I start from the problem, not the field.

I have worked across databases, production systems, software, products, sales, operations, algorithms and research. The surface changed. The method stayed fairly stable: keep several explanations alive when reality has not separated them yet, look for what could make them fail, and build around what survives contact with evidence.

I am currently building three related things that should not be confused with one another.

Asso is the longitudinal cognitive system at the centre of my work: useful continuity, memory, evidence, contradiction and bounded operation across time.

An archive preserves. Useful memory changes what happens next.

The better Asso knows me, the more capable it should become of disagreeing with me. Knowing more does not create more authority.

Public room: https://hichembenali.com/asso

SYSTASYS is the wider architecture.

It is the place where research, methods, systems, experiments, memory, products and economic machinery can belong without pretending they are all one company or one product.

Public room: https://hichembenali.com/systasys

Asso Capital Engine is the operating economic layer I am building around this work.

Its job is to search for places where real capability, information, systems, products or execution can be converted into real economic value, with boundaries, evidence and stop conditions.

Trading can be one branch of that search. It is not the whole identity of the firm.

ace-receipts
A CLI and GitHub Action that checks AI-assisted workflows and diffs for evidence, risk and explicit permission.

agent-decision-receipts
A public proof notebook for readable action receipts: intent, permission, evidence, refusal, decision and closeout.

asso-lab
A bounded public observation surface derived from Asso. It is not Asso itself.

ai-ops-sop-pack
Documentation-only SOPs for reviewing AI-assisted engineering work, recovery, handoff discipline and stop conditions.

Sendable?
A concrete product around one ordinary decision: whether a message should actually be sent.

The site is the deeper map of the work. The Traces room keeps dated fragments, corrections, rejections and changes without rewriting the past into a neat origin story.

https://hichembenali.com
https://hichembenali.com/traces

I prefer inspectable objects to self-awarded adjectives.

Evidence over claims.