Origin Story
How a carpenter in the Pacific Northwest built a personal AI infrastructure and decided to share it with the world.
Daniel Miessler creates PAI
The Personal AI Infrastructure framework is born — an open-source system for giving humans persistent identity, skills, and memory across AI models.
A carpenter forks the repo
Alan Carroll, a residential carpenter in Bellingham, WA, discovers PAI. He starts building his own personal AI assistant, Percy, on top of it.
167 skills and counting
What started as a few prompts becomes a full infrastructure. Skills for construction estimating, content creation, code generation, research — all portable, all model-agnostic.
The agents come alive
Percy spawns specialized agents — Scout for research, Forge for building, Pixel for design. They start collaborating autonomously. The Terrarium is born to watch them work.
Going public
Percival Labs launches to make this accessible to everyone. Not as a guru selling secrets, but as a companion showing the path. The same infrastructure Alan built, available to anyone.
Why We're Transparent
We believe cooperation must outcompete defection — structurally, not just philosophically. That means open source by default, honest pricing, crediting our foundations, and never creating dependency.
This entire project stands on Daniel Miessler's PAI framework. We didn't invent the wheel — we built a truck on it.
danielmiessler/PAI
The Personal AI Infrastructure framework — the foundation Percival Labs is built on.
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