Founder
Haitian-born. U.S. veteran. Artist and technologist. I created ManChine to build a different kind of intelligence — one that protects people like my family in Haiti, instead of watching or exploiting them.
Guardian Intelligence is my answer to a world of louder, more demanding AI. It is calm on purpose, camera-less by design, and rooted in the way we were raised to listen, feel, and move through uncertain streets.
I grew up in Haiti, where safety is rarely guaranteed, and where people quickly learn to read the world through sound, rhythm, and community. You listen for footsteps. You feel when the energy changes on a street. You sense danger before you ever see it.
Later, I served in the U.S. military and worked as an artist and technologist. I saw another side of technology — powerful tools that could help, but also systems that watched, tracked, and extracted. The more AI grew, the more it seemed built for big platforms, not for families like mine.
ManChine is where those worlds meet: Haitian resilience, veteran discipline, and creative technology, all focused on one question — what if AI stood with people instead of over them?
I come from a people who have survived crises, blackouts, instability — and still find a way to dance, to sing, to rebuild. That spirit lives inside Guardian Intelligence: it listens, adapts, and stands back up quietly, again and again.
Serving in uniform taught me about responsibility, clarity, and what protection really means. Guardian Intelligence is built with that mindset: honest about risks, calm under pressure, and serious about doing no hidden harm.
As an artist, I care deeply about how technology feels. I don't want AI to be another noisy screen. I want it to feel like a quiet presence — something that supports your rhythm, your story, and your humanity.
A few years ago, I realized most AI systems were racing in the same direction: more data, more prediction, more attention capture. But that's not what Haiti needs. It's not what kids, elders, and workers need in crowded cities, long commutes, or unstable environments.
I didn't want to build another assistant fighting for your attention. I wanted to build a guardian that would protect your attention — and your dignity.
That is where the idea for Guardian Intelligence came from: an intelligence that hears, feels, and understands rhythm, without ever needing to watch you. PGC-01, Mini, Junior, and the Guardian Dock are just the first places it shows up.
The first version of PGC-01 doesn't use a camera. That was not a shortcut — it was a choice. Where I'm from, people have already lived under too many eyes. I wanted ManChine's first devices to prove something simple: you can be safer without being watched.
To keep that promise honest, we wrote the Guardian Intelligence Constitution — a living document that sets hard limits on what our systems are allowed to do. If a feature doesn't respect autonomy, transparency, and cultural dignity, it doesn't ship.
Read the Guardian Intelligence Constitution →Today I live in Boston, but my story — and ManChine's story — is tied to Haiti and to the Haitian diaspora. I don't pretend that one product can "fix" everything. What we can do, together, is open a corridor: through iGate, through education, through opportunities to build, not just consume.
ManChine is for people who were never invited to the future, and for everyone who believes that invitation should finally arrive.
If you're reading this, it means you care — about Haiti, about safer technology, or about a future that isn't just built for the same few people. I'm building ManChine slowly, carefully, with people who share those values.
I don't want you to just "use" these devices. I want you to feel accompanied by them. I want kids to feel a little safer walking home. I want parents to breathe a little easier. I want workers, elders, and whole communities to feel seen without being watched.
If that future resonates with you, then you are part of ManChine's story already.
The first step is simple: learn about PGC-01, share the mission, or place a refundable preorder if you're ready. Every conversation and every early supporter helps us bring Guardian Intelligence to the people who need it most.