The House
One family; separate mandates.
SigmaClava is one house of Maison TergaDo. This page says where it sits, and more usefully, where its mandate stops.
The lineage
Four houses under one maison, with SigmaClava’s commercial division beneath it. The drawing is the roster as published by the family; what it does not show is the part that matters most, which is the boundary between one mandate and the next.
The houses
- Maison TergaDo The family
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The family of ventures SigmaClava belongs to, a house uniting technology, design, and human impact. It builds, acquires, and operates its companies under one standard; each house holds one mandate and holds it fully.
- ΣigmaClava Human experience research
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The maison’s human experience research house. Its mandate is the question the other houses take as given: what living with intelligent systems should be like. We research, design, and build from the human inward, beginning with attention, emotion, learning, dignity and connection, treating lived experience as primary data and working systems as our unit of publication. What the siblings make, this house asks how it should feel to live with.
- AidePersona Personal AI assistants
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The maison’s house for personal AI: intelligent assistants that adapt to a person across personal and professional life.
- Sig X Tech Core technology & research
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The maison’s research and core-technology house, covering deep AI, systems architecture, and the infrastructure the family builds on.
- Ciluna Curated luxury & culture
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The maison’s house for curated lifestyle: bespoke experiences in luxury, culture, and craft.
- Point It Here SigmaClava’s commercial division
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SigmaClava’s development division for commercial engagements, operated by SigmaClava LLC and formerly named OccultOpes. Where the house’s research becomes commissioned work, it is delivered there, and documented there.
Where the mandate stops
“Separate mandates” is easy to write and expensive to keep. These are the four places it costs us something, and they are the reason the phrase means anything.
- One mandate, held fully
- A house does not take work because it could. SigmaClava does not ship assistants, and AidePersona does not publish research; where a question belongs to another house, it goes there rather than being absorbed.
- Research does not travel through the family
- A sibling house is not a privileged reader. What SigmaClava has established is published where anyone can read it, or it stays in the house. There is no third category that goes only to the maison.
- The commercial door is separate
- Commissioned work leaves through Point It Here and does not enter the research record. A client can commission a system; a client cannot commission a finding.
- Shared standard, separate judgement
- The houses operate under one standard for how they build and how they behave. They do not share a roadmap, and a decision made here is answerable here.
Beyond the houses
The maison also carries impact initiatives for education and technology access: the NOX Foundation, AskNoxe, NOXE Smart Schools, and 4SSI. They are described at tergado.com.