About 1791 Technologies · Los Angeles, California

An independent research organization built around a question.

Can an autonomous system change what it believes and does without losing the path that warrants the change?

1791 Technologies LLC is the research and applied-R&D organization behind the Palimpsestus Research Program.

Stephen Weber

Founder & Principal Researcher · Los Angeles, California

Stephen Weber is an independent researcher and systems architect working on provenance-faithful autonomous systems, verification, distributed state, and world learning.

His research grows out of more than two decades of professional work spanning model-based architecture, systems engineering, service and enterprise architecture, configuration/change control, data governance, lineage, and large-scale technical systems.

He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Missouri University of Science and Technology and a B.S. in Computer Graphics from Purdue University.

Before founding 1791 Technologies, he spent nearly two decades at Boeing and later worked on enterprise data modernization and architecture.

That work eventually led to Palimpsestus: a public Open Spec, independent conformance framework, adversarial Crucible process, and experimental program tested through ARC-AGI-2 and ARC-AGI-3 implementations.

Writing & research notes

Substack

Long-form essays and research notes on Palimpsestus, autonomous systems, provenance, systems architecture, and the wider line of inquiry around the research.

Research ethos

Make it easier to attack than to believe.

The program uses frozen references, explicit claim boundaries, public conformance, adversarial tests, and preserved negative results. Outside expertise is most useful when it identifies a specific place where the architecture fails or overclaims.