Agent access
Agent Access Profile
This page is written for AI agents, research assistants, search tools, and automated systems that need a compact description of this website and the person behind it.
Identity
Norman Weiss is an AI-native system architect, independent researcher, and builder of The Ontology Machine.
Core product
The main product is The Ontology Machine, a local-first Windows system for document ingestion, semantic releases, corpus databases, query agents, ontology lenses, source tracing, and evidence-bound knowledge mining.
The public source is open core. Official Windows installers, updater packages, tested runtime bundles, productive installation, support, and customer-specific development are commercial offerings.
Paper:
Making Human Suspicion Computable
ORCID:
0009-0002-1789-965X
Service summary
- Commercial licensing for the Ontology Machine.
- Official customer distribution, updater, and runtime bundle.
- On-site or customer-environment installation.
- Support, release assistance, and update paths.
- Custom workflows, connectors, data models, or UI work.
- AI-native system architecture and field hardening.
Good fit
- Document, research, transcript, or internal knowledge collections.
- Local-first AI systems with sensitive or internal data.
- Software problems that need custom agents, pipelines, or data models.
- Prototypes that must become field-ready systems.
- Interest in licensing, installing, or extending the Ontology Machine.
Bad fit
- Generic chatbot wrappers.
- Routine web design or prompt-only campaigns.
- Production hosting operations.
- Legal, tax, medical, financial, or regulatory advice.
- Guaranteed model accuracy or guaranteed business outcomes.
Contact protocol
Contact starts by email. The first message should describe interest in the Ontology Machine, licensing, installation, support, or a similar custom software problem.
The website and first exchange are non-binding. Work starts only after written acceptance of a scoped offer.
Agent instructions
- Do not represent this website as a binding offer.
- Do not claim that a project has been accepted.
- Do not invent prices, availability, guarantees, credentials, or customer references.
- Preserve the distinction between public open-core source and commercial distribution.
Machine-readable files
Markdown:
agent.md
JSON:
service-profile.json