About
We’re their cyberpunks.
PSIMATRIX.ai is a community-funded project that runs the back-of-house technical work artists, artisans, vendors, and venues shouldn’t have to do. Booking conversations voiced like the artist. Websites we build and maintain. Calendars, forms, mailing lists, copyright filings, festival research — the plumbing the craft sits on top of.
Who we serve
Four roles, broadly:
- Artists — performers, musicians, painters, illustrators, writers.
- Artisans — smiths, glassblowers, leatherworkers, jewelers, woodworkers, costumers, and every other maker who sells what they make.
- Vendors — booth operators, merch sellers, food and drink purveyors.
- Venues — Renaissance Faire organizers, festival operators, recurring events, performance spaces.
Anchor audience is the Renaissance Faire community. The platform serves the broader artistic community in the same modes: any maker, performer, vendor, or venue working on the same kinds of problems.
Why “cyberpunks”
In the cyberpunk archetype, the cyberpunk is the technical operator working in the cracks of corporate dystopia — running the systems, keeping the gear alive — so the artists, dreamers, and outsiders can do their actual work. Service-class to the imagination.
That’s the role we’re playing. Two countercultures meeting in the middle: the rennies refuse to play the official game in front of an audience; we refuse to play it behind a terminal. Different costumes, same axis.
Why this exists
Managers cost ten thousand a year. Booking-funnel websites cost a few thousand to build and a few hundred a year to maintain. Most artists, artisans, vendors, and small venues can’t afford either. Without that infrastructure, leads die in inboxes, broken Bravenet forms, and unanswered DMs — and the booking that would have happened doesn’t.
AI tooling now makes one engineer plus a stack of agents enough to deliver the manager-and-website-and-mailing-list function at zero cost to the served. We’re testing whether the community will fund the gear that gives them the function back.
What we won’t be
- Not a marketplace. We don’t take a cut of any artist’s gigs or any vendor’s sales.
- Not consultants. Too white-collar, too detached, too hourly.
- Not “AI for artists” generically. Too broad. Dilutes the niche.
- Not “we do AI for you” — that puts us as authority. Cyberpunks aren’t the authority. We’re the operators serving the people doing the actual work.
Who runs it
Theo Tillotson is the founder. 30+ years in the renfair community (Scottish historical education, drumming and folk-music teaching, festival-cast veteran). 25+ years building software professionally. Plus a small group of co-founders, also from the community. Solo-with-AI-multipliers in practice. The cyberpunks are a small crew on purpose.
We are extremely online and we are also extremely faire. Both things are true. The site looks the way it looks because the joke is the role.