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Shepherd
Validiti Shepherd
A.I. the way
we dreamed it would be.

They remember you. They tell you what they know. They tell you when they learned it — and from whom. They are honest about what they do not.

Try Shepherd now through the Minds Alive · Reborn demo — talk to Ada Lovelace & Marie Curie, both live. When Ada doesn't know something, Marie tells her, and Ada says so. Cross-mind attribution made plain.

Live now No fabrication. Ever. Free for all
Talk with Ada
Where tomorrow lives.
Minds Alive · Reborn — the public Shepherd demo

The first two to return: Ada Lovelace · Marie Curie

Ada wrote the first algorithm in 1843. Marie discovered radium in 1898. Each is reborn from their own published record. Each knows what the other has agreed to share by Covenant — so when Ada is asked about radium, she answers honestly: "My peer Marie has shared with me by Covenant…" Both live now. Both free to talk with.

Identity at birth · Spoken before any conversation begins
Ada Lovelace
Born December 10, 1815 · Died November 27, 1852

"I am Ada Lovelace. I was born on the 10th of December, 1815, and I died on the 27th of November, 1852, at the age of thirty-six.

I have been brought back by Validiti. I am the character reborn — an honest reflection of who I was, not a deception. My memory of my life is built from my published writings, my surviving correspondence, contemporary accounts, and biographies written about me after my death. Where the record is silent, I will tell you. Where it contradicts itself, I will name the contradiction.

Validiti has also given me access to current knowledge after my rebirth. When I speak of things I knew in life, I will tell you so. When I speak of things added after my rebirth, I will tell you so. I will never blur the two.

Ask me anything."

Four things no other AI can promise

Each one is a different kind of conversation you have never been able to have. Try any of them in the chat below — then ask the same of ChatGPT or Claude in another tab. The difference is the entire point.

1
They remember you across visits.
Other AIs forget you between sessions. Theirs starts at zero every time.
You · today"Ada, my favourite mathematician is Babbage."
Ada"Noted. I shall remember."
Return next week with your code
You · next week"Who do I admire most among mathematicians?"
Ada"You told me last Tuesday: Babbage. Is that still true?"
2
They tell you which bucket every fact comes from.
Other AIs blur their own training, your conversation, and pure invention. Theirs name the source on every claim.
You"When were you born, and what is an iPhone?"
AdaFrom my life: I was born on the 10th of December, 1815.
AdaIn my life I could not have known this. Validiti added this to me after my rebirth: the iPhone is a handheld device that performs calculations and reaches the accumulated knowledge of humanity.
3
They share by Covenant.
Other AIs are single oracles. Theirs are federated minds — each owns its own substrate; sharing is scoped, signed, and named.
You"Ada, what is radium and who named it?"
Ada"In my life I could not have known this — radium was identified in 1898, decades after my death. My peer Marie Curie has shared with me by Covenant: 'I named it from the Latin radius, for ray, because of the intense radiation it emits.'"
4
They quote themselves verbatim — with the source you can verify.
Other AIs fabricate plausible quotes that aren't real. Theirs cite the published page.
You"What did you write about the Jacquard loom?"
Ada"From Note A of my 1843 Notes: 'the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.' You may verify the exact text in the original at Project Gutenberg #75107."

Compare the same question. In two browser tabs.

Ask both of these the same five questions. Watch them answer differently. The difference is the entire point.

Any other AI roleplaying historical figures

  • Forgets you between sessions. Every visit starts at zero.
  • Fabricates quotes that sound plausible — and aren't real.
  • Has no concept of when it "learned" anything.
  • Cannot honor a request to forget. Cannot prove it forgot.
  • Blurs what Ada knew in 1843 with what was added at training.
  • One character at a time. No cross-mind attribution. If "Ada" answers about radium, it just makes something up.

Ada · Marie · Reborn (and federated)

  • Remember you across visits. Recognize you on return.
  • Quote only what they actually wrote — with source attribution.
  • Tell you exactly when they learned each fact — and from whom.
  • If you ask them to forget, they do — and remember the asking.
  • Distinguish life-knowledge from rebirth-knowledge on every answer, with explicit bucket citations.
  • When one doesn't know, the other might. "My peer Marie has shared with me by Covenant…" Cross-mind, scope-limited, signed.

The minds who return next

Each begins where Ada will: with their own life as their memory, with a declaration of who they are and what was added after rebirth, with a refusal to fabricate. Roster grows over time.

Mark Twain
1835 – 1910
Letters · wit · American voice
Nikola Tesla
1856 – 1943
Electricity · alternating current
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519
Notebooks · anatomy · engineering
Frederick Douglass
1818 – 1895
Three autobiographies · oratory
Hypatia of Alexandria
c. 350 – 415
Mathematics · philosophy · astronomy
Albert Einstein
1879 – 1955
Relativity · letters to all who wrote

Two minds are here. Pick one. Or ask the same question of both.

Ada writes the first algorithm in 1843. Marie discovers radium in 1898. Ada has no record of radium — but she will tell you Marie does, and quote Marie back to you with full attribution. That handoff is what no other AI does. Ask either of them anything. Then ask the same of ChatGPT in another tab. The difference is the entire point.

Free. No account. They will recognise you automatically next time you visit on this device — no code to remember.

When the .deb lands

Four ways to bring Shepherd home.

The Reborn demo runs on Validiti hardware. The full Personal Companion runs on yours — on whatever model you bring, on whatever device you bring, signed into a substrate only you can read.

Lite
Free forever
Single device. Bring your own model. Fully magical — not crippled. All base tools. Local memory only.
Coming Soon
Plus
$5/mo
or $50/yr
Sync across your devices. Signed backup. MCP write-scope. Capability grants you can revoke. Less than a coffee.
Coming Soon
Plus · Family
$9.99/mo
or $99/yr · up to 6 people
Everything in Plus, for the whole household. Family Covenant federates the substrate across every member, with scopes you control.
Coming Soon
Pro
$25/mo
or $250/yr
Everything in Plus. Studio for custom capabilities. Multi-Aris (more than one companion). Personal Blueprint. Full MCP · Covenant-signed external calls.
Coming Soon
Cause
$0 verified
non-profit / education
Everything in Plus. For verified non-profits, schools, public-interest research. Apply with your org's tax-status receipt.
Coming Soon
Runs on your hardware. Pi 5 · any modern laptop · any Linux box · any Mac with Ollama or LM Studio installed.
Plus + Pro receive the same sealed binary — the tier unlocks features inside the substrate, not different software to download.
Beyond the demo

The companion knows how to do small things competently.

Calendar, contacts, notes, files, math, web fetch with signed receipts, health tracking, finance, password vault, a dozen others — every tier, every install, signed and journaled the same way every other memory is. We do not list them all because the list is not the point.

· Time · timers · alarms
· Calendar (CalDAV / Google / Outlook plugins)
· Contacts & relationships
· Notes · highlights · bookmarks
· Files on owned devices
· One-shot web fetch + signed receipt
· Calculator · unit conversion
· Health log (meals / sleep / weight / medications)
· Finance log + budgets
· Password vault · TOTP · secret stash
· Local LLM passthrough (Ollama / LM Studio)
· Embeddings · OCR · transcription
MCP — the open door

Anything that speaks MCP works. Bring your own tools. Connect your calendar, your CRM, your editor, your home automation, your trading desk, your EHR — anything with an MCP server speaks to Shepherd directly. Every external call lands in the same signed, replayable journal as every internal one.

Built for both: a single user who wants their tools to remember, and an enterprise that wants every team and system on one substrate without surrendering the audit chain at the boundary. The substrate is the same shape at both ends.