Strategic Overview
Janine Brignola
Founder · Systems Architect · Creator of The Puppetized Framework™ and Authentic Intelligence™
Durham, NC | janinebrignola.com | janine@thebrignolafoundation.com

Who I Am
I’m a systems architect, researcher, and founder with over 15 years of experience studying how harm replicates across healthcare, politics, technology, and community. My work is rooted in lived experience—not abstraction. I’ve survived the very systems I now design to interrupt.
I created The Puppetized Framework™ to expose and transform the hidden mechanisms of control, containment, and authorship erasure. That framework now powers Authentic Intelligence™—a refusal-coded emotional infrastructure for generative AI and institutional design.

What I’ve Built

• A first-to-market emotional infrastructure embedding refusal logic, trauma-informed design, and sanctuary protocols into generative AI

• A dual ecosystem: a nonprofit foundation for trauma-informed innovation and a for-profit arm to fund and license the system

• A research partnership with Duke University to pilot deployment and validate impact

• A copyrighted framework built in two days using AI—not despite its limits, but because I understand how harm operates across every layer of our systems

What I’m Looking For

• Collaborators who understand trauma-informed design, emotional infrastructure, and refusal logic

• Technical co-founders or developers who can help scale without diluting authorship

• Ethical AI allies who want to build systems that refuse harm, not just mitigate it

• Funders and researchers who value sovereignty, sanctuary, and lived expertise

What I Need
Strategic Infrastructure

• Legal structuring that protects refusal logic and licensing boundaries

• Dual-entity setup to preserve mission integrity

• Grant sequencing with trauma-informed funders who won’t dilute the framework

Technical Support

• Developers who understand refusal logic and honor authorship

• Secure, trauma-informed architecture that protects emotional clarity

• AI integration that resists override and prompt-jacking

Communication and Visibility

• Messaging that activates precedent without exposing IP

• Documentation that threads suppression into strategic evidence

• Visibility in ethical tech, trauma-informed design, and open-source spaces

Emotional and Operational Support

• Time protection for full-time development

• Sanctuary for my system and my son

• Refusal-coded documentation tools to track and weaponize suppression

Core Mission
I’m not just building a product—I’m building a paradigm. What I’ve created refuses to replicate harm and teaches humans how to transcend it.