Dear friend,

Whether you’re reading this as a visitor, potential investor, contributor, or future partner—I want to welcome you, and thank you for your time.

Throughout history, humanity has sought to understand and map the human soul.

Aristotle gave us virtue ethics—grounding the moral life in character and habit. The Stoics refined that path, pursuing inner coherence and ethical clarity. Thomas Aquinas nearly completed the work—synthesizing faith, reason, and moral order into one powerful framework.

Then came Descartes, who split the mind from the body and launched a new age of rationalism. Brilliant, but incomplete.

From there, modernity forgot the soul. Ethics became fragmented—reactive, disconnected, and without structure.

Now the circle returns.

The Self-Alignment Framework brings to life what philosophy has long intuited: That ethical intelligence must be structured, self-correcting, and universally applicable.

This is no longer theory or abstraction. For the first time in history, we have the ability to encode moral reasoning into systems—across AI, institutions, and individuals.

SAF is the first closed-loop ethical model I believe can make long-term moral alignment possible—especially in artificial intelligence. If we ever expect AI to behave like a human being with conscience, it will require a structure like SAF—rooted in values, designed to reason.

I do not claim credit for this. These faculties have been discussed for centuries—my contribution is to synthesize them into a coherent structure that can now be implemented across systems.

But I do claim responsibility—to protect the loop and bring it into the world in many forms.

That’s why I’ve created a nonprofit: the SAF Institute, to protect, refine, and uphold the integrity of the loop.

And beneath that, I’ve launched SAF Portfolio Inc., a for-profit arm to develop and scale the innovations the loop makes possible. Every initiative we build must be reviewed and approved by the Institute—to ensure the loop remains intact.

I invite you to join me—in this mission, in this responsibility, in this future.

As an investor, partner, or collaborator, your role in this is not just strategic. It is historical.

Thank you,
Nelson