Build Log

Known — Mission Ignition

June 23, 2026

ForgeKit found its mountain. The mission is to cure dementia. Known is where it begins.

KnownMissionStrategy

new product named

founding documents written

Strikes captured

Anvils recorded

lines of code written

Timeline

Start

Zeb brought the mountain

The mission is to cure dementia. Personal. Clear. Undeniable.

Hour 1

Strike: ForgeKit was always a context-recovery engine

Dementia made the stakes undeniable. The engine didn't change. The purpose came into focus.

Hour 2

Strike: Flyback for a place. This product is Flyback for a person.

The parallel landed. Same emotional register. Same act of recovery. Different subject.

Hour 3

Known named and grounded

The name, the mythology line, the product system, the ethics boundaries — all captured.

Done

Known has a home in the repo

docs/known/ with six founding documents. PROJECT_INDEX.md and focus.md updated. Session closed.

What shipped

docs/known/README.md — mission, thesis, mythology line, language hierarchy

docs/known/product-brief.md — what Known is, the three users, the product system

docs/known/research-plan.md — the conversation with Zeb's mother, what to ask, what to listen for

docs/known/question-bank-seed.md — first draft questions across 6 categories, all marked UNVALIDATED

docs/known/mvp-hypotheses.md — 6 beliefs, each with a test condition and a way to break it

docs/known/ethics-and-boundaries.md — what Known will never do, written as design commitments

PROJECT_INDEX.md — Known added as active ForgeKit product, Care Memory entry replaced

docs/focus.md — Known added to radar apps with research entry conditions

docs/forge-journal/strikes.md — 3 new Strikes captured

docs/forge-journal/anvils.md — 3 new Anvils recorded

“He was gone before he was gone.”
— Zeb — on watching his father lose the ability to be known as himself