About
За + ум.
Beyond mind.
Zaum (заумь) was the "transrational" language of the Russian Futurists: Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh, poems made of sound that meant more than their words. It's the right name for an AI that speaks for you. It works in the space between what you said and what you meant.
ЗАУМ is a voice-first swarm of agents built to serve one person, one family or one company: answering, remembering, watching out. It's my research project, my daily tool, and the thing I write about here.
I'm John Durkin. I've spent my career as a hands-on engineer: DevOps, infrastructure, fintech, and now AI systems. I live in Los Angeles.
Everything that isn't ЗАУМ lives at j2d3.com.