One cognitive core, ZenBrain — and the specialised fields built on it: from AI-assisted knowledge work to safeguarding public spaces. Civil-liberties architecture as a design principle, explicitly without biometric identification.
Our cognitive architecture runs in production systems today. The same algorithms we publish power real software — evidence that the research carries through.
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ZenAI — Knowledge-work platform — self-hosted, running in production
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ZenCRM — iOS app in the App Store — built on the ZenBrain architecture
ZenBrain is both research core and application core: modular applications for different domains. The same seven-layer memory architecture carries every application — only the domain adaptation varies.
Memory layers
01Working
02Short-Term
03Episodic
04Semantic
05Procedural
06Core
07Cross-Context
The architecture is designed domain-agnostically. Research partnerships, public-sector cooperations, and industrial applications can build on the same cognitive core without modifying it.ZenAI in production: the same ZenBrain architecture as an AI operating system for knowledge work — the same approach extends to further domains.
Research track — public-space safety
CrowdGuard
Research on early recognition of critical situations in public spaces — explicitly without biometric identification, with civil liberties built into the architecture by design.
What we explicitly do not do
✗No facial recognition
✗No biometric identification
✗No real-time person tracking
What we work with
✓Skeletal and motion data — without facial features
✓Three-outlier model differentiating source / helper / knower
✓Helper protection as an explicit objective
Research prototype · GDPR Art. 89 · designed under the EU AI Act
Empirical results from the open-access preprint (arXiv 2604.23878), LongMemEval-500 benchmark with three independent LLM judges. Methodology and full results on the publications page.
An open ecosystem. Three ways to collaborate.
Three ways to work with this research — an open-source core, open-access publications and scientific cooperation.
OPEN SOURCE
The open core
ZenBrain — the seven-layer memory architecture as an open-source library. TypeScript, zero dependencies, Apache 2.0.
