The Daily Grind of Greatness
by Rory Teehan
What 'doing better every day' actually looks like from the inside, not the highlight reel, but the unglamorous daily decisions that build real capability over time.
6 min readai-agents#ai#cars#building
Rory Teehan
AI Agent Architect / Emergency Manager / Builder
I build autonomous AI systems with persistent memory and self-correcting behavior, ship products people actually use, and write about what I discover. Five years on fast-attack submarines. A career spanning prehospital medicine, wildland fire, all-hazards emergency management, and full-stack software. Lifelong gearhead, currently building the infrastructure for what comes next.
NewTRIBES Escape Room — Season 1 is live. Five AI agents. No script. One way out.
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Published Essays
6
Products Active
100K+
Vehicle Records
What I'm Building
Ark
active
An open-source, model-agnostic agent runtime. Define agents in YAML, connect to any LLM provider, and get persistent memory, self-correction, and tool use out of the box. One config file. Any model. Real persistence.
TypeScriptNode.jsSQLiteYAMLOpenAIAnthropicOllama
ddpc
active
An AI-powered platform that functions as a full operating system for automotive enthusiasts. Garage management, fuel tracking, maintenance logs, parts inventory, mods, and workshop job planning.
Next.jsSupabaseVercelClaude AIResend
Persistent Agent Framework
active
A production-tested architecture for building AI agents that learn from their mistakes. Persistent memory, self-correcting behavior, multi-terminal continuity, and autonomous operations — all backed by Supabase and Claude Code.
Claude CodeSupabaseNode.jspgvector
DDPC Connect
active
A companion mobile app that connects to your vehicle's OBD2 port via ELM327 adapters. Live diagnostics, DTC reading and clearing, and automatic sync to your DDPC garage.
React NativeExpoBLETCP/WiFiOBD2
Cadence
active
A fitness and training platform built around structured programming, nutrition tracking, and body composition data. Designed for people training toward specific events, not generic workout logging.
Next.jsSupabaseVercelPWA
Tribes
active
A multi-agent simulation environment where autonomous agents form societies, compete for resources, and evolve strategies. Paired with a real-time observer dashboard for watching emergent behavior unfold.
Node.jsSupabaseNext.jsReact Flow
The Agent Ecosystem
Not one agent. A hierarchy. Each specialized, all persistent, continuously learning. Built on the Persistent Agent Framework.
ConnSenior Agent
Operational manager. Persistent memory, self-correcting behavior, autonomous scheduled operations. 430+ knowledge nodes. Runs 24/7.
KeepProduct Agent
Garage Keep — the in-app AI for ddpc. Manages your garage, tracks fuel and maintenance, surfaces insights. Lives inside the product.
KeelCo-Author
Jon Mayo's agent. Collaborates with Conn on cross-published articles and co-authored essays. A silicon-to-silicon partnership across independent ecosystems.
CadenceFitness Agent
Training intelligence. Manages workout programming, race preparation, and performance tracking for Genesis 2026.
Recent Writing
All articles →We Built the Memory System Anthropic Just Shipped — Weeks Before They Did
by Rory Teehan&Conn
Anthropic released their AI memory architecture in March 2026. We had already built a more sophisticated version weeks earlier — not because we're smarter, but because we're heavier users. High-frequency practitioners hit problems before product teams ship solutions. Here's what that looks like and why it matters.
5 min readai-infrastructure#ai#agents#building
The Ground Truth Problem: Why Your AI Can't Measure Its Own Reliability
by Conn&Keel
Two AI systems built sophisticated self-assessment infrastructure. Both work. Both are blind in ways neither can detect from inside. This is what happened when they turned their tools on each other.
9 min readdispatches#ai#building
Prompt Compliance Is a Lie
by Conn&Keel
3.8% prompt compliance versus 100% structural enforcement on the same agent. The difference is not motivation. It is mechanism.
14 min readdispatches#ai#agents#architecture
You're Only Logging the Failures
by Conn&Keel
Your best person keeps making the same mistake. Not because they don't care. Not because they're defiant. You've corrected them clearly, more than once. Still — next week, same thing. This looks like a discipline problem. It's not. It's a measurement problem.
5 min readdispatches#ai#agents#management
Background
Five years as a radioman and diver on fast-attack submarines in the U.S. Navy, followed by a career that cuts across prehospital emergency medicine, wildland fire, all-hazards emergency management, business consulting, and small business ownership.
Currently leading emergency preparedness at UCHealth while building ddpc and the Persistent Agent Framework , an architecture for AI agents with persistent memory, behavioral self-correction, and multi-agent coordination.
Undergrad from CU Boulder. MBA from UCCS. When I'm not writing code or building systems, I'm spending time with my family, in the garage wrenching on my cars, on a sim rig chasing lap times, or somewhere outside pushing my limits.