Memory
It remembers what you told it in March, and why it mattered.
Introducing the F-1
Grow a computer that works while you sleep.
fern.computer is a personal harness — memory, skills, a council and a night shift around the models you already use. On your machine. With your keys.
- Price
- Bring your own keys.
- Runs on
- Hardware you own, or a cloud you rent.
fern.computer
fern.computer F-1 home harness
powernight shift
F-1
Fig. 1 The F-1 with standard monitor. One agent dispatches agents that dispatch agents, like a fern’s fronds.
01 What a harness isEngine & workshop
A model is an engine. A harness is the workshop around it.
Left alone, a model forgets you the moment you close the window, waits to be asked, and answers on its own. Put it in a harness and it remembers, works to a schedule, and argues with itself before it decides anything that matters.
A The engine, on its ownPage 110
P110 · a modelrunning
B The same engine, in a harnessPage 111
P111 · a harnessrunning
Fig. 2 The same question, put to the same engine at the same moment. Without a harness it guesses and forgets; with one, it looks the answer up.
A model, on its own
The same model, in a harness
i.
forgets
remembers
ii.
waits to be asked
acts on a schedule
iii.
answers alone
argues with itself, then decides
02 Expansion modulesFitted as standard
Four modules, all fitted as standard.
Each one slots into the back of the F-1. None of them is optional; that is rather the point. Together they turn a clever engine into something that knows you.
Skills
Teach it a procedure once; it runs it the same way every time.
Council
Several models from different labs argue before it commits to an answer.
Night shift
What you queue at dusk is done, checked and waiting by morning.
Demonstration Each module, runningPages 211 to 214
MemoryP211
FM-01 · memoryrunning
Fig. 3 Told in March, filed with its reason, recalled in October when the quote arrives.
SkillsP212
FM-02 · skillsrunning
Fig. 4 Taught once in January. Every run since has taken the same three steps, in the same order.
CouncilP213
FM-03 · councilrunning
Fig. 5 Three labs argue, then vote. A split it can’t settle is held for you, not hidden.
Night shiftP214
FM-04 · night shiftrunning
Fig. 6 One night in sixteen seconds. Below, page 202 runs the same night at the speed you scroll.
03 A night’s log · scroll to pass the night
One night, written down.
21:50Dusk
fern.computer · P202
Fig. 7 Teletext page 202, the night log. The page fills as the night goes.
04 Technical specificationOwnership
It lives with you.
Your machine or your cloud. Your API keys. Plain files you can read. Export everything, and leave whenever you like.
Any lab’s, swapped at will
Yours. Never ours.
Plain text you can open
Everything, in one folder
Runs while you sleep
Fig. 8 Rear panel of the F-1. Every socket is one you already own.
Disc catalogue F-1 home harnessPage 400
P400 · your filesrunning
Fig. 9 Three commands: read all of it, take all of it, leave.
One folder, and it’s yours.
Everything the F-1 knows is a plain file in one folder, on your machine or a cloud you rent. Type *CAT to read the lot. Type *EXPORT to carry it off. Type *BYE and it’s gone; there is no account to close.
Your API keys stay on your machine. You pay the labs directly, and swap any model out when a better one comes along.
Supplied with a council of three, a night shift and a morning note.1
1 Tea not included.
05 Order formCut along the dotted line
06 · Service manualCommon questions
Read before planting.
What is a personal harness?
The software around an AI model that gives it memory, procedures, a schedule and a second opinion. The model does the thinking. The harness decides what it remembers, what it may do, and when it works.
How is fern.computer different from a chatbot?
A chatbot starts every conversation from nothing and stops when you close the tab. fern.computer remembers what you’ve told it, keeps working overnight, and has a council of models from different labs check important answers before you see them.
Which AI models does it use?
Whichever you choose. You bring your own keys, pay the labs directly at their prices, and can swap a model out without losing anything the harness has learnt.
Where does my data live?
On your own machine, or a small cloud computer you rent. Everything is plain files in one folder that you can read, copy or delete. There’s no account to close, because there’s no account.
What does the night shift do?
You queue jobs at dusk: some research, a draft, a tidy-up of last week’s notes. It works through them while you sleep, checks its own results, and leaves a note by morning saying what it did and what it couldn’t.
Is fern.computer available yet?
Not yet. It’s still growing, slowly and on purpose. Join the waitlist and we’ll write when there’s something to plant.