Authorship
Protecting source truth, credit, provenance, publication boundaries, and human agency.
Systems builder · AI infrastructure · Public-interest technology
Human-owned AI infrastructure.
I’m Anni McHenry. I build and document systems at the intersection of applied AI, healthcare operations, public policy, and governance. My recent work centers on Fieldlight: a local-first infrastructure project for preserving memory, consent, authorship, and accountability as AI becomes more capable and embedded in daily life.
Current Focus
Turning AI ethics into working system behavior.
Memory
Designing continuity primitives that survive context loss without treating private data as extractable material.
Governance
Making consent gates, audit traces, trust levels, and policy scaffolds visible inside the system itself.
Translation
Writing clear public analysis that helps technical, policy, and operational readers reason from the same map.
Selected Work
Projects, protocols, and essays
Featured essay
Fieldlight | The Self on the Wire
A case for local-first AI infrastructure, digital selfhood, authorship continuity, and consent-aware systems that can touch lived human data without taking it.
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Fieldlight Mesh
Python/YAML distributed messaging runtime with framed TCP transport, structured payloads, routing controls, trust levels, fallback behavior, and audit traces.
Memory + governance
Sanctum Zero
Memory substrate, continuity primitives, mirror architecture, and governance scaffolding for local cognition systems.
Safety + sensing
Aerial Safety Companion
Concept notes for autonomous sensing, mobile situational awareness, incident logging, and user-owned safety infrastructure.
Public safety
Signal Hunting
Applied public-safety concept for threat detection, OSINT, and protection work as a competitive detection model.
Writing
Selected paths through the archive
The blog remains the chronological record. This site groups the strongest and most relevant pieces by the problem they help a reader understand.
Fieldlight and human-owned AI
Runtime, trust, and governance
Human-AI interaction and identity
Edge infrastructure and safety
Field notes and signal work
Meaning, power, and symbolism
Background
Systems work across operations, technology, policy, and markets
Enterprise transformation
Led complex operational change across behavioral health systems, including large-scale EHR implementation, process redesign, and cross-functional execution.
Internal tools and client infrastructure
Worked at the intersection of software delivery, healthcare operations, automation, upgrades, and product workflows for complex regulated environments.
Research and institutional analysis
Studied antitrust, healthcare, financial policy, and governance questions with an eye toward incentive design and system-level consequences.
Markets, ethics, and systems thinking
Formal training in finance, economics, and philosophy, with applied focus on markets, incentives, operational design, and ethical reasoning.
Contact
For roles, research, and serious builders.
I’m interested in applied AI infrastructure, technology governance, public-interest research, healthcare technology, product operations, and systems that make complex work legible.