From Courtside to Compendium — The Research Behind AUGMANITAI

In 2025, something unusual happened. A researcher with no institutional backing, no PhD program, no corporate lab, and no funding produced what no academic institution, no AI company, and no research group had: a systematic, ISO-compliant terminology for the subjective human experience of working with AI. Over 1,000 formally defined neologisms. DOI-archived. CC BY-ND 4.0. Machine-readable in JSON-LD and SKOS. In under twelve months. The question is not what was built. The question is how one person could build it - and why no one else had. The answer lies in an unusual convergence.