High-value design begins with what a place already contains. Interior and furniture design studio in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico — operating entity for a six-entity industrial ecosystem under Act 60.
Start a ProjectDesign Philosophy
Moat: Methodology that treats reuse as a design argument, not a sustainability claim — retention, repair, relocation, alteration, and replacement are separate decisions valued by the space, not a universal preference.
Traction: Operating studio in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. DBA of RË Corporation, operating as Nodo Design Group.
Upside: Studio revenue funds ecosystem operations; design discipline applies to physical infrastructure (Pluoton) and civic workspace (Ast) alike.
The studio does not use "new" as a synonym for "good." Novelty can be produced by changing an angle, adding an unfamiliar object, or substituting one surface for another. Those gestures may make a room look different without changing the thought that organizes it. Originality instead concerns origin: the point from which a coherent project grows. It may require adding less, removing an obstruction, recovering an earlier relation, or allowing a retained object to determine the proportions around it.
That distinction changes how reuse is understood. Existing furniture and materials are not retained merely to decorate a sustainability claim, and they are not discarded merely because replacement is easier to photograph. Each item is examined for condition, use, scale, history, and its capacity to participate in the new arrangement. Retention, repair, relocation, alteration, and replacement are separate design decisions. Their value depends on the space, not on a universal preference for either old or new things.
Two movements recur in the work. Reduction removes what prevents the governing relation from being perceived: visual competition, redundant circulation, unnecessary enclosure, or an object with no useful part in the composition. Reversion goes backward to recover a condition that later additions concealed. Neither means making every interior sparse or nostalgic. They are ways of testing whether the project has reached its origin before another layer is added.
The resulting proposal can then be planned rigorously. The concept is translated into dimensions, placement, lighting, material transitions, construction responsibilities, and an order of work. Nodo's promise is not that every project will resemble one house style. It is that the visible result will proceed from a reason particular to the place and the people using it.
Every space tells a story through its interconnected elements. We preserve and enhance these narratives, creating designs that resonate with both history and contemporary life.
Our design process is deliberate and thoughtful, marking out possibilities while respecting the inherent value of existing elements.
Like nodes in a growing network, our designs adapt and evolve, creating spaces that are both timeless and responsive to change.
Six-Entity Ecosystem
Nodo Design Group operates a dual practice: a client-facing interior design studio and the operating entity for a six-entity corporate ecosystem with cross-ownership preserving founder control under Act 60. The ecosystem spans critical minerals, autonomous code infrastructure, heterogeneous compute, civic workspaces, and private logistics.
Technical specifications for UCIP, Aides, Supercomputing, Cryptoverse, and Pluoton are proprietary — available under NDA to qualified capital partners. Public-good workspaces (Ast, Boriquén, Ancient General, Delphi, Homeschool, Fields) operate under AST Not-for-Profit Corporation (501(c)(3)).
Owns and operates the underground, processing, energy, laboratory, and material-handling infrastructure for Puerto Rico critical minerals and chemical synthesis. Five-quadrant haul model anchored to USGS MCS 2026 pricing: Q1–Q3 base case ($40M–$60M/yr) stands without premium metals. Phase I CAPEX $276M base; federal target ~$1.7B. Gate 4: ≥3 LOIs/MOUs by Month 4 / Day 60.
View projectFor-profit entity holding commercial intellectual property, operating revenue, and equity appreciation across powered entities (Enki's Kairos Co., Pluoton, Hermes, Cryptoverse, Supercomputing). Strategic oversight, government interface, and long-duration capital under super-voting governance. Act 60 tax incentives: 4% corporate tax, 0% capital gains, 0% property tax.
View projectThe orchestration and memory layer that makes autonomous code change accountable. Twelve rewrite pipelines, proprietary neural substrate (Aides) implementing weighted-mixture learning (Hebbian, SOM, LEABRA, Backprop) with multi-step attractor settle dynamics across eight modality streams (128–512 dimensions). Cross-runtime coordination via A2A hub. Provider router with 11-provider failover.
View projectOperating logistics entity moving Nodo's physical outputs between Puerto Rico and outside markets using return capacity to reduce empty repositioning. Port of the Americas–Savannah corridor, Savannah rail/FTZ, staged ownership model. Signature private-charter furniture imports: turboprop $14.5K/leg, mid-size $48K/leg. 47 hubs across 6 continents. Jones Act backhaul arbitrage: $40/t standard vs $<12/t via Hermes.
View projectCapital evaluation and negotiation layer for the Nodo ecosystem. Investor relations, technical diligence coordination, capital deployment oversight, bond administration, risk and compliance study. Separates negotiation from execution — Phronesis evaluates and negotiates outside transactions; Hermes carries them out, administers inventory, owns or contracts physical movement.
View projectSpanish-first public-good civic workspace for founding and joining idea communities, opening purposeful discussions, publishing reusable resources, launching contests, coordinating in real time, and leaving public learning footprints (huellas). Five-step workflow: Únete → Participa → Aporta → Colabora → Deja huella. Node.js + SSE, JSON Lines persistence, verified identity via cryptographic proof-of-possession. Zero tracking. No analytics. NSF SCC and HUD CDBG eligible. Target: 25K active communities.
View projectMethodology
We begin by mapping the existing elements, understanding their relationships and potential, much like making an inventory before deciding which conditions are problems and which are assets.
Through careful evaluation, we identify the key elements — the critical nodes — that will serve as anchors for the new design, preserving what is valuable while making room for the intervention the project actually requires.
Our design process weaves together existing and new elements, creating a harmonious whole that respects the past while embracing the future.
The final phase converts the selected design into dimensions, responsibilities, material decisions, and an order of work that can be executed and inspected.
Capital Thesis
The Nodo ecosystem is not a portfolio of independent bets. It is a system of interlocking capital deployment vehicles where each project's output becomes another's input, and utilization — not aspiration — gates ownership.
Moat: Interlocking utilization loops — Hermes return capacity lowers Pluoton input costs; Enki validation gates reduce regression in every powered entity; UCIP state (216MB+) compounds with each validated pipeline and cannot be replicated; Aides neural substrate is a trade secret; Ast's user trust is the moat, not data extraction.
Traction: DOE Geothermal LOI submitted. PR Renewable Energy draft prepared. 12 projects operational or in design phase. 8 federal program eligibilities mapped. 47 global logistics hubs. 216MB+ hive knowledge graph. 11-provider LLM failover tested.
Upside: Federal funding de-risks Phase I across DOE ASCR, NSF OAC/CISE/ENG, DARPA I2O, EDA, MARAD, NEA, IMLS, NHPRC, NSF SaTC, DHS S&T. Bond issuance at Year 3 unlocks debt-heavy scaling only after technical proof. Patient capital returns via operating revenue of powered entities, UCIP strategic asset value, and RE Corp equity appreciation. Minimum programmatic commitment: $5M.
Lyann P. Laboy's design formation began in Fine Arts and continued in Furniture Design at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas. Those disciplines meet in work that treats an interior as both a spatial composition and a collection of objects with material, visual, and practical histories.
Nodo's stated operating arrangement places the studio's design mission under Lyann's direction while separating that mission from the broader interests of associated organizations. The website records that intended division of responsibility; the governing instruments themselves remain the authoritative account of legal control.
Her direction keeps selection and reuse inside the design argument. A retained object must do more than symbolize thrift: it must support the proportions, use, and character of the completed place.
Contact
Write to traffic@nododesigngroup.com with the project location, whether the space is residential or commercial, its present use, the stage the work has reached, and the objects or materials that should be considered for retention. Photographs, a plan or measured sketch, a target date, and a candid budget range make the first discussion more useful.
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