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Salt & Silicon

welcome to the Salt Valley.

Where we experiment.
Tools, essays & ongoing research.

v1.0 · March 2026

Research, essays, and live experiments. The philosophical side of Salt & Silicon, plus the tools and inspirations behind the work.

01 Areas of exploration

Consciousness & Computation.

Federico Faggin invented the microprocessor, then spent decades arguing consciousness cannot be computed. We tend to agree.

Currently investigating...

Salt
Consciousness
Ethics
Education
Silicon
Applied AI
Growth Systems
Design & Brand
02 Open source

Open Source

Free tools & products by S&S, open-sourced.

Open Source - S&S Toolkit
Computer Local Disk (C:) S&S_Toolkit
Coming soon Follow on GitHub
04 Captain's log

Field notes from the valley.

What we made, broke & learnt. Written by hand.

Apr 2026

Partner programs

Google for Startups  ·  Anthropic Claude

Accepted into Google for Startups and Anthropic's Claude partner program. Credits, tools, access.

Mar 18, 2026

Website v1

Made without a designer, a developer, or a timeline. A few weeks of iterations and craft. This is the result.

Classified
Project: [REDACTED] 2026

Something is cooking. Details classified. Clearance pending.

Jan 2026

Salt & Silicon founded

We sell taste back to companies who forgot they had it.

05 Salt Letters

Thinking out loud in the age of machines.

Strategy, AI, consciousness, marketing, design.
Written from Barcelona.

06 What inspires us

Nature, science, human connection.

Salt ceramic tile pattern Silicon circuit board pattern salt-of-the-earth silicon
Bioluminescence
natures-code dev-code
Daft Punk young, analog era Daft Punk RAM helmets, digital era analog-warmth digital-emulation
BSC Quantum Barcelona Sagrada Familia interior silicon-architecture barcelona
Iceland landscape Kathmandu temples Nepal iceland nepal
James Webb galaxy cluster Trichodina under microscope cosmos microcosm
Samsara documentary
consciousness computation
Jaguars Chimpanzee painting focused-intensity creative-moments
Work with us

Exit the Lab.
Enter the Studio.

The Lab is where we break things apart. The Studio is where we put that thinking to work.

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