Our current professional focus

We are Anna van Raaphorst-Johnson and Richard H Johnson, currently living and working in Glen Ellen, California.

We specialize in professional and personal communications projects in the following information domains:

• • Technology and science
  • Languages, linguistics, and culture
  • History and genealogy
  • Family and community

and provide opportunities like the following:

• Design and implement AI/RAG processing projects built around formal  knowledge bases, DITA/xml tools and techniques, and the Python programming language
• Use AI assistants and agents to research, report, and summarize content
• Publish to output types like traditional HTML websites, WebHelp Responsive, and PDF
• Explain and demonstrate effective human/human and human/AI collaborative principles, tools, and techniques for creating, publishing, and maintaining content

and have the following characteristics:

• Make use of both of our skillsets, areas of expertise, and prior experience
• Are part of a larger team effort but allow us to work mostly offsite
• Can easily be prototyped
• Are scheduled to be completed in 3-6 months

Doing business as VRJ Associates, LLC

Until April 2026 VRJ Associates, LLC was our business entity, which was a limited liability company incorporated in the State of California in 2024. Our website was vrjassociates dot us.

Formerly VR Communications

We also did business as VR Communications, a sole proprietorship (1993-1995), incorporated in California (1995-2016), and an LLC. VR Communications’ corporate websites were vrcommunications dot com and vrcommunications dot us. VR Communications unincorporated in 2022.