Manence came from a need.
I'm an entrepreneur and I've been working with AI intensively for three years. Manence is the set of rules I eventually wrote down so that work would hold over time.
I founded Intuition Software, which has been building and publishing the Jobaffinity ATS since 2009; I am a partner and its director of innovation.
I also run the Alex Déclic channel and the declic.media outlet, where I decode AI for anyone who wants to understand that world.
Three years of use taught me one thing: with agents, on projects that last, things drift. The first few weeks, everything moves fast. Then I re-explain context I've already given twice, a mistake fixed a month earlier comes back, a three-week-old draft ends up looking like a decision. It's not that the AI lacks memory: it has one. It's that everything piles up and nothing gets put away.
Manence is the fruit of that experience and of my research, tested in real conditions: it runs first at Intuition Software, on the ordinary work of a company. A rule that doesn't survive a real week of work gets cut from the framework.
Manence is open source because I think it can help a lot of people who work the way I do. And because this framework was built on ideas that others shared freely: giving back is the least I can do. Feel free to reach out through the contact page.
The system exists because I needed it.