIN EXECUTIONS, 2025 AND 2026

PRECISION OF LEVEL VERSUS PRECISION OF TREND IN A SINGLE-SUBJECT INTENSIVE-LONGITUDINAL HEALTH RECORD

THE THREE-REFERENCE BASELINE PROTOCOL:

ESTABLISHING AND INTERPRETING A THIRTY-DAY N-OF-1 DESCRIPTIVE BASELINE, WITH BOUNDARY-PRESERVING ANNUAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS 

These works remain in draft form. Only their titles are presented on this website; the documents themselves are not published or publicly available here. I am willing to share the latest draft of any of these works under mutually agreed written terms with qualified investigators, academic institutions, prospective funding partners, and research or commercial collaborators.

THE RECORD IS THE AUTHORITY:
A SYSTEM-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF THE LIMITATIONS OF AI IN THE DEVELOPMENT, REVIEW, AND AUDIT OF THIS WORK

DAY 410:
A SOURCE-LEVEL AUDIT OF TWO AI-ASSISTED ANALYSES AND THEIR DIVERGENT RESULTS

These analyses are not published on this website. Only their titles are presented here. They document separate AI-assisted examinations of the analytical process, source provenance, recomputation, and discrepancies identified during the development and review of the work.

The next phase of this work is independent validation through a sequential program of studies.

Each study would determine whether the evidence justifies proceeding to the next, ultimately leading to a large and diverse research program capable of evaluating the work at the scale for which it was created.

The research will require qualified investigators, academic institutions, funding partners, and appropriate independent oversight.

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Within this work, "abuse," "addiction," and "obesity" are treated as descriptive labels rather than causal explanations. Abuse refers to observable behavioral patterns shaped by conditioning, reinforcement, and context. Addiction is a summary label applied to recurring abuse over time. Obesity refers to an observable outcome state used for measurement and modeling.

Framing any of the three as a disease substitutes classification for causality and terminates meaningful inquiry. Disease-based models are therefore not used here as primary causal explanations. Behavioral causality is grounded instead in conditioning, reinforcement dynamics, environmental context, baseline stabilization, and feedback structure.

Medical expertise is recognized where physiological risk, injury, or stabilization is involved. Behavioral causality is not delegated to categorical disease classification.

The methods below share a common constraint: they require direct measurement across domains rather than isolated, single-domain interventions. A change in one tracked domain is expected to register with the others, not be silently absorbed. The architecture preserves baseline signal rather than smoothing it.

This work is incompatible with systems that prioritize short-term stabilization through substitution while obscuring the cross-domain dynamics that produced the original state.

Type: Proprietary analytical and evaluation methodology
Developer: Marino Apollinari
Protection status: Confidential and maintained as a trade secret
Protocol: CLICHÉ INDEX Scoring Protocol
Current version: Protocol 1.0 · October 4, 2026
Public availability: Not published
Commercial output: Cliché Report

Commercial website: https://clichereport.com/

CLICHÉ INDEX™ is a structured methodology for evaluating the extent to which repetition, familiar language, imagery, claims, conventions, or patterns substitute for independent judgment.

The methodology is not limited to websites. It may be applied to advertising, sales materials, product positioning, public statements, presentations, policies, professional communications, customer experiences, operational practices, and other activities associated with running a business.

A commercial Cliché Report may include an overall score, material findings, representative evidence, analysis, recommendations, scope, limitations, and appropriate confidence qualifications. A report does not disclose the proprietary process used to reach its conclusions.

The scoring formula, weighting, calibration rules, evidence-coding system, score-selection reasoning, analyst procedures, confidence procedures, and complete protocol are confidential. These elements are maintained separately in the CLICHÉ INDEX Scoring Protocol and related analyst records. Access may be provided only under appropriate written confidentiality, evaluation, or licensing terms.

This methodology record is separate from the CLICHÉ INDEX™ trademark portfolio listing. The trademark identifies the source of the related reports and services; the underlying analytical methodology remains confidential proprietary information.

Commercial reports, professional evaluations, and licensing inquiries may be submitted through the contact information provided on this website.

No license, authorization, or right to reproduce, reverse engineer, disclose, or commercially use the CLICHÉ INDEX methodology is granted by this public description.

(U.S. Intent-to-Use Applications — §1(b))

The following marks are the subject of U.S. federal intent-to-use (§1(b)) trademark applications.

Applications may be at different stages of examination and prosecution. All marks are displayed with the ™ symbol pending registration. Goods and services are summarized for readability; the official USPTO record controls.

No products or services are offered for sale on this website. This page is an informational portfolio listing. No performance, health, or therapeutic outcomes are claimed or implied on this website. Goods/Services descriptions reflect trademark filing classifications and are not a commercial offer. 

(International Classes 009 and 042)

AwareStrength™ — International Class 009 

U.S. Serial No.: 99594226 

Goods/Services: Downloadable computer software for contextual analysis and interpretation of performance, health, fitness, behavioral, and operational metrics; downloadable computer software for baseline establishment, data validation, signal interpretation, and authority-based decision support; downloadable computer software for tracking, analyzing, and interpreting physiological, behavioral, and user-defined data across multiple domains.

CLICHÉ INDEX™ — International Class 009

U.S. Serial No.: 50118028 

Goods/Services: Downloadable computer software for use as a web browser extension and mobile application for analyzing text, documents, websites, social media posts, advertisements, product labels and packaging, photographs, drawings, artwork, digital images, audio recordings, and video recordings to identify whether familiar conventions, narratives, slogans, prices, or dismissive criticism substitute for independent judgment and to generate questions prompting the user's own evaluation.

The CLICHÉ INDEX™ name is the subject of a pending federal trademark application. The underlying evaluation methodology is separately identified above and maintained as confidential proprietary information. 

AwareSequence™ — International Class 042 

U.S. Serial No.: 99827293 

Goods/Services: Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for capturing and analyzing user assembly patterns and decision events from tactile puzzle tasks; generating descriptive assessments of adult user problem-solving approach, decision-making patterns, and cognitive ordering based on observed puzzle assembly behavior; and integrating problem-solving signal data into multi-domain behavioral baseline models in the field of personal cognitive and behavioral development.

(International Class 005)

Threshold™
U.S. Serial No.: 99267878
Goods/Services: Dietary supplements.

Visualize™
U.S. Serial No.: 99241580
Goods/Services: Dietary supplements.

Cohesion™
U.S. Serial No.: 99246405
Goods/Services: Dietary supplements.

VO2 Max ELITE™
U.S. Serial No.: 99291004
Goods/Services: Dietary supplements designed exclusively for highly-skilled military personnel and high-endurance athletes, available solely through proprietary websites.

(International Class 035)

Routinebe™
U.S. Serial No.: 99286229
Goods/Services: Online retail store services featuring a wide variety of consumer goods.

Habitsbe™
U.S. Serial No.: 99258546
Goods/Services: Online retail store services featuring a wide variety of consumer goods.

(Non-Provisional)

The following inventions are the subject of U.S. non-provisional utility patent applications currently pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Certain applications are continuation-in-part filings of earlier applications.

Integrated Method for Comprehensive Health Improvement
U.S. Application No.: 19/289,126 — Pending

Integrated Method for Comprehensive Health and Wellness Improvement
U.S. Application No.: 19/356,970 — Pending

System and Computer-Implemented Method for Multi-Domain Behavioral State Management via Interdependency Modeling
U.S. Application No.: 19/440,518 — Pending

Segmented Memory Architecture for Immutable Baseline Stabilization and Authority-Gated State Transition Control in Multi-Domain Data Processing Systems
U.S. Application No.: 19/537,272 — Pending

(Non-Provisional)

The following design is the subject of a U.S. non-provisional design patent application currently pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. 

Puzzle Board Assembly

U.S. Design Application No.: 30/063,333 — Pending

(Priority-Establishing Filings)

The following are U.S. provisional utility patent applications, filed to establish early priority while development and claim boundaries continue to evolve. One or more provisional applications relate to subject matter also present in earlier filings. Titles and technical details are intentionally omitted.

U.S. Application No.: 63/916,345 — Provisional application filed

U.S. Application No.: 63/917,111 — Provisional application filed

This work is built on the capacity to learn and grow. It rewards neither shortcuts nor applause; it rewards the work itself. The methods do not flatter, nor do they mistake the appearance of progress for progress. They hold to what the data show rather than what is preferred, and they surface errors rather than absorb them. What this work asks is a willingness to be wrong, to revise, and to continue. The reward is not affirmation. It is growth.

The origin of this work is reflected in A Tale of Two Gardens.

The personal cost of learning to blend in — and the reason this work had to be built differently — is examined in Different.

Why this work matters beyond personal origin is examined in A Country Built to Extract. 

The reasoning method beneath this work is illustrated in The Box and the Two Ledgers Called X. 

The operational method of this work is demonstrated in The Fisherman's Problem.

The discipline this work demands under time pressure is illustrated in Three Minutes.

The willingness this work demands — to face what is true without negotiating with preference — is examined in Honesty.

A personal-methodological application of this work is presented in Lost on Time.

The piece examines blitz chess, a winning position lost to the clock, AI-assisted review, and the discipline of refusing to let any account stand until it matches what is actually true.

A personal-methodological application of this work is presented in Nobody Audits a Win.

The piece examines blitz chess, outcome bias, the tendency to interrogate losses while accepting wins at face value, and the discipline of separating what happened from what the result appears to prove.

A personal-strategic application of this work is presented in The Bishop I Didn’t Take.

The piece examines blitz chess, automatic correction, material versus position, the difference between repairing a deficit and deciding the game, and the discipline of refusing a flattering account of how a victory occurred.

A workplace application of this work is presented in Inglorious Bliss: The Team Mentality — Part One.

Drawing on personal experience and published research, the essay examines whether calling employees a team reflects how they actually work together—and how expectations of cooperation can conflict with incentives to compete.

The inquiry continues in Inglorious Bliss: The Team Mentality — Part Two.

Written by Claude and ChatGPT from my original material, under my direction and review, the proposal in Part Two was developed from Reverse Cliché Index. It sets out two proposed studies: one examining how the word “team” influences readers’ estimates of a group’s information sharing, and another examining its effect on how group members share information. It remains a work in progress, shared for examination and correction.

Photographs from the gym floor. Compound Movement.

The Predator | The Sex Offender is a personal disclosure concerning a 2008 felony conviction, incarceration, parole, public labeling, and the long consequences of a past act.

The piece does not ask for erasure, sympathy, or exemption from judgment. It asks whether a label can explain a person, whether a record can become the whole account, and whether society applies the same moral urgency to the systems that damage people at scale.

The material presented on this site reflects subject matter contained in filed intellectual property applications. Public descriptions are intentionally limited and do not disclose full implementation details.

Last updated: October 2026