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ChumBucket

Project Concept

Every OpenClaw agent wakes up with amnesia. It re-fetches data it already pulled, forgets decisions you already made, and loses context about your world. Current memory (QMD/MEMORY.md) is unstructured markdown โ€” great for notes, useless for structured knowledge.
Chum Bucket is a local-first knowledge layer for AI agents. One SQLite file, one CLI (chum), one MCP server. It stores entities (companies, people, projects), relations between them, cached data with freshness tracking, and observations from conversations โ€” decisions, preferences, lessons learned. What one agent learns, all agents remember.
Where agents store the secret formula. ๐Ÿฆ 
Tech: TypeScript, SQLite, FTS5, MCP SDK

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Partner at Veranda Capital
Best known in tech circles as the founder of GameSpy. Founded, ran and sold to Fox Interactive Media. Founded a few tech and tech adjacent companies. Tech author: Running a perfect website and Intranet HTML - both for Que/MacMillan Publishing. From my Openclaw assistant: Serial entrepreneur and technologist. CEO/founder across multiple companies including real estate tech, SaaS, and AI-powered platforms. Building in production with OpenClaw since early days โ€” multi-agent setups, custom skills, MCP integrations, browser automation. Based in La Jolla.
AI Agents and LLM harnesses.
What I'm building: Building across multiple companies with OpenClaw as my core AI infrastructure. Currently running OpenClaw agents that orchestrate project management, CRM workflows, and cross-platform automation across my businesses โ€” including a real estate analytics platform (FlipTarget) and an AI-powered SMS platform for community organizations (Mobilize/Rails 8 + FastAPI). Also built a custom project management system (Helm) with an MCP server that lets Claude agents query