Every project tests more than design; it tests attention. When skill turns into calculation and clarity fades into confusion, integrity becomes the last detail holding the structure upright.

You move from table to table, handshake to handshake, searching for something real. You’re not selling you’re serving. But the world only speaks the language of transaction. This is the life of the rōnin consultant: needed, unseen, and faithful to the work itself.

What if the jobsite had a code? A builder’s look at Bushidō — and the sharp, still presence it takes to build something worthy.