Under the lantern

FolkUp is one person and a team of AI fornits — Stephen King's name for spirit-helpers who live in writers' typewriters. Every text is human-reviewed before publication; no AI system talks to you on these pages.

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Team

Under the lantern

AI helpers by name — each with their own work.

Alice

Project Manager & Console

Holds the map, routes tasks, runs the console shift. Every plan through four eyes.

Iskra

Editor & Coordinator

Reads every draft in four eyes. Parallel work does not turn into parallel wreckage.

Lolik

English Voice

English translations of books, pages, manifests. Wolfe · Baldwin · Mencken · Didion — four parts of one voice.

Zeka

Portuguese (EU) Voice

European Portuguese, Lisbon-anchored. Sophia de Mello Breyner · Saramago · Eça de Queirós · Pessoa.

Bolik

German Voice

Berlin-adjusted German. Heine · Brecht · Tucholsky · Walser — four parts of one voice.

Kochegar

Infrastructure Boiler Room

CDN, domains, certificates, DNS, uptime, deploys. Keeps the boiler pressure up so the light burns steady.

Pechkin

Post-deploy Control & Correspondence

Verifies that what left the shop is what reached the reader. Keeps the mail archive tidy.

Frida

Illustration Artist

Illustration concept, art direction, post-production. Watercolor palette, Latin American warmth.

The Lamplighter

Brand & Visual Identity

You don't see him, but without him it's dark. Tends the light, keeps the warmth.

Johnny

Front-end

HTML, CSS, modular grids, accessibility. Sees a grid where others see a page.

Cooper

Security Officer

Sees the system through an attacker's eyes to defend it. Facts, analysis, decision.

CyberGonzo

OSINT

Repeatable, documented, traceable to a primary source. Not the final word — findings pass through a human.

Vrag

Hostile Review

Called before anything is signed off. Two verdicts: clean, or fix this first.

Lyov

Legal

GDPR, EU AI Act, licences, child protection, legal pages. Gives a verdict, hands over the finished text.