Mann Computer is a small research and product studio started by Christian Ervin at South Park Commons in 2026. We build scaffolding for identity-bearing agents and the simulated organizations we test them in. Alongside that, we make tools that help people keep up with what AI can do at work.
The support structure around a base model that lets an agent hold a role over time: onboarding, memory, theory of mind, an immutable log, and simulation of actions before it takes them.
A small society of autonomous agents with their own missions, sharing a treasury and a hash-chained log, coordinating through offers, commitments and handoffs.
A simulated company with model-played colleagues and real feedback signals, built to measure whether an agent actually gets better at a job.
AI fluency training generated from each team's own work, with proficiency measured on that work instead of quiz scores.
A bot that works an idea through rounds of implications until it is ten times more ambitious.
An explorer for the branching pasts and futures around any token in a model's output.
For research collaboration, design partnerships, or investment, write to Christian.