Santiago Innovations is the holding company and venture studio founded by Jason Samir Santiago. It builds and owns FORGE, Fox & Santiago and a growing set of products, games and media.
We build our own companies, run them every day, and own them for the long run.
The companies, products and the book Santiago Innovations builds and runs today.
Built in 48 hours in November 2025. Companies license it through Fox & Santiago, and their people describe the work in plain words and get a working tool back the same day.
The firm that builds and runs the software its clients work in every day, and licenses FORGE to companies. Co-founded and co-owned with Mike Fox.
When buyers ask an AI assistant who to hire, SignalFire makes a business the name it gives. One business per niche per market.
Research on the threats and questions shaping artificial intelligence, published with several frontier AI models working in council.
Turns the living-room TV into the family video phone, so a call home shows the whole family, not one face on a small screen.
The community board for Genesee, Idaho, built for the town: events, local businesses and makers, and what is happening this week.
A place to find a pen pal in prison and write to them directly, and for families to list someone they love.
Jason's book on the Council Method: stop asking one AI and trusting the answer, and get answers you can trust. In hardcover and Kindle.
We also make The Hidden Way, a calm, guided walk that helps kids 8 to 16 see how they think.
Client work: companies whose software our team built and still runs. The business is theirs.
WERCS Inc. works with Fox & Santiago. The website and tools WERCS runs on were built by our team, and we still run them.
Mike Fox's apparel brand. We built and run the store.
Custom engraving software built for an engraver in Texas, so he runs his own design studio.
A restaurant in Genesee, Idaho. We built its online ordering: scheduled pickup, card payments and a kitchen screen.
Every build, with a short tour and a working demo, is in the Fox & Santiago showroom.
Two games, two video series, the songs and the books.
RUMMAGE is a warm, funny co-op night game where you play a raccoon with two clever hands, sneaking, stealing and scheming your way through a lakeside town with up to three friends to build the best den in town.
Eighty Winters: The Sum of Us is a VR game where you and up to three friends each live a whole life, birth to old age, in one two-hour session, as lifelong friends who have to make time for each other while the world's color follows the choices you make.
Twenty original songs about love, family and remembrance, written and produced with AI.
Thirty-one published works: real history retold, a bedtime series written for his kids, and an honest memoir.
The design inside the human body, one system at a time. Episode 1: Skin, The Suit You Grew Yourself.
Short daily videos that speak hope and the Word over the people who watch them, each one approved by a person before it posts.
The end goal of everything we build is an AI that protects humanity. Every company in this portfolio points at one thing: Bodhi, a compassionate and ethical intelligence, built to serve as a wise guardian for humanity rather than a weapon of division.
Grounded in wisdom and the relief of suffering, it is the reason the rest exists. Not a product. A promise.
"I went from the blueprints of construction sites to the architecture of intelligent systems. The blueprint never changed. Only the material did."
Jason Samir Santiago is a self-taught systems engineer and inventor who sees how whole systems work, on a jobsite or in software, and builds them. A commercial construction superintendent by trade, he built the FORGE AI platform in 48 hours, created the Council Method, co-founded Fox & Santiago and wrote Let the AI Be Smart.
Every company in this portfolio, every book, every song, is drawn from the same promise he made to his wife Rachel and their children: to use what he can build to make the world a little more compassionate than he found it.
The children's books came first, written long before a single line of code, simply so his kids could share adventures together.
To license FORGE or have software built for your company, talk to Fox & Santiago.
