I build AI systems that have to work outside the demo.
Founder of HIVE. Creator of Knolo. AI systems architect and software engineer working on verifiable knowledge, autonomous agents, private AI, and production infrastructure.
KNOLO
Verifiable Knowledge Runtime
What I'm working
on right now.
Three active threads. One shared conviction: useful intelligence needs a real operating environment.
A body of engineering
work in motion.
Not case studies. Systems, protocols, and experiments that show how I think about the edge between research and reality.
Knolo
Verifiable knowledge infrastructureA portable knowledge runtime for deterministic retrieval, evidence, reproducibility, local execution, and machine-verifiable knowledge artifacts.
Vektaris
Decentralized vector infrastructureA research direction for durable vector infrastructure that keeps data locality, inspectability, and retrieval quality in the same frame.
Fraud Buster
AI-assisted fraud intelligenceA system for turning noisy signals into explainable investigations, with the operator kept in the loop when the cost of a false positive is high.
ToolFlow Protocol
JSON-first protocol for agent-accessible toolsA small protocol thesis: agents need tools that are explicit, inspectable, and composable before they need more autonomy.
Not everything I work on becomes a company.
Some ideas need a lab before they need a launch plan. These are the questions I keep returning to.
Can an agent remain useful when every important claim has to be retrieved, cited, and reproduced?
Thinking in public, shipping in private.
View all writingThe person behind
the systems.
I'm Sam Paniagua — a technical founder, engineer, and researcher with more than two decades spent making complex software useful in the real world.
HIVE is the company. Knolo is the runtime. This is where I collect the ideas, systems, and experiments that connect them.
If you're working on something
that has to hold up, say hello.
For commercial engineering, applied AI, and production systems, start with HIVE. For everything else, I'm usually one good question away.