Field notes
Observations from building Bourdon, recognition-first runtime + agent federation memory. Dated, cited, gap-aware.
2026-08-11
What hosted means when we can't read your memory
Bourdon Hosted is live. The control plane records where your memory lives and who pays for it, never the memory itself. The mechanics, including the failure modes.
2026-08-11
The gap between remembering and being known
The day our own integration retrieved everything correctly and still felt like a search engine, and what we changed because of it.
2026-08-11
Recognition comes before retrieval
The pause before an AI answers is an architecture problem. How a tiered memory stack puts the steps back in human order.
2026-05-15
A field test of account-independent project recognition
What a same-machine account-change test showed about Bourdon's local recognition substrate, and what it did not prove.