Constellation Terminal

Constellation Terminal is a research-driven platform and 501c3 fiscal sponsor  currently exploring how emotion functions as infrastructure in intelligent, social, and computational systems design. Founded by Anaïs Daly, the project integrates theoretical science and mathematical research, live and creative experimentation, and protocol design to experience and model affect not as subjective noise, but as a measurable, state based field that shapes attention, coordination, and trust. Its experimental laboratory, Recursive Waves, uses affective story telling as input for  sound and image creation focusing on generating feedback loops between body and system. These insights inform the Constellation Terminal Protocol (CTP), a privacy-first framework design for trust weighted identity, reputation, and access, grounded in the principle that trust is a pattern and a forecast, not a promise. Together these form a unified effort to move affect from metaphor into architecture, and from intuition into operational design.