Knowledge base
How it works.
The technical foundation behind Kin and the benned platform — for anyone who wants to understand what persistent entity memory actually means.
Fundamentals
What is a personal entity?
Why Kin is not an app, not a chatbot, and not an assistant — and what the distinction actually means in practice.
The stateless problem
Every intelligent system today processes and forgets. Why that is an architectural problem, not a product problem.
How Kin builds a model of you
From first interaction to structured understanding. How Kin turns conversations and device signals into a persistent, growing model.
Technical
Persistent entity state at scale
The architectural decisions behind benned — how entity memory is stored, queried, and kept consistent across devices.
The device integration model
How benned exposes entity memory to connected devices — the API design, the data model, and what a device actually receives.
Causal memory vs. data storage
Why storing events is not the same as understanding them. How benned builds a causal model that connects what Kin knows.