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About

I build systems that remember, verify, and stay out of the way.

I'm Donovan - NovasPlace on GitHub. I build infrastructure for AI agents. The rest of this page is the why.

Builder statement

Every AI assistant today is an amnesiac. It doesn't matter how good the model is - if it forgets every session, it can't accumulate skill, can't learn your preferences, can't correct its mistakes. Bigger context windows are not the answer. They are the symptom.

I build the memory infrastructure that makes continuity possible: persistent storage, recall that works, telemetry that tells you what happened. I build it small (sub-megabyte binaries are possible), I build it local-first (your machine is not the cloud), and I build it verifiable (if you can't audit the logs, the system doesn't work).

CSM is my flagship - a cross-session memory plugin in production for 30 days. The full numbers are on the case study page, but the short version: it works, it's audited, and it has never lost data. There are no unverifiable claims on this site. If a number can't be backed by a `SELECT`, it won't be on the page.

Contact

If you are working on agent continuity, local-first AI, or compact system architecture - I would like to hear from you.

Colophon

This site is built with Astro + MDX. It ships with zero runtime JavaScript except for ~2 KB of inline scripts (a count-up animation on the homepage status strip and keyboard navigation on the CSM tab component). All diagrams are hand-authored inline SVG. No fonts are loaded from the web (the pixel font uses local() and falls back to monospace). No tracking, no cookies, no analytics. The numbers on every page are frozen from a database snapshot taken 2026-07-11.