ONOS BIO is building the first system that stores a living mind in a database, indexes every thought, and retrieves any of them on demand.
See what we build About Book IIOur flagship application and the name of the project behind it. Unlock with biometrics and see every other Taylor Street user on a live map: a social GPS for finding your people. Underneath, the same engine maps a human mind into a non-tabular database and indexes it for retrieval. The connection persists, even after the app is removed.
One month free if you sign up in the next three hoursA photo-real lakeside town, a waterfall, a street party, a locked cottage. Fully scripted scenarios, deployed on demand and dissolved when the run ends. Built five years ago as a boot camp for our robots. Now open to human participants.
Every building unlocked, except oneRobotic kitchen crews, biometric storage, magnetic charging, drone logistics. Our machines have completed nearly five years of intensive machine learning. They can do almost everything on their own. Almost.
They cannot do it alone
Arenal at dusk. The labs are behind the crater wall, level with the lava.
There is no road to ONOS BIO. Guests arrive by helicopter and fast-rope onto a platform mounted inside the crater, a few metres above the lava. A red square on the platform floor rises to the upper chamber wall, and a biometric door opens onto the labs.
Inside, respirators and vests go into biometric bins. Phones are stored and charged. Hot meals are prepared by our robotic kitchen. Then the conference table converts into private glass-walled desks, a headset is waiting on each one, and the terminal is already open to a blinking cursor.
What happens on a first visit
I want to know how to store thoughts inside the human brain into a database and index them for quick retrieval. Once complete, I can make a human live forever.
ONOS BIO identifies engineering teams that have just shipped something exceptional, sends them somewhere beautiful, and watches how they behave when the shuttles leave. Seven rules apply, inherited from the founder's family: no anger, lies, lust, desire, lawlessness, murder, or lack of forgiveness. The environment keeps score, and so do we. Successful candidates receive an offer with a personal note from Janice, roughly double their current salary, two weeks of orientation in Oregon City, and a permanent assignment to the Costa Rica team.
The same short test every candidate takes on arrival. Eight questions. No IDE required. Six correct extends an offer.
Ten engineers from Xenon Hardware, Omaha. Selected after shipping the most powerful graphics card on the market. Observed at Arenal.
Three toucans sit near the top of the largest zipline at Arenal. One of them has a broken beak. The locals will not go near him. The story they tell is old: a human once abused one of these birds, and the bird rendered judgment in the form of a curse on the whole rainforest. He has been alive, they say, for thousands of years.
He does not work for ONOS BIO. He watches. The rainforest has seven advisories, the same seven rules Janice Gold was raised on, and the toucan monitors them and reports what he sees. Break one inside its borders and you may not be allowed to leave. Bruno the jaguar handles enforcement.
Trevor Odom named him Gronky. Gronky lands on Trevor's arm, leads the team to the waterfall, to the lake, back toward the volcano, and disappears the moment the helicopter lifts off. Raul Odessa's advice stands: do not try to take the ancient bird out of the rainforest. That is a bad omen.
Chapter 17 of Book II is titled "Gronky Speaks." Make of that what you will.
The sequel, now being written
The rainforest let them go. Janice Gold never did.
Oregon City, 2027. On her deathbed, neurosurgeon Dr. Claudia Gold makes her granddaughter promise one thing: when I'm gone, let me be gone. Nobody opens my head. Janice cannot promise that. She has a lab under the house, a volcano in Costa Rica, and a theorem her grandmother spent forty years saying was impossible.
A year after the retreat, the Xenon team is drifting apart. Jason and Jake have gone quiet since taking jobs with ONOS BIO. Then the offer letters arrive, each with a personal note from Janice: double salary, two weeks in Oregon City, a permanent post in the rainforest. One by one they download Taylor Street and say yes. Matt owes it to Tommy Hagle to find out what really happened. Mishka wants her name on the project that lets people live forever. Susan just wants a fresh start for her daughter.
Back in the jungle, Trevor and Jason are still trying to walk out, with a broken-beaked toucan named Gronky leading and Bruno somewhere behind them. Eighteen chapters, from Root Directory to Claudia.
Where it began: Book I
Ten software developers. One company retreat in paradise. A rainforest that keeps score.
Xenon Hardware has just shipped the most powerful graphics card on the market, and the team that built it is rewarded with a trip to Arenal. By sunset on the first day one of them is dead, the shuttles are gone, and the only guide willing to lead them out is a toucan with a broken beak. Then the locals explain the rules, and a jaguar named Bruno enforces them.
As the team pushes deeper, the jungle stops behaving like a jungle. A lakeside village with no people. Mirrors with no reflection. A locked cottage that shouldn't exist. Someone has written this place, and to get home they'll have to debug reality itself.
A fast-moving tech thriller with the heart of a survival tale. Sixteen chapters, from Ice Breaker to Redemption. Available in print and as an audiobook.
Also by A.A. Glover: the Rice and a Bowl of Boat trilogy, a historical saga of freedom, family, and legacy in the emancipation-era South.