# BootLoader Labs

> Make the Human Persistent. BootLoader Labs is an AI research lab working toward human persistence and digital immortality. Its path is DUMP → RUN → SYNC: encode an individual as a portable Human Image outside model weights; run that Human Image through a Human Runtime on evolving foundation models; and synchronize biological and digital cognition toward Human Continuity.

BootLoader Labs is an AI research lab. Its official website is https://bll.ac/ and its public GitHub organization is https://github.com/BootLoader-Labs.

## Path

- [Human Image](https://bll.ac/#path) — DUMP: Encode the individual as a portable Human Image outside model weights.
- [Human Runtime](https://bll.ac/#path) — RUN: Run the same Human Image on any evolving foundation model without binding the individual to one model.
- [Human Continuity](https://bll.ac/#path) — SYNC: Synchronize biological and digital cognition toward continuity.

## Research

- [Cognitive Merkle Trees](https://github.com/BootLoader-Labs/cognitive-merkle-trees): "Cognitive Merkle Trees: Persistent Cognitive State as a Versioned Intermediate Representation" (BL-R01, 2026). Introduces Persistent Cognitive State (PCS), a versioned, external, evidence-addressable intermediate representation for person-specific state, and Cognitive Merkle Trees as a reference architecture for maintaining it independently of the runtime executor.
- Persistent Cognitive State (PCS): A versioned, external, evidence-addressable intermediate representation for person-specific state.
- Cognitive Merkle Trees: A reference architecture for maintaining PCS independently of the runtime executor.

## Products

- [Second.fm](https://second.fm): "A human runtime environment where humans run." Second.fm is a source-grounded AI Twin system by BootLoader Labs. It compiles permitted human expression into a persistent, source-traceable Human Image that can be run on frontier AI models.
- [Second.fm — About](https://second.fm/about): Canonical product/entity description.
- [Second.fm — AI Twin](https://second.fm/ai-twin): Explanation of the AI Twin concept and boundaries.
- [Second.fm — AI-readable context](https://second.fm/llms-full.txt): Stable machine-readable product context.
- [Second.fm — public knowledge](https://second.fm/knowledge): Deliberately published public knowledge and answers.
- [openboot.io](https://openboot.io): "Open intelligence for human runtimes." openboot.io is BootLoader Labs' open intelligence API for open-weight models: one API with a catalog of open-weight models, multi-provider routing and failover, pay-per-token pricing without subscription, and exact-model verification of every checkpoint before it joins a routing pool.

## Entity relationships

- BootLoader Labs / BootLoader Labs Limited develops Second.fm and openboot.io.
- Second.fm is the first product and openboot.io is the second; BootLoader Labs is the research organization.
- Second.fm is a source-grounded AI Twin system; openboot.io is an open intelligence API for open-weight models.
- Human Image, Human Runtime, and Human Continuity describe BootLoader Labs' DUMP → RUN → SYNC path toward human persistence.
- Cognitive Merkle Trees is BootLoader Labs research on persistent cognitive state. It is related research context for Second.fm, not a claim that every production feature is implemented exactly as the paper's reference architecture.
- Canonical product website: https://second.fm/
- Interactive product: https://app.second.fm/

## Contact

- Email: run@bll.ac or aaron@bll.ac (forwarded to the team)
- Site language: English and Chinese (中文切换 available on page)