donttrustme.ai
A FIELD JOURNALHOUSTON, TEXAS · EDITION 09.09.2026

ABOUT / THE WORKSHOP · HOUSTON, TEXAS

A curious
workshop.

donttrustme.ai is the evidence layer: claims tested from the outside, and the instructions to check the work.

Watercolor galaxies rising from porcelain tea, with a brass key and delicate constellations

WHY THIS EXISTS

Wonder is welcome.
Unexamined claims aren’t.

The workshop builds tools for measurement and verification. This journal puts their results where they can be questioned—including the parts that make for an awkward introduction.

The pictures get to be fanciful. The tables have a different job. Every score needs a corpus, a scorer, a denominator, and a disclosure of what the test does not establish.

THREE NAMES / ONE MAP

Where everything belongs.

estimative.ai

THE CATEGORY

Measurement, not generation. Bounded instruments, typed measurements, and a deterministic judge.

donttrustme.ai

THE EVIDENCE

The public record of claims tested from the outside, and how to check them. This journal.

ASSAY

THE PRACTICE

Independent verification engagements, sealed code audits, and claim review. The workshop’s commercial practice.

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WORK

The workshop.

The workshop is not a one-person company. But until Isaac Weathers joins full time, it has one developer.

Leland “TJ” Jourdan II

FOUNDER

Houston, Texas

THE WORKSHOP’S VERY EARTHLY ADDRESS

A watercolor observatory suspended in a cloud of stars

THE INVITATION

Bring your curiosity.
Keep your skepticism.

You do not owe the workshop belief. Start with the measurement, inspect its scope, and follow the evidence as far as it goes.

Claims we tested ↗