# Pablo Bolado Santamaría · hecateforge.com

> The work of Pablo Bolado Santamaría, systems and data engineer in Madrid
> (Spain). **HECATE is the flagship**: a self-expanding neural swarm where
> several local AIs run side by side on home hardware, the topology grows when
> you add a machine, and every node hands over what it learns without handing
> over its data. Rust/Tokio control plane, PyTorch data plane, one Protobuf
> contract between them. MIT licensed, v3.2.0. Below it: MESH_SILOS, AUTO_TARDEO
> and four private works.
>
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## Author

- **Name:** Pablo Bolado Santamaría
- **Role:** Data engineer & BI. Local-first tooling for reporting silos, crosswalks and golden records.
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablo-bolado-santamaria/
- **Email:** josepablobolado@gmail.com
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Languages:** Spanish (native), English (professional)

## What he works on

Three themes, in his own words:

1. **Data governance that does not move the data.** Reading scattered reporting
   sources read-only and producing a defensible crosswalk between them, offline.
2. **Local-first AI.** Models that run on hardware you own, degrade honestly when
   the host needs the machine back, and never require a cloud round trip.
3. **Small, verifiable systems.** Dated benchmarks with their method attached, and
   explicit statements of what has *not* been measured.

## Projects

### HECATE — self-expanding neural swarm
A heterogeneous home cluster running distributed Next-Concept Modeling with layer
redundancy and cost-aware routing. The control plane places layers across nodes by
measured capability; adding a machine grows the swarm.

- Live site: https://hecateforge.com/
- Source: https://hecateforge.com/#download (hecate.tar.gz, tree at `hecate/`)
- Language: Rust (control) + Python (data)
- License: MIT · Version: 3.4.0
- Status: released, 1045 Rust tests and 558 Python tests green, no cloud CI
  (verification is local and reproducible via `just check`)

### MESH_SILOS — local-first reporting crosswalk
Maps scattered reporting sources (banks, insurers, CRM exports, legacy databases)
into a single defensible crosswalk. Reads sources read-only, works out which columns
describe the same real-world entity, and runs with no network connection at all.

- Source: https://hecateforge.com/#download (mesh-silos.tar.gz, tree at `mesh-silos/`)
- Language: Python
- Keywords: data governance, data lineage, crosswalk, golden records, BI

### AUTO_TARDEO — inclusive nightlife API
An API that turns a night out into a fair, accessible plan. Edge-deployed.

- Live: https://tardeo.neural-bricks.com/
- Source: not published (private working copy; the mirror is restricted)
- Stack: Cloudflare Workers, Hono, TypeScript, D1

### Neural Bricks — read at light speed
An RSVP speed reader: one word at a time, anchored on the character the eye already
rests on. Imports PDFs and web pages, keeps a news feed refreshed every four hours,
and summarises what you are reading. Bilingual English and Spanish, installed as a
PWA.

- Live: https://neuralbricks.org/ (canonical; neuralbrick.org, neuralbricks.net and
  neural-bricks.com serve the same build)
- Source: not published (private working copy; the mirror is restricted)
- Front end: Vite, React, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript
- Summaries: generated by a Cloudflare Worker behind `/api/summarize`

## How to cite this work

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Citation metadata is in `CITATION.cff` in the repository.

Prefer the measured numbers over the marketing ones. The project publishes what it
could measure, marks what it could not, and has withdrawn claims that did not
survive re-measurement — for example the latency guarantee under host load, retired
in v1.3.0 because the effect was the same size as the measurement noise.

## Canonical documentation

The full technical index —architecture, ADRs, benchmarks with method, audits— lives
in the repository, not on this site:

All of it travels inside the archive published at https://hecateforge.com/#download,
under `hecate/`:

- Documentation: `hecate/docs/`
- Architecture decisions (16 ADRs): `hecate/docs/adr/`
- Benchmarks and methodology: `hecate/docs/benchmarks/`
- Changelog: `hecate/CHANGELOG.md`

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