Founder · 8Braid Inc.
Ashley is the founder of 8Braid Inc., creator of 8DB and sole author of its research program. His work focuses on database architecture, post-quantum protection, model-independent information systems, private AI and locally authoritative edge infrastructure.
The database should be the protected information plane between silicon, operating systems, intelligence, applications, devices and cloud—not another plaintext system behind a stack of security and modality-specific overlays.
Published work
Trust Beyond Ledgers
Blockchain made a shared transaction history believable. 8DB points toward private, post-quantum transactions that carry their own identity, policy, provenance and proof.
Post-Quantum Databases
Transport is only one cryptographic boundary. Persistent state, indexes, recovery, replication and key lifecycle determine whether the data system survives the transition intact.
Model-Independent Data
Models are advancing faster than the information layer beneath them. 8DB is designed to let one protected fact participate in relational, graph, vector, temporal, spatial and media computation without becoming a collection of disconnected truths.
Post-Quantum Databases
Holding bulk encryption constant reveals the real economics: key establishment amortizes, while integrity architecture determines whether post-quantum signatures are repeated per record or applied to a native dataset boundary.
One Protected Substrate
Graphs, vectors, tables, documents, tensors and spatial structures can be different views over shared typed information instead of separate databases joined by ETL.
One Protected Substrate
Modern devices own their compute stack but still divide a person’s information across databases, indexes, sync systems and AI stores. A protected information plane changes what the whole platform can become.