Kenotic Labs

Kenotic Labs — currently the strongest public claimant on the “continuity layer” category.

Three arXiv publications — the ATANT evaluation framework (v1.0 and v1.1) and a continuity positioning thesis (Kenotic’s own, distinct from this site despite the shared name) — plus the open ATANT benchmark (code and dataset public), and a public waitlist opened July 3, 2026. Primary sources:

Kenotic relaunched under the masthead “The Continuity Layer for AI Systems” and opened a public waitlist the same morning. This site uses “the continuity layer” as a lowercase category descriptor; the term now also flies on a vendor’s masthead. Kenotic is a vendor in the field this map documents, and one of the parties in the field’s open disagreements — the entry above stands.

Kenotic is doing the field a service by naming the category loudly and backing it with public research. Their framing of memory types — the filing cabinet versus the long-time friend’s working model — is useful category language. Where the public record is thinner, as it is across most of the field, is operational deployment: governed continuity running real organizations over time. That’s the gap this project’s Lab exists to document — in our own systems and in anyone else’s who ships proof.