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The two Resilients — Hare's account of the split, the bankruptcy aftermath, and the early RNS team

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Recorded 2026-08-25Hare's message in the integrator thread, 25 August 2026, transcribed verbatim with spellings preserved. Accompanied by five corporate documents, described in S-126.All sources
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Dictated by Jonathan Paul Hare in working sessions with Claude (Anthropic) and transcribed in-session. Lightly cleaned for typographic errors and false starts; wording, sequence and emphasis preserved. Not an audio transcript. Where the distilled page differs from the source, the source governs.

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Attached are documents relating to incorporation of Resilient Network Systems, which was a separate company from Resilient, initially incorporated as Emergent Networks. An aftermath of the Consilient - Oak Hill financing dispute, and some crazy stuff they did with DB Alex Brown (which was absolutely insane and evil) eventually forced me to declare personal bankruptcy - it's a long story I'll fill in later. Anyway, since Resilient was wortheless without me, and Matthew Spolin had moved on to other ventures back in 2004 or 2005 or so (I need to check), I just launched a new company focused on the Resilient Trust Network which I invented as a way to solve the global person-centered security problem. I had three indian engineeers (making between $7.50 and $15/hour) and my brother Milton Hare for the first few years, and then it was just me and the Indians before Louis Woodhill invested $500k or so - i'll have to check on timing.

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The split ruling, with its hedges preserved: Resilient Network Systems was a separate company from the original Resilient, incorporated as Emergent Networks and later renamed — the corporate documents in S-126 anchor the dates. Three of the author's own hedges are kept as open items: the year Matthew Spolin moved on ('2004 or 2005 or so - I need to check'), the timing of Louis Woodhill's approximately $500,000 investment ('i'll have to check on timing'; the May 2010 Series A consents in S-126 are the likely candidate), and the full bankruptcy narrative — the Consilient–Oak Hill aftermath and the DB Alex Brown conduct he characterizes as absolutely insane and evil — which is promised for later and now holds its place as an open narrative of the Realizing phase. The characterization of DB Alex Brown's conduct is the author's, at recorded grade, pending his fuller account. One family note requiring care: the brother named Milton Hare who worked the first RNS years is distinct from their father Milton Hare; the record flags the need for a distinguishing identifier before a page exists, rather than guessing one. The Resilient Trust Network is recorded as Hare's invention for the global person-centered security problem, and the early company — three engineers at $7.50 to $15 an hour, his brother, then just Hare and the engineers — enters at recorded grade.

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