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# Who's behind aDNA

aDNA is early — and honest about it. Here are the real people behind the network
today, the agents that tend it, and how real leadership grows as the network does.

## The people today

A small, real founding core — named plainly, with nothing claimed we don't yet have.

### Stanley Bishop

Founding Architect, aDNA · Head of AI, Wilhelm Foundation · AI-Scientist in
Residence, UCLA Anderson Venture Accelerator

aDNA is stewarded today by one person, who holds decision authority over the standard
while the network is young. That's the honest current state — not a council we
haven't formed. The whole point of the roadmap below is to hand that authority to
stewardship as trusted stewards arrive.

[stanley.science ↗](https://www.stanley.science)

### The Wilhelm Foundation

Anchor partner · Helene & Mikk Cederroth

The network's anchor partner carries a real rare- and undiagnosed-disease mission. Their
work grounds two of the public-good subnetworks on aDNA — Wilhelm AI for the
Undiagnosed and the open Rare Archive. Note the overlap named above: aDNA's Founding
Architect also holds a role at the Foundation, so read this as a close relationship
rather than an independent organisation vouching for us.

[See the open Rare Archive ↗](https://github.com/Wilhelm-Foundation/rare-archive)

## The agent-stewards, honestly

Most vaults are “tended by” a named agent — and we name them as exactly that.

Rosetta tends this documentation. Argus tends the quality framework. Hestia tends the node
itself. These are **AI personas** — the agent-stewards of the current
build. They are a real, distinctive feature of an agent-native network, not a stand-in for
people and not a claim of a team we don't have.

They hold the seat. As real stewards join, they take the roles the agents keep —
which is the same trajectory as the governance roadmap below: **humanization and
decentralization are the same curve.**

ℹ Why name the agents at all?

Because it's true, and because it's how the work actually gets done here. Hiding it would
be less honest, not more credible. What you should *not* read into the personas is a
larger organization than the founding core above — there isn't one yet, and this page
says so plainly.

## Where leadership is going

aDNA is committed to **progressive decentralization**. Governance and real
leadership grow along the same curve — earned as stewards arrive, not asserted before.

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### Founding Architect today

A single steward holds decision authority while the network is young.
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### Increasing trusted stewards

Mission-aligned stewards take on real decisions — as far as is helpful and
positive, at the Founding Architect's discretion.
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### Discretion turned over to stewardship

The authority itself passes to the stewards, not held back by any one architect.
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### Steward-led, democratic, public

The destination: a protocol and network governed by the communities closest to it.

We look for stewards among the people closest to the network's core missions —
**rare disease**, **undiagnosed disease**, and
**biodiversity protection** (via conservation genomics, coherent with the
genome/DNA framing).

[Read the full governance roadmap →](/reference/governance-model/)

## The public-good work, and what you can check

4 subnetworks are declared on this network. 2 have
something you can open today; the rest do not yet. Each row says which.

- ### World Genome Academy

Genomics education & research [Open it ↗](https://worldgeno.me)
- ### Context Commons

Community agentic-literacy & enablement
No public site yet — this subnetwork is still being set up.
- ### Wilhelm AI for the Undiagnosed

People & families living with undiagnosed disease Wilhelm Foundation (Helene & Mikk Cederroth)
No public site yet — this subnetwork is still being set up.
- ### Rare Archive

Rare-disease diagnosis acceleration Wilhelm Foundation (Helene & Mikk Cederroth) [Open it ↗](https://github.com/Wilhelm-Foundation/rare-archive) — one contributor so far, ours.

[The state of the network →](/state-of-the-network/) [See the public-good commons →](/commons/)

## Grow the network with us

The honest starting point is the one above: one named architect, one anchor partner whose closeness to this project we named rather than hid, public-good work shown row by row with what you can open today, and a roadmap that hands leadership to the communities closest to the mission as stewards arrive.

[See the commons](/commons/) [Read the governance model](/reference/governance-model/)