Memory Is Not a Retrieval Problem

Most systems treat memory as a retrieval problem. They extract facts from conversations, store them, and retrieve the most similar ones when asked. Generic vector infrastructure asks: what is this similar to? Episodic memory asks: when did this happen, and in what sequence? Mpalo asks: what did this mean inside an unfolding experience?

Human memory is not a database of facts. It is a continuous thread of experience: events, contexts, emotions, and personal meaning woven together over time. Palo is built on this understanding. It encodes experience rather than extracting facts, and it can traverse a user's history rather than search it. The difference is not a feature. It is the reason Mpalo exists.

Built for Builders and for People

Palo is infrastructure for developers building applications that need durable memory and continuity, not fact retrieval dressed as personalisation. It is also, eventually, for the people those systems serve: anyone whose relationship with a cognitive system depends on that system actually knowing them over time.

We offer flexible API pricing for developers and growing teams. Custom deployments for larger organisations. The goal is that the quality of memory a product offers its users shouldn't depend on the size of the team building it.

Your Privacy

We do not train our shared base models on your private data without your explicit consent. Palo uses a personal memory layer that adapts to you within your own memory space. Your memories do not modify shared model weights.

All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. You own what you put in. You can delete it permanently at any time.

For the full picture, see our Trust & Ethics page.

Protection Against Cognitive Exploitation

All communication, and all technology, influences the people who use it. The question we hold ourselves to is not whether Mpalo influences you, but whether, after any interaction with what we build, you are more capable of exercising your own judgment than before.

Mpalo is incorporated as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. The mission is not a marketing position. It is a governance structure. The board is required to balance commercial returns against our stated public benefit: developing memory and cognition technologies transparently, deploying them only with consent, and refusing to allow them to become instruments of psychological manipulation.

We decline partnerships that require compromising those constraints. We intend to reinvest a significant portion of profits into research on memory, cognition, and cognitive protection infrastructure. This intention is not yet formalized in a binding financial instrument. We will not weaponise what we build, regardless of who asks.

Our Visual Philosophy

Our visual philosophy is a direct reflection of what Palo does. We draw from natural forms: flowers and fishes (yes fishes, not fish), organic, living, imperfect. Memory is not a filing system. Our icons are often abstract, barely resolved, more impression than illustration. That ambiguity is intentional. It mirrors how memory actually works: retaining the significant essence of a moment rather than a perfect record of it.

Our assets move. Not for decoration, because memory is not static. Memories are active reconstructions, slightly different with every recall. The constant, gentle motion in our design captures the fluidity of thought and the imperfection of memory we are working to understand and embody in Palo.

Our Iconography Philosophy - Abstract illustrations of a brain and a flower

What We Are Building Toward

Palo Bloom is in development. PaloSpring, our open-source agentic coding runtime, is coming soon. The research programme, three papers published, more in progress, is the public record of the thinking underneath the product.

We are building toward a future where cognitive systems can sustain understanding over time. Not through surveillance or optimisation, but through the kind of memory that makes continuity possible. That is a harder problem than fact retrieval. It is the one worth solving.

Our Mission

The Mission of Mpalo