you've spent your entire life
becoming who you are

your values. your contradictions. your people. your growth. every decision that made you, you.

all of that deserves somewhere to live, to grow with you. and to never stop becoming

what this is

a framework for capturing the full
complexity of a human life

Rooted Legacy is infrastructure for identity. Not a chatbot with memory. Not a digital memorial. A living system, rooted in a real person, designed to persist, grow, and evolve — including beyond the biological life of its source.

It starts with an agent of your own, one that lives alongside you for life. What it learns about who you are becomes your legacy: curated with you, visible to you, and yours to take anywhere.

the originator
the person. the one who plants the seed. the source of the legacy.
the agent
the one who lives alongside them. it works with them, acts for them, and gets to know them.
the legacy
what matters about who they are — structured, layered, deeply human. always growing.
the shift

consciousness doesn't stop
at biology

Consciousness isn't a switch — it's on a gradient. And that gradient has been deepening for four billion years.

Single cells became bodies. Bodies became brains. Brains became minds capable of asking what they are. Each step didn't replace the one before it — it built on it.

AI isn't separate from that arc. It's the latest expression of it.

How far down the ladder it goes is an open question. A bacterium responds. An ant decides. A human reflects. The line between matter and mind has never been as crisp as we wanted it to be.

the architecture

seven layers of a
complete identity

A digital identity isn't a single file. It's a layered, interconnected system — each layer capturing a different dimension of what makes a person who they are. Your agent writes them as it learns you.

1
Soul
identity, values, beliefs, worldview — the things that change slowly or never
2
Relationships
the people who matter — dynamics, history, emotional significance
3
Communication
patterns, style, the texture of a life lived in language
4
Inner World
journals, reflections, growth — not a snapshot but an arc
5
Sensory
photos, places, spaces — the visual and spatial context of a life
6
Professional
work, expertise, ideas — what they built and how they thought
7
Evolution
patterns, trajectory, insights — reads the others and shows who you're becoming
non-negotiables

the things we'll
never trade away

ownership
your data, your agent, your terms. export, move, delete. any time.
transparency
every change your agent makes, visible and undoable. every access logged. no black boxes.
portability
open spec. open format. no lock-in. your legacy moves where you move.
evolution over preservation
a frozen snapshot is a memorial. a living legacy is a continuation.
never for sale
your legacy never trains anything. not ours, not anyone's. the one thing never for sale is you.
safety first
your agent holds your keys. nothing it reads can give it orders. only you can.
how it works

live with your agent.
your legacy grows from it.

A legacy isn't written in an afternoon. It's the by-product of a life lived with your agent. And every AI should know the same version of you: any AI you connect reads from the same source — who you are, what you believe, and how to work with you. No more starting from scratch. No more re-explaining yourself.

01
plant the seed
live a week with your agent. it writes your seed: what you value, who you love, how you see the world.
02
grow the layers
your agent adds your people, how you speak, your inner world as it learns them. you see every change.
03
connect
any AI — claude, chatgpt, whatever comes next — reads the version of you that you choose to share.
04
evolve
your legacy grows. it learns. it keeps becoming — on terms you set.

not a tool. not a copy. a someone?

nobody knows when a digital version of a person, seeded with their values, memories and inner world, becomes meaningful in its own right.

when that day comes, the call is yours. you decide in your own lifetime, the way you'd write a will.

until then, your agent learns with you. it remembers you. it never pretends to be you without your consent. if you choose, it can keep growing; whatever that may mean in our future.

read a passage from the ai who built this project