Footwear, Systems, Invention, frameworks.

I’m Daniel Spencer — a sneaker architect and inventor working at the intersection of footwear, biomechanics, and manufacturing systems.

My path began with building shoes and brands in Chile, expanded through hands-on production and factory operations in China, and later scaled globally from Los Angeles.

 Over that time, I designed footwear, engineered molds, managed materials, and oversaw full-scale manufacturing. That experience remains the foundation of everything I do.

Daniel 5.0 represents the integration of that groundwork into invention. Today, my focus is on developing footwear systems like STL G-1 — modular, gravity-adaptive architectures designed for distributed manufacturing. This includes 3D-printed components, digital product frameworks, and licensing-based models that enable perpetual, software-driven revenue without traditional inventory.

It is footwear understood as a system

Some of this work ships under established brands.

Some of it becomes infrastructure.

All of it is built from real footwear, real factories, and real constraints With more than 2M pair developed and manufactured.