Tools for knowledge
you actually own.

American Wetware makes software for the messy, long-lived work of thinking and record-keeping — lab notebooks, research files, and the notes that tie them together. We start from a simple conviction: the knowledge you create should belong to you, in formats that will still open long after any particular app, model, or company is gone.

Limestone is our first product. It's a local-first, AI-native notebook where your notes stay ordinary files on your own device — portable, private, and readable by both humans and machines. AI is a reviewed collaborator that can propose changes, never an owner that takes control of your record.

What we believe

• Transparency. Open file formats and open source. No black boxes between you and your own work.
• Portability. Your notes are plain files you can pick up and carry anywhere — no export ritual, no lock-in.
• AI-native, on your terms. Bring whatever AI helps you. It reads and proposes; you decide what becomes part of the record.

Limestone & American Wetware

Limestone shares American Wetware's core identity — the same green (#2FBF39) and paper (#FBFFF6), the same commitment to transparency and portability — while keeping its own recognition anchors: the bracketed [[limestone]] mark and the Space Mono wordmark. It's a distinct product with a shared foundation.