Project 01
Snow White Laundry — The Applied Cortex Pilot
Snow White Laundry isn’t just a restaurant. It’s the living prototype of how human intention and artificial intelligence can coexist in a single creative system. Open People designed it as an applied research environment — a fine-dining experience that doubles as a feedback engine for ethical AI.
Every service at SWL is a live alignment experiment: intention, emotion, and craft looped through a reflective AI layer that learns from human judgment rather than replacing it. The restaurant’s daily rhythm becomes data — not about consumption, but about care: how people collaborate under pressure, how beauty is maintained through chaos, how empathy scales without losing authenticity.
Equity in this model isn’t performative; it’s structural. Snow White Laundry holds a meaningful stake in Open People, and Open People holds a piece of SWL. Each entity reflects the other’s success and ethical health, ensuring that growth in one reinforces alignment in the other. Capital serves conscience. Revenue reinforces research.
This cross-ownership signals a new kind of partnership between business and intelligence — one where ethical alignment isn’t an afterthought, but the operating principle itself. By embedding reflection into every layer of operation, from menu design to staff dialogue to data architecture, SWL demonstrates that technology can amplify humanity without diluting it.
It’s the first of Open People’s “Applied Cortex” environments — proof that alignment isn’t theoretical. It can be eaten, felt, and shared at a table.