Media kit
Status: positioning + one-liners + sizing for a landing page, a PR pitch, or a journalist. Author-faithful to the product (not an external analyst’s endorsement). Version-grounded: every technical claim maps to a shipped release in the proof map.
Name / one-liner
- Product: Brain Server
- One-line (technical): “A local-first semantic-memory and knowledge-graph server for AI agents — deterministic retrieval, a human-in-the-loop write gate, and a tamper-evident audit chain.”
- One-line (buyer): “Agent memory you can verify, budget, and delete on request — no LLM per query, no data egress, no vendor lock-in.”
- Three-word elevator: “Verifiable agent memory.”
- One-line (contact-center / BPO support): “Agent-assist memory that recalls past resolutions and policy for every agent, stays on-prem where client data must not leave, and is yours to audit and erase — no per-query LLM, no vendor lock-in.”
Positioning statement
For teams building AI agents that must hold memory responsibly, Brain Server is a self-hosted memory store that makes agent recall deterministic, human- gated, and tamper-evident — unlike cloud memory services that charge per query and keep user memory in a third-party datacenter. Because it runs on the operator’s own device with no LLM in the loop, it delivers zero per-query cost, zero data egress, and an audit trail a reviewer can verify live — and, unlike framework-bound memory layers, it is standard-based (UMP 1.0 / L3, open HTTP, MCP) so it never locks you in.
Who it’s for
The same engine serves several audiences; see Who it’s for — target audiences for the full map (each marked shipped vs. planned).
- AI-agent builders & OpenClaw users — deterministic memory, zero token cost, in the memory slot.
- BPOs & multi-client contact-center operators — the v2.0 “Cortex” roadmap is explicitly call-center intelligence (multi-team tenancy, ticket-pattern resolution). The controls they need are shipped today (per-domain isolation, per-tenant audit, DSAR, PII containment, human-gated writes); multi-client tenancy on one shared backend is the planned v2.0 piece.
- In-house contact & support centers — agent-assist memory that recalls past resolutions and policy, supervised and audited, without fabricating answers (calibrated abstention + span verification).
- Regulated enterprises (finance, healthcare, legal, government) — memory that stays on-prem, is auditable to a chain, honors DSAR, and is explainable.
- Edge / field / air-gapped deployments — a single binary under 5 W.
- Delivery partners (SIs, MSPs, consultants) — a deployable, auditable
memory layer with procurement-grade evidence (
RFP_RESPONSE_KIT.md).
The three pillars (press-ready)
- Recall that never has to think — deterministic, reference-faithful retrieval (bi-temporal KG, submodular packing, PPR graph leg, hub dampening, calibrated abstention). No LLM decides, no token is spent.
- A write gate, not a write path — memory is proposed and promoted only on human approval; an injection screen quarantines adversarial input.
- A chain, not a log — every decision lands in a tamper-evident SHA-256 chain; DSARs produce chain-verifiable deletion certificates; an OWASP 2026 control matrix states every control as shipped or owned ceiling.
Brain vs. the field (sizing, with honest ceilings)
| Brain Server | Mem0-class (framework memory) | LangGraph-class (agent framework) | Plain RAG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-query cost | $0 | LLM/embedding API | LLM/embedding API | LLM/embedding API |
| Where memory lives | Your device | vendor/cloud | vendor/cloud | your infra |
| Recall determinism | Yes | no | no | partial |
| Human write gate | Default | optional | no | no |
| Tamper-evident audit | Yes (hash chain) | no | no | no |
| DSAR deletion cert | Yes | partial | no | no |
| Standard wire | UMP L3 + open HTTP + MCP | proprietary/framework-bound | framework-bound | none |
| Zero LLM in loop | Yes | no | no | no |
Honest ceilings we don’t claim (each owned + versioned): multi-team tenancy (v2.0), per-tenant limits (v2.1), OTel/SSE ops line (v1.20.7/8), SOC 2 kit (v1.20.10), pricing/licensing (v2.2 “Meridian”), use-case Profiles (v1.21.0). Retrieval is deterministic, not SOTA-generative; multi-hop graph quality is corpus-bound; abstention is heuristic, not learned.
Headline stats (verify in the proof map)
- UMP 1.0 / L3 conformance — reference-suite scored 13/13.
$0per query — no LLM/embedding API in recall or writes.- < 5 W — runs on a 4 GB ARM device (Jetson Nano / RPi 5).
{"ok":true}in one command —/audit/verifyproves the chain intact.- OWASP 2026 matrix — 100% control coverage (shipped or owned ceiling).
Press contact / ask
For a reviewer: run the 3-minute reproduce.md walk-
through to verify every security claim live against a throwaway instance —
“trust us” becomes “verify it.” For a journalist: the honest-ceiling post
(blog/07-honest-ceiling.md) is the story — a
memory store that tells you its limits.
Logos / naming notes
Name has no built-in icon yet (operator step). The wordmark is “Brain Server”;
the CLI/product family is brain / brain-server / mcp. Repository:
markfietje/brain-server.
Author / contact
Maintained by Mark Fietje:
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markfietje