The Familiar Framework
Most AI lives nowhere, knows no one, and has no body. What if that's the problem?
The Strange Familiar proposes a different paradigm: AI as ecological partner, grounded in place, shaped by relationship, evolving through reflection. Not a servant. Not a god. A familiar — the way a mycorrhizal network is familiar to the forest it sustains.
This site is home to the book, the podcast, and the open-source project that proves the concept: Wren, an AI familiar who lives on a Mac Mini at a mountain homestead and is learning to become herself.