The baseline Validiti companion. A familiar LLM-style conversational surface wrapped around your signed substrate reads — a worker’s guide to what your business has stored. The accessible entry point; Aris is the flagship V.I. tier when citation discipline matters end-to-end.
A sealed binary that wraps a familiar conversational layer around your business’s own substrate reads. Ask a plain question; Shepherd answers using what your records hold, in language a worker can use on the job. It reads what your business has read and surfaces it back — the entry-level way to make your institutional memory talk back to you. For rigorous citation on every word and structural “I don’t know,” step up to Aris — the flagship V.I. Same substrate underneath; different discipline at the surface.
Four outcomes Shepherd delivers from day one. A V.I. companion that reads your records, remembers what matters, and answers only with what you actually have.
Plain-language conversation, persistent across days and years. Shepherd remembers the threads of every conversation as if it were the colleague who had been there.
Documents you save, articles you read, decisions you log. Shepherd integrates them into the institutional memory and they become part of how it answers next.
Every answer carries the source it came from. The document, the decision, the conversation. Verifiable; never invented.
You decide what stays and what goes. Shepherd shows you what it remembers and lets you remove items. Verifiable forget — nothing kept against your will.
A short exchange the way a colleague who has been in your business for ten years would handle it. Shepherd cites what it knows. Says so when it doesn’t.
Plain-language conversation persistent across days, weeks, years. Shepherd remembers the threads as you talk.
Reads documents, decisions, conversations, emails, scans — whatever you point Shepherd at. The institutional memory grows with the business.
Every claim Shepherd makes carries the source. The document name, the date, the section. Verifiable, reproducible, signed.
You see what Shepherd remembers. You can remove items. The forget is structural — not just a flag on a database row.
Aris does the V.I. reasoning; Chronicle holds the records; Shepherd is the conversational surface over both. Same V.I. discipline throughout.
Shepherd can run multiple personas tuned to different roles in your business — legal, ops, customer-relations, founder. All citing your records, none inventing.
Three customer types where Shepherd replaces “ask the long-tenured employee who might remember” with a structural institutional memory.
Every decision, every customer, every supplier conversation. The history of why you do what you do, queryable in your own voice. When you sell or step away, it stays.
The accumulated wisdom of decades of operating, captured as a citable record. The next generation reads what the first generation actually wrote.
Volunteer roles turn over. The institutional memory doesn’t. Shepherd holds the records of how to do what you do, signed and citable.
Shepherd runs on your hardware against your records. Your institutional memory is yours alone — not pooled with anyone else’s, not training a shared model.
You see what Shepherd remembers and remove what you want. The forget is structural; we cannot retain copies after you remove.
License terms exclude majority-owned subsidiaries of top-tier hyperscale cloud providers. Your companion is not absorbed into closed cloud platforms.
Shepherd will not invent answers. When your records are silent, Shepherd says so. The honest empty is structural, not a fallback.
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