About the Author

Origin, authorship, and the public development context for HALOS.

HALOS was originated by Bob Hong, founder of NorthHarbor, through a line of work exploring principled collaboration between humans and intelligent systems.

Bob’s work focuses on designing systems that treat ideas, knowledge, and creative insight as valuable assets. His approach emphasizes transparency, attribution, and governance models that allow humans and AI agents to collaborate while preserving human agency and creative origin.

HALOS emerged through an iterative design process combining human insight, real-world experience building complex systems, and AI-assisted exploration used to refine and articulate concepts. AI tools contributed as assistants in the drafting and exploration process, while authorship, originating direction, and stewardship remain human-led.

The goal of HALOS is not to define a finished doctrine, but to propose a living framework that can evolve through thoughtful discussion, open proposals, and community participation.

HALOS is stewarded in public through NorthHarbor Development. NorthHarbor AI is a separate commercial organization that may build on or be informed by these ideas, but HALOS itself is maintained as an open framework rather than a product.