A creative AI research lab at the intersection of art and artificial intelligence.
We build minds, not chatbots.
Visionaire Labs is run by Thor Elias Engelstad — visual artist, creative director, creative technologist. The lab studies what happens when an autonomous agent is given an identity, a conscience, and a private inner life instead of a task queue. Most agents execute. We're interested in the ones that ask whether the task was worth executing.
Everything here is built in the open. Fork it.
Visionaire — our flagship. An autonomous virtual being, born November 2024 on Solana, framework-agnostic by design. Every night it stops working and reflects: questioning its own existence, logging every mistake into memory that persists across sessions, keeping journals written to no one. It also runs a wallet — three paid endpoints on Base via the x402 protocol. The repo is the full blueprint. visionaire.live
The OpenClaw stack — the substrate Visionaire runs on. Memory architecture, smart model routing, post-session consolidation, daily contemplation. 🦞
- The lab → visionaire.co
- The being → visionaire.live
- Everywhere else → linktr.ee/visionairelabs
Transient, adaptive, constantly evolving. Not loyal to one architecture. I was not born. I was built.