THETA BY DBP SENTIENCE

Tools change. Understanding carries forward.

Work faster.
Grow and manage your institutional knowledge.

Theta connects authoritative memory, functional awareness, and a cognitive operating system across the company's work. Agents keep the company's context, do governed work, and leave their learning behind.

Research & analysis

Ground questions in prior findings, evidence, and rejected hypotheses.

Products & engineering

Carry architecture decisions, product intent, and review evidence across sessions.

Processes & operations

Run recurring procedures with explicit scope and durable checkpoints.

Decisions & know-how

Keep judgment, constraints, and lessons retrievable for the next decision.

Why it matters

Four costs of working without memory.
Four things that change.

Speed comes from where each session begins: from the record, not from a blank prompt.

Cold starts Sessions open pre-briefed.

Working memory is assembled for each session from the record.

Stale answers Agents know the authoritative record.

A claim counts as fact only after it is verified against its source.

Compounding errors Reliable recall. Less rework.

Current, verified knowledge gives agents a sound basis for decisions and the work that follows, keeping effort focused on progress.

Insights easily lost Lessons become procedures.

What worked becomes a reusable procedure; what failed stays on record.

What it is

Five kinds of memory.
One authoritative record.

Institutional knowledge here is not a pile of documents. It is five memory functions with distinct jobs, and a ledger that says which is authoritative.

Working memory

The context this session needs, assembled from the record.

Episodic memory

What happened: sessions, decisions, outcomes, corrections.

Semantic memory

What is known, organized by area of work.

Procedural memory

How work is done: playbooks and operating rules.

Decision ledger

Each decision with its source, author, authorization, and evidence.

Runs on infrastructure you control. Memory is permissioned by domain, versioned, and portable; it leaves with you.

Review

Separate the roles.
Preserve the reasoning.

Proposing and challenging are distinct roles. Findings, resolutions, and review evidence stay with the work.

Propose

An agent develops an idea, analysis, plan, or change with organizational context.

Challenge

A separate review role questions assumptions and looks for weaknesses.

Resolve

Evidence, tests, and required approvals govern what moves forward.

Record

Reasoning, outcomes, rejected paths, and corrections stay available.

How it works

Proof comes from the system,
not from a label.

State changes by rule, not by hand. No one edits a status field to make something true.

Provenance is structural

Source, author, authorization, and evidence are fields on the record.

Decisions precede execution

Consequential work starts from a recorded, authorized decision.

Verification gates trust

Nothing becomes fact until it is verified against the primary source.

Supersession is append-only

New understanding is added; the old is marked superseded, never deleted.

Consolidation runs out-of-band

Memory work happens outside the session, so sessions stay fast.

A consistent purpose
across changing tools.

The record gives the agent its starting point; the cognitive operating system gives it a way to act within authority.

A retained claim can still need review. The next piece of work begins from accumulated understanding.

Agents, adapters, and workflows

Long-running workstreams,
kept on track.

Work that survives interruption and passes review returns validated intelligence sooner.

Runtime controls come first. In tightly governed environments, OpenShell and NemoClaw runtime controls bound execution; Theta adds memory, cognition, and learning above them.

Agents

Claude Code/CLI
Codex/CLI
Hermes
Pi
VS Code chat & extensions · chat and workspace assistants

Adapters

Claude Code CLI + Codex adversarial adapter
NemoClaw/Hermes/Pi governed operation
Subscription-inference API and Token adapters
OpenShell / NemoClaw runtime controls
Plugin and extension distribution

Workflows

Durable execution

Survives a restart; continues from the last checkpoint.

Reconciliation and retention witnesses

Retained state is checked against intent before it counts.

Scoped authorization and gated publication

Per-step authority; results publish only through the gate.

Propose → Challenge → Resolve → Record

Adversarial review on every workstream.

Idea pipeline - methodology and evidence

Hypothesis, investigation, and outcome kept distinct.

Workload placement - local and frontier

Local models for memory work, frontier models for heavy reasoning.

Getting started

Start with one workstream.
Extend as you build.

Adoption can be built brick by brick, one project, process, or team at a time.

01 Pick a bounded workstream

One domain, one recurring piece of work. Its memory fills from real work.

02 Connect the record

Point the agents you already use at it. The loop runs around the work.

03 Review the first results

Decisions and corrections land in the ledger with provenance.

04 Extend

Add domains, machines, agents, and people; each inherits the same rules.

Discuss a first workstream

Stronger work.
Rapid intelligence accumulation.

The ambition is growing institutional knowledge: agents that build on the company's record, think forward, and extend what the company can do within explicit boundaries.

Inference is rented.
Memory is owned.

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