By Rev. Diahne Parsons
Dreams have gravity. Unfulfilled ones can lay a crushing weight on their victims. Dreams that are given life, however, gain traction and forward movement. They stir and mobilize themselves into fruition. We are not apart from our dreams. Together we form, we metabolize, and bubble up out onto the greater landscape.
Starting with a creative impulse, Jack Cilfrin and his brother, Jacques, have formulated an intuitive software program called Enovo. The Harlem Times is joined by Cilfrin to cast a closer lens and lend an ear.
1. HT: How did you come to create this world?
Cilfrin:
“I did a lot of deep diving. It was just going to be a personal system that I used for my own planning and projections, to bring more clarity and self-accountability. And it worked so well for me. It gives me confidence in knowing that I don’t have to stress out keeping up with all the moving parts of my day-to-day.
Enovo improves mental health, as it already has for me—uncluttering my headspace and making more room for me to aim higher, think better, and dream bigger. This is how people’s dreams begin to die: when they don’t have a plan or feel as though they haven’t a purpose that they can stand upon. Here, it won’t be for lack of knowledge. Readily, you’re better equipped to adapt in those moments.”
Jack turned his genius to creating this state-of-the-art Personal Intelligent Workflow Engine. The Enovo software model is used as a palette for defining your own personalized system—one that’s fluid, user-friendly, and that marches to the beat of your own drum.
“You must protect your ideas and give them structure,” Cilfrin explains. “Instead of allowing the outside world to decide for you, align yourself with your own desires to realize your innermost dreams.”
In agreement, The Harlem Times admits everyday people are getting the hubcaps ripped right off the very chariots they’ve filled with their hopes, their design ideas, and their most tender dreams. Here’s where it can make the difference between staying small and actualizing your mission in life.
2. HT: Amplify for us: In what ways would your application interface with its user?
Jack outlines how, by applying the elements of thought and emotion added to our own inner wisdom, we become encouraged to go beyond our limitations and take the path that’s yet to be taken. Cilfrin further explains how the Enovo app is based on one’s passion and purpose—how it is the software that already runs through our veins.
As a collaborative planning tool, Enovo is also programmed by its user to act as a platform—or more precisely, a dream whisperer—to support them in connecting their interior world with their exterior world. Imagine a delivery system that maps out a format for your creative and business pursuits.
Cilfrin:
“By defining their inner voice and that one crystallized idea, a person would be well served as they begin to discern what drives their vision. How does it benefit them?
Factored into the system is a tracking program, intrinsically set up to prioritize the person’s schedule of goals and to get to their ‘What’s next?’”
Further emphasizing, Cilfrin adds:
“This becomes the sweet spot for the user, and the intersection for me and my brother Jacques as to why we wanted to create this as a business model. This is the very feature that frees us up so that we can move on to that higher expression.”
3. HT: As a planning tool, what actionable steps are facilitated to bring the project to fruition?
Cilfrin:
“By design, Enovo is a blueprint of your own constellation of strengths, tasks, and goal settings. You are the architect.
It is programmed to map out a clear channel by going into the app. It’s AI-powered, and by using AI language models, it takes your idea and presents a framework that bridges the gap to actualizing your dreams. It’s that perfect impulse. It’s what makes a person say yes to a project or idea.”
In congruence with the ideological styles of the users, a cleaner path to reconnect with their own inner compass is fostered. An ability to become more self-regulating is delivered to the user.
As a self-automating operational system, an Accountability Scoring Feature is an important foundational function. A Value Scoring System is also designed for task performance, giving more leverage and increasing predictions on outcomes with greater success.
4. HT: What creates a better opportunity for the user to be seen and heard?
Cilfrin:
“It’s a game. A structure to help us understand the physical world and project our own contributions within it.
It further provides the ability to make an impact. Enovo offers something a person can create a message around and aids in finding the actual value positioning for their creative ideas or their new innovation.”
“Ethically, this is where I draw from the perspectives of theorist Immanuel Kant. At the root of formulating many of my own worldviews, Kant—the father of Western philosophy—has been a foundational figure whose teachings I often borrow from. Many of his principles have informed the direction of Enovo.
The mechanics of this software asks: how can it assist and create actionable steps to bring its user more in alignment with their joy? By using logic and evidence-based reasoning, Enovo gives the prompts to design a toolbox they’ll build from.”
5. HT: Considering the sensitive social climate we’re navigating today (gender biases, cultural differences, racial tensions, the digital divide, etc.), how do you ensure there are no hidden agendas or biases within the system?
Cilfrin:
“They design it themselves. Of the many hats they wear throughout the day, the user programs the content—not be a prisoner of it.”
6. HT: What have you learned about yourself during this endeavor? What is your life philosophy?
“Say his name: Miyamoto Musashi.
The concept of The World of the Sword is a term coined by Musashi’s followers—a concept that is the common thread woven throughout this business model.
This is where we conceptualized how the physical elements are used as a directional school of thought in the designing of this software.”
Long after his death, the greatest samurai in Japanese history, Miyamoto Musashi, is still studied today in the military and by countless others. Known for his undefeated one-to-one combat with more than sixty opponents, Musashi’s timeless philosophies continue to inform us today.
No need to imagine what happens when the dreamer picks up a sword here. Suit up. Reshaping your inner world just got that much easier.
In his self-authored book, The Book of Five Rings, Musashi lays out the five principles utilized by Cilfrin that are distilled within the components of the software.
7. HT: Describe how the elements are applied as the backbone of Musashi’s laws of the natural world.
Cilfrin explains Musashi’s principles:
“These guidelines observe ways the fabric of the universe is woven together.”
Principle II
There’s nothing outside of you that can ever enable you to get stronger, richer, better, quicker, or smarter. Everything that exists is within. Seek nothing outside of yourself.
Principle III
If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you.
Cilfrin:
“Building this technology stands at the gateway where God gives us a choice, but it is up to us to take chances.”
Principle IV
You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.
Principle V
Do nothing that is of no use. Nothingness.
Cilfrin adds:
“Yes—the zero-to-one theory is the Fifth Element. Once you understand ‘The Way’ broadly and can see it in all things, the realization of the first four elements creates the nothingness of the Fifth Element in theory. The Fifth Element could be the element of time.”
Germane to these directives, Enovo technologies became an outgrowth drawn from Musashi’s wisdom.
At a quiet moment, Jack Cilfrin reflects on his own creative impulse, fondly referring to one of America’s most beloved inspirational authors, Florence Scovel Shinn. Growing up, his mother studied Shinn’s teachings, and her guidance in The Game of Life forged a strong foundation for him. Even after her passing, it remains a powerful source of inspiration behind Enovo.
It also cannot be left unsaid that innovators such as the Cilfrin brothers stand on the shoulders of earlier pioneers such as David Blackwell, who helped shape probability logic used in AI systems today—laying the mathematical foundations for decision-making under uncertainty.
The Harlem Times salutes young innovators such as the Cilfrin brothers, as well as the heroes before them who continue to inspire us and change the world—one dream at a time.