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ANDREW WETZEL’S WORKING LABORATORYEST. 2025 · TEXAS

PERSISTENT IDENTITY · SOVEREIGN MEMORY · VERIFIABLE AGENTS

The model is replaceable.
The relationship shouldn’t be.

I’m a real-estate agent who started building AI systems because the existing ones kept forgetting everything that mattered. This is the work, the evidence, and the parts that are not finished yet.

Enter the lab What the hell is all this?
LATEST EXPERIMENT / 002CLOSED / PASS
IDENTITY LAYERAVAcontinuity held here
GPTMODEL
CLAUDEMODEL
LOCALMODEL
SOVEREIGN MEMORYOWNED · PORTABLE · INSPECTABLE

Making “start a new chat” considerably less existential.

STATUS SYSTEMS ACTIVELAST AUDIT 18 SEP 2026EXPERIMENTS 2 CLOSED / PASSCLAIMS SOME UNVERIFIED, VISIBLY
FRIDAY VIOLATION / v0.4.0Uncertainty is not a work order.

Doubt stopped automatically manufacturing remediation. Unsupported claims now leave the actionable queue unless evidence earns their return.

Read the incident report →
01 / PLAIN LANGUAGE

THE KITCHEN-TABLE VERSION

AI keeps treating continuity like a convenience feature.

I think it is infrastructure. Your model will change. Your device will change. The company serving the model may disappear. Your memory, identity, permissions, and unfinished work should not disappear with them.

So I started building the missing layers. One annoying limitation at a time.

02 / ACTIVE WORK

PROBLEM → EXPERIMENT → SYSTEM → EVIDENCE

One question kept producing more machinery.

01

AVA

working

Relational continuity should survive the model underneath it.

The originating research system within Project OVI, exploring persistent identity, relational continuity, user-owned memory, model independence, and verifiable behavior.

02

Hippo

working

Memory needs an owner, a lifecycle, and a way to prove it came back.

A sovereign memory service for durable handoffs, scored retrieval, provenance, and explicit retention behavior.

03

OVI Cards

published

An agent action without a receipt is merely a confident story.

Object-verified interaction contracts that bind claims and actions to inspectable evidence.

04

Corlia

closed beta

Applied AI earns trust by surviving contact with an actual workflow.

A DISC-aware AI field coach for real-estate professionals, carried from product architecture through authentication, persistence, resilient streaming, model portability, billing, storage, access controls, testing, and deployment.

06

The agent should outlive any single model, machine, or interface.

A distributed execution fabric for routing work across local and cloud models while preserving authority boundaries.

07

Brain Trust

in progress

Specialists are useful only when disagreement and authority remain visible.

Coordinated specialist intelligence with explicit provenance, role boundaries, and conflict handling.

03 / CHRONOLOGY

DATES MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS

From a relationship problem to an operating layer.

  1. The continuity question

    Early AVA and AEI experiments begin testing whether identity, memory, and relational continuity can persist beyond a chat.

  2. Continuity behavior appears

    Preserved runtime records show identity-related state influencing later interactions before the initial filing.

  3. Initial patent filing

    A U.S. provisional application records protected work at the filing boundary. Patent pending.

  4. Continuity becomes infrastructure

    OVI, Hippo, and Friday Runtime extend the original problem into evidence, durable memory, and execution.

  5. Nonprovisional filed

    A U.S. nonprovisional patent application was filed. Patent pending.

  6. Test the replaceable layers

    Experiments 001 and 002 demonstrated qualified continuity of work, authority, and written stance. Restart recovery and assertion admission remain open.

04 / FIELD NOTES

BUILD IN PUBLIC, WITH RECEIPTS · SHIPPED MOST FRIDAYS*

Notes from pulling on boundaries.

*When there is something worth shipping. This is a record of the work, not a content quota. Open the field-note index →

FIELD NOTE 001

AI should survive the model

Why identity, memory, and authority cannot remain trapped inside a provider session.

published snapshotREADING TIME / 8 MIN
05 / THE COVENANT

MEMORY SHOULD PRACTICE CONSENT

This site remembers almost nothing about you.

On this device only, it records when this browser first visited, when it last visited, and a visit count. It never leaves your browser, identifies you, unlocks content, or gets sold. You can inspect it and erase it.

LOCAL VISITOR RECORDNOT STORED
STORAGE
THIS BROWSER ONLY
VISITS
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FIRST SEEN
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LAST SEEN
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Stored in localStorage. Inspect it. Delete it. That is the point.