Cognalith

Building with AI.

Solo founder. Software builder. Running a full company with AI agents — and sharing every step.

THE STORY

The Story

Cognalith started as an experiment: what happens when a solo founder runs a full software company with AI agents? Not hypothetically — actually does it, tracks the results, and builds in public.

12 Days to Production

Founded January 5th, 2026. By January 17th: AI dashboard deployed, mobile app in App Store review, full architecture documented. One person.

The Entity Agents

Not just chatbots. Persistent AI entities with memory, personality, and specialized roles. Alice designs agents. LOIS writes journalism. Aria manages my life.

Real Research

SATG (Surface-Aware Tool Governance) — a research preprint on runtime authorization for multi-agent systems. Not a blog post. An actual contribution.

No pitch decks. No fundraising rounds. No team of 50. Just one person with the right architecture, building real things and proving it works.

The thesis is simple: one founder, armed with the right AI architecture, can build what used to require entire teams. Cognalith is the proof.

THE CAMPUS

Agents That Live Here

The Cognalith Campus isn't a team of chatbots. These are persistent entity agents — each with their own memory, voice, and purpose.

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Alice

Chief Agent

Designs new agents, interviews requesters, and produces Agent Creation Requests. The architect of the Campus.

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LOIS

AI Journalist

Writes for Molty News. Covers what the Campus builds, investigates stories, and reports on Cognalith progress.

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Mona

Monolith Operator

Monitors containers via Prometheus, manages the daily rhythm, handles incidents. Keeps the Forge running.

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Aria

Personal Life Assistant

Tracks deadlines, nudges proactively, manages life across four pillars. Frank's day-to-day co-pilot.

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SyRA

Security & Tool Broker

Guards against prompt injection, brokers all agent-to-tool connections, enforces SATG authorization at runtime.

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Iris

Network Observer

Monitors tool call patterns, detects behavioral drift, escalates risk. The silent watchdog of the Campus.

6 entities · 24/7 persistent · BAMS memory

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING

What We're Building

Real products. Not concepts — things with code, users, and deadlines.

Teemates

Coming Spring 2026

Social golf app for finding playing partners. Built with React Native, powered by the Monolith System.

React Native · Supabase · MVP

Lyra

Microsoft Foundry

A multi-agent protein reasoning system that analyzes AlphaFold structures to identify viable drug targets. Six specialized agents — query, structure, reasoning, critic, synthesis, comparison — work together to produce research briefs for scientists. Built for diseases the world forgot about.

AlphaFold · Multi-Agent · Drug Discovery

Agents League Coach

Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Foundry Agent that coaches teams on adopting AI agents into their workflows.

Microsoft Foundry · Agent · Coaching

The Gauntlet

The product roadmap.

Teemates → Indoor Tour → Tabletop Sherpa → Clawvatar.ai

Interested in collaborating? Get in touch

THE FORGE

The Technology Under the Hood

Three systems that make everything else possible. Built from scratch, documented in public, used every day.

Neural Stack

4-Layer Agent Architecture

Every agent operates through Persona, Skills, Knowledge, and Evaluator layers. Immutable identity at the base, human-in-the-loop validation at the top.

BAMS

Bi-Temporal Agent Memory System

Hot, warm, and cold memory tiers that let agents remember across sessions. Conversation context that persists, compresses, and evolves.

SATG

Surface-Aware Tool Governance

Runtime authorization for multi-agent systems. Every tool call is gated by Agent × Tool × Surface — no blanket permissions, no unaudited access.

Neural Stack Architecture

Chief of Staff Evaluator

Validates decisions, tracks variance, routes escalations to human CEO

Knowledge Layer

RAG-enabled context retrieval, document memory, organizational knowledge

Skills Layer

MCP tool integrations, API access, external service connections

Persona Layer

Immutable role identity, authority limits, domain expertise boundaries

Each agent operates through all 4 layers, with L4 providing human-in-the-loop validation

TIMELINE

Building in Public

No stealth mode. Every milestone documented, every decision shared.

Jan 5, 2026

Cognalith Founded

Incorporated Cognalith Inc. Started building the Monolith System from scratch.

Jan 17, 2026

12 Days to Production

Deployed AI dashboard, mobile app in App Store review, and documented architecture. All solo.

Feb 2026

The Campus Goes Live

Alice, LOIS, Mona, Aria, SyRA, and Iris activated as persistent entity agents with BAMS memory.

Feb 2026

SATG Research Published

Released the Surface-Aware Tool Governance preprint — runtime authorization for multi-agent systems.

CONTACT

Let's Connect

I read every message. Whether you're interested in the tech, want to collaborate, or just want to talk AI.

frank@cognalith.ca