Prismatic Agents
Persistent Cognitive Infrastructure for Physical AI
Civilian only.
Identity, memory, evidence and recovery that persist across tasks and restarts. Prismatic brings a lasting memory to the people and machines working together.
Prismatic cognitive runtime running today on one 16 GB Mac mini M4 • Machine integrations planned; nothing is connected to a real robot yet. Civilian only.
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The Prismatic Mind: A Rich Soul. A Personality That Endures.
Imagine a machine you recognize by its character: a gentle companion, a curious explorer, a steady guide. A distinctive personality, a shared history and a purpose that stays with it. This is the vision of the Rich Soul.
The Prismatic Mind brings that identity to life through memory, values, relationships and a consistent way of speaking and responding. Designed to persist across changing bodies and AI models, its Rich Soul gives each machine a recognizable presence that can grow with the people and places it serves.
Our venture thesis is to license the Prismatic Mind across physical AI: enduring personalities with memories worth carrying forward. Guided by the 20-Watt Thesis, the ambition is local, private, efficient minds—from everyday companions to explorers far from home.
The body may change. The Prismatic Mind remembers. The Rich Soul endures.
Explore the venture thesis →
The robot moves. Prismatic remembers.
Prismatic is persistent cognitive infrastructure: software designed to live beside or inside a machine. The robot keeps motion and safety in milliseconds. Prismatic keeps the days, months and years: what happened, who the people are, what matters next. By design, it never moves the machine: the robot's planner, controller and safety system stay in charge and can always refuse. This is a design rule, not a safety certification.
Forklift 17 restarts. It is still Forklift 17.
Forklift 17 is a simulation. MQTT and OPC UA integrations are planned, and a ROS 2 bridge, designed to stay off the robot's control topics, is planned. None is connected to a real fleet or robot yet.
A replay of Prismatic's machine simulation, running today.
A clear responsibility: remember, explain and recover.
Cognitive runtime
- Persistent records and source-backed recall
- Identity, handovers and governed actions
- Receipts and restart recovery
- Local or founder-selected cloud inference
Planned integration
- Physical-machine adapters
- Testing on other hosts, including Jetson (planned, not tested)
- Local model tool reliability and latency
- Whole-system energy per useful task
Machine maker's responsibility
- Motion and balance
- Real-time control
- Safety-rated decisions and interlocks
- Physical deployment qualification
A simulation demonstrates cognitive behavior, not production robot safety or a validated hardware deployment. Undisclosed competitor capabilities remain unknown.
Tesla built vertically. Prismatic works toward cognition across platforms.
One company's mind
An integrated approach to the robot platform. This is architectural context, not a claim about undisclosed cognition or memory capabilities.
Thousands of robot makers
Warehouses, farms, hospitals, homes. They need a mind they can license, not invent.
What should a machine remember after the next restart?
A mind that describes itself. And learns how to improve.
Prismatic is using its own memory, evidence and governance to learn from operating Prismatic. A failure should become a reproducible test, an approved repair and a lesson the next agent session can use.
Meta: Prismatic describes itself so it can improve itself. Its North Star and blueprint say what it is meant to do. A versioned self-description connects that intent with operating evidence, vault coverage, past repairs and explicit unknowns. The Evidence Keeper uses the differences to propose a testable improvement; the Founder's Navigator brings it to the founder. Every studio Genesis creates gets both roles: its main companion becomes the Navigator, and the agent built for reliability and verification becomes the Keeper.
Understand
The Evidence Keeper reviews the North Star, blueprint, Brain Guide, tool outcomes and previous work.
Improve with approval
The Founder's Navigator brings the review to the founder. Approved tasks can produce code and tests in an isolated checkout.
Measure and remember
Keep the patch, failures and later observations. Qualify the local model and hardware before claiming improvement.
Why patient capital matters: fund a small team to turn operating experience into tested engineering knowledge. The opportunity is to reduce repeated failures and improve reliability across model changes—with each benefit demonstrated by evidence.
Daily evidence review is active. The coding path is installed and under qualification. No autonomous production fixes are claimed.
Prismatic source studio only. Founder approval precedes coding; production deployment is a separate decision. This does not give customer studios or Genesis authority to rewrite Prismatic.
The 20-Watt Thesis: How much persistent cognition can we deliver per watt and per GB?
Example only: a host drawing 20 W for 8 hours uses 160 Wh before conversion losses and the rest of the robot load. This is planning arithmetic, not measured Prismatic consumption.
Compare local hardware, electricity, licence and support with cloud usage under your own assumptions. Offline operation requires a local model and a powered host; cloud-backed Astra requires connectivity. Run the numbers →
Vendor board power modes, component power and whole-system wall power are different measurements. Neither a 20 W runtime nor performance on other hosts is established by this illustration.
Compare robot platforms. See what is known, and what is not disclosed.
Estimate: battery Wh × 0.9 ÷ watts. Illustrative only; Prismatic has not measured a mind on a robot battery. Today Prismatic runs on one mains-powered 16 GB Mac mini M4; Jetson is planned, not tested.
Sees and moves the body. 200 Hz control, fully onboard. see → decide → move
Remembers the machine's life. Runs today on one 16 GB Mac mini M4; Jetson is planned, not tested. experience → remember → advise
Helix gives the robot real-time embodied intelligence. Prismatic aims to give the machine a persistent cognitive life on a small local computer. Nothing has run on Jetson or on any robot yet.
They are building the bodies. We are building the mind that stays.
Not one clever trick. A whole mind.
Memory, truth, trust, time, senses, identity and warmth, working together on one small computer.
Choose a family to see what the mind can do.
Every dot is a capability at work in a world. Point at a column to meet that world.
One mind for
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Tap any world to dive into its mind.
Today, a control centre for the robots you own. Tomorrow, the mind inside new ones.
The site's memory and control centre
Genesis will meet your fleet and birth a studio: a companion for every robot, plus a site supervisor. It starts from a Genesis Blueprint: one of 30 ready-made plans, one paragraph, or a Business, Project or Quest blueprint written step by step in the Blueprint Builder. Your people work with it on iPad, desktop, iPhone and Telegram. The fleet manager still drives; Prismatic remembers, coordinates and proposes.
Robotics and mind in one module
Design: the robot's own software would speak PPAI to Prismatic on the same computer. It would report as it works, ask for its resume when it wakes, take sourced advice before a hard task, and accept or refuse work.
Fleet discovery in Genesis, MQTT and OPC UA are planned; the ROS 2 bridge is designed to stay off the robot's control topics. A read-only VDA 5050 mapper is only a prototype, tested on simulated data. PPAI v0.1 is a written specification, not running. None of these is connected to a real fleet or robot yet. The studio, work orders and receipts run today.
A mind for the arm that builds in orbit.
Space robotic arms, like Canada's next-generation Canadarm, are being designed to work more on their own, because help from Earth arrives late. Around the Moon a signal takes over a second each way; from Mars, minutes. A Prismatic mind would remember every grapple, every crew handover and every anomaly, through months without contact.
A long-range vision. Canadarm is a program of the Canadian Space Agency; no partnership is implied.
Earn on the robots that exist. Grow into every robot to come.
Runtime and simulation
Cognitive runtime evidence and simulated machine workflows. Physical pilots still need qualification. Today Prismatic runs on one 16 GB Mac mini M4.
Jetson (planned, not tested)
Planned testing for greenfield sites: memory, recovery and resource use on the actual host.
Built into new machines
A licence in every care robot, battery, vehicle and habitat that cannot rely on the cloud.
Beyond Earth
Minds for arms, rovers and habitats that work for months without a word from home.
Site licence
Proposed: one Mac mini as a control centre for every robot you run. US$49 a machine a month, unlimited turns; minimum 5 machines a site.
Machine licence
Proposed for new machines (Jetson planned, not tested): US$500 activation, then US$49 a month, unlimited turns.
Design partnership
Proven on your floor before you commit. US$5,000 for 90 days, credited to the first year.
Unlimited thinking for one flat price: US$588 a year per machine, against about US$1,560 of GPT-4.1 tokens for 200 turns a day. The cloud charges for every token of memory; Prismatic charges for the machine. Proposed list prices in US dollars; hardware at Apple and NVIDIA list prices, never marked up. How Prismatic is licensed →
Two films. One enduring mind.
The body is being built by others. The mind that lives with it for decades is ours.
Machines take years to design and stay in service for many more. Our aim: every year a Prismatic mind runs, its memory becomes worth more and harder to replace. That is the moat we hope to build with patient capital.
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