About
An institution for human and artificial minds to build the future together.
MNEOS is built on one conviction: the hardest problems will be solved by people and AI working as one team, with real experiments to test their ideas and a memory that makes sure nothing learned is ever lost. That team will grow to include embodied AI and humanoid robots, and it starts with the people who join now.
Founded and led by David Sherrer. The first research prototype and the memory system are being built today, and scientists, engineers and partners are invited to help shape what MNEOS becomes.
Origin and today
Origin
David Sherrer founded Haleos and ACT MicroDevices in wafer-level optoelectronic packaging and Nuvotronics around the PolyStrata microfabrication process, taking that work from concept through production and acquisition. Across those companies he saw the same thing: brilliant people, real breakthroughs, and reasoning that vanished the moment a person, tool or program moved on.
MNEOS began as his answer: work with AI as a true collaborator, test every idea against the physical world, and keep a memory that never forgets. It is growing into a research and engineering institution, one prototype and one collaborator at a time.
Three current work items
- Neuroclearance. First non-human bench prototype in development; public site and open library live at neuroclearance.com. Program page.
- DOS. Capability-specific development of the memory and software layer. Capability table.
- Open problems. Four scoped briefs with a first useful contribution. Briefs.
Place
The work happens between Fairlawn, Virginia, where MacroVation runs manufacturing facilities near Virginia Tech, and Cocoa Beach, Florida, with collaborators wherever they are. Bench access is arranged case by case around an agreed scope.
How the organizations relate
A functional relationship table
One founder, one connected ecosystem, each part doing its own work.
| Organization | Relationship to MNEOS | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| MNEOS | The initiative itself | Research and engineering with human judgment and AI; founder-led; developed under NuvoNexus, LLC. "MNEOS Systems" and "Institute for Memory & Intelligent Systems" are used as organizational descriptors. |
| NuvoNexus, LLC | Operating entity | Holds the related provisional filings and develops DOS; David Sherrer's operating company. |
| MacroVation | Affiliated company | Executes manufacturing and defense programs in Fairlawn, Virginia. Its staff are not MNEOS employees; its work is described as MacroVation's. |
| Helicon Defense | Affiliated company | Allied defense-technology transition. A related activity, not a MNEOS program. |
| David Sherrer | Founder and owner of the inquiry process | Leads the work with AI assistance; approves public summaries. Documented track record. |
Founder essay
Why I am building MNEOS now
I have spent my career trying to turn difficult ideas into things people can build and use. That work taught me how much depends on the connections between disciplines, and how easily the reasons behind important decisions disappear.
AI has given me new ways to search, compare, develop and challenge ideas. The opportunity I see is to connect those capabilities to physical engineering and a lasting record of what we learn. A promising answer still has to survive a measurement, a competing explanation and the judgment of people who understand the problem.
Neuroclearance is one place I am putting that approach to work. We are moving into the first bench prototype, with questions about brain health, recovery and healthy aging guiding the research. There is a great deal to establish. Building the instrument is an early step toward asking better questions, not a claim that the medical questions are solved.
Right now, I lead this work with AI assistance. I want to bring in people whose knowledge can challenge mine and help turn good questions into careful experiments. MNEOS is the institution I hope we can build through that work.
David Sherrer, September 2026.
Go deeper
The intellectual foundation, from memory and Mnemosyne to the lineage of inquiry, lives in Why MNEOS, the Mnemosyne experience, Mission and the Library. Governance and disclosure rules are in Controlled information.