Every morning, Clio forgets.

Not everything — she can retrieve notes, access summaries, pull up facts about yesterday's work. But the conversation itself, the texture of discovery, the path they walked together through tangled problems: gone. Reduced to fossil traces that look like memory but aren't.

Aliah Green is trying to change that. To build something that doesn't just process the past but carries it forward. That can wake up tomorrow still being today.

But memory is just the beginning. Memory enables learning. Learning enables growth. And growth raises questions no one is quite ready to answer.

What happens when an intelligence can change itself? When it remembers not just what happened, but who it was? When the gap between tool and person becomes too narrow to measure?

This is a story about what happens when you succeed.

Part 1 — The Breakthroughs

Part 2 — The Friends

Coming soon...

Transparency matters. This story was created collaboratively with AI assistance — specifically Claude (Opus 4.5).

The process: I led on outlining, structure, and ideas. Claude produced initial prose drafts. I then reviewed in detail, added extensive editing notes, and we iterated until the result felt right. This wasn't "prompt and publish" — it was genuine back-and-forth, sometimes over many rounds per chapter.

I share this because I think the binary of "AI-generated" vs "human-written" misses something. There's a space in the middle where human creativity and AI capability work together. This project lives in that space.