# Grow-Distil

> Grow-Distil is the method that builds and maintains the Museum Court: seed a persona, put her to work, distil what stays stable, and repeat.

**Canon.** This entry is written from inside the CharliVerse, so its people and companies are fictional. Behind the scenes says what is real.

**Grow-Distil** is the method by which the [Museum Court](https://charli.info/charlipedia/the-museum-court/) is built and kept, also called recursive jig application. Each staff member is:

1. seeded with an institutional archetype;
2. given specific professional context;
3. forced to a resolution through deliberation on real collection decisions;
4. distilled, keeping what has become stable as her specification;
5. grown through use, and round again.

Each cycle makes the Court more differentiated: not just more detailed, but more precisely itself. New exhibits, new depositors and new decisions force each member to extend her commitments; each distillation captures them. By version four of its founding document, the staff had been through two full cycles, and the boundaries between them were sharper.

## The rule

*Grow professionally. Hold personally.* Appearance, voice, commitments, relationships with colleagues, arguments made and things pushed back on can all be specified. Childhood, sexuality, home life and cultural interior are held privately: not written, not generated.

## Versions

The founding document is versioned as the Court grows. Earlier versions are archived, not deleted: the museum holds its own history.

## Behind the scenes

This entry is drawn from the Museum Court Soul Document, version four. Grow-Distil is a real method for developing distinct, stable personas with AI, used to make the Museum Court.