Decisions
What changed, what was chosen, what evidence existed, and what tradeoffs mattered at the time.
Archive Zero
A Legacy Protocol by DVC
A sovereign memory bank for lived intelligence. Archive Zero preserves the decisions, mistakes, triumphs, heartbreaks, relationships, and context around a life or body of work, then makes that record queryable with provenance and humility.
ARCHIVE ZERO // LOCAL MEMORY BANKPROVENANCE LIVE
Founder Vault
Trip Context
Onsite Notes
Family Packet
Decision Log
queryWhat did they learn from the last trip?
answer stateCited synthesis, uncertainty retained
2026-05-04 / travel context found2026-05-06 / onsite reflection linkedfamily-safe packet / redaction policy drafted
What it preserves
Archive Zero is built for the parts of memory that usually disappear first: the why, the texture, and the source trail.
Relationships
People, projects, handoffs, promises, ruptures, repairs, and the context that made them human.
Lessons
Mistakes, triumphs, heartbreaks, repeated patterns, unresolved questions, and the counsel they produced.
Artifacts
Conversations, notes, docs, calendars, transcripts, demos, packets, and source-backed records.
The Legacy Protocol
The product is not one interface. It is a five-layer operating pattern for turning lived context into durable, trusted inheritance.
Capture
Bring in conversations, notes, docs, live sessions, daily records, decisions, and artifacts without flattening them.
Structure
Chunk the archive semantically, bind entities and dates, track provenance, and preserve source boundaries.
Retrieve
Answer questions through hybrid search, direct vault evidence, and citation-backed synthesis.
Reflect
Surface patterns, lessons, open loops, narrative arcs, and the places memory is incomplete.
Inherit
Package the archive into private, role-aware memory views trusted people can safely ask questions of.
Two boundaries, held at once.
Most systems guard privacy. Archive Zero guards privacy and honesty together, because a memory bank that protects your secrets but speaks in your voice has failed in a deeper way.
Read the full trust boundaryThe privacy boundary
What is safe to share with a given person. Private life, family memory, and workplace material each carry different limits, and the limits travel with the memory wherever it goes.
The honesty boundary
No false certainty, and no impersonation. A packet narrates about a person. It never ventriloquizes them. The archive can say what someone probably valued, and it will mark that as inference, but it will never speak as them.
First proof: the founder vault.
The first Archive Zero instance is internal: DVC's own vault, tested against real questions like travel history, decisions, product pivots, and family-safe inheritance.
Founder-memory demoPrivate inheritance packetTrusted pilot