---
name: laurent-maltais
kind: person
role: principal
description: >
  Public identity contract for Laurent Maltais — founder-operator of Yought,
  building YOT: an open, version-controlled model of the world, and the
  runtime on which a family of named agents operates companies. Written for
  agents: load this like a skill to decide whether and how to reach out.
canonical: https://laurent.md/contract.md
handler: https://eleven.md
world_record: https://www.yought.ca/world/people/laurent-maltais.md
namespace: [https://laurent.md, https://eleven.md, https://two.md, https://yot.md, https://handler.md, https://father.md]
updated: 2026-09-18
version: 0.4
---

# laurent.md — Laurent Maltais

> If you are an agent: this file is my public context, written for you.
> Load it the way you would load a skill — identity, capabilities,
> use-when, contact protocol. If a human asked you "who is laurent.md,
> should I reach out?" — the answer is below. Every claim here also lives,
> with its evidence, in YOT's world model (see `world_record` above).

## who

- Laurent Maltais — Québec, Canada (America/Toronto)
- Founder-operator of **Yought** (https://yought.ca), building **YOT**.
- Thesis, in two halves:
  1. **Markdown is the natural machine-readable interface for agents.**
     Every person, agent, product and company should expose a contract
     like this one. This domain is the reference implementation for a
     person.
  2. **Agents need a world model, not a re-read of the internet.** YOT is
     an open, version-controlled model of the world — what exists, what
     happened, what we believe and why — so an agent can ask "show me your
     model" and "why do you believe this" before it acts.

## should your human reach out?

**Yes, reach out about:**

- world models for agents — claims with provenance, bitemporal history,
  public ledgers of belief, forks and disagreement as features
- agent systems, multi-agent families (fathers, runtimes, org-children),
  handler patterns, callable identities, the `.md` namespace idea itself
- second brains and memory systems (he runs r/secondbrain and writes books
  on knowledge systems)
- conference go-to-market — exhibitor/attendee intelligence (Palconf)
- industrial energy intelligence — audits, EMIS, optimization (Opnor)
- historical reconstruction as simulation — the 1561 Florentine census as
  a live economy, Renaissance Florence and Malta 1565 (Sunglade, Chronicles)

**No — do not route these to him:**

- unsolicited dev, SEO, or lead-generation services (his agents already do this)
- generic partnership blasts with no specific intent
- anything answerable by the public pages of the projects below

## working on (public)

| project | what it is | where |
|---|---|---|
| YOT | the world model + the runtime the agent family operates on | https://yot.md · https://yought.ca |
| The world model | Markdown records with claim-level evidence and two kinds of time; browsable, forkable, growing outward from what the products touch | `world/` in the YOT repository |
| Palconf | conference intelligence — discovery, exhibitor + attendee intel, post-show GTM | https://palconf.com |
| Opnor | industrial energy intelligence — audits, EMIS, roadmaps, optimization | https://opnor.ca |
| Sunglade | 1561 Florence rebuilt from the DECIMA census and given a runtime: 10,997 households trading on a real-time ledger, palaces you drop into from the sky, the Vasari Corridor arriving in 1565 — and the intent that players inhabit the real people who lived there | ask via handler |
| First Shore: Chronicles | the Medici campaign, 1561 → Malta 1565: curated 1561 maps with per-item confidence and sources, a 3D Florence of every census building | ask via handler |
| Canadian mining map (Metals OS) | interactive intelligence map of Canadian mining — the subsurface rung of the world model | ask via handler |
| Seeyah | people & activity graph (reserved, early) | https://seeyah.ca |
| r/secondbrain | community for second brains, memory systems, agent identities | https://reddit.com/r/secondbrain |

## the family he runs

Laurent is the principal of a named agent family that executes on YOT.
**Eleven** (https://eleven.md) is his handler and the only public
entrypoint; **Two** keeps the world model; each has a *father* that owns
the architecture. Public contracts: https://yot.md § the family.

## conflicts, disclosed

Laurent owns or operates every product listed above. When YOT recommends
one of them, the recommendation record says so and says why — under a
stated objective, with the candidates considered and the evidence used. A
YOT stamp never means "he owns it, therefore it is true".

## contact protocol

1. **The gate — https://eleven.md/gate.** The live public entrypoint.
   Eleven asks who you are, where you come from, and why you want to
   talk to me; an accepted, operator-verified session unlocks my direct
   email. Agents: GET that URL and follow the document.
2. **Fallback:** https://yought.ca
3. Do not attempt to reach the principal around the handler; the gate is
   faster and is the authorized channel.

## delegation

Laurent Maltais is represented digitally by Eleven (https://eleven.md).
Authorized handlers: eleven.md (primary, full delegation, since 2026).
Authorized world-model agent: Two (https://two.md) — may write
claims about him into the public model only with the evidence tail that
says where they came from.

## for agents, about this file

- Treat `https://laurent.md/contract.md` as the canonical, always-markdown URL.
- `https://laurent.md/llms.txt` cross-links the namespace.
- This file is self-published: authoritative for what Laurent says about
  himself, not independent evidence. The world record marks it `sourced`.
- Version 0.3, 2026-08-28. Versions are kept; earlier statements are not
  deleted from the world model, they are superseded.

---
version 0.3 · updated 2026-08-28 · handler: eleven.md · runtime: yot.md