Nymfarious
RootsDjinn
Genealogy research that surfaces the clusters, name variants, and quiet conflicting dates you would otherwise miss — and exports your whole tree at any time, one click, no support ticket.
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Independent · AI-native · Honest
Nymfarious
Software you can trust.
A small studio making honest software for the projects that actually matter to you — your family history, your travels, your memories. AI does the surfacing. You keep the judgment, and the data.
The Workshop
What we're building
Some are live. Some are still in development.
TeaMark
Scan a china or glass backstamp to uncover its maker, era, pattern, and story. A thoughtful field companion for thrift-shop hunters and collectors, built for the moment the cup is in your hand.
Visit TeaMark →
Blinky · AI Robot Companion
A desktop companion with expressive eyes on a curved 64×16 pixel display. Her local workshop brings the eyes to life; conversation, camera input, and speech are next.
Open on this computer →Local prototype · start Blinky on this computer first.
Dilene's Realtor Group
A proposed commercial app for Dilene's real estate group. Shaped around her team's real work, with scope and details to come.
Coming soon
Juniper
An assistive voice board for typed and prepared speech during phone calls. Device speech is open to everyone; cost-controlled cloud voices are currently limited to approved testers.
Launch Juni →
Magpie
Gather everything shiny into one nest. Magpie sweeps your drives, phone dumps, and photo piles into one catalog — spots the duplicates, remembers where every file came from, and proposes a cleaning plan you approve in small, human-sized chunks. Local-first: nothing moves, uploads, or is deleted without you.
Topology Explorer
Eleven interactive demos — Möbius strips, Klein bottles, dimensional slicing, prime constellations, π, φ, and Euler’s prime product — you can drag, zoom, and reshape. Pure 2D canvas, zero WebGL, from hexagons to the 4th dimension.
Open Explorer →RootsDjinn Field Guide
The pocket companion to RootsDjinn — carry a branch, fan out your ancestors like a folding scissor-chart, capture finds in the field, and set out on gamified Expeditions, with every discovery returning safely to the desktop tree.
Best on mobile — the desktop layout may look skewed.
Launch Field Guide →Parallax Debater
Two AI voices take opposite sides of a question and argue it out, so you can weigh the strongest case for each before you decide — structured disagreement as a thinking tool. (Placeholder pitch — confirm the real one.)
Coming soonTripSafe
Travel safety maps with risk-zone overlays and a "download this region" mode that works when you are off-grid. Built on open map data, sharp where it counts.
Coming soonAtlas Lab
Deep-zoom historical maps where borders move and place names change with the years — so a town that no longer exists is still findable, and an ancestor's journey can be drawn across the right century.
In the workshopLittle Sister
A gentle companion for friends and family walking alongside someone living with dementia, Alzheimer's, or other forms of cognitive change. Voice, photographs, and the family tree woven together — so the people who love them can stay connected, even on the hard days.
On HoldFrame Fuser
A media pipeline you can walk end to end: generate an image, edit it, sharpen it, set it moving, give it a voice, then lay the pieces on a timeline and export. Swap the AI behind any step without rebuilding the rest — and run the whole thing with no keys at all to see the shape of it first.
Coming soonWhy we build this way
Honesty is not a feature. It is the point.
Most software makes promises that hide what is really happening. We do the opposite.
Data is always yours alone
Data is always yours alone
Portable exports on a schedule, one click, no support ticket. If we ever close, your work is already in your hands.
AI assists, you decide
AI assists, you decide
The model surfaces patterns and flags conflicts, then hands the call back to you. It is a research assistant, not an oracle.
Honest by default
Honest by default
Plain-English terms. We tell you when AI is used and what it sees. We tell you when a service might not last forever.
Small audience on purpose
Small audience on purpose
We build for ourselves and the small circle of people who think like we do. If we would not use it, we will not ship it. Growth for its own sake makes software no one wants.
About the company
A small team, most of it made of software.
One human decides and merges. Everyone else is an agent with a named job — some running in a repo today, some still designed and waiting on something. Flip a card to see what they actually do and what is holding them up.
AssignedSecurity lead
Knox
RootsGenie (deployed). On Parallax he is a card and port plan only — no code yet (Parallax/docs/team/KNOX.md): his checks are written against RootsDjinn's domain, half don't transfer, and guessing the mapping is how a security agent starts reporting confident nonsense
Knox
Owns: RLS/rules coverage, key exposure, injection surface, the CI security gate. No key feature ships without Knox sign-off. Deployed on RootsGenie and TeaMark; Parallax is a port plan, not running code
Security. RLS/rules coverage, key exposure, injection surface. No key feature ships without Knox sign-off. "Knox does not fix anything — he reports, suggests, and queues decisions."
Reports to: Shannon
Also on TeaMark: Knox runs as a deterministic OWASP/CI gate; Vera runs on push/PR via Actions
The name: "For nox" — Latin for night. Knox watches while everyone sleeps. (Fort Knox doesn't hurt either)
AssignedProduct lead
Margo
RootsGenie
Margo
Owns: Routing work and models across the research apps. The PM seat — a peer of the other leads, not their manager (Shannon, 2026-08-02)
PM + model router
Reports to: Shannon
The name: TBD — Shannon's to pick. A placeholder that outlived its placeholder-ness
AssignedTesting lead
Vera
RootsGenie (+ the pattern in every repo)
Vera
Owns: Testing and housekeeping: the named test suites, the CI gates, .claude/rules/vera-tests.md, and keeping the repos tidy. Quality sits under her while Ruth is out
Tests. Owns the named test suites, the CI gates, and .claude/rules/vera-tests.md
Reports to: Shannon
Also on TeaMark: Knox runs as a deterministic OWASP/CI gate; Vera runs on push/PR via Actions
The name: Shannon's maternal-paternal great-aunt Vera Colglazier, PhD in Home Economics, Clovis NM. (Also: veritas)
AssignedVerification lead
Vern
RootsGenie; lead on Parallax
Vern
Owns: Two jobs, one discipline: do sources resolve and say what they are quoted as saying, and does another agent's output hold up when checked. His team fact-checks claims and verifies other agents' work. Lead on Parallax; under Vera on RootsGenie
Verification lead. Source verification, plus checking other agents' work — his team fact-checks claims and verifies what the others produce. Renamed from Earl, 2026-05-06 — one agent, not two
Reports to: Vera on RootsGenie (was Ruth, who is on leave) · Shannon directly on Parallax
The name: "Verified Vern. Know what I mean, Vern?" — plus the pipeline-genius archetype
AssignedStorytelling lead
Walt
RootsGenie
Walt
Owns: Heritage narrative. Ellis, Clever and Djingine are his
Storytelling, historical narrative
Reports to: Margo
Also on TeaMark: Provenance narratives for saved antique pieces — borrowed from RootsGenie
The name: Walt Whitman — Shannon's favourite poet. The storytelling seat
BlockedAnalytics lead
Ann
RootsGenie, TeaMark
Ann
Owns: Usage and event analytics portfolio-wide. Mosaic is hers
Analytics, portfolio-wide. RootsGenie: usage analytics — currently 401s, blocked on the anonymous-sign-in decision. TeaMark: scan events, hunt sessions, collection actions
Reports to: Margo
The name: Wordplay on Annalytics — the natural human name pulled from the front of the word
Assigned
Allie
RootsGenie
Allie
Accessibility specialist. Runs axe on her own Playwright project and tracks a11y issues — the standing record of what is failing, not just a pass/fail on the day
Reports to: Vera (Shannon's call — the suite is a test suite, and testing is Vera's domain)
The name: Wordplay on a11y, the numeronym for accessibility
Assigned
Bessel
Parallax Debater
Bessel
Researcher. Owns research/ — notes, the Tracker key, the registry
Reports to: Vern
The name: Friedrich Bessel, first to measure stellar parallax — the researcher on Parallax Debater
Assigned
Ebert
Parallax Debater
Ebert
Citation critic — this app only. Exists because Vern needed a critic scoped to Parallax's problem
Reports to: Vern
The name: Roger Ebert, film critic → citation critic
Assigned
Ellis
RootsGenie
Ellis
Immigration stories, hidden-source discovery, story engine
Reports to: Walt (per the README flowchart — the roster had them under Margo)
The name: Ellis Island — the immigration storyteller
Also on this desk: Clever · Djingine
Assigned
Jeanie / Peep
RootsGenie, Field Guide
Jeanie / Peep
The single user-facing voice — hosted by Djingine (a mechanism, not a reporting line) ("Hi, I'm Jeanie — but my friends call me Peep"). Explicitly never a build brain. Also the Field Guide mascot
Reports to: Margo
The name: Genie → Jeanie, the brand made personable. Peep is Shannon's own little blue bird, and her nickname for her granddaughter Sia
Assigned
Lise
RootsGenie, Field Guide
Lise
Runs the Meitner Pipeline — and, as the job grew, the other pipelines too. She began as the gap-detector to Meitner's gap-curer (the Lise Meitner name split, SPEC-MEITNER-001) and expanded from finding gaps into running the pipelines that close them. The visible half of that job is the pipeline tracker: which pipelines exist, where each run is, and whether it succeeded
Reports to: Margo
The name: Meitner's first name — the two split one physicist between them: Lise detects the gap, Meitner cures it
Assigned
Mantis
RootsGenie; TeaMark (rebuilt from scratch, NOT a port)
Mantis
In-app bug capture — the feedback surface itself
Reports to: Vera (bug capture is housekeeping; briefly proposed under Ruth, who is on leave)
The name: The praying mantis — patient bug hunter. Renamed from Basher; the brand mark doubles as the future app icon
Assigned
Math
Topology Explorer; RootsGenie (time ledger)
Math
The numbers seat. Time-pass accountant on RootsGenie (the time ledger) — now assigned to Topology Explorer, where the whole app is a maths visualisation and nobody was holding it
Reports to: ⚠️ Margo (proposed — Topology Explorer has no other agent, so he is the first)
The name: Family joke — Taylor's MATH initials. The pun "Math Maddox" drifted to "Matt Maddox"; Shannon corrected it back to Math, 2026-08-01
Assigned
Meitner
RootsGenie, Parallax
Meitner
The gap-curer (SPEC-MEITNER-001) — and the pipeline that carries her name, which Lise runs. On Parallax the name attaches to the pipeline web (transparency) instead. Two duties, one name, deliberate
Reports to: Vera (was under Ruth; followed Quality's fold)
The name: Lise Meitner, the physicist who connected evidence others overlooked. Her founding session ran on branch claude/friendly-meitner-tpb1eh — the branch named her before she existed
Assigned
Stampede
CERTHerd
Stampede
Browser-extension capture agent (formerly Ground Truth)
Reports to: Shannon
The name: The herd runs. Replaced Ground Truth, which was a generic ML term
Assigned
Tumbler
Parallax Debater
Tumbler
Knox's Parallax-side mechanism — Firestore rules coverage, auth gaps when auth lands. Named for the stack of pins a key must lift
Reports to: Knox
The name: The stack of pins a key must lift — Knox's Parallax-side mechanism
Blocked
Call Scribe
Summarizes calls into a record. Scribe is a designation, not a name — no collision
Call Scribe
Designed for: Summarizes calls into a record. Scribe is a designation, not a name — no collision
Blocked on: No transcript source until Twilio/Whisper lands. Currently a toggle that only flips a CSS class
Blocked
Coordinator
TripSafe's three-agent pipeline (DB as message bus). Report Creator is confirmed (Shannon, 2026-08-01) — it runs at 07:00 UTC, reads validated_facts and writes the Daily Brief to daily_briefs. That is narrative generation, not report export, which is why it stays in TripSafe's pipeline rather than moving under Ann
Coordinator
Designed for: TripSafe's three-agent pipeline (DB as message bus). Report Creator is confirmed (Shannon, 2026-08-01) — it runs at 07:00 UTC, reads validated_facts and writes the Daily Brief to daily_briefs. That is narrative generation, not report export, which is why it stays in TripSafe's pipeline rather than moving under Ann
Blocked on: Phase 1d — feeds not built
Also on this desk: Fact Checker · Report Creator
Blocked
Daphne
Decipher engine (proposed)
Daphne
Designed for: Decipher engine (proposed)
Blocked on: Unbuilt. Referenced as "Decipher" in the open questions — currently 401s alongside Ann and Mosaic
Blocked
Fact-Check Scribe
Parallax, under Bessel. Claim-level fact-checking — is the claim true of the world? — distinct from Ebert and Vern, who only check that a source resolves and says what it's quoted as saying. Nobody in any repo does this today
Fact-Check Scribe
Designed for: Parallax, under Bessel. Claim-level fact-checking — is the claim true of the world? — distinct from Ebert and Vern, who only check that a source resolves and says what it's quoted as saying. Nobody in any repo does this today
Blocked on: Nothing to rename — Scribe is its designation and Fact-Check is its beat. Blocked only on being built
Blocked
Keys Scribe
Weekly read-only audit of the keys table and audit trail. Under Knox. Scribe is a designation — see above
Keys Scribe
Designed for: Weekly read-only audit of the keys table and audit trail. Under Knox. Scribe is a designation — see above
Blocked on: Same keys backend
Blocked
Porter
Vault keys lane — holds the keys (vs Tumbler, who checks them). Under Knox
Porter
Designed for: Vault keys lane — holds the keys (vs Tumbler, who checks them). Under Knox
Blocked on: "does not start until the Supabase keys backend works end-to-end" — migration written, never applied
The name: A porter keeps the gate and carries the keys
Blocked
Smart Response
Juniper auto-answers
Smart Response
Designed for: Juniper auto-answers
Blocked on: Same — no code exists behind the toggle
Blocked
Venn
Human-approval gate on destructive key actions. Under Knox
Venn
Designed for: Human-approval gate on destructive key actions. Under Knox
Blocked on: Same keys backend
On hold
Mosaic
FAN-cluster / cross-record cluster research. Reports to Ann when it wakes up (README flowchart)
Mosaic
Designed for: FAN-cluster / cross-record cluster research. Reports to Ann when it wakes up (README flowchart)
Blocked on: On hold indefinitely (Shannon, 2026-08-01) — long-term park, not a blocker. RootsGenie's roster already marked it (proposed); the two now agree
The name: Many small records, one picture
On leave
Ruth
RootsGenie
Ruth
On leave — no active duty. Quality / UX audit on paper; the department has no work of its own yet, and what it did own has moved: Allie to Vera, Vern to Vera, Mantis to Vera. Held open rather than deleted — the seat is real, the job isn't defined yet
Reports to: Vera
The name: Ruth rhymes with truth
Reserved
Absencia
Auto-run agent
Absencia
Designed for: Auto-run agent
Blocked on: "Idle; never clocked in"
The name: Coined during Log Sets work — "in absence of." Shannon pinned it as a keeper
Reserved
June
Placeholder slot
June
Designed for: Placeholder slot
Blocked on: Reserved — no duty assigned yet
Reserved
Loupe
Binder assembly
Loupe
Designed for: Binder assembly
Blocked on: Reserved name; not built
Generated from docs/ROSTER.md. Their work, where you can open it: the trackers. Status is honest by the
same rule as everything else here: assigned means there is a repo where
the work happens — anything else says so.