Grig Bilham
I build software, standards, and infrastructure for creators.
I have been shipping software since 1994, and sixty-two products between then and 2022. The Behr colour kiosk I built has been in every Home Depot in the United States since 2004. From 1992 to 1994, I wrote an earthquake map in C on an Atari STE for USGS through CIRES for IRIS; it was still in service twenty years later, and IRIS adopted its interface for the service it runs today. I run many projects at once by design, not by accident. Concurrency is how the work gets done, not a symptom of overload.
Current work
What I am working on now
I created Universal Manifest, an open specification for portable signed context that moves with people, agents, devices, assets, facilities, and infrastructure instead of being locked inside one system.
OMA3's Technical Working Group took Universal Manifest up for review for potential standardization, as OMA3 stated in May 2026.
I co-founded Distributed Creatives in 2024 with Matty Bovard.
I build and run a multi-agent operating system for my own work, and I use it every day to plan, dispatch, and verify what I build.
Practice
Five threads, one practice
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Current
Open standards and protocols
I am a Working Group Chair of the Infrastructure Working Group at the Metaverse Standards Forum, I authored the Metaverse Metadata Directory, and I published the Universal Manifest v0.4 document set and conformance suite.
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Current
Creator rights and public infrastructure
Distributed Creatives exists to build public-good technology, advocacy, and partnerships for creator rights.
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2004 onward
Music and creative commerce
I ran Addictech from 2004 to 2018.
Addictech returned most of the money from every sale directly to the artist.
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Since 1994
Systems architecture
I have shipped sixty-two products between 1994 and 2022, each with its client, its agency, a ship date, a contract type, and a team size.
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Daily
Agent operations
I build and run a multi-agent operating system for my own work, and I use it every day to plan, dispatch, and verify what I build.