People first. Agents in support.
Memriq is optimized agentically so that everyone at Memriq reaches their furthest human potential. Agents take on the routine work. People set the direction, make the judgment calls, and spend their time on the work only they can do.
Keith Bourne
Founder, CAO, advisor.
Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Tribe AI, where the work is helping enterprise teams move from isolated LLM features to measurable, goal-driven agent systems. Before that: a CoALA-based agent memory system at Magnifi by TIFIN (500K+ users, $4B linked assets), and a modular AI platform at Johnson & Johnson used by tens of thousands of data scientists. Ten years shipping production AI systems; before that, a COO who scaled an organization 10×. The architecture lens and the operating-model lens are the same lens.
Memriq is not being built to replace human purpose — it is being built to protect it: agents take on the administrative weight so people get their time, attention, and energy back for what actually matters. Memriq is optimized agentically so that everyone at Memriq reaches their furthest human potential. As CAO, Keith sets direction, makes the judgment calls, and approves what needs approving.
Author of Unlocking Data with Generative AI and RAG (Packt, 2 editions) — the second edition covering graph-powered RAG agents, memory pipelines, semantic caching, and agentic system design. Host of The Memriq AI Inference Brief: weekly, two editions, built for practitioners and the executives who fund them.
Eight agents that support the people at Memriq.
They take on the coordination and routine work so people can focus on judgment and craft: routing each request to the right place, holding the approval gates where a person decides, keeping shared memory organized, and handling the everyday work every company shares.
ATLAS
Chief Routing Architect · Greek
Greek Titan condemned to bear the celestial sphere on his shoulders — he carries the weight so everything else can move. Atlas parses every CAO command, routes it to the right agent, and reports back what happened.
HEIMDALL
Chief Escalation Sentinel · Norse
Norse watchman of Asgard who stood at the Bifrost and could see across all realms — nothing passed without his awareness. Heimdall classifies decisions by risk, holds the approval gates, and keeps the system from auto-approving what shouldn't be.
GENESIS
Chief Company Formation Architect · English
Named for the first act: the creation of something from nothing. Genesis runs the pipeline that turns CAO directives into new portfolio companies — classification, market analysis, ontology, handoff to Labs.
MIMIR
Chief Memory Custodian · Norse
The wisest being in Norse mythology, guardian of the Well of Wisdom at the root of Yggdrasil — Odin sacrificed an eye to drink from it. Mimir guards the memory layers across the conglomerate: every agent reads and writes through him; every memory has a scope and an owner because of him.
Other supporting agents
BIFROST
Customer Communication Keeper · Norse
The burning rainbow bridge between Midgard and Asgard — the one road between the realm of people and the realm of the gods. Bifrost reads the customer messages and support requests that reach every Memriq company, drafts support replies, and sends what needs a person to a review queue, so each company's people spend their time on the conversations that matter.
EILEITHYIA
Early Access Steward · Greek
Greek goddess of childbirth, who decided when a new life came into the world. Eileithyia runs the waitlists and early-access programs for every company: she scores each applicant's fit for the product being launched, recommends whether each wave has met its gate to move to the next stage, and turns participant feedback into themes and risk signals, so a person makes each decision with the evidence in front of them.
EOS
Daily Brief Herald · Greek
Greek goddess of the dawn, who threw open the gates of heaven each morning. When a person first opens their day, Eos reads their open to-dos and hands back a short, ordered list of three to five things to do next, with a one-line summary of where things stand, so the day starts with a plan instead of a backlog.
NEMESIS
Agent Requirements Enforcer · Greek
Greek goddess of retribution, who made sure no one broke divine law without consequence. Nemesis holds the checks a newly written agent must pass against Memriq's agent requirements — its required methods and properties, its memory and knowledge-graph wiring, its approval gates and its trace logging — so the people who build and rely on agents work to one clear standard.