Ontology

Manwe does not remember everything. It remembers what you promote.

Ontology is Manwe's trust layer for memory. It keeps context scoped to selected Worlds, separates suggestions from usable Memory, and shows what Manwe can see before a run begins.

Manwe Mac beta Scenario Playground with temporary assumptions and branching outcomes
Scenario playground: temporary assumptions and forced outcomes stay separate from promoted memory.

Why it exists

AI memory gets risky when it becomes invisible.

A normal chat can remember too much, too vaguely, or for the wrong reason. A test prompt, stale assumption, fictional scenario, or bad extraction can become an invisible premise later.

Manwe takes the opposite path: record possibilities first, then let the user decide what becomes durable memory. The goal is not an assistant that absorbs everything. The goal is a decision system whose context can be inspected, challenged, replayed, and shut off.

Core model

Worlds, Memory, and inspection before reasoning.

01

Worlds create the room

A decision can happen inside a selected work, personal, client, market, or project context. The room is chosen before the run starts.

02

Memory needs review

Completed runs can suggest what Manwe should remember, but suggestions do not become usable context until you promote them.

03

Context stays visible

What Manwe sees shows the profile, selected worlds, promoted memory, and relationships that can enter the next run.

04

Scenarios stay separate

Temporary assumptions, ignored memory, and forced outcomes can be tested without changing real world memory.

Memory lifecycle

Suggestions and drafts stay out of the room.

Suggestions Candidates from completed runs. They may be useful, wrong, stale, or just residue from a one-off simulation.
Drafts Items worth keeping for later review. Drafts preserve intent, but they still do not guide future answers.
Memory Promoted context for selected worlds. This is the layer Manwe can use when that world is selected.
What Manwe sees The inspection surface before a run. If it is not visible there, it should not be shaping the room.

Audit surface

What Manwe sees is the source of truth.

The app renders selected world context as read-only: profile, worlds, active promoted memory, and relationships that can enter the run. It tells the model to use those facts when relevant and not invent stack, schema, revenue, team, customers, infrastructure, identity, or history beyond the selected context, the topic, uploaded documents, or cited evidence.

If context is not visible in What Manwe sees, it should not be expected to affect the run. That is the practical promise behind the ontology layer: inspect the room before you ask advisors to reason inside it.

What memory can hold

Manwe remembers decision context, not raw history.

Facts and constraints Stable information Manwe should respect when reasoning inside a world.
Goals and decisions The commitments, directions, and outcomes that should survive one run.
Risks and assumptions The fragile premises Manwe should keep visible instead of treating as background noise.
Relationships Links that show how one memory supports, contradicts, blocks, depends on, or affects another.

Scenarios

Test a possibility without rewriting the real context.

Add a temporary assumption Try a premise without editing the real world description.
Ignore selected memory Ask what changes if one promoted memory item is not allowed into the run.
Force an outcome Stress-test the decision against a possible future branch.
Keep the sandbox clean Scenario runs do not promote memory or rewrite normal context.

Mac beta

The current workflow is local-first and review-led.

  • Create separate Worlds for different parts of life or work.
  • Review memory suggestions after completed world runs.
  • Promote only the facts, constraints, risks, goals, decisions, and relationships you want reused.
  • Inspect What Manwe sees before a run begins.
  • Run scenario tests without changing real memory.

The web app remains the fastest path for cloud decision records. The Mac beta is where deeper Worlds, governed memory, What Manwe sees, and scenario testing live.

Manwe Mac beta decision room on a laptop
Mac beta: history, model choice, and run setup stay visible before context shapes a run.

FAQ

Ontology questions.

What does ontology mean in Manwe?

Ontology is Manwe's governed decision memory: selected worlds, promoted memory, relationships, and an inspection surface that shows what can enter a run.

Does Manwe use every past chat or simulation?

No. The point of the ontology layer is to avoid broad history dumps. Suggestions and drafts stay out until a user promotes stable memory.

What is What Manwe sees?

What Manwe sees is the audit surface for active context. If profile context, selected worlds, promoted memory, or relationships do not appear there, you should not expect Manwe to use them.

How do suggestions become memory?

Completed world runs can create pending suggestions. A user can reject them, keep them as drafts, or promote stable facts, constraints, goals, decisions, risks, preferences, deadlines, or relationships into Memory.

Where is this available?

The web app is the fastest path for cloud decision records. The deeper ontology workflow is centered on the Mac beta: Worlds, memory review, What Manwe sees, scenarios, and local-first context.