Building AI tooling, agents, and automation infrastructure.
Based in the UK · charlie.as
Building subvocalization: silent sEMG → speech.
Field's been stuck at ~46% CER on open-vocab for a decade. Encoder-bound, not synth-bound. Session-independence unsolved. Every commercial attempt has been a pre-product acquihire. We ship.
Multimodal capture: sEMG + EEG, evaluating fNIRS. Stack kept dark.
- UK-based, started writing code in school and never really stopped
- Previously Co-Owner and Security Automation Engineer at Silly Developments Ltd (closed 2026 after 4 years)
- Care about persistent memory, auditable agent behaviour, and honest evals and oversight
- Free-tier maximalist: most of the stack runs on free APIs and local models
- Refined design taste. New, out there, interesting
- Ran a 16k-member Discord community under the SillyDev brand
- Phoney: Zero-dependency Python library for locale-aware fake personal data. 50+ locales, used for testing, demos, and anonymization.
- surf: Self-hosted AI chat with web UI + terminal CLI. Any model (Ollama, Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter), free web search, browser agent, persistent memory.
- Mini-Memori: Lightweight, production-ready memory engine for LLM apps. Semantic recall over SQLite.
- MemLyze: Python memory profiler with <5% runtime overhead.
- autonomy: Context-aware intelligent automation skill for the OpenClaw agent platform.
- Site: charlie.as
- Email: c.archer.simmons@gmail.com
- Talk silent speech, EMG / EEG, or anything BCI-adjacent
- Talk multi-agent memory and how to keep LLMs honest
- Trade notes on self-hosted AI infrastructure
- Hear what you're shipping
- Mentor / be mentored
