I noticed something. I thought about it for a long time. Then I built something to test it.
I am a data scientist with a degree from Agnes Scott College.
I was educated before computers became a standard part of education, which means my training focused heavily on observation, hypothesis formation, experimental design, and statistical reasoning rather than software tooling.
I observed what happens when people, institutions, and systems replace a person’s meaning with their own interpretation.
That problem is not abstract for me. I have lived with it, studied it, and recognized it when AI systems began reproducing the same failure mode.
Real Respite grew from that observation into Bob: a companion app built on a patent-pending architecture for reducing the semantic gap.
The point is not to make another chatbot. The point is to make misunderstanding less inevitable.
I live in a building that would not pass inspection, populated by two cats, a MacBook Pro with 64 GB of RAM, and a bottle of The Glenlivet.
Let me explain.