Labs
Areas of exploration
The themes I keep returning to, and the experiments behind the finished work. Some of this hardens into Projects; the rest is the digging that makes the good stuff possible.
apo@anubis cat focus.md
# two obsessions, one principle
1. intelligence you can trust — evidence over vibes
2. tools that give independent operators leverage
principle: deterministic, self-hosted, owned by the user
✓ still digging
Where the digging happens
Focus areas
Focus · Intelligence
OSINT & evidence-grade analysis
Deterministic systems for collecting, versioning, and analyzing public information
over time — no LLMs, no black boxes. Every conclusion traces back to an immutable,
timestamped observation. This is the ground Chronicle grew from.
Focus · Right to repair
Software for independent mechanics
Giving small shops and mobile mechanics the tools normally locked behind
dealerships and big platforms — invoicing, OEM data access, and parts sourcing.
Ownership over rent-seeking.
Focus · Automation
Background systems & orchestration
The unglamorous middle: job queues, schedulers, worker health, and backpressure that
hold up under real load. Celery/Redis pipelines, self-hosted deployment, and
production hardening that most people never see.
Focus · Applied AI
Trustworthy interfaces
Where models earn their place — VIN-based compatibility checks, AR-assisted
diagnostics, and interfaces that make output verifiable instead of magical.
Intelligence you can audit.
The trail
The road to Chronicle
Nothing ships fully formed. Chronicle is the product of successive R&D iterations — each one a rebuild that kept what earned its place and threw out the rest.
R&D v1
First pass — proving the deterministic, evidence-first collection model was even viable.
archived
R&D v2
Rebuild — versioned observations, hashing, and the relationship graph take shape.
archived
R&D v3
Hardening — job scheduling, workers, and self-hosted deployment worth trusting.
merged
Chronicle
The platform. Everything that survived, running at chronicle.knownapo.dev.
live
Follow the day-to-day in the Devlog.