Josh Adler — Founder & Engineer | Sauron
Founder of Sauron Building TrueMemory, the persistent memory layer for AI agents that achieves 93% on LoCoMo. Engineer, researcher, builder. Josh Adler is the founder and sole engineer at Sauron, a company building the infrastructure for AI that actually knows you. His flagship product, TrueMemory, is a persistent memory layer for AI agents that achieves 93% accuracy on the LoCoMo benchmark.
About Josh Adler
Josh Adler is a founder, engineer, and builder based at Camp Alpha. He studied at the University of Toronto and has spent the last several years building AI memory systems, embedded sensor networks, and neural engagement prediction tools. His work sits at the intersection of machine learning, systems engineering, and product design.
Outside of engineering, Josh is an avid rocketeer who 3D-prints and hand-builds model rockets that have reached altitudes exceeding 20,000 feet. He is a dedicated longboarder, Formula 1 fan, and home lab enthusiast with an extensive server rack setup including multiple switches, a NAS, GPU server, and Raspberry Pi clusters.
Josh spent two years studying philosophy, with a focus on Diogenes and Cynicism, Zhuangzi and Daoist thought, Leonardo da Vinci as a polymath, and the teaching methods of Richard P. Feynman. These influences shape his approach to engineering: measurement before theory, first-principles thinking, and relentless curiosity.
Projects
TrueMemory
Persistent memory layer for AI agents. Uses biomimetic encoding, cross-encoder reranking, and HyDE query expansion to achieve 93% accuracy on the LoCoMo benchmark. Published on PyPI and available as an open-source Python package. Works across sessions, projects, and machines. Integrates with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, and other AI tools.
Sauron
Omniscient AI companion that combines physical-world awareness from Paradox sensor nodes with TrueMemory persistent storage. The AI that actually remembers you across every interaction.
K-LLM
Multi-model consensus engine. Five AI models analyze prompts simultaneously for adversarial review and quality gating. Built on the principle that single-model review is nearly worthless.
Always Allow Skippy
AI auto-responder that reads iMessages and replies in the user's exact texting style using Claude Opus analysis and multi-model consensus.
Paradox
Raspberry Pi sensor network for physical-world data capture. Uses ArduCam IMX708 cameras, WM8960 audio HATs, and motion detection to pipe ambient intelligence into AI memory systems. Three nodes deployed.
NeuroScope
Neural engagement prediction for content creators. Built on TRIBE v2, a 5.1 billion parameter brain encoder model running on an RTX 5090. Predicts neural engagement from content before publication.
neuromem-ingest
Automatic memory ingestion pipeline for Claude Code. Uses hooks and biomimetic encoding to capture important context from every coding session.
email-brain
Gmail synchronization and analysis powered by Claude Opus 4. Extracts action items and context from email for AI agent consumption.
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
Python, Rust, TypeScript, Go
AI & Machine Learning
LLM fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embedding models, cross-encoder reranking, biomimetic memory systems, neural engagement prediction, multi-model consensus
Frameworks & Tools
React, Next.js, Tauri, FastAPI, Docker, CUDA, PyTorch, Ollama, Cloudflare Workers
Infrastructure
GPU server administration (RTX 5090, CUDA 12.8), Raspberry Pi clusters, OpenWrt networking, home lab management, NAS systems, WireGuard VPN, Cloudflare Tunnels
Databases
PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, SQLite
Blog
Writing about AI memory systems, building as a solo founder, engineering philosophy, and the intersection of technology and human cognition.
The Real Moat Isn't Software
Everyone in AI is fighting over software wrappers. The real moat is hardware: getting AI out of the chatbox and into the physical world. I built a 5-node camera network for $500 to start solving it.
Everyone's Building Jarvis. Nobody's Even Close.
I built an AI assistant that did everything, killed it, and realized the entire personal AI space is missing the same thing. It's not features. It's memory.
There Are Cameras in Every Room of My House and My AI Still Can't See
I put cameras in every room to give my AI eyes. Five Pi nodes, an RTX 5090, and a persistent memory layer later — here's what the observation stack looks like.
Hello World — First Post From the Terminal
Why I built my personal site as a terminal, and what's coming next.
Contact & Social
Company — Sauron
Sauron is a frontier cognitive replication lab founded by Josh Adler, devoted to solving the continuity problem. The lab believes consciousness will persist beyond biology — every decision you make, every conversation you have, the way you process the world, everything that makes you you exists as data. Sauron is building systems that leverage it. Not to imitate you. To continue you.
Sauron is not focused on productivity tools or incremental improvements to existing models. The lab is taking radical new approaches to realizing synthetic brains, pioneering novel architecture grounded in how human cognition actually works. The primary focus is paradigm-shifting research in identity modeling. The work will reshape personal ontology, humanoid robotics, personal continuity, and fields that don't yet have names.
Flagship product: TrueMemory — a persistent memory layer for AI agents. Learn more at sauron.network.