Chester "Chet" Harvey

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Expertise: Enterprise AI strategy · Defense modernization · Narrative & memetic design

I thrive in complexity, not compliance. That made me hard to fit into the systems I was meant to support.

I wasn’t hard to teach, I just learned faster on my own.

As an autodidact, I’ve always thrived outside the lines; chasing patterns, mastering systems, and solving problems no one officially assigned or often understood.

From classrooms that punished curiosity to organizations that confuse movement with progress, I spent years inside systems that rewarded conformity and labeled critical thinking as disruption. Turns out they were right, I am disruptive. Just not the kind they had tools for but I still managed to deliver game-changing solutions.

I don’t fit neatly into org charts or mission statements. I think in abstracts, architecture, friction, narrative, and warfare, sometimes all at once. I challenge sacred assumptions. I build what should exist. I call out what’s broken and then lay out a plan to fix it. I see around corners and think 5 steps ahead. And I do it with strategy, sarcasm, and stubborn clarity.

That mismatch drove a design:

• CAGF (Cognitive Architecture Governance Framework): For reimagining enterprise design in the age of AI
   
• Guerrilla Memo: A satirical strike force against tech cults, fake innovation, and defense theater
   
• FenrirUSA: A platform for warfighters, reformers, and misfits who want the system to actually work
   

I’m not here to play nice. I’m here to build smarter systems and help the next generation of misfits turn their frustration into firepower.

If you’ve ever felt too intense, too curious, or too honest for the places you were forced to operate in. Good. That means you’re built for something more.

Let’s make that something real.

Not everything I build is designed to dismantle. Some of it’s about wonder, laughter, and passing the torch.

I’m currently collaborating with my son on his first children’s book, BlackJack the Spider, a wildly imaginative tale that’s already made its way into schools and daycares, with broader release just around the corner. It’s a reminder that systems don’t always have to be fixed. Sometimes, they just need to be imagined from scratch, with childlike wonder, a notebook, and a spider who’s up to something.

I also experiment with AI-generated music, mostly sarcastic, often strange, but always from the heart, exploring how language and emotion intersect when neural networks try to make art. Soundcloud: Auralithm

And when the noise settles, I return to a young adult fantasy book I’ve been writing, inspired by a reoccurring dream I had as a kid. Thanks to recent advances in generative AI, I’m finally able to translate those dreamscapes into something tangible, something other people can walk through too.

There’s a strange harmony that’s emerged in all of this.

I spend part of my life interrogating systems and part of it using those same systems to create. The edge and the imagination finally coexist.

And for the first time in a long time, it all feels aligned.