About the Studio

DLEV Studio is not a lab, an incubator, or a publishing venue.

It is a governed execution boundary.

Work within the Studio focuses on structured system design, simulation, and supervised evaluation of early-stage architected intelligence systems. The Studio functions as an internal execution environment for a vertically integrated intellectual property architecture comprising ten filed U.S. provisional patent applications.

The portfolio is organized to allow downstream systems to inherit formal capabilities while remaining independently evaluable, modular, and suitable for academic decomposition. Projects are explicitly decomposed, exercised in controlled environments, and reviewed against architectural intent rather than market pressure or publication incentives.

The Studio supports scoped collaboration with academic, clinical, and institutional partners under defined governance. Participation is supervised and non-clinical, and is limited to activities that serve system execution, validation, or educational evaluation. Any subsequent publication, grant activity, or commercial use occurs outside the Studio under separate agreement and governance.

The Studio’s primary function is clarity: systems are assessed for internal coherence and boundary integrity before they are permitted to propagate beyond the Studio environment.

About the Director

S. Vincent Grasso, DO, MSIS, MBA is a physician executive, systems architect, and interdisciplinary scholar directing DLEV Studio in his individual capacity. He is the principal architect of the systems evaluated within the Studio, with background intellectual property held through Grasso & Co., LLC.

His work spans artificial intelligence systems engineering, simulation-based evaluation, clinical workflow design, and human–AI interaction in high-stakes environments. Engagements with academic or institutional partners occur only under written agreement and do not imply authorship, inventorship, or intellectual property assignment.

See the About the Director page for additional information.

IP Architecture

The Studio maintains a structured portfolio of filed provisional intellectual property organized as a tiered system architecture. Each tier represents a distinct layer of abstraction and responsibility, enabling complex systems to be evaluated, extended, or discontinued without contaminating downstream layers.

This structure exists to establish coherence across these tiers before any system is exposed to external academic, institutional, funding, or commercial pressures.

See the IP Architecture page for additional information.

Filed Systems

The Studio maintains and evaluates filed provisional system architectures representing distinct applied problem domains. These systems are described at a conceptual level to communicate architectural intent and evaluation scope, without disclosing implementation details or commercialization pathways.

This approach enables institutional understanding and pre-engagement assessment while preserving intellectual property boundaries.

See the Filed Systems page for additional information.

Phase-1 Executions

A limited number of Phase-1 systems are currently undergoing governed simulation and evaluation within the Studio. Phase-1 execution is designed to test architectural hypotheses through disciplined implementation, iteration, and measurement within strictly bounded, non-clinical, non-commercial simulation environments.

At this stage, systems are assessed for technical validity and boundary compliance. Architectures that meet defined criteria may become eligible for further external evaluation or translation under separate governance.

Any institutional adoption, publication, or commercialization occurs exclusively outside the Studio boundary and under independent agreement.

See the Phase-1 Executions page for additional information.

Research & Scholarly Foundations

The system architectures evaluated within the Studio operate in problem domains that have been the subject of sustained scholarly inquiry across medicine, engineering, ethics, and the humanities. Relevant academic literature provides contextual grounding and informs evaluative perspective, while remaining distinct from the conception, ownership, and execution of any filed system architecture.

See the Research & Scholarly Foundations page for additional information.

Execution Modes

Filed system architectures are evaluated within the Studio through defined execution modes that govern how work is structured, exercised, reviewed, and assessed.

These execution modes describe internal evaluation mechanisms only and are distinct from development stages, collaboration pathways, or any form of deployment or commercialization.

See the Execution Modes page for additional information.

Interpretive Works

In parallel with formal system evaluation, the Studio acknowledges an adjacent interpretive practice examining themes such as human dignity, agency, and responsibility under conditions of institutional and technological constraint.

These interpretive works exist as independent scholarly or artistic artifacts and are fully separate from the Studio’s system execution, evaluation activities, and intellectual property framework.

See the Interpretive Works page for additional information.

Scientific Advisory Oversight

The Studio maintains an independent Scientific Advisory Board that provides non-binding guidance on scientific validity, translational boundaries, and governance posture of systems evaluated within the Studio.

The Advisory Board operates strictly in an oversight and advisory capacity. It does not participate in system execution, authorship, commercialization, intellectual property ownership, or institutional representation. Advisory input is scoped, time-bounded, and structured to preserve independence, rigor, and boundary integrity.

See the Scientific Advisory Board page for additional information.