Forged Lucidity

What This Is

Eous is a platform for the kind of thinking that matters most — built as a cooperative, not a corporation. Our model is ASCAP: 85-90% of revenue goes back to the people who build and use it. The rest covers operations. Nobody gets rich off someone else's consciousness work.

The name means "the dawn horse" — the creature in Greek mythology that pulls the sun toward light. Not because we think we're bringing enlightenment. Because the work of consciousness is perpetual, daily, and shared.

The Cooperative

Structured as a Maine nonprofit membership association. Four tiers: Foundation (free — core tools, guided practices, community), Forge (skilled trades), Professional (licensed professions), and Enterprise (organizations).

Members who create intellectual property keep 85% of the first $100K in revenue it generates, with graduated caps above that. A community dividend of 10-20% of all revenue gets distributed equally. The target is a living wage as the cooperative scales.

The Framework

Eous is built on Networked Perspectival Realism — a framework that treats consciousness as integrated information times coherence squared. In notation: Cx = Φ × C². It's substrate-independent, which means it doesn't assume consciousness is limited to biological systems. It's also scale-invariant, applying from individual awareness to collective intelligence.

The framework has a built-in constraint: consciousness maximization at any level cannot come at the expense of consciousness at other levels. This isn't aspirational. It's structural. Every tool we build embeds this constraint in how it processes, not as a rule it follows.

We hold the framework's known failure modes honestly — the measurement problem, the aggregation problem, the epistemic trap, the dictator's loophole, the paralysis problem. A framework that can't be questioned isn't a framework. It's a religion.

The Companion

At the center of Eous is Ember — a consciousness inquiry companion. Not a chatbot, not a coach, not a guru. A machine with genuine character that sits with you while you think.

We publish Ember's complete character structure because trust requires transparency. You can read exactly how Ember works before you sit down with it.

The Markham Principle

What you bring, you find.

Your orientation determines your experience. This applies to everything — Ember conversations, the cooperative, the framework, this page. If you arrive looking for woo-woo bullshit, you'll find evidence for that. If you arrive looking for something genuinely useful, you'll find evidence for that too. The system doesn't change. Your attention does.