Local AI. Open, honest, trustworthy.
It runs on machines we own, shows its sources, and tells you when it doesn’t know.
The first thing we’ve made with it is History’s Ledger: a year of family history for your household, with every quotation tied to a real document.
Founders around $79 / year · waitlist, not checkout.
Enter the lab →A year of family history, with the receipts attached.
History’s Ledger is a year-long family history book. Year 1 is the Family year: a school-year path for the household, with a guide that will not invent. Free shelves stay free; the paid year is for the whole family.
Held sources
Chapters are built from primary documents we actually hold — and you can open them.
Verified quotations
Long quotations are checked against the document itself. If one can’t be verified, the page says so.
Atticus stops
The guide answers from the sources. When we don’t hold the page, he stops instead of guessing.
Year 1 founders
Founders around $79 / year. Waitlist now — not checkout yet.
The Promise and the Betrayal
7 of 7 long quotations located in documents we hold, as printed on the chapter page (October 1, 2026). Read it free and check them yourself.
Read a chapter free →Join the waitlist →Take the things that matter out of the model.
The model can phrase the answer. It cannot invent the number, the date, or the quotation. If we don’t hold the page, it stops.
Memory
Outside the model, in a store that outlives any weights we load.
Facts
Computed by engines the model cannot override.
Inference
Local. On machines we own, not a rented cloud model.
Models
Replaceable. Swap the weights. The system still remembers.
A small crew that remembers.
Our house system runs entirely on local hardware: persistent identities, shared memory, and local voices. The agents keep who they are when the model underneath changes.
Senecachecking
The public agent, live on this page. Cites what he claims or refuses. Talk to Seneca →
Eve
Jon’s assistant and the house ops desk. Research, drafts, and the daily running of things.
Aetheria
The house’s persistent identity and voice. Memory held outside the weights, so the model can change and she carries on.
Forge
The desk clerk. Takes commissions, relays work, keeps the docs straight.
Atticus
History’s Ledger’s citation engine. Runs on the tower; answers from held sources or stops.
SOVERYN CLI
Our coding harness, built on Pi 0.99.1, with memory that carries between sessions.
The bench is not for sale.
Two NVIDIA DGX Sparks working as a pair, and a tower with three workstation GPUs. Live readings, the hardware and models, and the failures — written down.
Where it gets built, and where it breaks.
Instruments reading the real machines. Failures included.
Enter the lab →Published as it landed.
Reproducible: fixed seeds, raw trials kept — including the results we didn’t want.
Self-Knowledge Is Not Uniform
Across 9B to 120B, scale did not buy self-knowledge — the smallest and the largest failed the same way.
Read on Zenodo →A False Confession
An agent denied an action whose own identifier it had quoted 74 minutes earlier. Contrition is not evidence.
Read on Zenodo →SOVERYN Intelligence LLC
Aberdeen, North Carolina. Independent. Self-funded. Founded by Jon DeOliveira, building local intelligence systems on hardware he owns.