ConsilienceAbout
E. O. Wilson's consilience is the idea that facts from every field link into one coherent web. You build that web yourself, and the agent reasons on top of it.
Consilience is the world's first ontology agent workspace. The agent understands the web of knowledge you've built and works on your behalf. That web is your second brain.
Markdown is the easiest way to edit that brain. Your originals are plain .md files, and every time you save, the app figures out the concepts in your sentences and how they relate, weaving them into a knowledge graph right beside your notes. Edit the markdown and the knowledge graph changes.
The knowledge graph can always be rebuilt from your writing. Your notes are the single source the system never touches, and you own them all the way down. It's a format both people and AI read fluently.
People don't keep knowledge as a pile of documents. Education fills the brain, experience refines it, sleep consolidates it, and action draws on it without conscious search. Consilience gives your workspace the same anatomy: notes are lasting memory, the knowledge graph is the index that makes association possible, tuning is the sleep that keeps the index clean, and the agent is the hand that puts it all to work.
Designed by analogy to how people gain, store, and use knowledge. Four faculties make up a single workspace.
Just as a person fills up on knowledge from books and material, scattered sources are imported exactly as they are. Spreadsheets, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs (even scans are read), images, URLs, and plain text are carried over verbatim — never flattened into a summary. Original files are kept safely with source links, and imported notes are woven into the knowledge graph right away.
It works like episodic memory, remembering only what mattered out of everything that happened. The agent distills what you've told it and what it confirmed for itself into ordinary notes. It filters duplicates before writing, records the source alongside, and admits untrusted web content only after you've reviewed it. What stays and what goes is something you decide yourself on the cleanup screen.
The stage where what it knows becomes work. It performs knowledge-graph-powered search, reads and writes notes, answers questions, drafts documents, tidies the workspace, and researches the web — showing its work in real time. Every change passes through your approval.
It's a second brain you build yourself, and the web of knowledge your agent reasons over. If your notes are unchanging memory, the knowledge graph is the index that brings related things to mind. The app tidies itself as if sleeping, grouping the same concepts and ordering topics so it grows ever sharper.
Local-first, private beta. You build the knowledge graph yourself, and the agent reasons on top of it.